I saw a preview of it on a few Dutch gaming shows.
They said, this game use a lot of things of other great games. Not that that is either somethign other games don't do, or that it's bothersome.
It combines hack n' slash with platform at basic. It looks actually quite cool I think. But ..... this year will also be the year Ninja Gaiden will come to life, don't expect the same. That game will be THE Ninja game of all time .... well .... it will be really good.
But I also like this kinda gameplay. Only downside is:
1. game = short (which probably means it's easy too, I don't mind short games as in 'amount of levels of old Mario NES games', but I do mind they make them so damn easy. If you try to be old skool, do it right, and make it a hard game.
2. I heard it won't be released in Europe on Cube. As I don't import stuff, for me it's bad news. But it's not THAT high on my list, otherwise I might consider freeloader or whatever it's called.