Author Topic: Bayonetta (Read 68600 times)

arun.yothin · « **on:** October 25, 2009, 08:24:06 PM »

Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ, Beyonetta?) is an upcoming action game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (PS3) game consoles, directed by Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe series creator Hideki Kamiya at Platinum Games in cooperation with its future publisher Sega. Set in a fictional city in Europe, the game will center on its title character Bayonetta, who can wield four handguns—among other weapons—and perform magical attacks to defeat various enemies. The game will have five difficulty settings; its two easiest ones will contain a game mode playable with only one button, similar to a mode Kamiya used in Devil May Cry. Its characters were designed with modern style and fashion in mind, while its music is largely upbeat and feminine.

The game has been promoted through a television commercial with Japanese pop singer MiChi, look-alike searches, a theme for the Google Chrome Web browser, and an upcoming photo book and soundtracks. Critical reviews of pre-release versions have praised its easily learned moves, fast pace, boss battles, "Witch Mode" slowdown mechanic, and character and stage designs. However, they lamented inconsistent frame rates, duller graphics, and technical issues in its PS3 port, as well as its use of camera angles in both versions.

From Wikipedia

Found out about it from a post Tuffty made. I thought she looked hot, but wasn't in a video game mood so I didn't check it out. Recently I've been looking for a game to play and checked some videos of this and now I want it bad. It looks really fun and Bayonetta is hot (Long black hair, glasses, gun heels

). I spent a lot of last night and this morning looking at stuff. I'm wondering how I'll take it though. I've tried to play Devil May Cray 3 like three or four times and always had trouble getting into it. I love how crazy stuff is.

Some hotness...

Platinum Games has a Flickr account with lots of pics from their games and even some shots of the custom consoles. There are screen shots, models, and concept sketches. The account has pics bigger than the ones I posted. Get 'em here.

Character designer Mari Shimazaki has a blog at the company's website where she posted some concept sketches with some commentary.

Bayonetta - Live Action Comercial

Bayonetta - Official Trailer 3

Bayonetta - MiChi - Something Missing MVideo

Tuffty · « **Reply #1 on:** October 25, 2009, 10:31:27 PM »

Awesome!

TV Spot

Giant Bomb have an interesting video preview based on the demo too

Based on other people's comments though, it looks like it's really unpopular with a majority saying it's not sexy or it's too OTT. Speaking as someone who had a big smile on their face when watching Dante from DMC surf on a missile or ride a motorcycle up a building and then swing it around like a sword smacking demons mid-air, I can safely say the crazier the better. They had me sold when I saw an attack was a dragon made of hair. Admire Hideki Kamiya's work too, so it's all good. I thought games were meant to be fun anyway. The less brown/grey first person shooters with bald space marines and a 'realistic physics engine', the better. Same guys bemoaning this probably whooped for joy when they heard Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for the PS3 had sixaxis control to shake women's boobs. It's double standards once again, Dante can act suave, confident and throw in a little sexual inneuendo here and there and nobody cares, but when a female character does it, then she's branded a slut.

Anyway, rant over

It looks like the exact sort of game I could just go back to again and again.

arun.yothin · « **Reply #2 on:** October 26, 2009, 12:26:51 AM »

Quote from: Tuffty on October 25, 2009, 10:31:27 PM

...I can safely say the crazier the better.

YEAH! FUCK REALISM!:P Me and my brother were talking about that last night. We to see totally crazy things instead of shit that's just trying to imitate real life. I kept getting more and more excited for it with every video I watched. The giant hair dragon, Heaven Stiletto Stomp (I don't know what it's actually called), and the fight on the Falling Clocktower were all really crazy. I've been sick of all these tough guy characters and dark, serious games for so long. I think her sexiness is there, but it's more done in a fun way, not so serious. The game is rated M and there is some brief nudity, but this seems different to me. Like when other games games have thrown in lots of gore, swearing, or nudity, it just feels like their only reason is to make the game tough or cool. I think I was going somewhere with this, but I got distracted and lost it.

Whatever, here's some real life Batonetta-ness

Yuna · « **Reply #3 on:** October 27, 2009, 12:45:30 PM »

This game is awesome! Almost everyday I play the demo on my PS3, it's like DMC times 10, it's that good!
It has already scored 40 in famitsu (Xbox version and 38 for PS3). The only reason I won't be importing the JAP version is because it's priced at 7900 yen, so I'll wait until January when it'll be 59 dollars.

arun.yothin · « **Reply #4 on:** October 27, 2009, 05:42:19 PM »

I put a reserve down for mine yesterday. I want the posters that come with it. I'm thinking about getting at least the art book too. I've seen two other guides, but I don't know about getting them. I've heard people talk a lot about the soundtrack, but I've only clearly heard one song, I did like it though.

Amazon.co.jp links
"Witch of Virgid" Art Book
Pure Platinum Game Guide
Famitsu Player's Bible
OST Box set

I added some pics to the last post of the E3 Bayonetta.

Tuffty · « **Reply #5 on:** October 27, 2009, 08:39:14 PM »

Some screencaps of Bayonetta's alternate costumes you can unlock in the game

Only briefly glanced over them to see what they look like, but leaving them until I actually get the game, which looks incredibly likely.

arun.yothin · « **Reply #6 on:** October 27, 2009, 08:40:45 PM »

^I'm gonna hold off on looking at them until I get 'em myself, too.

