![]() ![]() But Platinum has expanded on her move set with a skill tree that you can buy new moves from. ![]() It’s no exaggeration to say that Bayonetta’s default move set can carry you through the game easily. The base combat is extremely responsive with plenty of moves to use. Of course, the meat of the game is the combat and it’s just as tight and excellent here as it’s ever been. For the most part, it’s a blistering, white-knuckle ride that rarely lets up. When you’re not fighting, there’s light environment exploration to engage in, items to find, combat missions to undertake for power-ups and specific level challenges to complete. A cool little Elevator Action sequence, Kaiju fights and side-scrolling missions pepper the gameplay. While not as extensive as in Nier, Bayonetta 3 also offers up some different play styles and mini-games to break up the constant action bombardment. One of the reasons it does work as well as it does is that Platinum has taken a design leaf from their Nier development guide. What most games would use as an action finale, Bayonetta 3 uses a mini-boss fight or, perhaps even, just a standard combat sequence. What’s even more impressive is that Platinum has somehow managed to continue this inventive, explosive action tour de force throughout the game’s entire thirteen-hour-plus run. It’s one blistering, insane, bombastic set piece after another. Platinum Games throws everything and the kitchen sink at you from the get-go. Well, Bayonetta, her friends and the new character Viola.īayonetta 3 hits the ground running and doesn’t stop. For the multiverse is in danger of annihilation and only Bayonetta can stop it. It’s not just the end of the world but rather the end of all worlds. A quiet day of shopping descends, as it usually will, into mass chaos as a new threat reveals itself. Life can never be quiet for our Umbra witch star. Would it surpass its predecessors or sink under the weight of our lofty expectations? Starring Bayonetta. So after eight years, we finally get to find out if Bayonetta 3’s development cycle was worth the wait. In the world of video games, especially where sequels are concerned, that’s a lifetime and usually has you wondering whether or not the game hasn’t succumbed to delayed sequelitis. It’s been an eight-year wait for Bayonetta 3. ![]()
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