its alright. the moveset is a bit clunky at first but once you get used to it, it really is fun to utilize. i wish the level design was more open rather than linear to make more use of the potential of said moveset though. the levels themselves look pretty nice for '08 but god DAMN is this game bright. liberal use of pure white + mad bloom effects means that some of the levels are pretty rough to look at. also the combat system feels pretty hamfisted at the best of times, i wish they would just let it be a parkour game instead of really trying to get you to fight dudes, especially near the end of the game.

around 10 hours in i got a phone call from an npc called delamain for his quest line. while i was doing this i noticed his call never dropped and his face remained on my screen. at this point i was completely jaded from bugs and saw this as some completely innocuous thing. his face is on my screen, wont go away, whatever. i continue to progress the game until i realize i cannot receive phone calls at all because of this dickhead on my screen. a majority of quests either start with a phone call or have one at some point in them so i was effectively soft locked. i looked up every way to get rid of this fucker on youtube, google, etc. and not a single one worked. had to load a previous save and lose 7 hours of progress because of this bug. uninstalled shortly after. it didnt help that the game was boring me to tears at this point so it was the perfect excuse to forget this game ever existed