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Bayonetta 3
2022
I was very disappointed in this game. The combat has been ruined imo. Bayo herself feels pretty good to play, but you can't equip separate weapons to your hands and feet which reduces your options for combos. The enemies are lacking in variety, design wise. They all look the same.
The enemies have terrible attack cues AND hit you when they're off screen so good luck getting a pure plat.
The big enemies are impossible to stun unless you summon your demon to fight for you which makes the game extremely easy. The demon slaves aren't even fun to play as imo they're kinda clunky.
Instead of controlling the demon slaves you can also use the demons as finishers for Bayonetta's normal combos. But that's only for certain combos, so that incentivizes the player to only use the combos with the demon finishers because the demon slave is the only thing that can stun the big enemies. So since the player is only incentivized to use those certain combos it, again, diminishes how many combos bayo can do. There's also way too many crappy mini games. For real. This game felt like it was doing everything in its power to NOT let you play as bayonetta.
In bayo1 the torture attacks were rewards for the players when they did good in the game and didn't get hit. It felt GREAT to be able to unleash a torture attack because the player had to earn it. In 3, torture attacks happen after bayo pummels them with her demon slave enough times and then she kills like 3 of them with an extremely fast torture attack that has an unsatisfying animation.
Viola was not fleshed out enough. Playing as her got boring quick. She's kinda like Nero in dmc4. Cool concept but not enough depth.
And that's just the gameplay.
The art direction makes everything look grayer than the previous games. Idk how to put this, but bayo has less "cunty" energy than she did in the previous games. It makes the cutscenes not fun to watch. The story is horrendous. The story wasn't good in 1 and 2 but at least they were fun. 3's story is the world's most boring trainwreck, but this review is long enough and I don't feel like getting into spoilers.
The enemies have terrible attack cues AND hit you when they're off screen so good luck getting a pure plat.
The big enemies are impossible to stun unless you summon your demon to fight for you which makes the game extremely easy. The demon slaves aren't even fun to play as imo they're kinda clunky.
Instead of controlling the demon slaves you can also use the demons as finishers for Bayonetta's normal combos. But that's only for certain combos, so that incentivizes the player to only use the combos with the demon finishers because the demon slave is the only thing that can stun the big enemies. So since the player is only incentivized to use those certain combos it, again, diminishes how many combos bayo can do. There's also way too many crappy mini games. For real. This game felt like it was doing everything in its power to NOT let you play as bayonetta.
In bayo1 the torture attacks were rewards for the players when they did good in the game and didn't get hit. It felt GREAT to be able to unleash a torture attack because the player had to earn it. In 3, torture attacks happen after bayo pummels them with her demon slave enough times and then she kills like 3 of them with an extremely fast torture attack that has an unsatisfying animation.
Viola was not fleshed out enough. Playing as her got boring quick. She's kinda like Nero in dmc4. Cool concept but not enough depth.
And that's just the gameplay.
The art direction makes everything look grayer than the previous games. Idk how to put this, but bayo has less "cunty" energy than she did in the previous games. It makes the cutscenes not fun to watch. The story is horrendous. The story wasn't good in 1 and 2 but at least they were fun. 3's story is the world's most boring trainwreck, but this review is long enough and I don't feel like getting into spoilers.