Bayonetta

[kabbes]

It's all about the little details too. There are 1001 little touches. Like the fact that you have some gossimer butterfly wings that appear when you jump and a little explosion of butterflies when you land. Then about an hour in you notice that in strong sunlight your cape forms a shadow that looks like a giant butterfly. That moment of noticing the shadow almost makes you laugh with its sheer chutzpah.

The game is massively, massively overstylized and OTT. It makes you smile from the point you start playing to the point you stop.

 

[fogbat]

Is it better than the demo suggests?

I played the 360 demo and found it pretty incoherent - half the time I was having trouble working out what was going on.

 

[Orang Utan]

sure, but i'm just going on what i've seen so far and i'm not keen on those kind of games. my flatmate's getting it, so we'll see.

 

[kyser_soze]

Played the demo and while I can see it's great if you go for that kind of thing, I just found I was mashing buttons in the fights rather than going at it all cool and controlled. Not a reflection on the game more me, but I won't be buying it...

 

[Orang Utan]

oh is it that kind of game? i'm rubbish at combos - i couldn't ever get past the first major scene in assassin's creed 2

 

[kyser_soze]

Yeah, it's that kind of game. TBH I'm having the same issues with Brutal Legend during the stage fights, but at least that has a real tongue in cheek SOH about everything.

 

[kabbes]

If you're rubbish at combos then don't even attempt it! Assassin's Creed 2 was very, very easy by comparison.

The game is MUCH better than the demo, though, because it leads you by the hand through the initial stages, giving you more gradually, so that you are very soon kicking, punching and shooting with the best of them.

I particularly like the move that has you doing a handstand, shooting at all the bad buys using the guns that are on your feet, before rolling out into a pose for the camera. Utterly, utterly silly and wonderful.

 

[Orang Utan]

aaaarrggh! i need to find a game that ain't too difficult, dexterity wise, and involve running around shooting and/or hitting things/bits to bloody bits

 

[kabbes]

Have you thought about trying Pippa Funnell's Horse Challenge?

 

[kyser_soze]

aaaarrggh! I need to find a game that ain't too difficult, dexterity wise, and involve running around shooting and/or hitting things/bits to bloody bits

have you thought about trying pippa funnell's horse challenge?

finish him!!!!!

 

[Orang Utan]

Have you thought about trying Pippa Funnell's Horse Challenge?

doesn't sound very gory or violent

 

[fen_boy]

aaaarrggh! i need to find a game that ain't too difficult, dexterity wise, and involve running around shooting and/or hitting things/bits to bloody bits

Have you played Dead Space? I think you'd like that. And Batman Arkham Asylum.

 

[Orang Utan]

got bored of all the stomping in dead space.
the batman was recommended to me by something else.
i think i shall enjoy watching flatmate play bayoneta rather than playing it myself

 

[sim667]

I played the demo, its probably the most horrid game i've ever played.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Why did you think that?

 

[Geoffrey]

I bought it last week. It's good fun, and has some seriously over the top moves and combos which are pretty satisfying to use and some of the enemies are HUGE, giving a real sense of occasion. Load times on the PS3 version are loooonnggg though and do get a bit annoying and the cutscenes are a bit naff too. 10/10 seems a bit to high for me, i'll say 8/10 (or maybe 7.5!).

 

[kabbes]

I got four games for birthday and Christmas: L4D2, COD:MW2, Assassin's Creed 2 and Bayonetta. I'd give them 8, 9, 9 and 9 respectively on the special personal kabbes scale. All excellent games, in my view.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

It's all about the little details too. There are 1001 little touches. Like the fact that you have some gossimer butterfly wings that appear when you jump and a little explosion of butterflies when you land. Then about an hour in you notice that in strong sunlight your cape forms a shadow that looks like a giant butterfly. That moment of noticing the shadow almost makes you laugh with its sheer chutzpah.

The game is massively, massively overstylized and OTT. It makes you smile from the point you start playing to the point you stop.

Yeah and that bit where she's totally nude...heh found the demo fun but a bit frantic and not sure if I could be bothered to learn all the buttons etc.

 

[Geoffrey]

COD MW2 is next on my list. Really looking forward to that one. I try to complete games these days before buying another, otherwise they end up piling up all over the place and don't get finished!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

COD MW2 is next on my list. Really looking forward to that one. I try to complete games these days before buying another, otherwise they end up piling up all over the place and don't get finished!

Good plan, I tried and failed to finish Halo 3: ODST before MW2 came out, haven't played another game properly (apart from an hour here and there of L4D2) since launch!

 

[kabbes]

COD MW2 is next on my list. Really looking forward to that one. I try to complete games these days before buying another, otherwise they end up piling up all over the place and don't get finished!

I've had lots of time, so I've been able to finish AC2 and MW2. L4D2 has been temporarily shelved, although I only play it multiplayer anyway. I'm going to finish Bayonetta and then go back to L4D2 and MW2 as multiplayer options.

 

[fogbat]

In Japan, it's called Super Magic Sarah Palin Adventure Squad.

 

[sim667]

Why did you think that?

Its just bloody silly.

Guns in shoes? Massive fists appearing from nowhere?

Its just like soulcaibur, with guns, as a platform game....

I dont really like fantasy blamcham either........ give me a robot with guns and a dystopian future anyday.

 

[kabbes]

She has GUNS on her FEET. Guns. Feet. She turns upsidedown and SHOOTS with the GUNS on her FEET.

She does a breakdance and the GUNS on her FEET shoot whilst she does the BREAKDANCE.

Am I not getting through to you here?

 

[revol68]

nah it just looks an over busy mess, played the demo and it just felt like button mashing, like Devil May Cry but gone stupid.

 

[kabbes]

nah it just looks an over busy mess, played the demo and it just felt like button mashing, like Devil May Cry but gone stupid.

Do you think that maybe it felt like button mashing because it was just a demo and therefore couldn't take you very deep? Just a thought.

 

[revol68]

Do you think that maybe it felt like button mashing because it was just a demo and therefore couldn't take you very deep? Just a thought.

No it was because there was far too much going on filling the screen with ludicrous nonsense, I could barely make out my character half the time, and the aesthetic is fucking awful, the main character looks like a gimp.

 

[kabbes]

Tell the truth -- you were just frightened by the sight of boobs and hips, weren't you?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I did find the demo proper frantic, couldn't tell at times if I was causing deaths by luck or design...

 

[revol68]

Tell the truth -- you were just frightened by the sight of boobs and hips, weren't you?

Nah it's just way too OTT, I didn't get any sense of actual control over the character, certainly not in the way that pulling off moves in DMC did.