And the Wii U trucks along, showing all of this non-stop over-the-top carnage at a blisteringly smooth framerate. Later fights actually show two battles going on on-screen-one, between your hair demon and your foe’s massive summoned monster, and your own fight between your lithe foe.

Right off the bat, you’re battling the forces of heaven from atop a high-speed fighter jet, followed by a fight up the side of a skyscraper between a flying Bayonetta and her recently-made evil-hair demon (oh, yes, Bayonetta’s clothes are made out of her hair, and she can turn her pixie cut into a giant dragon that eats massive screen-filling bosses-I told you this game was bonkers). No, what the story does best is provide a flimsy excuse to whisk you from action set-piece to set-piece, and in that department, Bayonetta certainly does not fail. And this is one of the lighter sequences, too. Yes, that’s Bayonetta riding on the inside of a tsunami while fighting a dragon. The lackluster plot makes it really hard to get invested in the context behind what’s going on, even if the characters themselves are strangely fascinating. The story is told in a combination of fully-animated cutscenes and this weird stop-motion-frame thing, and it hops from place to person so fast that you’ll have a hard time keeping up with everything. On the way you meet up with punk kid Loki and deal with an ancient evil and…. I mean, that’s the basic gist of the story, as the game sees Bayonetta make her way to Fimbulvinter to resurrect her friend.

When a particularly hairy battle gets out of hand, sending Bayonetta’s partner-in-crime Jeanne to the underworld, it’s up to Bayonetta to go and get her back… Right? The world’s most fabulous witch is back, and the epic battle between the Lumen Sages (angels) and Umbra Witches (demons) continues. It’s absolutely gorgeous to boot.īayonetta 2’s story is stupid-and that’s saying something when compared to its narratively muddy predecessor. Luckily, it was worth it-Bayonetta 2 is one of the craziest, most rambunctious action games I’ve ever played, with silky smooth controls and weapons that drastically change how you play. You know what’s weird? We live in a world where Nintendo has not only published a Legend of Zelda/Dynasty Warriors hybrid, but has also resurrected Bayonetta, one of the niche-iest action games ever to come out of Japan.

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