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I'm a bit sad that this topic just totally died as the game came out, because this is undoubtedly a return to form for Platinum. I'm approaching the tail end of the game and the gameplay has remained totally killer. Bayonetta's moveset in this game is absolutely insane and you have so many options in combat that it's legitimately overwhelming even as someone who was able to largely handle DMC5 Dante. Dante still ultimately has more at his disposal since Bayonetta is limited to two weapons and three demons at a time, but there's just a TON of stuff in this game to play with and it feels incredible to weave it all together.

I can see some people still preferring Bayonetta 1 since this game's combat is such a huge departure from the pure melee of the original, but IMO there are games that do what Bayo 1 did better and there's really nothing that successfully pulls off the "super powerful summoner" fantasy in an action game quite like this one does.

All that gushing aside, this game's performance is horrid. It legitimately feels like a cross-gen game that we're playing the inferior version of... but there's no better alternative in this case. Combat is playable but cutscenes are really choppy and the game's visuals overall suffered big time in an attempt to make all this kaiju summoning nonsense feasible - and it was still ultimately a failure IMO! This will benefit enormously from either a hypothetical Switch Pro or improved emulation (game is currently experiencing some issues that should be ironed out soon-ish) but it just feels unfortunate that something this ambitious for the genre had to come out on hardware this weak.