Struggling to nail slow-motion parries? Just equip an amulet that blocks attacks with the analogue stick. Frustrated with the feel of a weapon? Swap it out. What initially feels like button mashing slowly reveals itself to be a beautifully bespoke brawler.
Like its predecessors, the action-focused gameplay underpinning Bayonetta is the main attraction – and it’s deceptively deep. The storytelling is marginally more coherent this time around, but still largely serves as a threadbare excuse for the next screen-filling spectacle. It veers from a New York-set brawl aboard a flooding yacht, to something akin to a horny anime directed by Christopher Nolan.
Set pieces swerve from disintegrating flying demons with a furry demon-cat to suggestively riding a Godzilla-sized Gomorrah across ever-shifting interdimensional skyscrapers. It’s comfortably the weirdest game you’ll play this year.
It’s hardly the fanfare that anyone would have wanted, and the drama will sour this game for many.īizarre stuff … Bayonetta 3. There has been an ugly back-and-forth over the details of her pay. With the pound scrabbling out of freefall and the inauguration of our third prime minister in the space of four months, you’d be forgiven for missing the #boycottBayonetta controversy, but the long and short of it is that the actor who gave Bayonetta her voice in the first two games did not reprise her role because she said she was offered an insultingly low fee for the job. This third outing, however, has been overshadowed by a dispute with its former star. The brainchild of Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya, this demonic series has always combined combo-building combat with a weirdly satanic layer of sexuality. Armed with pistols attached to her platform heels, summoning demons from her luscious locks with a suggestive wink, Bayonetta’s fetish-baiting ballet of blood and bullets is as unselfconsciously bonkers as video games come. A t Japanese developer PlatinumGames, the phrase “dress to kill” is taken very literally.
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