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King of the Yetis
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About thirty minutes into Devil May Cry they introduced the obligatory mysterious, double crossing, femme fatale. She was obviously supposed to be somewhat sexually attractive, at least in the teenage definition of the word, as she was sporting a pair of chest cannons that could level a small town. Sadly, thanks to a wonderfully bad costume design and atrocious wig she came off as a death dealing drag queen as opposed to the sultry, acrobatic beauty I assume she was supposed to be.

It turns out that this probably wasn't an accident because if the trailer for Capcom's new IP 'Bayonetta' is anything to go by, Capcom, and the DMC's creator in particular, seem to have a... let's call it a 'thing' for drag queens.

Check out the trailer here

After you get past the ludicrously "stylish" (read badly animated and using a camera that looks like it's been tied to a racket ball set) CGI part the actual footage of the game itself looks very much like Devil May Cry, but with an extra dose of fabulous.

Bayonetta herself wouldn't look out of place in a remake of Priscilla: Queen of the desert. Her weapons include not one, not two, but four guns, two of which are concealed in her ankle shattering heels (yes, guns in her feet. And you thought the action genre was getting stale) but her main weapon of choice is actually, her hair, which is apparently sentient and capable of transforming into a variety of weapons and items depending on the situation.

Points for originality I suppose. Any thoughts?

Edit: Rumours that 80's band 'A Flock of Seagulls' will make an appearance in the game are entirely unfounded.

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Gone Gonzo
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This is one of the stranger things I've ever heard of.

Gone Gonzo
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See, this is the reason that women don't play video games. I mean, seriously, they panned the camera like four inches away from her vagina. Just because it knows it's sexist doesn't make the fact that it's sexist okay.

The actual game looks like any other crummy repetitive Japanese lock-on "action" game to me. I guess some people are into those.

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Oh man, the Japanese are so damn weird.

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Usually, I am the most sexist and racist guy in the bunch. Although I wouldn't call anything in that trailer strictly sexist, there is also nothing in it that I don't find offensive. You got exactly the right vibe, Doc; something very forced (besides the obvious) about that person's femininity.

EDIT: God that character is repulsive.

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If it was a spoof it'd be cool.

Gone Gonzo
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Apparently the game is also full of very obvious crotch shots too.

http://kotaku.com/5062080/bayonetta-tgs-trailer-surprisingly-high-on-crotch-shots

Bizarre and full of camel toe!

Gone Gonzo
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I think the DMC team are just lonely. Someone pay for some hostess' and hookers for them so they'll stop making these shitty games.

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Eggo:
Oh man, the Japanese are so damn weird.

Embrace it, you'll have more fun.

TsunamiWombat:
I think the DMC team are just lonely. Someone pay for some hostess' and hookers for them so they'll stop making these shitty games.

Please don't feed the animals, kids.

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I don't really want to embrace creepy misogynistic tendencies :o

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Eggo:
I don't really want to embrace creepy misogynistic tendencies :o

Embrace the Giant fighting robots, then.

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Japanesee people need to go out more.

Im usually the first one to say "zomg stfu you fag!" when someone mentions sexism in games, but eastern developers are just way over the top. Picturing women as baby-faced aggresive idiots with grossly oversized breasts is just childish and unmanly.

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OverlordSteve:

Eggo:
I don't really want to embrace creepy misogynistic tendencies :o

Embrace the Giant fighting robots, then.

I can get behind that then. Does Bayonetta have giant fighting robots?

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TsunamiWombat:
I think the DMC team are just lonely. Someone pay for some hostess' and hookers for them so they'll stop making these shitty games.

HEY!!! DMC 1/3/4 kick ass. Not 2 though. That one was dog crap on my shoe.

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Funny thing. The DMC team has nothing to do with this game. DMC is Capcom. This is Platinum games and SEGA. Yeah, it's also the guy who helped make the first DMC, but he stopped after that one (though I think assisted a little with 3). The game is supposed to be completely over the top action, not stylish, like DMC, but weird over the top. As in, like has been seen, giant hair-beast eating your enemies weird.

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TsunamiWombat:

OverlordSteve:

Eggo:
I don't really want to embrace creepy misogynistic tendencies :o

Embrace the Giant fighting robots, then.

I can get behind that then. Does Bayonetta have giant fighting robots?

In the trailer it did

Gone Gonzo
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... I threw up a little in my mouth watching that...

