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Bayonetta 2 Review Thread - Metacritic: one billion-hit combo, buy it kids
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This seems more likely.
Yeah I assume Sega will still have some kind of a cut of any profits.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Bayonetta 2 |OT| Metaridleycritic
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
I guess this is the only good thing that can come from it bombing.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Not sure why people would be surprised unless they were too young in 2010 or just didnt pay attention to other platforms. Bayonetta was #4 in NeoGAF's 2010 GOTY poll, earned itself an EDGE 10, and has a Metacritic to this day of 90 (Xbox360 version).
This is the entire reason Nintendo did bother to fund its un-cancelling. And no, I hope Nintendo doesnt buy them or any platform maker either, because I want Revengeance 2. Badly.
Hero of Legend
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Why? So Sega will not get a penny because of their mistake in canning it? I say they should be praised for allowing the game to be picked up by Nintendo, hell it's said that Sega were the ones who pointed Platinum to Nintendo to revive it.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Don't mind me, just don't think much of Sega anymore.
That will change in a heartbeat if another Ristar is made though.
And it won't win any awards because it's on Wii U.
Not that it matters but this is highly unlikely.
MoogleWizard
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I don't think Nintendo should buy Platinum either. Let them stay independent, if that's what they want. And let them make another Revengeance, please.
What I do hope is that they buy the Bayonetta ip. I want the franchise (and the character action genre that is all but dead) to survive and Sega won't do anything with it again. It fits Nintendo's philosophy of game design and fills a gap in their lineup, so it would make sense for them. They have shown a willingness to fund games that may not set the world on fire sales-wise, but that are well received and add more variety to their portfolio in genres that are not "classical Nintendo" (e.g. Sin and Punishment, Wonderful 101, Bayonetta, Fatal Frame, Xenoblade). Plus, they would get the most badass female in gaming and could put her in the next Smash!
Bayo 1&2 Ultimate edition 1080p 60fps with AA launch title for the Wii U successor, followed by Bayonetta 3: Ultimate Climax. *dreams*
What I do hope is that they buy the Bayonetta ip. I want the franchise (and the character action genre that is all but dead) to survive and Sega won't do anything with it again. It fits Nintendo's philosophy of game design and fills a gap in their lineup, so it would make sense for them. They have shown a willingness to fund games that may not set the world on fire sales-wise, but that are well received and add more variety to their portfolio in genres that are not "classical Nintendo" (e.g. Sin and Punishment, Wonderful 101, Bayonetta, Fatal Frame, Xenoblade). Plus, they would get the most badass female in gaming and could put her in the next Smash!
Bayo 1&2 Ultimate edition 1080p 60fps with AA launch title for the Wii U successor, followed by Bayonetta 3: Ultimate Climax. *dreams*
Hero of Legend
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I'll just say I'd be crazy happy if Nintendo bought Platinum, just saying. XD
More exclusives by a AAA developer. What's not to love? It'd go a LONG way to mend the 3rd-party hole.
More exclusives by a AAA developer. What's not to love? It'd go a LONG way to mend the 3rd-party hole.
And Spike Chunsoft if Nintendo took advantage of their shares in Dwango. But the merger with Kadokawa will likely lower the shares by default. 
shiftplusone
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I bought a wii u at launch for this and I've only really liked 1 game (wonderful 101) so id say maybe both?
Well, it is, so far.
royox
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I'll just say I'd be crazy happy if Nintendo bought Platinum, just saying. XD
More exclusives by a AAA developer. What's not to love? It'd go a LONG way to mend the 3rd-party hole.
And Spike Chunsoft if Nintendo took advantage of their shares in Dwango. But the merger with Kadokawa will likely lower the shares by default.
Yeah! Fuck everybody that don't like the WiiU. Leave them withouth Platinum Games like MG:Rising or Vanquish.
That's already the case.
What's left for the year?
Assassin's Creed Unity? Won't beat it I think.
Dragon Age? Same.
Call Of Duty? Naaah.
MMC and GTA V? They are ports.
Maybe SSB.
I'll just say I'd be crazy happy if Nintendo bought Platinum, just saying. XD
More exclusives by a AAA developer. What's not to love? It'd go a LONG way to mend the 3rd-party hole.
And Spike Chunsoft if Nintendo took advantage of their shares in Dwango. But the merger with Kadokawa will likely lower the shares by default.
Unneeded exclusives suck. And the Wii U wouldn't do MGR:R2 justice, that game needs to be designed for XBONE/PS4 (the first game was really hampered by the consoles it was developed on). I'd rather Platinum keep their freedom and work on whatever they want to.
Hero of Legend
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I pre-ordered my Wii U the day this was announced, so for me it is a killer app.
BrokenIcarus
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DS2?
Revenile
Member
Nintendo should not buy platinum, I do think they should buy Bayonetta though, I think it would be a great move to have the top tier character spectacle fighter as a Nintendo adopted franchise officially. Besides, despite the more mature themes, I can kinda see her as a Nintendo stable character, not lacking on creativity and such.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Very close but no.
