I picked up this game yesterday and played through the first 5 chapters. It's great!
-The prologue features a cutscene where Bayonetta suplexes a conga line of angels into the concrete and makes their heads pop like grapes, then does a flying piledriver on another; all the while "Fly Me To the Moon" is playing.
-There's a swarmy NPC that sounds all the world like Pesto from Goodfeathers.
-The shop guy's bar/store is called The Gates of Hell, and the font is totally in DMC style. He also makes several references to other video games, including doing his own impression of the RE4 shop guy.
-There's plenty of shout-outs to other titles, including Resident Evil, DMC, and even an Okami one.
-Resuming the game when you die is a lot more forgiving than the original DMC; there are checkpoints and basically unlimited continues, but naturally using them will take a hit off your score. Same for healing items.
-Buying usable items from the shop can be done with halos (collected from fallen enemies), but they can also be synthesized from witch brew ingredients found throughout the levels and exchanged for with points in the post-level minigame. There's a limit of how many you can buy at the shops at a given time, but the price doesn't seem to inflate and you can synthesize more.
-Chapter 4 is an entire boss fight itself, and really epic.
For a rough summary of it, you fight a giant angel...
....and then I won.
-The difficulty seems to pick up in Chapter 5, but was still doable. I just acquired the ability to
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-The prologue features a cutscene where Bayonetta suplexes a conga line of angels into the concrete and makes their heads pop like grapes, then does a flying piledriver on another; all the while "Fly Me To the Moon" is playing.
-There's a swarmy NPC that sounds all the world like Pesto from Goodfeathers.
-The shop guy's bar/store is called The Gates of Hell, and the font is totally in DMC style. He also makes several references to other video games, including doing his own impression of the RE4 shop guy.
-There's plenty of shout-outs to other titles, including Resident Evil, DMC, and even an Okami one.
-Resuming the game when you die is a lot more forgiving than the original DMC; there are checkpoints and basically unlimited continues, but naturally using them will take a hit off your score. Same for healing items.
-Buying usable items from the shop can be done with halos (collected from fallen enemies), but they can also be synthesized from witch brew ingredients found throughout the levels and exchanged for with points in the post-level minigame. There's a limit of how many you can buy at the shops at a given time, but the price doesn't seem to inflate and you can synthesize more.
-Chapter 4 is an entire boss fight itself, and really epic.
For a rough summary of it, you fight a giant angel...
thing with multiple heads. One main one on its body, and two dragon-like heads coming out of the side. I beat the shit out of him with punches and kicks I summoned from portals, he collapsed the bridge I was on, I jumped up a series of fallen stone to blast him with magic attacks, snapmared his ass all over the arena with one of his heads (he's like 100x my size...), then after snapmaring him twisted and ripped off that head. I rewound time and rebuilt part of the bridge, KOing with more summoned giant punches and kicks, before snapmaring him and ripping off his second side head.
For the second half of the fight I battled with him as he flew around a barely-holding-together piece of the colisseum as I ran around on its walls, and eventually summoned a giant demon crow with my hair to peck his eyes out. Then I launched a series of boulders at him that ripped through his body, demolishing his "main" head
For the second half of the fight I battled with him as he flew around a barely-holding-together piece of the colisseum as I ran around on its walls, and eventually summoned a giant demon crow with my hair to peck his eyes out. Then I launched a series of boulders at him that ripped through his body, demolishing his "main" head
-The difficulty seems to pick up in Chapter 5, but was still doable. I just acquired the ability to
morph into a panther while running to do a long jump
