Try to keep up.) But again, the game keeps its balance by never wresting control away from you. (Oh yeah, Bayonetta’s combos end with giant attacks made out of the hair that also serves as her clothing. Too much conflict, too much overblown eroticism as her outfit’s stripped away. Equipping a giant scythe to your arms and fire-spewing canons to your feet while fighting enormous spiked suits of armor – a fight that can end with Bayonetta repeatedly spanking the armor until it explodes – is almost too much. Going into “Witch Time” also quickly builds up the “Umbran Climax” meter, which lets you release a series of even more powerful hits once activated.Ĭombat can be as outsized and visually overwhelming as everything else in Bayonetta. Leaping out of the way of some demon’s giant flaming sword at the last second slows down time, letting you jump back in for a series of fast hits. Mixing strikes with your hands and feet, each one changing based on the weapons you have equipped, feels like a silky and familiar nod to other fighting games.Īs was the case in the first game, though, dodging is as important to progress as striking. More fluid than the rigid, combo-driven brawls of its spiritual predecessor Devil May Cry but far more technically versatile than comparable games like God of War, Bayonetta’s a strangely balletic bruiser. When Bayonetta is crashing through New York City on the back of a deep blue fighter jet, spitting quips as she does in the prologue, you just go with it to see what happens, which is a perfect mindset for Bayonetta 2‘s fights.īayonetta 2’s action and its noise, its wild sex and sound, is a wide open doorway into the light. The counterpoint between what’s literally happening on screen and its logical impossibility lulls you into a state that’s both meditative and frenzied. Then it’s back into boss fight duels with masked swordsman priests. Just pummeled a giant shape-shifting diamond full of lava? Here’s a stretch of platforming where you can run around as a panther or double-jump on butterfly wings while hunting for old witch hearts to extend your health. In the same way that it balances irony and soul, though, Bayonetta doles out spectacle at just the right pace.Ĭhapters never drag on as they did in the first game, and it knows right when to let you relax and take in the scenery. Platinum’s game never wants for scenic variety. Mountains that span the space between heaven and hell churches crumbling inside hurricanes you surf up while fighting angel-faced dragons the belly of a demonic, battleship-sized manta ray.
She certainly doesn’t go anyplace normal either.
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