... Where do these people get these ideas? First "half a dollar"'s desert adventure, now this crap... I feel so very afraid for the future of the gaming industry...

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Mstrswrd:
Funny thing. The DMC team has nothing to do with this game. DMC is Capcom. This is Platinum games and SEGA. Yeah, it's also the guy who helped make the first DMC, but he stopped after that one (though I think assisted a little with 3). The game is supposed to be completely over the top action, not stylish, like DMC, but weird over the top. As in, like has been seen, giant hair-beast eating your enemies weird.

Yes, it does have that air of "zany madcap"-ism to it, doesn't it?

From the trailer, it looks completely unappealing- just looks like a DMC clone with a really weird woman in the role.

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She fights with her hair. Which is also her clothes. And has guns on her feet. And lists "monster slaying" and "camera straddling" among her favourite pastimes. Oh, good god. Are these people serious?

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My reaction to that trailer was to sit in silence for a few minutes after it ended and then quietly ask myself what the hell was happening to the world. Then I remembered it was a Japanese game and breathed a sigh of relief, they're always doing crazy shit like this. The feet-guns and hair monsters are a little over the top though.

I laughed hard at the Flock Of Seagulls though. Then I ran, I ran so far away[/lame joke]

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Is it just me or does Bayonetta have a tiny head? The glasses and hairdo seem to be all about compensating for that. (EDIT: Woops! I just remembered that tiny heads are standard in comic-book-style art.)

You know, I could totally enjoy a game about magic fighting hair... If it was nothing like this game.

-- Alex

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That was so bizarre and well roily. I really hope that it is never published in the states (English Voice cast though makes me feel that it will be) I mean common I myself will crack a sexist common in front of a group of women, but that just filthy.

EDIT:
I've played Japanese Hentias look more virtuous then that.

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Eggo:
Oh man, the Japanese are so damn weird.

I think it's partly our own fault, as the Japanese are the only people on earth to have ever actually been nuked.

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What.

The hell.

Is that?

It looks so pretentious, self-righteous, and misogynous. Is it from the same retard that made devil may cry? The guy that refuses to play ninja gaiden even if its part of his job? lol.

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Gone Gonzo
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I just looked at the preview and it doesn't look that bad, actually...

Okay, the undercrotch shot, disturbing. The Gun heels, stupid. Her costume melting off and turning into hair... okay?

Meh,their enemy design is still shitty. Why can no one make a decent looking demon.

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TsunamiWombat:
Why can no one make a decent looking demon.

You weren't impressed with Argilla's mouths-for-breasts design in Digital Devil Saga?

If so, you're certainly a hard man to please.

Gone Gonzo
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Demons shouldn't look like a modern art painting. Surreality in design detracts from the horror.

Gone Gonzo
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It looks like Sarah Palin combat porn, weird...

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Spartan Bannana:
It looks like Sarah Palin combat porn, weird...

...I didn't think she looked like Sarah Palin. Man, this is going to eat at my soul now.

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Evilbunny:

Eggo:
Oh man, the Japanese are so damn weird.

I think it's partly our own fault, as the Japanese are the only people on earth to have ever actually been nuked.

You win! Thats an add and I will propagate this message as to why japan is so weird!(Well probably not propagate. But this must be known.)

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TsunamiWombat:

Spartan Bannana:
It looks like Sarah Palin combat porn, weird...

...I didn't think she looked like Sarah Palin. Man, this is going to eat at my soul now.

But she has the glasses and hair

Gone Gonzo
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Christ, forget a whole game, her voice made me want to kill myself after ten God-Damn seconds.

One question though. If her suit is made out of hair she can control at will, why does it need a zipper from boobs-to-butt?

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qbert4ever:
Christ, forget a whole game, her voice made me want to kill myself after ten God-Damn seconds.

One question though. If her suit is made out of hair she can control at will, why does it need a zipper from boobs-to-butt?

One of the great mysteries of men... More mysterious, how does she make a METAL ZIPPER out of hair? or that metal chest piece thing.

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Man, wish I could watch the trailer for this. This sounds so ridiculously retarded that it may just be entertaining in a childish sorta way.

I'll check it out once I get off work.

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This is seriosly the wierdest thing I have ever seen. Though I like how over the top the character is, at some point I may have come up with something similar (Heel guns), though a little less pervy.

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