Hmm... I just started playing it and I dont like it. I mean the cutscenes are beautiful and Bayonetta is so pretty that just watching her walk forward is entertaining, but as soon as I am in control I am like "hm, Id rather watch a cutscene of her doing it". I think this is the perfect youtube game - Fantastic to look at, boring to play.
Also nothing really makes sense, things just keep on happening for the sake of it. "I had this fetish about a Bayonetta Mermaid, so lets have this Kraken attack, so I dont feel so guilty designing this lul".
And graphically I mean it looks like a PS2 game trying to catch up to the PS3. I know the Switch has terribly old hardware, but BotW exists, so as always thats not an excuse.
Sad to say this, but I think I would have refunded this if possible. Bayonetta 1 was so challenging, edgy and sexy, its still the best game, and its available everywhere. Kamiya might have been able to live out his fantasies with Nintendo supporting them, but I dont think the gamers won anything by it.
Well I've just completed 3. Honest opinion, it's another Platinum masterpiece, I loved it. The story is more engrossing than I thought it would be and the gameplay is just typical Bayonetta. I personally really like the changes. Viola, while not as good as Bayonetta herself, is great fun to use. And Cheshire might be one of my favourite game characters ever!
It's just ridiculous fun. Not to spoil anything but some of the stuff Bayonetta gets up too is just brilliant. Jeanne's 2D sections are good fun too. I was sceptical about the 2D but it really does work.
Performance wise I played 80% handheld and it ran great. The game looks stunning, bright, colourful with busy environments. Framerate was stable throughout and the music is epic. Yes it may not be PS5 level graphically but honestly I was so engrossed I wouldn't have noticed.
All in all I'd go 9/10. It's not perfect but it's to good to be rated any lower than that, IN MY OPINION!
On the subject of Bayonetta's lore and story, I just saw a video on YouTube from the, always excellent, Super BunnyHop about the influences on the games from medieval Catholic art and elsewhere.
@Tendo64 Pretty sure you can enjoy it from anywhere, as they are all pretty great games i would say. I have heard lots of people say that 2 is the best starting point overall, but i would like to say that just playing the games chronologically is actually the most fun. I don't think you will really enjoy the other games if combat didn't click with you in any of them so... you just appreciate improvements the most when starting from the beginning.
Next spoiler for my opinion on Bayonetta 3 and its seeming conclusion for the bayonetta games:
I am in the Bayo 3 hate ending team for sure. The game was still fun, but only for the stuff that they took over from the last games. So Gameplay was fire and is still fire, as long as it is not viola or summoning big enemies. I just can't get into multiverse plots i guess so maybe i am already biased and yeah, nobody plays the game for the story. But i do play for the Character of Bayonetta and ridiculous stuff like punching gods into the sun and messing and failing the game when accidentally crashing said god into earth, not cringe Viola on her path to become the next Bayonetta which seemingly seems to be the direction that game is going. Probably gonna try the next game at least, but if it is just viola, i might as well just get into the devil may cry games for a similar experience...
"on a scale of 1 to 10, she's an 11, and she'd give herself a 12" ~The Burst, Furi
Rate your favourite Bayonetta games in order. For me it’s as follows:
1. Bayonetta 2
2. Bayonetta 1
3. Bayonetta 3
P.S. I loved Bayo 3 and I thought the ending was bad ass, contrary to what everyone thought about it. Also loved Viola. Bayo 3 is definitely one of my favourite games.
So I've gotten around to playing it now (damn backlog) and it's very nice. I can't say I enjoyed it more than 2 but still very nice. I think it comes down to it is less of the tight combat from the last few games and expanded the gameplay to have other bits which work very well but I just prefer the hack and slash nature of the games.
Not a massive issue but I don't like the baddie designs as much as I did in the other games. I loved their take on angles so instead of beautiful angelic beings they were these ugly angelic abominations. If you look at old timey testament descriptions whenever an angle appear they had to warn the hu-mans don't be afraid because they had like 4,000 wings, the face of lion or something stupid like that.