Majukun
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as long as they have a choice,no one is gonna buy platinum games..the only way it could happen is if they go bankrupt,but since they are still developing games at a good rate,i don't think they are risking..at least until they decide to start making their own projects without a publisher
This.
Platinum wants to be indipendent,that's why it was born.
Nintendo could just keep commissioning them new projects, so we get new P* games,P* stays indipendent.Everybody wins.
lord_of_flood
Member
100% agree with bolded. Heck, I'd be fine with them just buying co-ownership over it like they did with Fatal Frame, though I'd obviously prefer full because Sega won't do jack shit with it XP
Sega should not be praised for canning games, closing their western divisions and basically making their wares inaccessible to literally everyone except in their small sphere of influence.
Also, i never heard about Sega 'pointing platinum in Nintendo's direction" from anywhere, i'd like a source on that one.
I don't blame Nintendo for bringing Bayo back to life, but i do blame Sega for killing it in the first place, there's no upside whatsoever to that kind of scenario. Am i supposed to feel bad for poor Sega who don't know how to run their own ship?
Muchi Muchi Pink
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Man, I just love venice. The only reason I bought Assassin's Creed 2.
If Bayonetta 2 has a cherry blossom level, I'm dead.
As others said, no buying but I hope they have already given them their next project.
Are those Splatoon hats?
I want to believe so hard, don't mess this up Nintendo.
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
WHAT THE!?
This might be the gaming event of the year you don't want to miss out on so...I know people already talked about it but I just saw the Bayonetta 2 commercial on Adult Swim. I really should get around to preordering it...
I love the lengths people need to go to in order to bolster a title that is perfectly capable of standing on its own merits.
Bayonetta 2: The best reviewed AAA Wii U game with a lady on the cover wearing heels developed by Platinum that comes with the first game packed in please don't pay attention to TLoU or GTA5.
Mohonky
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Not sure what the lady on the cover of a platinum game has to do with the quality of a game or its ranking in GoTY. But yeh, if a remaster of a game from last year takes out that title I would be more than a little miffed.
Mind you I have pretty much disagreed with every GoTY for some time now. Its usually 'who had the most cinematic hyped game of the year' competition.
Revenile
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Oh my goodness the Gamespot scene just got better, I'm physically laughing about how things are going down now. Gamespot wrote up a piece listing all 7 games that have gotten a 10/10 rating and a bit of insight on how games get such a high reward (as well as their idea on what a 10 actually means as it has changed throughout the years) and the comments are even more priceless than in the actual review for Bayo 2.
Here's a piece of gold from it:
"Bayonetta 2 did NOT deserve a 10. That is the real point of this article. Justification. It may be a good game but 10 is supposed to be phenomenal. The reviewer was a fanboy (look at the bio on the article) who gave WAY too high a score. FYI I have played this at a friend's. Again it isn't bad but it isn't amazing either."
Here's a piece of gold from it:
"Bayonetta 2 did NOT deserve a 10. That is the real point of this article. Justification. It may be a good game but 10 is supposed to be phenomenal. The reviewer was a fanboy (look at the bio on the article) who gave WAY too high a score. FYI I have played this at a friend's. Again it isn't bad but it isn't amazing either."
Solid Samus
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those Gametrailers comments are goddamn insanity. I'm dying.
MoogleWizard
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What is your problem? I don't think those posts are 100% serious anyway. Why do you lurk in a thread about a game you have no interest in and will not play anyway, just to jump out of the shadows and scream "no" when the catchphrase "GOTY" appears. If I look through the last pages those posts are your only contributions here. So what if some people think that a game of the year should actually have come out in that year? It's not called "game of last year" for a reason. If it makes you feel any better I don't think a niche game like Bayonetta has a chance of being GOTY on many mainstream sites anyway.
MrNyarlathotep
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Sega literally just published Alien Isolation, and are a top tier PC developer.
Sorry, that still counts as both having western studios and publishing games in the west.
What lengths? It's simply the best reviewed AAA game of the year so far and deservedly so. I just don't want to see smartasses mentioning TLOU or GTAV this year. They were the best last year. No remake should win GOTY.
Then put up a short list of scores that contradicts the assertions you quoted or stop complaining. That's the best way to make those people shut up.
Glitchesarecool
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Except they will on all the major sites because page views.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
It's sad state of the industry if the same games win GOTY both years. I'm not even sure the review sites want that. I'm not even sure why you want that, it means this year was a complete wash.
Why are you wailing about game of the year?
Your shrill rants have nothing to do with my post, nor the post I quoted.
Stardust_Comet
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Are we waiting on any more sites to review or have we officially gotten the scores in for all the sites that are willing to review the game?
Yeah, the inkling squid hats. Would love for Nintendo to make them available.
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