Thanks for reminding me of Heavenly Sword, which imo is one of the biggest wasted potential games of that era. It's an okay 6-7/10 at the end of the day (especially if you emulate it, it actually feels really good at high framerates and doesnt tie game speed to it). It looks great outside the mandatory 7th gen bloom, has excellent animation work for the combat, a gigantic movelist with a lot of cool moves.
Almost completely wasted on it, because the levels are short, the enemy variety is flat out bad, the most fun/challenging enemies are in the boss fights or only appear very late in the game (and the enemy variety is still shit!). If you play on normal, you can button mash your way through a large part of it till you get to some late game difficulty spike.
I hope that at some point in the future, some autist makes a mod that rejigs the enemies and maybe makes better arenas. The source code even leaked at one point! It will never happen though.