https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZMOSkdjYnQ
Game footage

Developed by Platinum
Published by Square-Enix
Release Date: Q1 2017

The Demo was just released on PS4 a couple of days ago as well, if you're interested.

Would love to hear some thoughts!

Wow, that looked, really boring. I'll wait of course to hear reviews, but that did not grab me at all.

I beat the demo and it's great. Platinum has churned out a lot of subpar games since Bayonetta 2, so it's nice to see them make something good again.

So finally got this game and spent several hours dying in the opening on hard difficulty.  Best run I finally got the the goliath only to get killed fairly quickly at which point all progress is lost and it's try again.  Checking online it seems there's a huge disparity between normal and hard modes.  Considering it takes me a whole lot less time to die continually on the Twin Princes in DS3, redoing the opening is trying my patience... anyone else have a similar experience?

Hard is definitely hard, and yeah, the opening has no check points.

Just play on Normal.