I'm wondering if I'm alone with this.
But after watching the latest trailer, the game seems pretty humorless but keeps trying to deliver joke after joke to impress the audience/player, and fails. I can hardly explain it.
The "fun" seemed stated, and not really natural or it didn't really gave you the impression of being "natural". Or at least in a natural way when you see good stupid humor, like in cartoons and so on.
The ideas of the jokes were a bit lame and totally oversued by many films, cartoons and games. It was like watching a really bad cartoon actually were the characters can't really deliver the fun but they try it again and again.
Imagine an episode of Scrubs, just with reeeeeeeeeally bad actors and a lack of a fun atmosphere, lol.
The game still is not interesting enough for me.
On the pro: Hayabusa looks really good. The new wannabee Terminator look-alike ninja is a very uninteresting character to me. It seems like the game is more about the characters around him, not really himself (kinda like in Ninja Gaiden 1 where Ryu basically had no personality at all so they focused on everything else story wise).
I guess that helps making Ryu look even more bad ass.
I don't think that other NG characters like Rachel, Ayane and Kasumi or will appear. I'm pretty sure they would have got DLC as well, but that wasn't the case.
Momiji obviously was the choice to make her more alive in the NG universe. She was more or less just another shrine maiden and just another big breasted girl with no real backstory. Momiji existed for quite some time now, but she always had that "she is just there" appearance. Also in DOA5. Maybe her Yaiba debut helps her character a bit.
I'm still not sure about that combat systems. It doesn't look like Ninja Gaiden (I was aware of that before) but it wasn't a DMC/Bayonetta/GoW style either. It was more like a Dynasty Warrios where you mash buttons, hoping for hitting first.