The demo is extremely short (and I examined EVERY mailbox and hit EVERY thing with a rake).
Battle system is active time. Enemies will attack if you loaf around. You have three different attacks.
* Item
* Regular Attack
* Special Attack
Each circle (attack) has a timer, you see it slowly fill up. When it's ready, just press the button, and then select an enemy, and you whack it with your rake.
You can block attacks at the right time (triggers) - the enemy's health will flash quickly signaling when to do it. This isnt like Mario RPG, it just lessens the damage.
When you get Special Attacks (this takes the longest to wait for), a little mini game will play, and you increase your damage if you do good.
Also, if you use a Regular Attack, all three timers reset. So you can't go Regular -> quickly use an item -> Special
You also have to keep an eye on each person (three in a party), as you have to hit left or right to highlight the character in order to use their attack. So you can't just mash X (Regular attack) and win. Though you can. But it's not like Final Fantasy.
Character Creation is extremely limited. What's cool though is it models the 2D version (your status portrait, and during cutscenes) after it.
Game is mostly for Penny Arcade masturbators (yeah, i know, dur) who bought Fruit Fucker t-shirts
