Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
Pretty cool game, but also a cookie cutter copy of other platformers in some ways. You begin with all of your upgrades, you get stripped of the upgrades, your real quest begins, you seek out the persons responsible for your issues, you do some quests involving the chasing down of multiple seals in order to open some doors, etc.
With that said, the fighting mechanics are through the roof, though the fight-camera tracking movements often reset in the middle of a combo, leaving you to dodge the wrong direction you thought you were dodging from.
Medium on this game is Hard. Hard is insane mode, as far as I'm concerned. The challenges are pretty unique in that much of the climbing to new areas is difficult to discover, and the developers didn't want to hold your hand as you traversed the game's multiple maps.
7/10
This would be higher, but the core mechanics of the plot structure are all too familiar.