Is anyone feeling that Shank just isn't as great as the reviews are leading us to believe? Much like Limbo, it's kind of a one trick pony with cool visuals.

I'm on my fourth playthrough, so I'm afraid I'd have to disagree. Also if you check out a wide selection of the reviews you'll see some bad ones. In fact I feel as though its underrated, most of the reviews I've read complain about it being repetitive, and having the same enemy type over and over...which is "funny" because those are the standard traits of a brawler game. I'm not going to lie to you, brawlers aren't going to win any contests for story, character development or realism but I have always found them extremely fun to play. For me Shank is the same, I have replayed the game several times unlocking the costumes, concept art etc and facing the challenge of the harder difficulty. So I feel as though there is some replay value there. Will I be playing it this time next month? Probably not...through I will come back to it one day.
 
I can't compare the experience to Limbo as I haven't bought it yet, but from playing the demo and reading about it, it seems as though it will have very limited replay value. This is the only reason I haven't bought it yet. 

None of the reviews that I've seen have praised it. So I don't know what you're talking about.

Nope, it is even greater than what they say.

"I'm on my fourth playthrough, so I'm afraid I'd have to disagree. Also if you check out a wide selection of the reviews you'll see some bad ones. In fact I feel as though its underrated, most of the reviews I've read complain about it being repetitive, and having the same enemy type over and over...which is "funny" because those are the standard traits of a brawler game. I'm not going to lie to you, brawlers aren't going to win any contests for story, character development or realism but I have always found them extremely fun to play. For me Shank is the same, I have replayed the game several times unlocking the costumes, concept art etc and facing the challenge of the harder difficulty. So I feel as though there is some replay value there. Will I be playing it this time next month? Probably not...through I will come back to it one day. I can't compare the experience to Limbo as I haven't bought it yet, but from playing the demo and reading about it, it seems as though it will have very limited replay value. This is the only reason I haven't bought it yet.  "

Same thing with Deathspank! Oh, but that only got average reviews and yet I still bought, what a sucker I am.

" @IkariNoTekken said:

"I'm on my fourth playthrough, so I'm afraid I'd have to disagree. Also if you check out a wide selection of the reviews you'll see some bad ones. In fact I feel as though its underrated, most of the reviews I've read complain about it being repetitive, and having the same enemy type over and over...which is "funny" because those are the standard traits of a brawler game. I'm not going to lie to you, brawlers aren't going to win any contests for story, character development or realism but I have always found them extremely fun to play. For me Shank is the same, I have replayed the game several times unlocking the costumes, concept art etc and facing the challenge of the harder difficulty. So I feel as though there is some replay value there. Will I be playing it this time next month? Probably not...through I will come back to it one day. I can't compare the experience to Limbo as I haven't bought it yet, but from playing the demo and reading about it, it seems as though it will have very limited replay value. This is the only reason I haven't bought it yet.  "

Does the game have some sort of elevator spot in it where you fight dudes on it? "

Reviews are opinions you know.

yeah all the reviews I've seen have said it sucks.

" Reviews are opinions you know. "

I think the combat has some pretty good depth to it. Very cool free flowing combat.
I have a feeling the hard mode of Shank will have a very solid player base for a good long time. 
 
It may be flawed, even broken in some places, but a one trick pony it's definitely not.

" I think the combat has some pretty good depth to it. Very cool free flowing combat. I have a feeling the hard mode of Shank will have a very solid player base for a good long time.   It may be flawed, even broken in some places, but a one trick pony it's definitely not. "