Risen - Should it Bother Rising? @ OXCGN

What a strange article this is.  Australian Xbox site OXCGN has kicked up an editorial piece that somehow concludes the gameplay (and, well, everything else) in Pirahna Bytes' Risen will fail - based entirely the trailers released to date:

The trailer leaves a number of questions: why can’t people leave the city? What are those strange creatures? And what exactly, is the plot behind the game?  At one point you can hear the hopeless cry: “The gods have forsaken us”.   They look to be the gods of plot, visual presentation, and gameplay.