I would have prefer if they kept the "story" to chewy b-movie pulp mush like the others than actually tried to have some sort of story as vidya game stories are almost always rubbish anyway.
On the ending yeah I can see the problem and called it being Bayonetta getting married/settling down instead of being killed off before I played the game which I was half right on. As a character she works so much better being footloose and fancy free as she's in this very unique situation of sexy as fudge and owning it without being spank material, she is more like a dominatrix mistress teasing rather than a stripper shaking he booty for money so tying her down is doesn't feel right let alone to an annoying character like Luka. The character herself is part of these appeal games so killing her off with a new Bayonetta was gonna rub people the wrong way too. However it's Bayonetta, the lore and plotting is bewildering at the best of times let alone with variant/multiverse silliness which they can later undo.
Now that I am quite far into the game: Its not as good as number 2, but still a very enjoyable rollercoaster-ride. But you do feel from the start that its a game that had a troubled development-time. They wanted to make a openworld-bayonetta, but at some point decided to ditch that approach (probably because the Switch couldn't handle it). The result is very big levels and no story. After a very moody start you get a extremely long cutscene. After that you finally get to the first proper setpiece (the cruiseship). That cutscene I mentioned was faaaaar to long. The game has lots of big enemies and bosses, those look great. The enviroments look less. The game is very dark, so I had to brighten the game in the menu. Action is great, but only far into the game it becomes challenging. At standard it keeps really simple for a long time. Bayo 2 gets much more difficult much earlier on. Lots of variety, lots of crazy stuff going on. Fun Jeanne and Viola missions (Viola is pretty hard). Great music. Lots of collectables, lots of crazy weapons. If it gets really hard, you can cheese it a bit with those big demons (works especially well in Viola missions). The platform sections are a bit out of place, it doesn't work that well. Its a pretty big game, doing everything might take quite some time. I am 15 hours in and at chapter 12.
Update: The ending was unexpected and did make me cry, especially with that sad and beautiful creditsong afterwards. I really wonder what's next for Bayonetta: [[<spoiler></spoiler> I don't think I can accept Viola as the new Bayonetta, especially if her katana/blocking-gameplay replaces the normal gameplay. Maybe there's a way she can still save Bayonetta, Luka and maybe Jeanne? Maybe we can play as Bayonetta trying to escape from hell? <spoiler></spoiler>]]
Update: 30 hours in, having done most of the stuff. But I can't 100% complete it before the new Zelda, and Zelda comes first. I must say that exploring the huge levels and finding everything (and wrecking the place) is great fun. I was to harsh about the platform-sections it seems. They do work for the most part, but sometimes they are frustrating (mostly because of the camera) but I am happy they are in. For a sequel they should keep the big levels with all the collectables and platforming. But they should make the game harder earlier on and give it a proper story.
I'm very glad that the Bewitchments in this game don't do anything, I did all the Bewitchments in the first two and you actually get rewards for doing them.
But the only one I haven't done in 3 is the Baal Zebul performance with no damage and I'm not going to. If the next game goes back to having Bewitchments unlock things, but has ones like that, then I won't bother
Ahh heck, I actually did it! I could sometimes get past the first two parts without damage, but that last part was tripping me up a lot and having to quit to the title screen, wait on a loading screen and having to sit through an unskippable cutscene and then only maybe getting past the first two parts and having to try again was real rough...
Watching a video of someone doing the last part perfectly, noting down all the correct buttons and trying to match the rhythm of the button presses to the music was what finally got me through it, still took a while though!
@Vivianeat
I really enjoyed it, too. It got a bit long in the tooth for me towards the end, and I didn't really feel like completing every extra challenge, but I'd go 8 or 9 out of 10 for me.
Admittedly, my favorite new Bayonetta game this generation is Origins. Absolutely fantastic game.
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