i used to be so down bad
i had this jill valentine poster from re3 in my room when i was younger that every time i got some victory in a game i would point at it and go “yeah baby” (i was like 12 leave me alone). my cousin was over for christmas one time. we were playing halo 3 and i kept beating him in 1v1s and kept doing my little victory routine after each win and that got him so mad that he yelled and started punching holes in the poster causing me to tackle him and start pummeling him with smacks across his face while tears rolled down my eyes. that day i felt a loss of innocence. good game.

okay so we take the first game, right?

and we add... required combat arenas.
and open ended level design that just feels like shit
with none of the interesting characters of Spider-Man since we blew em all in the first game
Oh, and 90% of the bosses and story are almost one-to-one from the first game, just with different names.

Also no one gives a shit about Electro! Die!!

...really cute credit sequence tho. ups for that.

1) I genuinely like the gameplay. It feels like a handheld version of Dragonball XenoVerse and the clothing destruction is actually a cool idea for showing the health of enemies, especially when you're fighting large groups.
2) Representation of women in video games (especially action games) is so fucked, that this game ends up being less sexist/misogynist than a lot of other games. All of the characters are women that all have agency and the story is about their interpersonal interactions, both sexually and platonically. At least some of the characters are explicitly lesbians. I'm not saying this is the pinnacle of female character writing, it's more a condemnation of the medium that this game makes me a lot less grossed out by it's treatment of women than a lot of the games I have played in the past few years.

You call bayonetta mommy because you are attracted to her and have a fucked up pathetic mother fetish.

I call Bayonetta mommy because I desperately need a strong queer mother figure to support me and tell me I’m doing all right.

We are not the same.

This game is evil to the core its 'normal' mode ruined my wrists for two weeks i loved it

More fun than any licensed game based on a movie should be, especially for something published by a company as soulless as EA. It’s incredible that they actually gave you the ability to run around hogwarts freely, and that it was actually built to scale for the most part.

However, it’s pretty dated in some regards, and that final level was frustrating and broken, but it was still beatable so that’s good I guess.

Honestly, what this made me want more than anything was a Hogwarts RPG in the vein of Persona 5 where you have to go to your classes on a regular schedule and have fun, turn based duels with other Hogwarts students. Something like this will probably never get made since there isn’t a huge market for that (and the fact that JK Rowling is a smelly TERF who ruins everything related to Harry Potter), but I can dream, can’t I?

I dearly love the Persona games so this one has been in my backlog for a while. It's a fun little puzzler with some interesting dating sim aspects. It seems like it would really reward multiple playthroughs and I would be really down for that (and down to give this a 4/5) if it wasn't so wildly transphobic. The Persona games have always been bad when it comes to queer representation and this game is one of the worst in that regard. It's a shame because these games are obviously queer and what should be a strong point of the games often ends up being a huge weakness.