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Bayonetta 2 Review Thread - Metacritic: one billion-hit combo, buy it kids
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Tell her you're doing research on the sexualzation of women in videogames.
For clicks and publicity.
Astral Dog
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Speaking of that, i think we should take a moment to analyze the first game opening cutscene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGTKftZnqAM
This is the single scene that shows what Bayonetta is about imo. somebody else can explain it much better than i can.
Edit:a few answers would be nice. i want to show it at the other thread.
Tell her you realized how great Off-TV play is when she wants to watch some TV show.
Just buy one and hide it. You can buy VESA mounts so you can screw it to the back of the TV. She wouldn't even know it was there. Get a pro controller and she'll think it's just a DS4 or an XB1 pad.
It's the perfect crime.
bobbychalkers
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Ok....If you own a Wii, buy a Wii U the same color as that. Then pull a switcharoo. Keep the gamepad hidden when you're not using it and she'll never know the difference.
This is the game that made me buy a WiiU this saturday. Can't wait.
Baleoce
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Or tell her its a new peripheral for the Wii xD
Resident_UA
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mgs2master2
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welp Gaf
Playstation TV cancelled
Bayonetta 2 get. do not even have a WiiU yet. Gonna grab that next week with this game.
Playstation TV cancelled
Bayonetta 2 get. do not even have a WiiU yet. Gonna grab that next week with this game.
To judge this game based on excessive sexualization of women is absurd when considering the free passes games such as GTA, Saints Row, and Tomb Raider have received from the gaming press, and more specifically, Polygon themselves. And to ride the wave of morality like a champion of women's rights while simultaneously glorifying extreme violence in the same publication seems indicative of the American culture's hypocrisy and ignorance of its own moral center.
disagree all you want with the review and its score, but accusing every review whose score is an outlier is such a simple-minded thing to do and it destroys conversation.
If it was any site but Polygon and anyone but Geis, I could agree.
mpgeist
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Good man! You won't be disappointed!welp Gaf
Playstation TV cancelled
Bayonetta 2 get. do not even have a WiiU yet. Gonna grab that next week with this game.
Explain to her that you're an adult and you've worked out that you can afford something that you want to buy.
Padawan of Windu
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Sweet googly moogley I need this game now. So glad to see it getting great reviews everywhere. Bring on more Nintendo X Platinum games!
welp Gaf
Playstation TV cancelled
Bayonetta 2 get. do not even have a WiiU yet. Gonna grab that next week with this game.
I'm aiming to sell Smash 3DS so I can fund my purchase of Bayonetta 2!
Cruise Missile
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I got to play a demo....you should temper your expectations
QuantumZebra
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well my wife loves games so I have no trouble selling her on anything... half the time it is her wanting the stuff... so my solution? try to get her into games and sell the wii u as one she'd like to play
Be great if they came part of Nintendo.
frankie_baby
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So did most of us, almost all of us loved it
The problem I have with Polygon's review is how 'clickbait' the final score seems to be.
In the actual text of the review, it seems that Arthur Gies was going to be fair on the game and grant a score based on the actual game; until the last sentence where he's passing judgment on those who enjoy it as 'requiring a bigger mental compromise' to do so. I'm perfectly fine with someone having a contrary opinion to me or saying why the game didn't work for that person (I have heard that the story isn't very good which is a valid complaint). Arthur Gies not liking a game is his opinion, but let me decide any perceived 'sexism' is a problem for me.
I'm not even sure at this point if Gies spent a great deal of time actually playing the game; maybe an hour or so was all he care to play of it. Bayonetta 2 could honestly not be the game for him, which is fine. I almost think he had already made up his mind about what type of game Bayonetta 2 was going to be for him.
In the actual text of the review, it seems that Arthur Gies was going to be fair on the game and grant a score based on the actual game; until the last sentence where he's passing judgment on those who enjoy it as 'requiring a bigger mental compromise' to do so. I'm perfectly fine with someone having a contrary opinion to me or saying why the game didn't work for that person (I have heard that the story isn't very good which is a valid complaint). Arthur Gies not liking a game is his opinion, but let me decide any perceived 'sexism' is a problem for me.
I'm not even sure at this point if Gies spent a great deal of time actually playing the game; maybe an hour or so was all he care to play of it. Bayonetta 2 could honestly not be the game for him, which is fine. I almost think he had already made up his mind about what type of game Bayonetta 2 was going to be for him.
Cruise Missile
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It has a lot of flaws.
And potentially Kotaku's.
TheBlueBomber
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So did the rest of us
So did everyone else. What's your point?
Demo.
Jaded Alyx
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Thread taking a potential turn for the hilarious.
frankie_baby
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It has one flaw, it's too short, I need the rest of the game now
The biggest flaw is for the first mission you can spam the sword circle attack move to get a pure platinum, and it's also on easy, so it's not representative of what the final game will be like since most people will do their first playthrough on normal or hard.
Well, if you haven't played the first, definitely play it as you'd be quite confused as to some things in Bayonetta 2.
Cruise Missile
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I meant a production demo. Pretty much the full game. Just think people should temper their expectations a bit because all these 95/100% scores are going to lead to a major let down when they play the full game.
TheBlueBomber
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Most of us have played the first one, and loved it, i think we know what we're in for
Tell us more!
Sooooo...you're saying that a demo set to Easy mode is more indicative of the game's quality than scores of reviewers who have played the entire game giving it extremely high scores?
RecursiveFault
Banned
Do you like/enjoy other PlatinumGames games?
I agree. All that pelvic gyrating made me loose my concentration.
Yeah, it'll be my first time playing it.
Watched tons of video and got really hyped, only 10 days left.
Cruise Missile
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That's not at all what I said. I played what was nearly the entire game, on hard. It has a lot of flaws in game design and story that are going to be a big let down for people living on 100% ratings.
This is basically every thread once Polygon is involved.
RecursiveFault
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Is it like Bayonetta 1? Would you say the same about that game? Have you played the original?
Literally 0 people give a shit about Bayonetta's story, dawg.
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