I like Bayonetta better than Devil May Cry… Fuck you, fight me. Let’s not waste another second and let’s talk about it.
Bayonetta follows, well, Bayonetta, an Umbra Witch who was sealed in a coffin five hundred years ago before she resurfaced, with no memory of her passed and a legion of Heaven’s angels hunting her down. So, with the help of bar tender and badass Rodin, scumbag Enzo, and totally not Yuri Lowenthal, Luca, she travels to a far off city in hopes of getting answers, while also killing as many angels as she can. So like I said before, Bayonetta is fucking awesome. You start off the game with just your basic melee attacks, as well as guns in her hands an on the heels of her shoes. All you can do is go about and use those powers to fight as many angels as possible, usually on something that is collapsing, falling apart, or flying around in a tornado. The game has a thousand insane set pieces that don’t make a lick of sense and is really just there to look dumb and cool and it works so well. From fighting on top of a jet plane in the city to surfing through a cyclone in the middle of the ocean to riding a missile to the villains building, it is all over the top goodness. And the boss fights in this game are a real specticel. I debate on weather the angel designs in Bayonetta are more disturbing than the demon designs in Devil May Cry. It’s probably the fact that the angels have these white statue-esque bodies with a ton of organic flesh hiding underneath it. It looks gross, yet I love it so damn much. And the game has a ton of ways to play through this game. If you dodge at just the right time, you will activate Witch Time, a mode where everything freezes around you for a very short time, but you can use that time to increase combos, weaken enemies around you, and just hope that you don’t die, and it makes you want to dodge all you can. But don’t dodge too frequently, or Bayonetta will get tired and leave you wide open to attacks. You can’t just abuse the animation in hopes of avoiding hits constantly. You gotta time it right. You gotta learn to master this game. It ain’t gonna give you any freebies or let you break the game. You paid full price for this game, but that don’t mean you can just get a free ride through. And if you are a real pro with the games combat, you can continue to increase the difficulty in the hopes of getting a better ranking and unlocking amazing new weapons that can help you (Or screw you if you aren’t used to the style). With mods such as Normal, Hard, Very Hard, and my favorite, Infinite Non-Stop Climax. And if you really wanna torture yourself, you can collect one billion halos and bring them to Rodin to unlock a secret boss fight that is so damn difficult and will fuck you up again and again and again before you eventually beat this guy, but the reward is so damn good that it almost makes the countless deaths worth it.
Bayonetta is a real damn good experience for anyone who is interested in character action games. It’s got so much style, so much replay value, and a fuck ton of charm. And Bayonetta is just a lot more fun of a character than most character action protagonists for her cocky, but charming insults to demons. I have yet to play Bayonetta 2, but you better believe I’m gonna be all over that. And Bayonetta 3 when it comes out.