Comments on: Some thoughts on Bayonetta (that have nothing to do with breasts).

By: snskid

snskid — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:23:09 +0000

WOW! I never felt how you felt while playing Bayonetta Anthony. Bayonetta was pretty much a cake walk for me and was playing before the PS3 patch came along. Got the platinum before the patch as well. If you really want a challenge unlock Jeanne as a playable character. Playing as Jeanne is only for the masochist gamer. lol

By: Twinmill

Twinmill — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:34:59 +0000

A comment a while back sure sounded like scolding Anthony for complaining about the game simply being too hard. I don’t know about you but I was almost sure he was rather complaining about the difficulty interfering with what made the core gameplay so great. Just thought I’d say that.

Personally I’ve never played Bayonetta and quite frankly, know little about it, and actually the closest I’ve ever gotten to fun melee combat outside of Star Ocean (which was too serious for the fun,) was the old Xbox gem, Unreal Championship. I guess it was because you were Supposed to die in that game so really, there was no consequences and if the other team won you could just laugh it off.

On the difficult side of things, I guess this is why I just prefer shooters. Who cares about your exact route you take while flanking somebody; if you’re a quick and good enough shot, you can bypass the small strategical things.

By: Darkandroid

Darkandroid — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:41:23 +0000

I never thought about it that way, but you’re so right. The only thing that saved it for me at the end was all the boss battles. The final one with Jeanne is a personal highlight, even though I had to suffer the way to long missile mini-game to get to that fight.

By: Xander

Xander — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:10:15 +0000

I will say that the upgrades you’re later able to buy, I think after Chapter 5, do go some ways to alleviate a lot of frustration. The bat one specifically. Witch time does become harder to pull off because it does tend to be a complete game changer, so being activated with a high degree of success is a little too overpowering.

That said I’d have to agree with the need for more periods where you fight a large array of weaker enemies before tackling larger one larger foe. The game doesn’t often let you think to yourself ‘Ah, these guys again’, rather it constantly introduces newer bastards that you simply don’t know how to fight yet and will therefore beat your ass until you somehow learn them. Seriously, those lions can go eat a dick.

Congrats on the site though. Can we expect similar sort of half-rants/opinions from Ash too?

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:06:25 +0000

Yeah, Jim has that effect on people’s impressions of Bayonetta-related news.

By: Domingo

Domingo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:36:22 +0000

Congrats on the site being up.

By: Kad

Kad — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:55:52 +0000

Likewise, I found the URL to the Word Press blog a while ago, but didn’t say anything. I liked the original site, too.

But seriously, great article, and loving the new site.

By: Sam Spectre

Sam Spectre — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:16:41 +0000

Pussy shit, Anthony. Pussy shit.

By the way, I was the first to comment a month ago when I secretly discovered the URL to this blog and commented on the first Word Press entry.

By: Terence

Terence — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:45:42 +0000

It took me like 10 seconds to read and understand your title font.

By: eskimo bob

eskimo bob — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:51:49 +0000

I honestly could not agree more with this blog post. I must’ve played the demo at least ten times over, it was that fun. all the parts where you didn’t have to fight more than one really heavily armoured enemy at a time or have to play through a platforming section entirely in the cat form where great fun; easily some of the most fun I’ve had in gaming in a while in fact.

if there’s more of these posts on here then I will definitely be returning. :] is ash posting though? that could be really interesting.