Review: Bayonetta

[The Austin]

Wait.... The game has a.... One handed mode.

Was it intentionally designed for..... *Ahem*?

 

[oneshotfinchy]

Rented it for the 360. It can be beaten in a week and everything that can be bought on extra runthroughs cost obnoxious abounts of money, so I wouldn't have played through again if I had bought it. The story isn't half bad towards the end, I didn't really mind the amount of cutscenes. I'm being told repeatedly how deep the combat was but I could hammer the punch button followed by a kick and get the strongest combo out just before I had to dodge. I found the music repetitive but it's always fun to listen to. It's a pretty good game but I think the size of the enemies bowled over critics too much and they didn't notice how short it is for single player only.

 

[molester jester]

If i wanted to play Devil May cry, i would play Devil may cry. Although the main character in this looks alarmingly like my friend's mum . Hmmm i may need to buy it just for that

 

[The_ModeRazor]

But when a cross console game is very successful, it quite often gets ported to PC. And it's usually terrible.

Case in point: Resident Evil 4.

And Saints Row 2, GTA IV, etc. etc. etc.

cross-ports are usually awful.

GTA IV was perfectly okay from me, without bugs or slow-downs.
Saints Row 2 would've been fine... but whenever I was driving around at high speed, there was a god-awful stuttering
OT: Heh, seems like a fun game. If they are porting it to the pc and make the port as good as DMC 4, then hell yeah. (although I really hate Japanese DMC-style games because they have a retarded story like no other)

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

GTA IV was perfectly okay from me, without bugs or slow-downs.

I had it on bare minimum settings and only got 14 FPS; this is when I can run TF2, LotRo and GTA:VC on 1280x1024 with no slowdown.

If you've got a ninja machine though, you wouldn't catch these things.

 

[Dragon Zero]

Am I the only one who actually likes the music in the game?

I mean it's not really what I usually listen to but I feel it fits with the character and mood of the game pretty well. I especially love the After Burner theme remix along with the other Sega game music. Sure you COULD have put in some generic metal soundtrack but I don't think it would feel the same to me than with the current music, more like I was playing a different game.

I do think that this game could have benefited from a co-op mode similar to the one in Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, but never the less I enjoy it as it is.

 

[crotalidian]

Blood, Guts, Gore, Titties winning combinations

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/1/11/

EDIT: hmm, looks good i guess.

I take that as a personal insult to my nerdiness! how dare you assume I had not already read it! have at the sirrah!

 

[The_ModeRazor]

GTA IV was perfectly okay from me, without bugs or slow-downs.

I had it on bare minimum settings and only got 14 FPS; this is when I can run TF2, LotRo and GTA:VC on 1280x1024 with no slowdown.

If you've got a ninja machine though, you wouldn't catch these things.

My computer is not uber-tech but it's pretty good I guess.
Albeit a rather sad background story.

 

[Viruzzo]

I tried the demo, and could not understand what was going on for the better part of it (not that I'm an expert of the ultra-messy-fastest-action genre) Also, the music is terrible, it may fit the character but still...

 

[Kojiro ftt]

Wait, you can *****-slap enemies with your pistols? SOLD!

Side note: I hope the characters aren't as cheesy as DMC. I hated it every time Dante opened his mouth.

 

[anthony87]

What i dont understand is if they can make Bayonetta so good then why wasnt there more time put into Devil May Cry 4?

Because Kobayashi is a fucking moron who doesn't know what Devil May Cry fans want while Kamiya is God.

 

[The_Reviewist_v1legacy]

I got to say this one has me at a definite quandry. I quite patently can't decide what I think about it.
I actually read a colleague's review of it where he gave it 100%, and I completely disagreed considering that the demo didn't even inspire me particularly, so when my copy came through I cranked it up and had a look. Here's my thought's when playing, in order:

"I don't remember the red chick from the demo..."

"Oh look the bad guy from Get Carter"
"Why won't that fat guy shut up?"
"Seriously fat guy, shut up."

"Oh look angels.."
"Wait, she's killing angels?"
"Aren't they practically the same angel enemies from Devil may Cry 4?"

"Oh look a shouty angry Black guy."
"Oh. He's an idiot."

"She's moaning with pleasure because something scratched her clothes off?!"
"So I'm supposed to care what happens when it's patantly obvious these 'angels' present no threat to her whatsoever?"
"My God! this intro is longer than Metal Gear Solid 4"

"Yay! I get to hit something!"
"This really is just a Devil May Cry mod for pervy submissive librarian fetishists."
"ENOUGH WITH THE 'FLY ME TO THE MOON' COVER ALREADY"

"Oh look, supernatural Black guy and *****-girl are being dicks to the fat human."
"Yes honey, a coffee sounds nice.."

