After the first few minutes, wrinkles play on my forehead and I scratch the back of my head. Because again I don’t understand much of what’s happening on the screen.
The super witch Bayonetta again moves from one hell to another with full grace, beautifully dismantling them into their individual parts. She shoots, punches and stomps her way through a rough science fiction fantasy setting as usual, leaving many question marks.
No, I don’t understand much about it, but that was already the case with the predecessors. The confusion is great, but somehow also familiar. Because part 3 feels just like the last adventures and almost enchants with nostalgic feelings. Especially if you remember the year 2009, when the first title of this surprising hack-and-slay fireworks display made for some fun evenings.
A hairy naked affair
The “Bayonetta” series has been and has always been a video game journey that almost overwhelms us with its Japanese style, leaves many question marks, but also intoxicates us with intoxicating spells. And these are the attributes that we have always loved about this lavish brand and even today we find it hard to resist this appeal.
By the way, Bayonetta doesn’t just wear a tight suit when she’s beating up rows of dark figures. No, the suit is actually a continuation of her head of hair and takes on a life of its own. With these magical moons, she finally creates towering monsters and other magic to really hit the spot.
And when she sends her hair into battle and her monster demon colleagues mold it, the witch is basically completely naked on the field. The naked facts are always well disguised, but yes, Bayonetta is actually always quite a bit naked. Just that we’ve recaptured this just to underline how wacky this video game series is.
It’s complicated
But what is the third part actually about, or what happened before? Well, it’s complicated, you would need your own PowerPoint presentation and a lot of time and understanding of interdimensional events.
In any case, the witch has several times prevented the end of the world and beat various dimension monsters and cult followers asses. But even in the third part, the heroine does not rest. Because a new enemy, the so-called singularity, wants to destroy everything on Earth and at the same time the entire multiverse with a human-monster-robot army plus mandatory towering opponents.
To avoid all this, Bayonetta visits several levels where she searches for the so-called Chaos Gears in order to gain access to the only remaining world where confrontation awaits. something like that.
Still confusing, still familiar
So everything like the predecessors? Almost. During the first hours of playing, the feeling creeps in that everything is the same here. The exuberant, sometimes very hectic battles with the oversized opponents, the familiar music, the reused sound effects, the always too cool dealer, everything seems to have been taken directly from the first two games.
But the longer we are in this over-the-top comic book world, the more new content and details appear, which amaze us with great amazement. For example, there’s the fact that a multiverse has now also made its way into “Bayonetta” mythology, blessing us with characters that look very, very familiar to us. Yes, it all gets more confusing and you really need to keep your head up to keep things clear.
Hello change!
But the level structure also holds a few surprises. For example, far from the third person perspective, we can sometimes wander from right to left in a side-scrolling minigame in a simple 2D world to achieve our goal in a special environment. We even do that in the role of old friend Jeanne, who joins the super witch in battle.
In addition, we can now control huge demons directly on the battlefield, explore certain areas more than ever before and run on the backs of select super monsters over collapsing urban canyons, while a much larger monster takes our attention in front of us.
And we can also control a completely new witch: Viola is still in the learning phase, but is already a cunning old dog. Of course, we don’t want to reveal exactly who she is here.
Where it says «Bayonetta», it also says «Bayonetta»
Conclusion: Even if a few small but fine innovations have come into play, they can’t distract from the fact that the “Bayonetta” series hasn’t changed fundamentally and has actually remained quite solid.
The witch is still dishing out lasciviously against a horde of monsters that are getting bigger and crazier. And the camera occasionally stops at her buttocks and portrays the witch in a particularly striking way. At the same time, we are presented with a homely gameplay that reminds us of the predecessors without much experimentation.
The third installment from developer Platinum Games hasn’t turned out to be a masterpiece either, but it still offers what we’ve just loved about this witch for years: hard hitting, beautifully choreographed action in front of a wacky backdrop that presents us with a mind-fuck story, where we don’t mind at all. be angry if we missed the connection again.
“Bayonetta 3” is available for Nintendo Switch and is approved for ages 16 and up.
Source: Watson
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