Day 30: Bayonetta 2
Time to dig into the salvaged Wii U game pile that is the Nintendo Switch once more.
Platinum Games are masters of the hack and slash genre of gaming. They're always filled with fun and flashy combat, awesome characters, and an interesting story. Bayonetta 2 is no exception.
Bayonetta 2 is yet another game with a story that has a lot going on. While trying to take out some angels attacking the city, Bayonetta's trademark ability to summon demons goes wrong, resulting in the death of her friend Jeanne and her soul being dragged to Inferno. Now Bayonetta has to figure out what's causing her demons to act up, and save Jeanne from Inferno. As this is going on, a mysterious prophet summons a Lumen Sage (A.K.A Balder from the past) to go after Bayonetta and a young boy named Loki, as the prophet, named Loptr, turns out to be half of a god named Aesir, and he'll regain his power as said god when he saps the power of Loki to control "the eyes of the world," which so happen to be in the possession of Bayonetta and Balder. So on top of saving a friend, Bayonetta needs to save the world yet again from a psychotic God.
The game lost just as good if not better than the first game, and all of the levels and enemies are very well designed. The levels are very fun to explore and the bosses are very entertaining to beat down and flashy as hell to face. They even have a level where Bayonetta goes back in time during the war between the Lumen sages and Umbra Witches and we get to see first hand the events that transpired, making the story even more interesting.
Bayonetta herself looks better in this game than the first game…in more ways than one. I don't know what it is, but Bayonetta looks better with shorter hair.
Speaking of Bayonetta and her hair, one of the key components of the gameplay is how she's able to summon demons to deliver finishing blows to her enemies by using her hair…which is also what her suit is made off…meaning she summons them naked…Aw yeah!
On a less perverted note, since this is a hack and slash, Bayonetta has loads of weapons at her disposal. She starts off with her handguns, but as the game goes on, she'll have access to whips, swords, scythes, arrows, and chainsaws. She can equip these weapons to either her hands or her feet, giving you a good sum of combinations to play with.
This game also introduces the Umbran Climax, which powers up whatever weapon Bayonetta is using, allowing her to rack up good combos, and wreck havoc upon the angels and demons she faces. Yeah, another intesting this is that we fight not only the angels in Paradiso, but the demons if Inferno. I thought that was interesting since we really didn't get to see any sort of demons in the first game beyond the ones Bayonetta summons.
With the unique weapons combinations and Umbran Climax, it just makes the already flashy combat even flashier, I mean Christ Almight we're playing Bayonetta 2 here…not Dynasty Warriors.
And to top it all off…this game has much better quick time events than the last game. Okay, this game is awesome.
So, with flashy and fast paced combat along with interesting story and characters, Bayonetta 2 is an enchantingly good time that I can recommend to anyone with a Wii U or Switch.
Also as long as we're on the subject…can we get some kind of update on how Bayonetta 3 is coming along? Please!?
