ViewtifulJC
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Now get at me with those NNIDs so we can climax together. NNID: viewtifuljc, same as GAF handle
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Bayonetta 2 |OT| The time has come, and so have Wii!
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Now get at me with those NNIDs so we can climax together. NNID: viewtifuljc, same as GAF handle
Now get at me with those NNIDs so we can climax together. NNID: viewtifuljc, same as GAF handle
Is there any tip to platinum? I mean it:
1) Do I have to play every verse?
2) Is there any skill/item/tactics?
One of the first things I heard in the store was a W101 reference. Teared up a little.
Now get at me with those NNIDs so we can climax together. NNID: viewtifuljc, same as GAF handle
only 1 pure plat
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
This in a nutshell is my problem with Bayo 2. However, the problem is mitigated when you play Bayo 1 first, Sonic 3 and Knuckles style. They perfectly compliment each other.
Its still a GotG contender, but as the dust settles, Bayo 1 still holds the crown.
Gorilla Shark
Member
Ok GAF, I've never really played a "character action" game like the first Bayonetta or any of the DMC games. I did play through the first God of War game and liked that. But when I tried the demo for Bayonetta 2 I wasn't sure if it's for me. Maybe because I dont really know how to play the game yet?
The reviews on this look great and everyone seems to love it. Bayonetta 1 being included looks awesome... And my OCD tells me I need every major Wii U release.
So, do I jump in or is this just for people really into this type of game? I just don't want to drop $60 on a game I might not get into. It's either this or Evil Within to get my RE 4 fix.
Any advice?
The reviews on this look great and everyone seems to love it. Bayonetta 1 being included looks awesome... And my OCD tells me I need every major Wii U release.
So, do I jump in or is this just for people really into this type of game? I just don't want to drop $60 on a game I might not get into. It's either this or Evil Within to get my RE 4 fix.
Any advice?
OG_Original Gamer
Member
I tried to convince myself that I should play Bayo1 first, but I failed. The difference in visuals is just to jarring. I blame the demo, I have a 360 and have had one since release, but after seeing commercials for 1 I never picked it up. I picked up Vanquish, but didn't finish it. But I crave Bayonetta 2, gameplay and visuals.
You should've just paid a little more to get the definitive version. The 360 version has some extremely noticeable and disgusting screen tear that is completely missing from the Wii U version, the Wii U version runs smoother and it offers some stuff like the Nintendo costumes. The Bayonetta 2 + 1 bundle would've just cost you ~10£ more.
denshuu
Member
I need a Pro Tip. Been at this for like an hour.
My current Muspelheim mission to beat is one where i have to kill all of the enemies with a single combo. But the last enemy is one of the centaurs with a shield. The only way to get behind him is to Witch Time his attack, but if I wait for him to attack then I lose my combo. I can also Umbran Climax, but a single Umbran Climax combo won't kill him. And if I relaunch him before he gets up after the Umbran Climax combo, he literally just turns to face me in mid-air and blocks.
How do I kill this dude without breaking combo?
My current Muspelheim mission to beat is one where i have to kill all of the enemies with a single combo. But the last enemy is one of the centaurs with a shield. The only way to get behind him is to Witch Time his attack, but if I wait for him to attack then I lose my combo. I can also Umbran Climax, but a single Umbran Climax combo won't kill him. And if I relaunch him before he gets up after the Umbran Climax combo, he literally just turns to face me in mid-air and blocks.
How do I kill this dude without breaking combo?
Taunting will pause your combo meter for a bit.
You can taunt and shot him with Y.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
You don't have to get every verse, but it helps. Here's how the scoring system works:
Pure Platinums: 5
Platinums: 4
Gold: 3
Silver: 2
Bronze: 1
Stone/skipped verse: 0
Say you got 3 verses like the prologue, get two platinums and one gold. That's 4 + 4 + 3 = 11. Divide by the number of possible verses, 11/3 = 3.67, that rounds up to a Platinum for the chapter.
As you can see, its possible to get Platinums by skipping verses, but its highly beneficial that you don't. Even getting a silver will net you two points, where skipping gives you nothing. Its like when your teacher says to turn in your half-assed homework anyway, "better than a zero".
As for items I used, Set A I had Sharuba(unlocked after beating the game and buying OG Bayonetta outfit) with dual swords on feet for all sword action, and Set B was dual Chainsaws on hands, whips on feet. Chainsaws are the real damage dealers, they eat up bosses and heavy enemies, especially when you hold the button down for each swing. For lighter enemies, this might kill them too fast, but for bosses? FUGETABOUIT! Spam the chainsaws, you'll get platinum combos like crazy.
