Really good game, Another one of those sleepers that no ones heard of!
THE GOOD
Great ideas of useing your bird to go ahead of you and look-out for what lies ahead, also many times the bird must be sent places to help you advance farther in the game. Great fighting game-play and original use of an ability to select your targets, (3 at a time) with actually using an easy way of doing this. also great number of attacks both straight for-forward "go-in-swinging" style fighting, and also fun stealth attacks. This is a rare game that instead of having to use puzzles and other random tasks to enrich gameplay, The game uses great combat enhancing items to not create chores like platforming and other things.
THE BAD
The graphics arn't AMAZING but this is an older game mind you. Also the game was short, I had barely over 10 hours of gameplay (roughly). Also, sue to the system of selecting your enemys, this causes a problem, in using this method the A.I. obviously had to be dumbed down, Which isn't a COMPLETE bad thing, otherwise the game would have been too hard. but this also just makes you not really get a feeling of really being there fighting the bad guys.
OVERALL
An Amazing game. A rare breed that can focus gameplay nearly ENTIRELY around just the fighting and still be very fun. Considering the fact that the game costs no more than 5 bucks used at a gamestop, it would be dumb to pass this game up!