I wanted to like this game and it seemed right up my alley: I'm a musician, enjoy rhythm games and 3rd person action games so how could this go wrong? Well, syncing attacks to a song add a necessary quantization that I found annoying and eventually skipped as many fights as I could. The platforming was fun but the story and generic robot enemies were dull, dull, dull. A huge missed opportunity.

Okay, for real, this is one of the best games I've played in recent memory, great characters, simple but effective story, kickass music, and fantastic gameplay, it is just about the greatest rythm game I've ever had the pleasure of playing.

Think of it as Devil May Cry crossed with Guitar Hero. The animation, art direction, voice acting, the jokes, and every aspect of the presentation, is first rate. Beyond that it's a great action game from a studio with a venerable Capcom pedigree (the lead designer counts DMC and Bayonetta in his credits, for example). The most excellent aspect of this game is the gentle difficulty curve is uses to bring total noobs into a combat system as challenging and deep as the greats in the genre.