Bayonetta
February 19, 2010PS3, Xbox 360 RRP: $89
Answering the prayers of man-children and adolescent boys, developer Hideki Kamiya – lauded creator of Devil May Cry and Okami – daringly mashes every cliché in the book to bring the ultimate buxom videogame vixen to life. Setting gamers against the army of heaven, you play Bayonetta, a feisty, shape-shifting, gun-wielding witch with demonic hair for clothes and pistols for heels. With its flagrant exhibition of flesh, guns and supernatural themes, Bayonetta is a lesson in appealing to the lowest common denominator with integrity intact. Gleefully outlandish and quintessentially Japanese, Platinum Games’ hack/slash action romp is a satisfyingly frenetic combo fest. More than the sum of its parts, Bayonetta’s witchin’. By Pasquale Condidorio