Then I turned it off. Seriously, What a way to open a game. Now granted I detest this sort of Over-sexualised manga-brain Japaneseness, but I'm not alone in that. Surely alienating huge swathes of the audience is a bad idea? Also given that I genuinely think DMC4 is more fun, I'm not understanding the love.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Ah, nice to see Bayonetta's jumped on "The Divine Comedy" bandwagon. Purgatorio, Inferno, and Paradiso? I was waiting for dante's inferno for my fill of literal inspiration. Still, if it plays as good as you say it does, then there's no harm done. I'm still holding out for Dante's Inferno, though.

 

[ironlordthemad]

you know something?
im still not interested

didn't really care for the DMC series and I'm sure this isn't the same thing, but I just don't care for this either

by the way, if she is a witch, why doesnt she just fix her eyes with a spell, im sure "wish" would help her (dnd reference for the win), or are the glasses part of her allure?

 

[shadow skill]

This game annoys me on a deep level, iv always hated Devil May Cry's smug cocky kills everything spurts one liners and listens to metal Dante as an obvious play to the 13 year old male gamer mentality of "YEHH FUCKING SLIPKNOT BLOOD AND GUTS GOD DANTE IS SO COOL" and now Bayonetta seems to be doing much the same thing but with sex and its not even fucking trying this game is about as subtle as the Evony ads in how there trying to sell it, Im not saying its a bad game but seriously am i the only one insulted at this less than 2 dimensional "Sex sells" play?

There's a huge difference between sex as a marketing ploy and sex as an aesthetic choice. Bayonetta definitely falls into the latter category. It's simply too creative to have come out of a focus group on how to appeal to 14-year-old boys.

I agree--from what I've read about the development, a big theme was creating a modern version of a witch. It's interesting she finishes off these Angels (about which you said not "only do they look like warped, animalistic versions of their usually idealized forms, but they seem to lash out at innocents more often than their demonic enemies") with implements of torture like the Iron Maiden when so much of the history of 'witches' involves the religious authorities torturing--often in ridiculously sexual ways--women accused of witchcraft.

A Gun for Jennifer? More like A Gun--or Four--for Bayonetta!

Ironically the higher classes of Angels tend to not have a human appearance. Some have downright disturbing descriptions.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I love this game, I got the Climax edition. The replica gun is cheap looking and not worth it.

There probably will be a PC port, it will look much better, it will run like a sloth in frozen molases because they didn't do it properly.

 

[Doug]

God I hate this damn game...

Might I ask why?

This is every action lover's dream. Assuming you don't mind a gung-ho Sarah Palin.
[sub]Hey-oh![/sub]

She does indeed look a bit like Sarah Palin...Creepy shit.

Why I don't feel like playing this game(aka, hate)?

I've never really been a fan of the overly excessive. And that's basically this thing's trademark: Overly excessive violence, sex, and what the hell was also excessively in there.

But here's the twist: I would normally not have too much against that if the whole point of it all IS to be excessive. A hardcore action-movie with excessive violence and shit like that could very well be worth seeing, right? So judging by this, I shouldn't "hate" this game at all.

But then you add in the mindfucking music, the lacking story, and the fact that one of the "excessives" in the game is "Japanese" (Read: excessively japanese), and you have a cup that spilled over so long ago and by so much that you could use the resulting waterfall to provide fresh water to a small third world country and all its people for 1 week straight.

Did I overdo it?

*edit*
I forgot to mention that it pisses me off beyond words that I keep hearing how "good" this game is. I don't want it to be good. I want it to suck, even if that's incredibly immature and irrational and I'm very aware of it.

I have to agree on all counts. And "excessively Japanese" is never a good thing in my book . God damnit, no matter how I say it, I still come off like a grumpy old man. "Damn kids and there Pok-a-mans". Though on that subject, "Pokemon" translates to "Pocket monster", so why not just translate the damn thing rather than miring around in Japanese-ness more?

*grumbles of to his old of grump again*

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

"witch time".... He called it innovative? Really? slow motion is about the LEAST innovative thing... Hell he's even done it in Devil May Cry (albeit in a less useful way).
Speaking of Devil May Cry, does anyone else think this guy is sort of a one-trick pony? This is just the same game but with tits on the main character. Not to mention ALL of his games have been based on or inspired by Dante's Inferno.

I dunno, I just sort of hoped we could start having ACTUAL innovation instead of the same pretence we got with the LAST DMC game. "Oh the devil bringer adds SO much depth to the gameplay!" No it didn't. It was the same gameplay as it's always been, only now there was and actual WIN BUTTON.

Bayonetta is just another DMC game, and as such, I don't doubt that its fun, but can we quit pretending there is anything new or special about it besides its latest coat of paint?

 

[Snork Maiden]

Not going to join the debate about the game, except to say I'm loving it (which means 2010 is already a better gaming year than 2009) - although I haven't played DMC before so its all new to me.

I do have to say that while the balls have hit the wall when it comes to in your face sex, its also far and away one of the campest games I've ever played