I really hate that Bayonetta 3 insisted on having a plot moving between different locations worldwide but gave us nothing wrt how magic would look in different cultures
hi . i'm not here because it's almost quarterly reports time , and because ive been in this godforsaken office for three years i need to show what the flock has been going on with me professionally :^)
Bayonetta 3 is so well written they forget to explain why the main villain is better than you in literally every regard and can kick your ass instantly whenever he feels like it. like in the first and second game you're either fighting something Angelic, Demonic, or an actual literal God and you make killing them look easy.
the final boss of Bayonetta 3 is a cyborg who was made by accident at the prosthetics factory. literally. that is his actual backstory. he kills every single version of Bayonetta in existence without ever breaking a sweat, btw.
somehow he has the power to manipulate and warp the very fabric of reality. this is, as far as i know, never explained. he uses this to just shrug off any damage you deal to him in the last chapter of the game over and over. in the end, the last three Bayonettas in the entire multiverse (the protagonists from all three games) merge into one being and get the shit kicked out of them before finally dying taking him out.
so, yeah the woman who was capable of punching the literal creator of the universe into the sun can't beat up a robot that got made by accident and has absolutely zero magical or divine power of any kind because it just… decided she couldn't. wow, how empowering.
I did the thing I said I'd do when it dropped but I finally read up on what the actual plot of Bayonetta Origins is supposed to be and the weird part is that, with only a few modifications, it could easily have been a more consistent Bayonetta 3 than what we got, were their gameplay styles swapped around.
I mean you've got the new realm with themed enemies, you got the new mysterious morally grey new character with a relationship to Cereza, you've got a goofy sidekick she has to deal with, a major revelation-kinda-retcon about her backstory... heck, even the Third Act Parentage Reveal is there! Those are all elements of a Bayonetta(tm) Sequel(tm), and it could have taken the actual one's place sooo easily.
Bayo3 could, in turn, have been the experimental spinoff with different gameplay that could have more leeway to use its wild new features and massive multiverse crossover stint... gdi, Platinum.