So I've heard this specific game is a hack n' slash.

[Alice Tengu]

Hey all.

So I'm a guy who recently got into this series. I've played Blood Omen and Soul Reaver all the way through, and have recently moved on to Soul Reaver 2. I was not crazy about the original Soul Reaver's gameplay (I liked the game, I just thought it was a little bit awkward in execution.), but I'm holding out hope for the future entries being better.
I've heard a common criticism of Defiance specifically is that it randomly decided to make a shift into being a hack n' slash in terms of it's gameplay. While I can totally see why this would put long running fans of the series off, I love hack n' slashes, being a huge Devil May Cry fan, so this idea honestly sounds like it could be pretty fun. My question is this: Is it a good hack n' slash, out of place in this series as it may be?

[Raina Audron]

IMO, it is inferior to DMC because the combos are just not varied enough (Kain and Raziel have basically same 5 moves) and while I love DMC3 battles and enjoy them, in Defiance it falls more into the repetetive category as it goes on...

[Alice Tengu]

Yeah, I could sort of tell going in it wasn't going to be much like DMC3. (How would you say it compares to the original DMC?)