Hack and Slash, but plenty of fun
The main heroine meets a Friend(who helps her in trouble) and they both try to lift the Curse. After success it again goes wrong and the Curse goes on your friend which goes even worse. So the last chapter is to fight your way to stop your "friend"(now incarnation of darkness) from destroying the World.
Well the Story isn't that great just holds the game idea on the track.
It's plain hack and slash, just kind of a interesting way.
The heroine's main weapons are Swords with integrated guns in it. Also as you go trough rooms killing all the enemy's that are thrown in your way (and there are plenty of them) you gather points which can be spend on new magic abilities-fireballs, cool looking "burn all around" specialitys, and affective combat movements.
The interesting part of the game is that you need to figure out which ability will help you defeat the boss( if the monster is more hurt by fire, ice or light) or you can do it the hard way just stand and slash(for information on monsters you will have a bestiary info on the menu. but if the player doesn't pay attention to bosses info and doesn't try different ways to kill him-the easy difficulty would turn to be more like hard. I'll even would suggest for the players not hurry spending points for abilities, cause some are needed earlier than others so that the battle doesn't turn ugly for you.
The game is worth trying for the fun it delivers, not sure though if worth the money.
Not a game for me to play twice, cause anyway I'm waiting for X-Blades :D