Bayonetta
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Bayonetta is an adventure developed by PlatinumGames, released 20 September 2014 on Nintendo Switch and Wii U.
What Bayonetta is
Bayonetta is an adventure game developed by PlatinumGames and released in 2014. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch and Wii U.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bayonetta is an Umbra Witch who was awakened twenty years ago from the bottom of a lake with no memory of her past. She possesses one half of a pair of powerful jewels known as the Eyes of the World, and when her informant Enzo brings word that the missing other half may lie in the distant city of Vigrid, she sets out to claim it. Able to move between Paradiso and the human world of Chaos, Bayonetta cuts down the many angels sent to destroy her. Along the way she crosses paths with a mysterious witch named Jeanne, who seems bound to her forgotten history, and a young man named Luka who blames her for his father's death. As she hunts for the Right Eye, fragments of her lost past slowly begin…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Bayonetta series
Bayonetta is the fourth of 16 entries we hold in the Bayonetta series. The next entry was Bayonetta + Bayonetta 2: Special Edition in 2014.
What it launched against
Bayonetta launched on 20 September 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.
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