ok, I lied. I think I might buy this, but in a week or two. I wanted to try out that Dolphin Wii emulator on PC, and this ran surprisingly well (20 fps at native resolution...not perfect). Could only try the classic controller scheme using a 360 pad and it kinda reminds me of God of War with dodge mapped on the right stick. When I do pick it up, I'll probably play with the wii remote setup. The CC setup seems to require a lot of analog wiggling and I actually hate that more than waggling. But hey, at least the finishing move from pushing the analog stick in a certain direction feels as good as it did when waggling in a direction. It depends on how it plays with a wii remote + nunchuck.
How does it work with the wii remote + nunchuck setup? from what archie said, dodge is mapped to the d-pad, and if it's like the first game, then A is slash and B is punch, and whether you're aiming up and down changes what style of attack it is? Z is probably lock-on and C is camera reset.
Oh, and the game was fun of what I played. I forgot how shallow NMH combat is, and I think I can get into that even though I'm a bit burnt out on DMC style stuff.