never played this one but i did play a Darksiders I think on PS3 that was pretty great. This game looks simple enough that i might be able to handle it :)

on the carrying on to the next episode business... obviously this happens a lot in series and it is pretty annoying just having to wait one year for a continuation of the plot so since video games take much longer for the next installment, yes. I can see this being a bit annoying.