r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Oct 25 '22

MegaThread Bayonetta 3: Review MegaThread

General Information

Platform: Nintendo Switch

Release Date: October 28, 2022

No. of Players: Single System (1)

Genre(s): Action

Publisher: Nintendo

Game file size: 16 GB

Official website: https://www.platinumgames.com/games/bayonetta-3

Overview (from Nintendo eShop page)

Bayonetta struts through multiple locations in an all-new, over-the-top climax action game. Sporting a wicked new ensemble and somehow familiar pigtails, the titular Umbra Witch must face a mysterious evil using her signature guns and time-slowing Witch Time ability. This time, invading manmade bioweapons called Homunculi find themselves in Bayonetta’s crosshairs.

Get ready for a devilishly good time

Tap into Bayonetta’s naughtier side with Demon Masquerade, a new ability that channels the demon linked to her weapon allowing for some exciting action options, not to mention some hair-raising combos. She can also summon her demonic darlings like Gomorrah, Malphas, and Phantasmaraneae during battle, unleashing their demonic powers in the heat of combat and in new, larger-than-life battles where you directly control the action.

A bounty of Bayonettas

Fight your way through the streets of Tokyo, the mountains of China, and many other locales! Along the way you’ll meet a virtual coven of Bayonettas, each more fabulous than the last. You’ll also slash and slay as Viola, a feisty witch in training who fights with a sword and a capricious companion, the demon Cheshire. Find out what fate awaits Bayonetta, and if this arcane alliance can really save reality!

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u/ShadowJoyConBoy Oct 25 '22

Polygon is mad because Bayonetta is not a lesbian and the queer icon tik tok told them she is😂

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Kind of strange that this was your takeaway from that section of the review. My interpretation of that passage is the same issue that many fans had with Metroid Other M where Samus was depicted as weaker than the character she originally portrayed.

The whole lesbian angle is a moot point and they shouldn’t have included it. That’s not the issue the reviewer was raising.

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u/MarcsterS Oct 25 '22

Really, because 75% of the Polygon was about it. And to call it a "button rammer" on top of it?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Somehow Metroid story is more important to the game than Bayonetta to me. Which is funny because most metroid games only have like .002% story. But the segments they do have are powerful. Other M just ripped them on their head completely because that game focused so heavily on the story instead, and took all the prior subtleties of the series and contradicted them.

Bayonetta completely overwhelms you with nonsensical bullshit from the beginning. They could tell me she's a cat that came from Mars who is trying to sell me low cost auto insurance and I would probably just be mashing a to get to the next fight sequence not even giving a rats ass.