When they're far away, you have a few options when your chainsaw doesn't reach. You can use Umbran Spear to teleport instantly to their location, only cause one magic ball. You can use the Panther mode to move quickly across distances. You can always use the pistol to fill in gaps in your combo meter so it doesn't drop. Also, in between enemies spawning, you can hold the taunt button down. As long as the taunt is going, the combo meter "drop rate"(about 3 seconds) will stop momentarily. Just make sure to cancel the dodge with a gunshot or whatever before the enemy sees it, Enraged Enemies are NOT something you wanna fuck with, lol.
When surrounded by lesser enemies, like the little flying fuckers, the whip is great for crowd control. The best combo, when whips are on feet, is KKK-pause-K, this will do a wide-ranging horizontal Wicked Weave that sucks up just about everybody in the area and can get you a lot of points very quickly. You can also use the normal KKKK combo for a vertical Wicked Weave if you're focusing on one person at a distance the chainsaws can't reach immediately.
Umbran Climax is really fuckin' powerful. You can hold everybody in place with them, especially with the chainsaws. Dodge, abuse witch time, and as soon as you come out of witch time hit the Umbran Climax for maximum hitstun time. Hold the chainsaws in-between each hit for maximum damage. Chainsaws don't have Wicked Weaves, but the fourth hit/finisher will send them flying a bit so prepare to panther/umbran spear back to their position. You can also turn off Umbran Climax in the middle of its duration, say when you only have one enemy left and you're not worried about getting hit, or you put a boss in a traditional dizzy state and you don't wont to waste it. You can build up magic meter in earlier encounters, plan ahead a bit, then use it for troublesome areas. You can max the magic out to 3 bars, so you could potentially be heading into boss encounters with 3 full Umbran Climaxes, makes encounters a lot more managable.
Finally, items. Controversial change in that they allow you to use items now, the only punishment is you don't get the +5000 "No Items' bonus at the end of the chapter, oh noes. Now personally, I swore off from using them, but I can see how they could help. Red might fuck you up score wise on anything that isn't bosses, and green won't make your damage for the verse go back down. However, keeping in mind how useful Umbran Climax is, having a purple that can fill it right back up? Very powerful tool. And the yellow stops damage from happening entirely, so there's that, too.
Captain_Spanky
Member
Just working through my second playthrough now, one thing I've noticed is that Bayo 2 seems a LOT faster than Bayo 1. Like Infintie Climax fast at points.
CadetMahoney
Member
Just got my copy in the mail!
The lord is good.
hiding that USk logo amirite?
black_vegeta
Member
Taunting, dodge, activate witch time.
Thought as much. I was wondering if there was a weapon later on that is more effective at bashing shields.
I like the pistols a little too much. I need to find when is the best time to use the other weapons.
All available from the get go but to unlock them usually requires coaxing in some instances. For example, in Chapter 5
You will encounter 2 lovers on a bench. Destroy the bench and they run away prompting angels to appear.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
The Hammer breaks shields
MissDeviling
Member
I love rotating the stick with her dual swords when in umbran climax. Gets pretty much anthing in range.
SoraanTribal
Member
I can't decide if I want to play Bayonetta 1 before 2 when I get the game. I've already beaten Bayonetta 1 last year, but I don't really remember too much of the story besides it being completely whacky. My only worry is I don't want to get burned out on the gameplay/combat system before diving into Bayonetta 2. I know some people would say it's impossible to get tired of the combat because it's so fun, but I still feel like it could happen with me.
Then just play 2
CadetMahoney
Member
Well it got many 10/10's so all the western reviewers don't have a problem with it.
Saint Gregory
Member
I think I woke up my neighbors last night screaming when that fucking
juggled me 8 times in a row.
I honestly can't believe how good these end game enemies are. Most of them would be final bosses in lesser action games *bows*
Golem
I honestly can't believe how good these end game enemies are. Most of them would be final bosses in lesser action games *bows*
SoraanTribal
Member
Might be best. I could always go back to the first game afterwards if I felt like it. Or I could play the first one, then play another game for a week or so in between them, then start the second one. We'll see.
yeah those
Golems
I recommend you to use pully's butterfly accessory against them
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I should be able to walk into a fucking store and buy a fucking product. That's what stores are fucking for
Skellig Gra
Member
Supply and demand man.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
THERE IS CLRARLY MORE DEMAND
Saint Gregory
Member
Can you really blame stores for not stocking tons of copies of a niche Wii U game, especially after W101?
