I thought Captain Blood was a game where you pilot a space ship, talk to aliens, and hunt down your clones.

Wikipedia search: Age of Pirates: Captain Blood (since GOG forums can't handle links without mutilating them)

Captain Blood, no Age of Pirates.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/134/captain-blood/

Right, my point was this game has had a very long history of development. There were even early builds floating around the Interwebs of this game at one point. I'm amazed it finally got made. Plenty happy about it too. Looking forward to trying out the new demo. I didn't even know it was getting released until the GOG demo showed up today.

ha, look what I found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5M8W0CjtRE

its a documentary on how game was came to be and its development hell.

funny thing is this demo, despite seemingly being resurrected from the ancient grave - IT IS HELUVA FUN and the presentation is really good! funniest of all is Im not even a beat em up junkie, firts time ever playing such game acutally in my life that feels so pleasant anf fun. meelee feels good, smooth and satisfying, would love to have some guide on combos tho as I cant manage to grasp them.

I'm also not a fan of hackn'slash genre or of outdated graphics in modern releases in general,
but quite enjoyed the Demo and might buy it.
Biggest drawback for me was the missing camera movement, only static / auto camera angle like in a side scroller and to me, it doesn't really fit well with the action / quick fighting and 3D environment of the game.