Everything works, but at times the mode's design seems at odds with itself. Matches are limited to trials, which blur the lines between cooperative play and competitive design, as each player has their own score and their own in-game currency on the line. For more intense quicktime sequences, she'll even do a sexy pose as it flies off, with the absolute barest minimum covered.īayonetta 2 introduces online multiplayer to the series, but it's a limited implementation. Put simply, Bayonetta's strongest attacks result in her clothes flying off. Her clothing is actually composed of this hair magic, and as she performs more powerful attacks, more of this hair magic is diverted from covering her to compensate. For anyone who didn't play the first game, here's a bit of premise: Much of Bayonetta's supernatural power is tied into her hair. This is frequently provided as an implicit reward for doing well. The camera doesn't look at Bayonetta - it leers at her. There are enough gratuitous ass-shots, cleavage jokes and spread legs to fill an hours long super cut. whatever.īut even this is minor compared to the game's camera, which zooms in on Bayonetta's parts like they're products being sold in a commercial.
When standing in place her shoulders are bent back to point her chest at. Bayonetta's new outfit delivers bold new developments in revealing clothing with the introduction of diamond cutouts on the ass of her jumpsuit, creating what I can only refer to as "under-butt" cleavage. I'll forgive the high heels and the exaggerated proportions, if only because there's so many other things to criticize. Less positive is the same exaggerated sexualization that hung heavy around the last game's neck. On the other, the deliberate sexualization and objectification on display serves as a jarring distraction from the creativity and design smarts elsewhere. On one side of the knife is a character action game that refines the incredible combat foundations of the original Bayonetta and avoids the lack of variety that dragged it down in the last third. It's also the kind of game that left me asking how many times and how many different ways developer Platinum could run a camera up the main character's spread legs and cleavage.
It's extravagant, like the golden age of Japanese action games never ended, like that arms race just escalated on and on. Bayonetta 2 is the kind of game where you might ask, seriously, why you're not allowed to strap a massive multi-bladed scythe to your high heels. Developer Platinum Games has once again gone for broke, creating an action game of spectacle so big that it's occasionally incomprehensible.
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