It's not that I necessarily disagree with your end comment, but jebus man you could have been a bit more forthcoming instead of waiting until you were caught. (It will probably 'look like' that as much as any RT graphics can closely emulate that of CGI) :lol:
That's not to say that I don't think that the real up to date Heavenly Sword doesn't look great, but these screens have a lot of flaws and can be a bit of a roller coaster ride.
They definitely 'seem' have some slight polygon issues (But you can argue that's because they aren't 'covering up' with normal mapping very surface known to man like other games do), you can see it in everything that isn't a part of the 'waterfall background' as it were, from the rocks to the trees; tons of effects are missing, etc.
There's no way these screens are from a recent build. Unless it was the mother of all downgrades in the history of this next gen era thus far.
In all it's PS1 Era Fog and 2D Bitmap Glory.
When we've already seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XufHe6bhWFk
Looking forward to this game.