anyone play the Shadow of the Colossus demo?

[testtubebaby]

now i'll preface this by saying that i am an absolutely huge fan of ico, and i've been waiting with baited breath for "nico" for the better part of three years...

but wtf is up with shadow? it's almost as if they took the most annoying parts of ico (the battles) and made them the focal point of a game. the camera is very bad, which wasn't a problem in ico because most of the time the camera was set in a perfectly placed location since you were dealing with small gamespaces. this time around, you're in a wide open 3d world, and have control (to an extent) over the camera. that aside, there are no real mental challanges like in ico, instead it's been replaced with running around and dodging until you can grab onto the collosus and stab like a cheap slasher movie.

i don't know... maybe i'll play it again tomorrow and see the genius inside it, but right now it's looking bleak.