Yes, I played a demo of this game and thought it was very cool. The music, the fight on the boat, and all that stuff. Then I played the full game and I found it rather weak compared to the first one as it really became rather repetitive as it were. The story is okay as the prince is being pursued by a super monster who most certainly does not care for the way the prince changed time around in the previous installment. The prince hears that the sorceress of time on some island is the key to stopping this unstoppable beast. He goes there and is promptly attacked by a rather scary lady. His ship crashes and he begins his quest to stop the sands of time from being created thus putting right in some strange way what he did wrong in releasing the sands in the first place. Can not release them if they never existed in the first place. Well it is okay, but you back track to much. The fighting is nice and fluid, but it gets old after a while. There is not enough of the wall crawling in this one either as they seemed more concerned with improving the fighting and adding nothing to the most fun aspect of the first game. The time shift stuff would be neater if you could shift through a couple of more times, still not all that many boss fights either. So in the end a step backward from the previous game for me, the whole making the game more bloody and stuff was unnecessary as was the heavy metal soundtrack as opposed to the great soundtracks of one and three. Still, it was good enough to be an okay game...just needed more work in a couple of areas and it quite frankly needed more areas.