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NO! Don't put me in Iron Maiden! AUUUUUGHH I NEED A HAIRCUUUUUUUUT AND MY FINGERS HURT FROM PLAYING SO FAST! | |
Firstly: IRON MAIDEN? EXCELLENT! *Guitar riff* | |
Speaking of the band Iron Maidne, Brütal Legend could have used some Bruce Dickinson awesomeness... Bayonetta seems like a title worth buying now. I'll seriously consider it form now on. | |
I'm sorry but God of War still does it better. Bayonetta ain't no slouch though. | |
Wow. This game looks Sick. In a good way. To be honest, the game looks awesome and I can't wait to play it. | |
It's like Musou in Dynasty Warriors with Iron Maidens and Guillotines. I doubt I'll buy it though, just doesn't seem like my kind of game at present. | |
Yeah...I might have to go and buy this, forget my planned rental. | |
Hmm, interesting. | |
wow...with that voiceover, those gorish scenes were almost erotic | |
I have to admit, using guillotine (as a weapon) effectively in a combat is quite a feat. Now if only she used it as a primary weapon, what a sight that would be. | |
There's at least a half-dozen different accents which come from Britain :P | |
Then whichever one is in the video, duh! | |
What reviews have you been reading? Most of the reviews I've seen so far have been almost creepy in their adoration of the game. Anyway, back on topic, I will say this. Bayonetta falls into a different sub-genre than DMC, NG, or GoW. Devil May Cry is "Stylish Action." Yeah, I'm that guy. | |
Brutal Legend had a flaming lead zeppelin, now Bayonetta has an Iron Maiden? 2009 is the year of the badass, people! | |
I have to say, I don't usually go for the stylish beat 'em ups, but the demo had me sold. It's just so simple to execute some really crazy moves. And the torture moves and temporary weapons does just enough to always keep it interesting. Also, best use of bullet time in a long while. It takes some skill to trigger instead of just tapping a button. | |
Let's put it this way...it's made me think of getting a console. I believe the accent John is referring to is the popular "plummy" Estuary/Kentish dialect. A Brummie Bayonetta wouldn't sound quite as glamororous, wud shay? | |
I vote yes to sexy British lady narration. . . | |
Oh good, a Gametrailers video. I suppose by the time this thing finishes loading I'll be playing Bayonetta 3. All kidding aside, this game actually does look pretty well done. It might be worth a go. | |
I don't know if that's overdoing it or just awesome. | |
I bet Kratos would either make love to this woman or bash her brains out... or both! But Kratos will always rule these kind of games in my opninon, with Ryu and Ninja Gaiden Black closely behind. | |
Actually, Bayonetta is the mutant offspring of Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden. The style of DMC with the timing and combat flow of NG2, but turned up to eleven, painted red, and on fire. It is, do not be fooled, the best of this type of game, and even having only played the demo I can see why it got a perfect 40 from Famitsu. (Incidentally, I played the demo for this and God of War 3 within about half an hour of each other. GoW3 is clunky and rubbish by comparison, it's pretty, and it's still satisfying to gut chimerae, rip the eyeballs out of cyclopses, and tear the heads off of pathetically pleading sun gods, but the momentary flashes of "fuck yeah" you get from God of War 3 is what Bayonetta is like all the time). | |
Bayonetta is made by the same person as Devil May Cry 1. You know, the good one, not the increasingly wearied sequels. | |
Errr... this kinda puts me on the fence about the game. | |
Oh, I know. I played the Demo as well. Kicked so much ass. I was actually expanding upon something Hikdeki Kamiya himself said. He stated that, and I'm very heavily paraphrasing, "Devil May Cry was stylish by design. It was meant to make you go "That's freakin cool." Bayonetta, by contrast, is meant to go right past "That's cool" an into the "Holy crap, what-the-hell... I don't even know what just happened, but it was awesome." That's my gosl... [etc]." As for the timing, yeah, with the Witch time and more precise dodging overall, but I still would keep it within the Sub-Genre of "Over-the-Top Action," because of, well, you played the demo. You know why. | |
Kickass! I really like how everything looks like it's in fast-forward. Should be lots of fun, I hope they have a rack. | |
Yes, they do. Brutal way to put someone under a guillotine. | |
First up: How could anyone think that Bayonetta is a Devil May Cry clone if its made by the same guy? That's like saying that Futurama is a rip-off of The Simpsons or BlazBlue is a knock-off of Guilty Gear! | |
Would it be better if they didn't try at all? Just spoonfeed us the same generic crud over and over again? You do have a health bar to right? I mean losing a bit of magic hardly seems like a punishment. | |
DMC 1 is better than DMC 3 gameplay wise? I foresee a fanboy war in GameFAQs. | |
That's like suing John Fogerty because he sounds too much like Creedence Clearwater Revival! http://www.fairwagelawyers.com/most-famous-music-copyright-infringment.html Glad to finally hear of a game possibly turning out *better* than the original opinion predicted. That would be a nice change, to be *pleasantly* surprised by a game being different from what was expected. | |
Hoping to get her into your army? | |
Ok that was rather bad ass and crazy with how many ways you could kill the bad guys. Oh count me in too for more sexy accent's like that for trailers. | |
Agreed. Yeah, innovation is good. "You can attack...with hair!" | |
Did I just see her kicking an angel in the nads? Wow.
Oh come on. A fucking dragon made out of hair! How often do you see something like that? | |
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Bayonetta: Getting Creative With Murder
I bet Kratos just wishes he could summon a magic Iron Maiden out of nowhere to kill his enemies.
It must be annoying to try to come up with a new original IP for a brutally over-the-top violent action game these days. Not only do you need to find a main character archetype that isn't "grim psychopath filled with rage" a la Kratos or "cocky superhuman who's as over-the-top stylish as he is violent" like Dante, but you need to find new and inventive ways to kill people, too. Swords, axes, even whirling blades all seem old hat.
But it isn't like the folks behind Bayonetta aren't trying. Oh sure, she's got blades and guns like everyone else, but she also attacks with her hair. And as this video shows, once Bayonetta builds up enough magic via combo attacks, she'll be able to use a "Torture" move to finish her opponent off - and most of them seem based on famous methods of torture or execution.
We have her shoving the opponents into a guillotine, we see her trap people inside an Iron Maiden (no, not the band) and we see her summoning a giant... spiked wheel... thing, all of which seem to be fairly original as far as the genre is concerned. Stylish executions are part of the fun of the God of War games, after all - if there are more than just these three seen here, it could be a lot of fun just to try to find them all.
I don't know. A lot of gamers seem to be writing Bayonetta as just a bland Devil May Cry clone, but I'm not sure they're giving it enough credit. The people I know who've played it have genuinely enjoyed it (even comparing it favorably to playable builds of God of War 3) and it's certainly got its own unique take on the genre.
We'll know when it hits North America on January 5th.
(Also, is anyone else of the sudden opinion that every game trailer should now be narrated by women with sexy British accents? Just throwin' that out there, I mean...)
(Via Joystiq)
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