I watched a friend playing this months ago...me and another couple friends were sitting there ripping the game upwards and downwards. It's hard to describe, but the game has too much silly stuff for me to stomach it. A couple things that really stood out:
1.) Your guy's running - no gravity? Looked like he was inside an invisible wheel or something. Maybe I didn't really get a good look at it, whatever.
2.) The armor worn by those evil dudes looks great from the front, but dumb as hell on the back. Intentional? Heh.
3.) Stupid, stupid dialogue (trite "oh I'm in a fix will you help me young man")...but oh well. At least it's acted better than Shenmue.
I'm sure there's more to the game, but after that run-in I can't allow myself to go back