I really wanted to like this game. I lived the premise, story and it's presentation, artstyle and music. I even think the controls are a step up over Secret Rings, but the combat is a real let down.

First of all it is an absolute pace breaker with most encounters making you come to a complete stop, couple this with slow acceleration and by the time you get back up to speed you are likely right back into combat again.

And sure individual enemies are easy enough to deal with, with well telegraphed attacks. But they would put so many together that half the time I got hit because an enemy behind the one I was currently fighting would blindside me.

And this was me playing with a normal, button based control scheme. I would hate to think how rough this is with shaking a wiimote.