I hope it doesn't lead to a lot of lost sales for the game, I'd love for Bayonetta 2 to do well enough to greenlight another sequel.
Skellig Gra
Member
I feel your pain, but you should have preordered if you wanted it this bad.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
One last chance. There's a creepy Kmart no one likes to visit but they had the only physical copy of Bravely Default on launch day as well. Fingers crossed
twothunder
Member
People already have trouble finding it? Reminds me of Fire Emblem Awakening 's release...
Glad I bought the Bayonetta 2 Special edition yesterday.
Saint Gregory
Member
I actually had enough halos to buy that but wasted them on costumes before realizing needed to buy the mirror accessory first -_-
Have any halo farming glitches been found yet? My heart sank when I saw how many halos the first unlockable character costs.
It's there an easier way to collect halos in bayo 1? I find that everything that Rodin sells too be too expensive lol. I'm also noticing witch time is harder to execute here, and there's some quick time events when they want you to press Y at an exact moment, it's unforgivable lol, died way too much because of that
There's that item that promises bonus halos though I haven't used it yet so I don't know how it works, and then there's an accessory that makes you gain more items and halos when defeating enemies with torture attacks. Probably best bets for farming.
*gets back from gamestop with wiiu and bayo2*
well, i sure didn't hold out long
shoulda preordered, POWER TO THE PLAYERS BRAH
they had one copy left at mine and still gave me a "shoulda preordered" shaming
well, i sure didn't hold out long
shoulda preordered, POWER TO THE PLAYERS BRAH
they had one copy left at mine and still gave me a "shoulda preordered" shaming
Saint Gregory
Member
Oh, I keep forgetting that I have those. I need to replay an earlier chapter where there's a ton of enemies in one place and try that out.
There were some awesome farming areas in Bayo1 so I'm sure someone will find one of them soon... or maybe Platinum are just sadistic bastards
That crap is what lost Gamestop my business permanently years ago. There was some huge 3rd party game out (I can't remember which) and I want to my local Gamestop to pick up a copy and the dude behind the counter tells me that they only had copies for preorders. I look behind him and there's literally hundreds of copies sitting on the shelves and floors behind the counter. After a short exchange of me telling him that there's no way all of those copies of the game are preorders and him insisting that he couldn't sell me one if I didn't preorder I walked across the street to BestBuy, bought a copy of the game, walked back to Gamestop and slammed it against the window while giving dude the finger. Never shopping there again.
If it only were on the eShop, I would spend so much time there.
The glorious package arrived yesterday!!
Put in a few hours, replayed first 3 chapters on 3rd Climax...too much hype and awsum.
When I got to the 4th chapter, boss fight at the end which had those cherubs archers and the centaur with the arm blades wrecked my shit a good couple of times.
Had to visit Rodin for some upgrades then, as I was just going in RAW.
Got the after burner kick, snaffled the Tetsuzanko, swiped the Heel Spike and I was good to go.
Rodin's battles against demons to craft them into weapons cracks me up. It's a game waiting to happen. lol
Wont be able to play till tomorrow evening now, withdrawal symptoms already. >_<;
I was so chuffed...I tweeted for the 2nd time ever in my life. Last time was when MGR came out.
These boys were involved in bare sick games man. Didnt do any research on Hashimoto, that dude was involved with Resi 3, 4 and Remake. I got all them too. Inaba with Sam Showdown and CVX to his name. Godlike gods!
Sos for shit post, posting from a phone on the M25.
Put in a few hours, replayed first 3 chapters on 3rd Climax...too much hype and awsum.
When I got to the 4th chapter, boss fight at the end which had those cherubs archers and the centaur with the arm blades wrecked my shit a good couple of times.
Had to visit Rodin for some upgrades then, as I was just going in RAW.
Got the after burner kick, snaffled the Tetsuzanko, swiped the Heel Spike and I was good to go.
Rodin's battles against demons to craft them into weapons cracks me up. It's a game waiting to happen. lol
Wont be able to play till tomorrow evening now, withdrawal symptoms already. >_<;
I was so chuffed...I tweeted for the 2nd time ever in my life. Last time was when MGR came out.
These boys were involved in bare sick games man. Didnt do any research on Hashimoto, that dude was involved with Resi 3, 4 and Remake. I got all them too. Inaba with Sam Showdown and CVX to his name. Godlike gods!
Sos for shit post, posting from a phone on the M25.
xxbrothawizxx63
Member
The department stores where I live seemed to have no idea the game existed and even at the gamestop I went to the guy working there told me it wasn't out but when I insisted he asked the manager and they had two copies left hidden away somewhere.