Zero Punctuation: Bayonetta
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I'll probably buy it, just like I have with every other platinum games/clover studios game since god hand. Pretty good episode, overall. I'm eagerly awaiting a No More Heroes 2 review.
It?s interesting how Japan lately makes games with over the top grindhouse stories. It?s almost like they?ve realized that they can only do angsty androgynous teenagers battling Satan or their image of Americans masculinity/femininity battling Satan. I guess intriguing means over the top and ridicules. Is it too much to ask for a story to come out of Japan that?s not completely bat shit bonkers like Resident Evil or overly melodramatic like Metal Gear Solid? It just seems like they can?t, or don?t want to, create stories and characters that don?t rely on the absurd. Why, presumably, is Japan?s motto, ?wouldn?t it be cool? and why doesn?t the sentence, ?does this make any sense?? not exist in their language? Why can?t Bayonetta be about a rogue female samurai warrior who battles the ghosts of her village?s past? Why do the enemies have to be completely non-relatable angels and demons? Why do the enemies explode into Sonic like collectable rings when they are killed? Do all stories have to be convoluted? Why are the villains as complex as a Saturday morning cartoon? Would it kill you if we could play some of the cut bombastic scenes? Is this the kind of writing and stories we should expect from Japan, ridicules and tortuous? I think whomever says that ?what do you expect, it?s just a videogame? is really saying, ?it?s a game and videogame writers are a horse?s ass and nothing will ever change that.? I guess I want a story that?s more compelling than ass attached to legs meets demons, ass kills demons, ka-cheen ka-cheen.
Megacherv said:
Trying to run? I seriously doubt that he's at present trying to do ANYTHING that has absolutely ANYTHING to do with Borderlands in ANY way. He's already tried Borderlands and he hated it. He said that he found it very boring. Apparently too boring for a review.
There is indeed a whip, it's pink (go hunting for those LPs).008Zulu said:I liked the game, QTEs nonwhithstanding, but I have the X360 version so I'm not stuck with all the crapy loading issues. One weapon I would have liked to see in it is a whip, it seems as if this particular weapon would fit the theme of the game perfectly, but I haven't finished the game yet... so double fingers crossed
The review was accurate in alot of what he said and i did lol an awful lot, however i found it to be alot simpler to grasp the combat and story than the review shows, all in all, probably not worth buying because like devil may cry the replay-ability gets dull, however i did find myself wrapping in in 2 days because i couldn't walk away, the over exaggerated combat and ones you understand the story, it can be very amusing, i'd recommend renting it atleast once.
Nice visual gag with the pillow there, Yahtzee... had to include yourself in there somehow, huh?
And I've been meaning to pick up Bayonetta, but there's too many good things out. You gonna extend your "Like God of War But" theme month by including a No More Heroes 2 review?
And I've been meaning to pick up Bayonetta, but there's too many good things out. You gonna extend your "Like God of War But" theme month by including a No More Heroes 2 review?
Pink huh? I have a partial LP in my collection, its probably it, already got the claws and shotguns.Aiwe said:There is indeed a whip, it's pink (go hunting for those LPs).008Zulu said:I liked the game, QTEs nonwhithstanding, but I have the X360 version so I'm not stuck with all the crapy loading issues. One weapon I would have liked to see in it is a whip, it seems as if this particular weapon would fit the theme of the game perfectly, but I haven't finished the game yet... so double fingers crossed
This was a pretty funny review, I mean I like all Yahtzee's reviews but this was the first one in a while I'd laughed out loud at. Especially at the vampires being likened to 'solar powered disco balls.' I hate Twilight.
