This game is great as many have said. I can see the GoW comparison, but only in the fact that you fight demons and they shower blood and drop orbs, wait...that sounds like Devil May Cry...
This is much more like a Zelda clone and a damn good one at that. The secondary weapons almost all have counterparts that are in Zelda. Boomerang, Hookshot, jars, and a few others I can't recall now. Plus there is a horse (Epona anyone?), Bombs, heart containers/upgrades, magic gauge/upgrade, dungeons, semi-open world, etc etc etc.
It even has a part that is like Panzer Dragoon, sadly it's only one part. The art style was hard for me to describe till I realized it looks just like a comic book. I enjoyed the game so much I platinumed it in 4 days.