History VideoGame / Bayonetta

* SkyscraperCity: Isla des Sol is basically hundreds of skyscrapers disposed around one that must be something like a kilometer high. See SceneryPorn above.

* MookChivalry: Of the ''NinjaGaiden'' kind. [[NintendoHard It only gets worse in higher difficulties.]]

* MookChivalry: Of the ''NinjaGaiden'' kind. [[hottip:*:[[DontExplainTheJoke Meaning, non-existent.]]]]

* DifficultButAwesome / SimpleYetAwesome: "Dodge offset" doesn't sound all that complicated − continuing an interrupted combo after dodging by holding the attack button − but in the heat of battle it requires quite a bit of coordination to pull out spontaneously. If you master it though, it becomes extremely useful in situations where you can't use Witch Time (like the [[BossInMookClothing Gracious & Glorious]] fights or the entire Infinite Climax Mode). It looks pretty sweet too.

* BossInMookClothing: Grace and Glory. They always come in pairs, and have faster attacks and movements, compared to other enemies, and are fairly aggressive. The worst part? They're only considered "regular" enemies. Then you meet [[EliteMooks Gracious and Glorious]] who are exactly the same aside from being faster and more damaging, ''and'' you can't normally get [[BulletTime Witch Time]] off of them. Expect to see the four of them ''a lot'' in hard mode.
** Plus they have no problem with breaking out of your combos, while theirs (particularly their midair ones) require equal parts '''perfect''' timing and sheer luck to dodge out of.

* AcclaimedFlop: As surprising as it may seem, the Xbox360 version didn't sell that well. For some reason, the PS3 version did better despite being criticized for its lack of finition.

* AcclaimedFlop: As surprising as it may seem, the Xbox360 didn't sell that well. For some reason, the PS3 version did better despite being criticized for its lack of finition.

** "Welcome to ''my'' FantasyZone! [[SpaceHarrier Get ready!]]"

*** The music for that chapter is a remixed version of the Space Harrier theme. Also the music for the motorcycle portion of Chapter 8 is a remixed version of the theme from After Burner, another classic Sega game. In both cases you can change the soundtrack to the original retro versions by holding down L1 and L2 (for PS3) or LB and LT (for 360) during the preceding cut scenes.
*** And the font for the display in the motorbike section control instructions? Straight out of Hang-On, Sega's 1985 motorbike-based classic.

* FantasticMeasurementSystem: "Infinitons" for [[QuicktimeEvent Climax moves]].

* AlwaysABiggerFish / SummonABiggerFish: Part of how Bayonetta defeats the below mentioned [[spoiler:Jubileus. To put it into perspective, the demon she summons, Queen Sheba, is as huge compared to Jubileus as Jubileus is compared to Bayonetta.]]

The ExcusePlot is as follows: Bayonetta is an [[HotWitch Umbra Witch]], the [[LastOfHerKind last of a clan]] that [[DealWithTheDevil pledges their soul to demonic power]] so they can fight against the [[LightIsNotGood angelic beings of Paradiso]]. Waking up from a five-hundred year sleep and [[QuestForIdentity seeking her lost memories]], she travels to the European city of Virgil, whose spiritual make-up is getting uncomfortably close to that of Paradiso. There, she hopes to find the mysterious "[[MineralMacGuffin Right Eye]]", the other half of the [[OrphansPlotTrinket "Eyes Of The World" broach she possesses]].

Not to be confused with ''BulletWitch''.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Part of how Bayonetta defeats the below mentioned [[spoiler:Jubileus. To put it into perspective, the demon she summons, Queen Sheba, is as huge compared to Jubileus as Jubileus is compared to Bayonetta.]]

* BossDissonance: Mario type.

Its unabashedly sexual themes caused some amount of controversy, but the fact that the game was developed by the formerly dissolved Clover Studios (now reassembled as PlatinumGames) and the director of ''{{Okami}}'' (with which ''Bayonetta'' shares a character designer, Mari Shimazaki), ''DevilMayCry'', ''ResidentEvil2'' and ''ViewtifulJoe'' piqued the interest of many gamers who might otherwise have taken a more cynical stance on the matter. The [[XboxThreeSixty Xbox 360]] version received [[http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/105/1056885p1.html rave reviews]], even becoming only the 12th game to ever be [[http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/bayonetta/1036688p1.html?RSSwhen2009-10-20_035200&RSSid=1036688 awarded a perfect 40 score]] in ''Famitsu'' and the eleventh to receive 10/10 in ''Edge''. The PS3 version [[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-bayonetta-demo-showdown-blog-entry has suffered porting issues]] and has [[http://ps3.ign.com/articles/105/1057012p1.html received solid, but not glowing reviews.]] Spoilers will be marked when possible, but there are still some '''unmarked spoilers'''. Now has a [[Characters/{{Bayonetta}} character sheet]]. Contributions are welcomed.

** {{Lampshaded}} in the opening, as Balder is tossing her pistols:

''Bayonetta'' is a third person action BeatEmUp in the style of ''DevilMayCry'', ''NinjaGaiden'' and ''GodOfWar'', starring the titular heroine, a {{badass}} [[HotWitch witch]] with [[PrehensileHair epic hair]], [[ArmedLegs guns on her feet]], and a fathomless fondness for {{camp}}.

* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: BottomlessMagazines, {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s, [[ImprobableWeaponUser ice skates]], [[FightingWithChucks bullet-firing nunchaku]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre rocket launcher tonfas]], [[WhipItGood snake whips]], {{Laser Blade}}s, [[PlayingWithFire element]] [[ShockAndAwe shifting]] [[FemmeFatalons claws]], [[SwissArmyWeapon and a shape-shifting angelic weapon]]. [[AllBlueEntry That about wraps it up]].

* BabyGotBack: Bayonetta, ''and HOW''.

* BeyondTheImpossible. ''Constantly.'' When you have characters like Joy [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aovjii973Nc making this sort of entrance]], you have gone Beyond The Impossible even for Crazy Awesome.
** Oh that's nothing. At one point Bayonetta starts a motorcycle by [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything jamming her middle finger into the ignition switch.]]
*** Each boss fight is crazier and more insane than the previous one. The sheer volume of bosses and mini bosses is practically inconceivable and it only gets more awesome as time goes by. Special mention goes to the MirrorMatch battle with Jeanne where you spend half the fight duelling atop an armed missile ''after it's been launched'', and the final boss battle where Bayonetta [[spoiler: takes on God herself in a floating cocoon in outer space!]]
*** Not to mention in [[spoiler: Chapter 3-The Burning Ground, when Bayonetta uses an ANGEL AS A SURFBOARD to survive the lava.]]
**** To put it simply: Devil May Cry went beyond the impossible; Bayonetta goes beyond imagination.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Balder.]] See XanatosRoulette below.

** [[spoiler: It seems Balder's [[XanatosRoulette generally vague plan]] involved engineering this time loop to occur, so circumstances revolving around Bayonetta's sealing 500 years back will change, resulting in her memories being retained in the present.]]

* XanatosRoulette: The entire twisted plot and most of its equally as twisted backstory [[spoiler:turns out to have been one massive scheme perpetrated by Balder, in order to unite the Eyes of the World and thereby resurrect God/Jubileus.]]