It’s awesome - and sure, a lot of this was in the first game, but the fact that Platinum didn’t lose Bayonetta’s swagger and actually amplified it is wonderful. She has a gait that would put Giselle Bundchen to shame.Įven when the game gets a bit exploitative, and the camera zooms up around her shapely butt, between her legs, or around her chest, Bayonetta basically just looks at you and says “deal with it.” But where Samus is a warrior whose gender is hidden by her suit most of the time, Bayonetta does not try to hide.

This is especially charming because most “cool characters in games” - whether they are a man or a woman - usually end up being Indiana Jones (Uncharted’s Nathan Drake) or Ripley from Alien (Metroid’s Samus). She’s completely comfortable in everything. Bayonetta doesn’t give a damn that all this makes her stand out, and she also doesn’t acknowledge it. The woman is already the tallest person on the street, and she’s wearing 6-inch high-heeled shoes, an elaborate white gown, and a matching wide-rimmed sun hat covered in white flowers. That’s especially impressive because it isn’t about having an edgy attitude, it is about her poise and elegance.įor example, the first scene of Bayonetta 2 has the witch shopping for Christmas presents in what looks like Manhattan.

It doesn’t matter if she is facing down the Demon of Sloth or if she is Christmas shopping, the witch is always the coolest person in the room. I don’t think gaming has a cooler character right now, and that comes down to a lot of things - mainly, though, it’s the character’s confidence Bayonetta is one of pop culture’s coolest characters in years

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