The most luxurious action game ever made.
There are many combos, but each of them have a purpose. You can hold the button at any point of a combo for extra damage or a different function. There are multiple weapons, magical finishers, taunts, parries, breakdances. There are gigantic kaiju bosses to one-on-one adversaries. There are literally combat verses that are hiding right behind you. There's so much lore about the alluring culture of Vigrid and then there are cutscenes where Bayonetta middle fingers an ancient being. There are two-to-three credits sequences and then a dance montage. When you beat the game, you unlock the shittiest set of guns and when you beat 100 chapters, you unlock a sick new weapon.
Of course, the initiative to throw in as much as possible does mean an inadequacy will hide in the pile every now and then: mainly instant death QTE's, the odd arcadey minigame, the ranking system being unnaturally strict for such a freeform game, and the occasional unreadable enemy animation. But they hardly leave a dent on what is an overall addictive and excessively good package. Bayonetta is a character who truly gives you everything despite it all, regardless of any mysterious or overblown lore or dodgy gameplay section, and makes you want to live out the song and dance with her for as long and as many times as you possibly can.
There are many combos, but each of them have a purpose. You can hold the button at any point of a combo for extra damage or a different function. There are multiple weapons, magical finishers, taunts, parries, breakdances. There are gigantic kaiju bosses to one-on-one adversaries. There are literally combat verses that are hiding right behind you. There's so much lore about the alluring culture of Vigrid and then there are cutscenes where Bayonetta middle fingers an ancient being. There are two-to-three credits sequences and then a dance montage. When you beat the game, you unlock the shittiest set of guns and when you beat 100 chapters, you unlock a sick new weapon.
Of course, the initiative to throw in as much as possible does mean an inadequacy will hide in the pile every now and then: mainly instant death QTE's, the odd arcadey minigame, the ranking system being unnaturally strict for such a freeform game, and the occasional unreadable enemy animation. But they hardly leave a dent on what is an overall addictive and excessively good package. Bayonetta is a character who truly gives you everything despite it all, regardless of any mysterious or overblown lore or dodgy gameplay section, and makes you want to live out the song and dance with her for as long and as many times as you possibly can.