I'm a sucker for mythology, and the potential for them to take the franchise into different non-Greek mythologies to explore is exciting.
Beast looks like another Souls game, I haven't finished the first and am hearing stuff I don't like about DSII. Should I have confidence because it's pretty? I know GAF thinks the Souls games are like the be all end all of gaming but I'm still shocked at how big the reaction has been to what little we've seen.
TLG was always about as exciting as Duke Nukem Forever. We don't know jack shit about the game aside from a trailer or two that look ugly in retrospect. As a disclaimer, I had both ICO and SotC spoiled for me, and thus really lost any motivation to play them.
I love mythology, too. God of War just uses it as a backdrop, though. There's no real cultural content there for me to enjoy. Taking the franchise into non-Greek mythologies makes me a little sick to my stomach. Unless they had the guts to take Kratos into Christendom; I wouldn't buy the game, but I would be highly amused by the announcement.
I have confidence in Project Beast the Souls games (all 1.5 of them I have played so far) are fantastic. I am glad to see more of that, and a new setting seems interesting.
As someone who fell upon Ico and SotC randomly, I enjoyed both of them. Ico more than SotC, and I am probably the minority there. I don't need to know more about the game other than that it's being made by the same team. It's like a Platinum Games title - I don't really need to see what's up to know it will be worth my time (unless it's the MadWorld team...).
It kind of sounds like you spend too much time reading about games, and then you don't actually get to enjoy them for yourself.