TGS ‘08: Bayonetta makes like Dante

If you're new here and you like what you see, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed, and browse around for more fun stuff. Thanks for visiting!

This game couldn’t look any more like Devil may cry if it tried. Fair do’s though: the guy responsible for Devil may cry did create it. And hey, if the formula works…

Bayonetta is a witch who is on a mission to slay monsters masquerading as angels. That’s all that’s known in terms of the story. It wasn’t easy to make out in the trailer (this post will be updated when the direct stream trailer hits), but Bayonetta’s outfit is made up of her hair, which she can unleash for deadly attacks. This gives the developers an excuse to have the leading lady show some skin and be pretty much naked during attacks, as the trailer showed. Weird, but a cool idea. Dante sure as hell couldn’t do that. He was too much of a little bitch when it came to his hair.

Bayonetta is getting a lot of attention and love from gamers (I’m sure the extreme close-up under the crotch sweeping shot has a fair bit to do with it), so it will be interesting to see how well this game sells when it releases. It looks to do a good job of filling the stylish slash, hack and gun’ em void until the inevitable Devil may cry 5 comes along.

Bayonetta is being developed by Platinum games (the lovely people who will bring us MadWorld for the Wii) and will be published by Sega. The game is slated for a September 2009 release for both Xbox 360 and PS3.

Related Posts
  • Dark Diamond Podcast Episode 6: TGS Prelude
  • Sega’s PlatinumGames Looks to Deliver Bloody Good Fun
  • The Super Mario Bros. Mod From Hell
  • New Kingdom Hearts Game Going Portable
  • Touhou: Bullet Hell Turned Anime

  • 10 Comments

    1. October 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

      Oh boy more FABULOUS voice acting. To be honest I had forgotten how intrigued the original teaser for Bayonetta was. Also how about that cliche nemesis at the end?

    2. October 10th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

      Ah! The video updated itself with the direct feed trailer. I wondered who you were on about, because that bit at the end wasn’t shown before.

    3. October 10th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

      I’m a little scared. It looks like Bullet Witch…uuugh.

    4. October 10th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

      Well she IS a witch, shooting a shitload of bullets.

    5. October 10th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

      Hey! i liked bullet witch.. in that budget bin kinda way :p

      As for this game, it just oozes devil may cry with a chick. but is that really a bad thing? i’m pretty hyped!

    6. Enner
      October 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

      Glad to see they went with the cheesy route. Then again, I think that’s the only viable option given the premise.

    7. Luna
      October 12th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

      Jeez that woman can fight.Is that a videogame?I need to buy it!

    8. eviladrian
      October 12th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

      Is it just me or have there been lots of awesome trailers lately with “SEGA” at the start?

      Could this be the long-awaited return of SEGA? I’m calling it, Sonic Unleashed 10/10 on Metacritic next month!

    9. Sol d-_-b
      October 13th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

      Random nice post. I’m looking forward to this game. Over the top action, nothing but cheese and partial everything.

    10. October 14th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

      [...] We’re not complaining about Bayonetta’s in-your-face fanservice [...]


    Have your say!

    Features






    Upcoming Releases & Events

    Poll

    Do you buy anime merchandise? Figures, models, t-shirts, pillow cases (no need to hide it)

    View Results

    Loading ... Loading ...
    Polls Archive

    The Dark Diamond Crew

    Abraham 'Velcor' Duarte



    Amy Fairchild



    Ben 'FBINinja' Schmidt



    Chris 'Taco' Martinkovic



    David 'KidKobun' Bruno



    Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano



    Random J



    tskiller



    Vekter



    Listed alphabetically, recently active

    Month's Top Commentators