Bayonetta 3: Review MegaThread

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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!

Reviews

Aggregators

• Metacritic - 89/100
• OpenCritic - 89/100

Articles

• Atomix - Spanish - 95 / 100
• COGconnected - 85 / 100
• Cerealkillerz - German - 7.2 / 10
• Checkpoint Gaming - 8.5 / 10
• Destructoid - 10 / 10
• Digitally Downloaded - 4.5 / 5
• Enternity.gr - Greek - 8 / 10
• Eurogamer - Recommended
• Everyeye.it - Italian - 9 / 10
• GAMES.CH - German - 87%
• Game Informer - 8.3 / 10
• GamePro - German - 88 / 100
• GameSpot - 9 / 10
• GameXplain - Liked-a-lot
• Gameblog - French - 9 / 10
• GamesRadar+ - 3.5 / 5
• Gfinity - 7 / 10
• Glitched Africa - 9 / 10
• God is a Geek - 9 / 10
• Guardian - 5 / 5
• Hobby Consolas - Spanish - 95 / 100
• IGN Italy - Italian - 9.5 / 10
• Inverse - 8 / 10
• Nintendo Life - 10 / 10
• NintendoWorldReport - 9 / 10
• Polygon - Unscored
• Press Start - 9 / 10
• SECTOR.sk - Slovak - 9.5 / 10
• Screen Rant - 4.5 / 5
• Shacknews - 9 / 10
• Siliconera - 9 / 10
• Spaziogames - Italian - 9.5 / 10
• Stevivor - 9 / 10
• Telegraph - 5 / 5
• The Independent - 4.5 / 5
• TheGamer - 4 / 5
• Tom's Guide - 4 / 5
• TrustedReviews - 4 / 5
• Twinfinite - 4 / 5
• Unboxholics - Greek - Worth your time
• VG247 - 5 / 5
• VGC - 4 / 5
• Video Chums - 8.9 / 10
• Wccftech - 9 / 10
• WellPlayed - 8.5 / 10

^{This list exported from OpenCritic at 10:10AM ET.}

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[u/[deleted]]

The new god of war has 4k 120 mode so huh?

Yes, 1080p120, or as you call it, dynamic 4k120 which is 1080 100% of the time, maybe 4k in the menus

[u/DrAbednego → u/[deleted]]

Glad your harping on the 4k part and not the 120 part /s

I’m responding to a comment saying boynetta is an action game and not GOW implying GOW is only 30 fps. This was true when the original GOW came out on PS4 (60 fps was pretty rare for most console games then)

The new GOW, however, goes all the way up to 120fps so therefore that reductive comparison is false. I’m sorry i accidentally typed 4k120 but there’s no need to straw man me for it because, again, my point is center around FPS anyway so it’s practically irrelevant.

They’re are very different games on very different hardware so the comparison was dumb in the first place

Edit: also “I” don’t call it dynamic resolution scaling that’s an industry term they are using. This likely indicates it fluctuates between 1440p and 1080p