What I liked the most is that it was packed with ideas and stuff to do. Hand-to-hand combat, guns, mines, metal spheres à la Metroid / Marble Madness, turrets to take control of, some destructible environments, platforming bits, etc, etc, it was never boring and you could feel the huge amount of work the devs put into it, which was very surprising for a movie adaptation.
And yes, it had a certain Oni-like feel
]]>You can tell that, as a 3rd person action title on a console, it suffered the same control issues as Oni did on the PS2. And the AI is kind of sluggish and boring compared to Oni's. But there's some cool environmental interaction (e.g. the move at 2:35) and contextual stuff. Apparently much of the game is contextual -- that is, you stand on a mark and push a button to do something cool.
Anyway, it does have blocks and a combo system, and gunplay alongside emphasized melee, so that places it in the same category as Oni; just thought I would share my findings with you all, since I'd never seen the game before today.
Edit: I just noticed the account of the YouTube user who posted the above video. It's a veritable cornucopia of video games that star femmes fatales: Wet, X-Blades, Bullet Witch, BloodRayne 2....
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