Was the biggest surprise of 2009 in it's original form.
Same here, I thought the game sucked when playing the demo but after giving the demo a few more shots, I enjoyed it and enjoyed the RPG elements and brought myself a copy. I got it this year and was surprised at how good it was.
Now the graphics are improved with the DKS and you can lower the difficulty, I'm sure more people will actually not give up after getting to broken valley.