Great game. First PoP I've ever played and it's actually made me love platforming again. But Yahtzee's complaint isn't with the platforming, it's with the combat.
And I don't think his description of combat fits. The slow-motion blocking tutorial-style nonsense really is obnoxious, but once you get the parry move you never have to see it again. Just get in close, parry your enemy's sword attack, and unleash a combo.
And the combo is the answer to the whole "only one attack works" thing. After you pull off the first attack (like a gauntlet throw) you can pretty much throw in whatever attack you want after it until your combo ends. Once you figure out how combat works, it's actually a pretty complex and original system.
And the complaints about dying? Really? No one ever complains about Call of Duty games and you auto-save and restart after every 2-minute battle. You KNOW you screwed up in PoP, it's just a contextual auto-save system. Kind of like Oddworld, in fact.
P.S. Hold the block button and you move a whole lot faster.
My favourite of the series had to have been Two Thrones also. The second game would have been better if it had Farah in it as well. At least the combat was still improved of SoT.
