6/17/2023 0 Comments Bayonetta 3 pc![]() There's a giant club that doubles as a railgun, a magician's staff and magical hat that allow you to teleport and summon objects out of thin air, a microphone stand that doubles as a spear and lets you sing for buffs, and even four color-coded lions that attach to your arms and legs and let you be Voltron. There is an absolute boatload of weapons in Bayonetta 3, and it is a delight to see the absurd creations you pick up. In exchange, weapons are more of a significant play style change. You no longer equip weapons to hands or legs you only have two different weapon slots. The only significant shift is in how weapons are handled. The core gameplay is a lot like the last two games in the series, with pretty much every familiar mechanic making a full return. I get that it is supposed to show the tension of the situation, but "everything is terrible and the multiverse is collapsing" is so common these days that I'd much rather have seen a dancing witch snark her way through heaven and hell.Īlthough the story left me cold, the gameplay in Bayonetta is fantastic. A lot of the fun from the previous games was Bayonetta being presented as an unflappable, confident and powerful force, and here, she just isn't. She has far less room to quip and is involved in significantly more mercy killing. From the start, the game clearly frames her as different from the Bayonetta we knew from the last two games (multiverses and all), but the difference is in the presentation, not the character. It stands out most with Bayonetta herself. ![]() The game also focuses on a romance subplot that was technically there from the first game but doesn't feel satisfying or earned, and it tries a bit too hard to make itself feel inevitable. Those moments make the game shine, but then you're back to basically everything being terrible. You visit an alternate dimension where Bayonetta and her mother are French thieves on the run from Inspector Enzo, or there's have a boss fight against Sun Wukong that is framed as a giant bathtub bubble fight. Individually, there are a lot of moments with that Bayonetta flair. The plot is miserable, like "Avengers: Infinity War." It's pretty much Bayonettas (plural) failing and getting their butts kicked over and over, leading to an incredibly downer ending. That was true of the first two games, and they worked just fine. My biggest problem with Bayonetta 3 is the story, not because it's kind of nonsense or ridiculous. Teaming up the Bayonetta and Jeanne of that world, the trio ventures through the gradually crumbling multiverse, seeking five special items that will allow them to take the fight to Singularity in its home world of The Alphaverse. ![]() In this instance, Bayonetta sacrifices herself to give a newcomer witch named Viola a chance to escape to another world. A mysterious figure known only as Singularity is going through the multiverse, destroying world after world by killing their "Arch-Eve," which is almost always a Bayonetta. It's not flawless, but it's darn close.īayonetta 3 opens with Bayonetta dying. It's a surprisingly strong contender for one of the best games of the year. The very same year, it has also released Bayonetta 3, which is one of the most creative, exciting and fun character action games on the market. Platinum Games was responsible for what is likely this year's biggest bomb, the already shuttered Babylon's Fall. ![]() ![]() It's funny to think about the variety of output from a single game studio. ![]()
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