Poll: bayonetta
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Hmmm, well as I rambled on about in another thread about animated babes, I find something a bit "off" about Bayonetta. This coming from someone who would be predisposed to like the character because I'm a big fan of spellcasters, and have a BSM fetish. I'm not really big into the whole "Spectacle Fighter" genere (as Yahtzee puts it), but it's notable that I'm probably going to support Dante's Inferno (a similar type of game) and relegate this one to budget bin "maybe someday" fare. My reaction is similar to X-blades (which I was right about, and only spent like $8 on).
Simply put some of the stuff in the game looks cool, but honestly as "cool" as chain whipping someone onto a spiked bondage horse is, is that going to be awesome enough to be something I'm going to want to do for hours on end? Looking at one of the "leaked" videos on Youtube (where I am taking that move from) I notice they have Bayonetta doing that move again and again too, and it doesn't even appear to be a finisher but an overdone spammable attack.
On top of that when I say Bayonetta looks kind of off, for me it's the fact that the face looks almost like a quintessential Japanese nerd. I almost suspect it's intentional. On top of this while all of the features such as breasts, legs, etc... could be considered perfect they just seem a bit off in the way they all sync up to me. Almost like what George Alec Effinger wrote about in books like "When Gravity Fails" in talking about cosmetic surgery mistakes. Someone taking a bunch of features that they find attractive, tossing them all together, and winding up with something that is out of sync when taken as a whole. I see this right now as almost a visual representation of what he was talking about.
Also for the record I am one of the same people who actually DEFENDS being attracted to video game/anime/comic characters as normal, providing you don't blur the line between fantasy and reality, existance and non existance. Of course even then I believe that isn't all that uncommon (even if it's a problem) which is why things like the Myth/Legend of Galatea have endured.
I even go so far as to say that anyone who claims to not have been attracted to a drawing, painting, or a bunch of pixels is either a liar or insane. In most cases the former though because of societal pressure to try and present what is normal as being abnormal. In most cases people who get mocked for having an attraction to a fictional character MEANT to be attractive, are people (nerds) who are going to get mocked by those people anyway. That's just a conveinent path of attack, and even the people doing the mocking are probably guilty of very similar things to the accusations they are making.
At any rate, for those that read this far, I will say that I *COULD* very well wind up being proven wrong about this game, and wind up buying it (even if I won't rush out for it). It will depend on what happens when it's released. Despite the opinions I've formed based on what I've seen, I've also heard that Japanese magazines have been rating the game higher than Final Fantasy XIII (which is one of the iconic series down there). It pulling perfect scores and such. Purely as a comparitive thing this is VERY noteworthy. For all I know this might be the spectacle fighter that kills "God Of War" and "Devil May Cry"'s dominance of the genere and drags a lot of new people who weren't impressed by it before (like me) into the fold.
I however do not think it's very likely.
Simply put some of the stuff in the game looks cool, but honestly as "cool" as chain whipping someone onto a spiked bondage horse is, is that going to be awesome enough to be something I'm going to want to do for hours on end? Looking at one of the "leaked" videos on Youtube (where I am taking that move from) I notice they have Bayonetta doing that move again and again too, and it doesn't even appear to be a finisher but an overdone spammable attack.
On top of that when I say Bayonetta looks kind of off, for me it's the fact that the face looks almost like a quintessential Japanese nerd. I almost suspect it's intentional. On top of this while all of the features such as breasts, legs, etc... could be considered perfect they just seem a bit off in the way they all sync up to me. Almost like what George Alec Effinger wrote about in books like "When Gravity Fails" in talking about cosmetic surgery mistakes. Someone taking a bunch of features that they find attractive, tossing them all together, and winding up with something that is out of sync when taken as a whole. I see this right now as almost a visual representation of what he was talking about.
Also for the record I am one of the same people who actually DEFENDS being attracted to video game/anime/comic characters as normal, providing you don't blur the line between fantasy and reality, existance and non existance. Of course even then I believe that isn't all that uncommon (even if it's a problem) which is why things like the Myth/Legend of Galatea have endured.
I even go so far as to say that anyone who claims to not have been attracted to a drawing, painting, or a bunch of pixels is either a liar or insane. In most cases the former though because of societal pressure to try and present what is normal as being abnormal. In most cases people who get mocked for having an attraction to a fictional character MEANT to be attractive, are people (nerds) who are going to get mocked by those people anyway. That's just a conveinent path of attack, and even the people doing the mocking are probably guilty of very similar things to the accusations they are making.
At any rate, for those that read this far, I will say that I *COULD* very well wind up being proven wrong about this game, and wind up buying it (even if I won't rush out for it). It will depend on what happens when it's released. Despite the opinions I've formed based on what I've seen, I've also heard that Japanese magazines have been rating the game higher than Final Fantasy XIII (which is one of the iconic series down there). It pulling perfect scores and such. Purely as a comparitive thing this is VERY noteworthy. For all I know this might be the spectacle fighter that kills "God Of War" and "Devil May Cry"'s dominance of the genere and drags a lot of new people who weren't impressed by it before (like me) into the fold.
I however do not think it's very likely.
Kamiya wanted to give her a witch's pointy hat. The artist said no. Think about that for a while.
Holy hell, what is wrong with you people?
A better analogy would be if you played Metroid Prime and then found it hard to believe that the same company made cutesy platform games.
On another note:
Maybe because it's made by Platinum Games, a company that contains ex-Clover Studios employees? Their logo is printed clearly on the front of the box.
Shittest analogy ever. Clover Studios (who made Okami) also made God Hand and a billion Viewtiful Joe games. Ex-Clover employees worked on MadWorld. They're actually more synonymous with this type of game than Okami.
A better analogy would be if you played Metroid Prime and then found it hard to believe that the same company made cutesy platform games.
On another note:
I got Okami brand new from my local store for $24 AUD. Are you sure eBay is the right place to look for that game?
It looks decent. The game is trying to sell on the hot main character. The story is a generic "light vs dark" tale and all over the damn place so you hardly know what's going on, the music is typical Japanese happy happy gumdrop like that Oasis advert and the enemies are the usual pointless and crazy Japanese things.
The hell? they look NOTHING alike.Julianking93 said:Odd you say that, because this picture has been up for about 3 monthschrisdibs said:
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Majority of people only think they do because they wear glasses.