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Chapter 16 (Boss)
Rank: Bronze

This entire chapter is dedicated to the boss fight against Balder, Bayonetta's dad. The guy is kind of a smug, foppish sort of villain, but I thought he was fun enough now that we finally got to meet him. As a boss he's more akin to Jeanne than one of the giant multi-stage battles against the Cardinal Virtues, and I think I prefer this model of boss fights for this game on the whole. Balder seems a bit more vulnerable to long combos than did Jeanne, but his attack speed becomes absolutely relentless later in the fight. It was cool seeing someone resist Bayonetta's "climax" attacks for the first time, and the way she finishes him off in the end was amusing. "Don't fuck with a witch."

Epilogue
Rank: Stone

After a short but hysterical section of riding up a rocket on a motorbike as it exits Earth's atmosphere, playing as Jeanne, we fight the final boss in Jubileus, who I was surprised to learn (though I shouldn't have been,) was a sexy woman-shaped diety. I'd say the first phase of the boss is the trickiest, where he has a variety of attacks that can come out all at once, with these Bullet-bill things that hound you even as you try to dodge attacks from the boss herself. After a little while she transitions into this more environmental boss fight with fire, ice, and lightning stages which are all pretty easy to get around. In some stages, she has a crazy instant kill attack that turns half the arena into a black hole, which was responsible for all my deaths.

Just before you finish her off, the music changes from her boss theme to Bayonetta's cover of Fly Me to the Moon, which I thought was a nice touch. I also liked the degree of absurdity that the fight manages, with things like the player maneuvering the boss' flailing body around every planet in the solar system to dunk her in the sun.

There are a couple little fights during the credits as a kind of relaxing way to wind down, which I thought was a great idea.

I would say I was satisfied with how the story ended. It's suitably light-hearted and silly as a conclusion, and I like how the whole cast of characters we've gotten to know throughout the game was together kicking ass in the end. Bayonetta's final goodbye to Cereza was cute too.

Final thoughts on Bayonetta coming soon. Possibly tomorrow.

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