Tuffty · « **Reply #7 on:** October 27, 2009, 08:50:10 PM »

It's like The Struggle all over again!

arun.yothin · « **Reply #8 on:** October 27, 2009, 09:00:38 PM »

I'm glad this game doesn't come out until after The Struggle.

edit: So tempting to just take a peek. I know if that if I take a tiny one, it'll lead to another, then another, then I'll see something I wish I waited for.

RoyMoy · « **Reply #9 on:** October 28, 2009, 02:52:37 AM »

Any details on why the PS3 version is allegedly inferior? I remember when there were clear and decisive differences between the SNES and Genesis versions of multiplatform games. So I'm rather impressed at how well some of the third parties have made their multi-platform games indistinguishable between versions in this generation. It seems very sloppy to leave one version clearly inferior to another when the standard has been set so high.

arun.yothin · « **Reply #10 on:** October 28, 2009, 04:13:27 AM »

^ I think I read somewhere that it was due to a small framerate issue.

I just realized that this will be the first game I am going to buy in over a year. The last one was Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia last September.

zoolander · « **Reply #11 on:** October 28, 2009, 05:24:17 AM »

There was an article back during E3 where the Platinum guy said they had just sent the game assets to Sega for the PS3 version and I remembered thinking "Holy shit they can do it that fast?". Guess it needed more time than that to get up to snuff.

Anyway I tried the demo a while back and it seemed like it could be pretty good even though I'm usually more into the adventure like action games rather than "pure" action games. It's one of those games where there's so much going on so fast that you can't tell what the heck is going on but there are enemies everywhere getting eviscerated in a flashy manner.

Tuffty · « **Reply #12 on:** October 28, 2009, 12:25:06 PM »

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V, the Japanese gonzo adult video maker behind titles like Would You Like To Get An Enema Until You Poop? and I Saw A Bowel Movement!, has dubbed Bayonetta as the "Number 1 Erotic Actress of 2009".

The site's official blog calls Bayonetta's revealing hair moves "erotic".

"This right here is high-grade peeping!" says staff blog. And if anyone knew high grade pooping, it would be V — make that peeping.

A ringing endorsement

arun.yothin · « **Reply #13 on:** October 29, 2009, 05:41:31 AM »

^ Nice screens at that link. I accidentally saw small pics of the costumes. I only really got the colors and maybe I'll end up forgetting by the time the game comes out.

SEGA's got a Make-A-Witch Foundation page that has tips for a Bayonetta costume for Halloween.

Yuna · « **Reply #14 on:** October 29, 2009, 01:50:50 PM »

Quote from: RoyMoy on October 28, 2009, 02:52:37 AM

Any details on why the PS3 version is allegedly inferior? I remember when there were clear and decisive differences between the SNES and Genesis versions of multiplatform games. So I'm rather impressed at how well some of the third parties have made their multi-platform games indistinguishable between versions in this generation. It seems very sloppy to leave one version clearly inferior to another when the standard has been set so high.

As mentioned, the framerate wasn't as smooth (as high) as teh 360 version, and some textures weren't as detailed.
But some people have been saying that since the famitsu review, only the textures that are a little worse, but the framerate has been issued.

I have the demo and personally, the ps3 versions looks better than Devil May Cry 4 if it helps in any way.
I am a sucker for graphics, but in these kind of games, I'd rather use the PS2/PS3 controller over the Xbox.
I think you can't go wrong any way, only if you don't get the game !

arun.yothin · « **Reply #15 on:** October 29, 2009, 03:01:38 PM »

The "Rodin's Selection" OST released with pre-orders in Japan.

That logo reminds me too much of Psychopathic Records logo.

Mugen · « **Reply #16 on:** November 18, 2009, 12:31:39 PM »

Tuffty · « **Reply #17 on:** November 18, 2009, 08:51:30 PM »

Taken fromEurogamer's review:

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Rather than attempting to merely recreate Devil May Cry's successes in Bayonetta, Kamiya's bravely stripped away all of the dead weight from his initial template, ruthlessly streamlining the form and function to deliver something at once fresh and familiar. It's also, unquestionably, the greatest game yet to spill from this niche.

I hear the PS3 version suffers from some technical issues, even after post-launch, which they're trying to go out of their way to fix.

Yuna · « **Reply #18 on:** November 19, 2009, 03:17:55 AM »

As far as I know it is true, but from what I've heard it isn't as bad as the demo available in the Japanese PSN.

This is mainly the reason I'm waiting for the US release to buy this game, maybe they fix same of the issues, and of course, it's 20 dollars less, compared to the 79 dollars japanese version.

Tuffty · « **Reply #19 on:** November 24, 2009, 08:19:33 PM »

Maxim held a contest for those to dress up as Bayonetta and the best one would receive a HD set up. Well they just found their winner:

About the game itself, it's receiving high score reviews all over the place, most notably with Famitsu giving it a perfect 40/40 and EDGE magazine giving it a perfect 10. I can practically hear the naysayer's sharpening their knives to prove otherwise. "Ugh the wall textures don't look realistic so it doesn't deserve a 10!"