I don't know how to exactly pinpoint how I feel about this game because while that's a 3.5 score, Bayonetta 3 has some of the highest high's of the trilogy and also some of the lowest low's as well. It's lacking the consistency in quality of the previous two games, but exchanges it for sheer ridiculous overload in ambition and absurdity at such a scale that it was basically impossible not to have a grin on my face having a good time.
For every section that kind of sucks in Bayo 3, within 5-10 minutes the game would do something batshit insane that would make me forgive it immediately afterwards.
The story may be a trainwreck, but it's still a good excuse for goofy wild stuff to happen. The framerate may be a mess and... that's probably less forgivable even with knowing how outdated the Switch's hardware is and what Platinum is trying to pull off on here. The first couple chapters are in an empty gray monotone city (Platinum's favorite for several console gens now), but then every location afterwards is new and unique even for Bayonetta standards. The combat may have less depth than the previous two games and Viola's gameplay needed so much more polishing, but the sheer spectacle of it all never ceased to be entertaining and at least for me made up for it. As a fan? I still had a blast with Bayonetta 3 and I think it's a worthy entry in the series, even if I'm worried for what Platinum will have to pull off in the future to continue from here.
Oh, and Jennifer Hale does such a good job, honestly I think her performance is better than Taylor's in terms of pulling off different variants of the same character and also making sounds and lines during gameplay engaging and effective (something that Taylor's work struggled with in the previous two games). Voice actors deserve to be paid more in general, but Hale didn't deserve any of the shit that came her way during that whole debacle.
For every section that kind of sucks in Bayo 3, within 5-10 minutes the game would do something batshit insane that would make me forgive it immediately afterwards.
The story may be a trainwreck, but it's still a good excuse for goofy wild stuff to happen. The framerate may be a mess and... that's probably less forgivable even with knowing how outdated the Switch's hardware is and what Platinum is trying to pull off on here. The first couple chapters are in an empty gray monotone city (Platinum's favorite for several console gens now), but then every location afterwards is new and unique even for Bayonetta standards. The combat may have less depth than the previous two games and Viola's gameplay needed so much more polishing, but the sheer spectacle of it all never ceased to be entertaining and at least for me made up for it. As a fan? I still had a blast with Bayonetta 3 and I think it's a worthy entry in the series, even if I'm worried for what Platinum will have to pull off in the future to continue from here.
Oh, and Jennifer Hale does such a good job, honestly I think her performance is better than Taylor's in terms of pulling off different variants of the same character and also making sounds and lines during gameplay engaging and effective (something that Taylor's work struggled with in the previous two games). Voice actors deserve to be paid more in general, but Hale didn't deserve any of the shit that came her way during that whole debacle.