Bayonetta 2 is a huge improvement over its prequel. Since I did not enjoy the first one so much, I wasn't expecting much from this one, but I ended up being surprised!

I can't believe they managed to improve on the combat of the previous game! Battles are astonishing here! Easy to pull-off but tough to master combos, tight controls, great weapon variety, good soundtrack, balanced enemy difficulty, an actual good level design, no more boring puzzles, no more dull mini-games and VERY good boss fights! It feels like they fixed MOST of the technical problems they had and only maintained the best parts, while enhancing gameplay mechanics. Side content is also pretty decent, making it very replayable, unlike its predecessor. It's still not perfect, but it's the closest thing to DMC5 I've ever played.

But despite Bayonetta 2's upgrade, it's still far from being an incredible game. The worst thing is definitely its story! I love every single character design, but I can't relate to them in any way. Not only the voice acting is awful, but everything is VERY nonsensical, badly written and just told in a very rushed manner. I couldn't care less about the plot. I did try to enjoy most of it, but I just fell by the wayside. In fact, not only the story, but the entire game gets a massive drop in quality after chapter 13. It's like they just wanted to get it done with, already and it shows. And WHY do they keep oversexualizing EVERY woman in the game? ??

Bayonetta 2 is one hell of a fun time, albeit flawed. It's a good game to shut your mind from the story and just focus on the crazy hack and slash action and mechanics. While I'm still skeptical whether to recommend this or not, it's safe to say that if you decide to give it a shot, you'll at least feel like a goddamn badass sexy witch.

Good god. The amount of hype this game gets is unreal and massively undeserved for sure.

Bayonetta 1 and 2 stans are the kinds of people who... I can't even think of anything funny, it's like being a stan for Bayonetta 1 and 2 is enough honestly.

Bayonetta 1 was a fun game with loads of missed potential and a lazy, tacked on hard mode where enemies just have shittons of health and you take loads, which encourages you to spam abuse broken defensive mechanics, such as the Link shield forward spam. But it had POTENTIAL. Above all of it there was this eh, pretty cringe dialogue and script, surface level story telling, but there was very clearly a really passionately crafted lore for this world that just wasn't quite there in showing itself. But that, I can forgive - it was the first in the series. I did really enjoy the way it almost scratched that itch left by DMC1 (the only DMC game I actually like). In fact, I only played Bayonetta 1 because I was hyped to play 2, and thought it would be a shame to miss out the first game.

But holy fuck. This game is just really... it exists, for sure. The combat is fun for a little while, until you realise that all of your combos look the exact same visually, and you realise that nothing is gonna be too varied from what you're used to in Bayonetta 1 - except now there is very little room for exploration, levels are just tunnels and corridors with no breathing room.

But the worst offender that made me put it down after 2 hours? HOLY shit, the cringe dialogue. It's so bad. Oh my god. If you see this dialogue it's garbage. Delivery is landing anywhere between subpar - really shit. Characters dropping the F bomb constantly (swearing is totally fine but its just lazily used and adds nothing here, the things they say don't sound like actual conversations whatsoever), really corny one liners that never land, and stupid shit like Loki the little dork fake british accent loser who says "heh ur the guy who look at bayonettas tits? xd". It's so cringe.

Honestly, it's so bad I just turned the game off. These characters are not fun to watch, and seeing how many cutscenes this game throws at you at the start its a slog to get through. This game isn't campy, it's corny.