it's no red dead redemption 2, but few games are. this is still a lot of fun, and a great little game to have on switch. honestly this feels like what a handheld version of red dead 2 would be like.

everything is scaled back here. all the pros and the cons. makes for a much more agreeable, but ultimately less ambitious game. story was still the highlight, but was more of a great videogame story than the industry leading work of it's sequel. also did not really care for much outside of the main story. can't say why tbh.

ultimately, riding around sun&kissed vistas on horseback and shooting people is just fun, and this will always be true. thus this game is fun. thank god they gave this concept a second go in the sequel. so many of these good ideas become great ones when rockstar gives them a good refinement.

also runs incredibly on switch. honestly among the console's best looking games which is kinda sad.

I have never been more conflicted on a game than Bayonetta 3. This is the series' best combat, and a very welcome evolution from the last two games. However, the story in this is one of the biggest pieces of dogshit ever penned. It feels like platinum games have 50 points to spend when they make each Bayonetta game, and each time they put more and more into gameplay and less and less into story.

I really like playing as Bayonetta here, and if this was the gameplay for a game with a story on par with Bayo 1 this would be a masterpiece, but it isn't.

Haven't even started talking about Viola. Actually 0/5 character. If they make the next game about her I won't play it. She has this awful out of touch punk thing going on that is just horrible. Every time she opens her mouth I want to die, she is so fucking annoying. And, worst of all, playing as her is the most miserable thing ever. She has 1 weapon, 1 demon (Who you can't even control), and you have to do a lame ass parry to use witch time, so you just get to use witch time less and its more risky??? So fucking dumb. No one ever would prefer to play as Viola. Who made this shit man. Fuck Viola.