Well you'll see and hear just before the killing moves is Ken taunt, this causes the enemies to all jump into a nice convenient area where they'll all try and attack the player at the same time, so when they line up you're able to use one of your special finishing moves. What this changes is the amount of time the player needs to complete the level, instead of beating on each enemy individually you can take out dozens of enemies in one go, making the play through much more bearable thus making the game a lot more fun and a lot less frustrating.

That sounds awesome.

Despite being a series I'm pretty much jumping in and out of now and then, I'm really a bit of a fan of the Dynasty Warriors - or "Musou" - games. One of the things that I find so appealing about them is how you essentially herd enemies, gathering them in a nice bunch and then tear through them with your assorted - then fully charged - special attacks. It is that almost hypnotic, somehow eternally gratifying quality to the way you take out huge amounts of enemies in a pulse like, almost rythmic fashion that has me returning to it. It really shares that basic appeal with old school brawlers where you - regardless of how limited the move set - had the key aspects of it required to create a satisfying combo cycle that put you in some sort of trance.

The main problem of the games is the monotony that eventually does catch up to you, but the cure for that has traditionally been the co-op. With a co-op friend with which to have a nice - often completely unrelated - chat whilst messing up countless, brainless thugs, DW are still amazingly compelling.

From videos it seems that the attack timing is pretty unique in this one though, compared to Samurai, Dynasty and Gundam, and that has me a little bit worried. Hopefully it has its own groove though. They have really captured the art style well, considering their budget limitations, and it seems just as cheesily awesome as the manga it's based on.

That would be Madworld. Clover dissolved and formed Platinum Games, and Atsushi Inaba - producer on God Hand - was the producer on Madworld.

That's not to say the appeal is quite the same. God Hand was a pretty deep brawler whereas Madworld harkens back more to the simplicity of the 16 bit era. Regardless, they're both OTT mental.