Bayonetta 2 (Wii U, published by Nintendo)

Fox is not in Bayonetta 1, nor are the short-haired variants from Bayo2.

Beat this last night.

To the point, those expecting the exact same thing as 1 will probably be disappointed. It is also less polished and almost feels like it was rushed by at least 2 months.

The game feels like it was slated for December and was changed to make sure it had the full winter season to build sales.

It is also missing obvious things like the after burner theme for the parts where you actually ride on a jet (the music also feels sparse across the whole game and seems less varied.)

The game reuses a lot of level content from the first game. Levels are smaller. Less exploring. Less puzzle solving and platforming.

Repeated plays depend more on uunlocking things than the first game imo.

It is an overall lesser experience.

Oh, and Japan is still bad a modeling humans in cut scenes. Everyone that isn't bayonetta just moves and reacts weird. But that is about anything coming from japan.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Levels are smaller. Less exploring. Less puzzle solving and platforming.

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These sound like improvements to me.

You'll find yourself moving from one circle spot to the next for battles.

The game feels like dlc more than anything.

Sure, it's a good buy. You get 1 and 2. But 2 isn't as fill an experience.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Oh, and Japan is still bad a modeling humans in cut scenes. Everyone that isn't bayonetta just moves and reacts weird. But that is about anything coming from japan.

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There just aren't that many polygons left to be pushed once the T&A is fully modeled and animated.

I liked it more than the original. I didn't have to spoil things on Normal before playing on a harder difficulty level, the environments are nicer, and the cutscenes are less obnoxious. It's very much the same territory as the original, but I found it to be an improvement.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

There just aren't that many polygons left to be pushed once the T&A is fully modeled and animated.

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Acceptable tradeoff.

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Originally Posted by Tain

I liked it more than the original. I didn't have to spoil things on Normal before playing on a harder difficulty level, the environments are nicer, and the cutscenes are less obnoxious. It's very much the same territory as the original, but I found it to be an improvement.

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What cutscenes? They used screen caps and a clock animation for 90% of them

The additions of the Ubran Climaxes make this a much better playing game than the first Bayonetta, in my opinion. They're so good and so integral to the game that you kind of forget they didn't exist in the original.

I kind of miss the more exploration-based sections, but really, I understand why they were cut down. They really slowed down the pacing of the game, and took away from the main focus (combat).

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

What cutscenes? They used screen caps and a clock animation for 90% of them

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Those are still cutscenes, though.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

What cutscenes? They used screen caps and a clock animation for 90% of them

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The first game did that, too. It's a really classy way to not have to spend a ton of budget on animating cutscenes so it can be better used on MAKING THE BEST COMBAT ENGINE IN A VIDEO GAME.

Fair trade-off.