Vanillaware makes me nervous...there gameplay is awesome and fun for about 5 hours...then you realizes it never changes and youve got 50 more hours to go
A beat-em-up is a BEU. You can see all their is to see in a fight in the first stage, but yet you could still want to come back and play the game, all the time, 20 years later (like with Street of Rage II or Guardian Heroes).
I understand your feelings from an Odin Sphere perspective, truly. But this game's make is much better; Each stage is a memorable, short order affair, and the characters are all made to be unique gameplay experiences, and all available up front.
So you can jump into the game, get what you want, and drop out. And including friends give a whole new experience, the likes of which nothing compared to in OS, or even Muramasa.
By this point, I have no worries about this game. Seeing hand-on proves that it's going to be the AA+ BEU I've wanted to see all generation. It has the art and creativity I loved in 90s games, with many of the "for the sake of longevity" features of modern games, wrapped around it in the best or ways.
It's rare that I consider getting a game on Home and Portable consoles simultaneously, but this one REALLY makes me want to...