I haven't touched this game since the day the review went up, and reading what everyone says makes me want to go back to it again.
It's stuff like this that reminds me how I like games that toy with the first-person shooter genre (Portal, Metroid Prime, RS2) than games that are pure first-person shooters. If you expect or are looking for a pure first-person shooter, you should really just play Call of Duty, or get the hell off the Wii. If you want a game where you beat the crap out of a solid variety of enemies with a sword/gun combo and upgradeable moves, this is fantastic.
I should have just put that in the review. Stupid week-later revelations!