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Heavenly Sword Devilishly Short?

Submitted by on August 19, 2007 – 1:39 pm4 Comments

After the Heavenly Sword demo hit the PSN last month, the reaction by most of us was that even for a demo, it was short. After I played through the demo a few dozen times, I was able to easily breeze through it in less than ten minutes. Many, including myself, feared that their short demo was a sign that the finished product would also be significantly lacking content.

As we slowly creep towards Heavenly Sword’s September 12th US release date, early reviews are confirming PS3 owners’ fears. The game is apparently short, like get up early, beat it and trade it in for Bioshock before lunch short. While I did find the demo dragging me back a few dozen times before I felt spent, a reported 6-8 hours of game play is definitely a little disheartening.

Then again, if it’s possibly the most monumental 6-8 hours available on the PS3, it might somehow be worth the $60+tax investment. Where do you stand at this point?

Via gamingevolution.info

  • Trev

    I have heard, though I can’t cite a source, that the demo build was almost a year old. That’s a lot of time to refine controls and combat. Given how long it takes to get through similar games, 6-8 hours isn’t bad, nor is it the kind of game you want to drag in the middle. (God of War 1, I’m looking at you. I spent so much time in Pandora’s temple it was easy to lose track of the story and forget why you were there.) I think that if you can play the same five minutes of gameplay a dozen times and enjoy it, a minimum of six hours with more refined stuff sounds great.

    In the end, I don’t buy into “the game takes this long to play” things though. You can sit down and power through something, skip anything on the side… In fact, the linked article actually says:

    “The developing team mention that the game is roughly only 6-8 hours worth of gameplay, but it’s not meant to be played through on the fly and put down. Through exploration of the game, the massive and immersive worlds, and the various fighting styles, you can easily find more content in terms of gameplay to last you quite some time.”

  • Dave

    Not realy interested in Heavenly sword but I am generally of the opinion that single player only games should be at least 15 hours long or else have a massive amount of unlockables.

    I should not be able to beat a game in an evening under any circumstances.

    This (coupled with the news of Lair being about as short) does make me somewhat happy with schadenfreude since it completely destroys the ‘bluray means bigger games’ argument you see form time to time.

  • http://www.aeropause.com Stephen

    It’s a great argument. I don’t think too many games are worth full retail anymore, but I no longer feel the need to get most games at launch. I’m willing to wait a while and get them at a discount. Even Corruption, early this month, seemed as though it would be out of the budget for me at release, and I had resigned myself to get it a few months down the line. Personally, I’d wait for the price to drop $10 before picking most console games up.

  • http://www.farbot.com/ Paul

    Stephen has a good point, and I’m finding that unless a title’s demo gets under my skin and demands I play it more, I won’t be strongly consider buying it, opting instead to rent it and still see if the game still demands my attention.

    I wasn’t thrilled with the Heavenly Sword demo since I’m not good at fighting games and the mechanics seem to fit closely with fighters. It has nothing to do with the demo length at all. Visually everything about the game looks amazing, and the sound design and story sounds fantastic to me. Unless I buckle down and master the demo, I can’t see buying the full game and might not even be in a rush to rent it.

    One game that is still calling to me to be bought since I played the demo is The Darkness.