History VideoGame / Bayonetta3

* EasyModeMockery: A variant. [[spoiler:As with past ''Bayonetta'' games, Rodin is a {{Superboss}} unlocked by purchasing the Platinum Ticket after beating the game, and defeating him unlocks the Rodin weapon. Unlike the other two games, however, [[AntiFrustrationFeatures dying to him enough times will lead to him putting the weapon on sale]]... for 9,999,999 seeds.]]

* InvincibilityPowerUp: During her sections if Jeanne finds a teapot she will [[HenshinHero briefly change into Cutie J]] [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull (reciting the creed ]][[BackgroundMusicOverride and her theme music replacing the usual background track included)]]. This gives her a few seconds of invincibility, during which she also instantly kills any enemy she collides with.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Viola uses a the Mab Dachi, a long katana, as her primary melee weapon with it being her only Demon Arm.

* OneHitKill: Some enemies have attacks that automatically incapacitate your summoned demons in one hit.

* InformedAttribute: To regain some health, Jeanne can either take a shower or go to the bathroom, provided you acquire the toilet paper. However, both are exclusive to the first two stealth missions.

* CutsceneIncompetence: [[spoiler:Bayonetta β1, β2, and most glaringly, the main universe's Jeanne all die to attacks that would be easily avoidable in normal gameplay and would arguably normally deal minimal amounts of damage.]]

* PsychoShowerMurderParody: '''Inverted''' by Jeanne, who can execute an unlucky Homunculus for trying to peek at her in the shower.

* PsychoShowerMurderParody: '''Subverted''' by Jeanne, who can execute an unlucky Homunculus for trying to peek at her.

** Bayonetta attacking Strider and giving some BDSM-style torture is hilarious and awesome. After it's revealed that [[spoiler:is actually ''Luka'' who was most likely unconscious and had no idea what he was doing, it's painful to watch that Bayonetta is violently attacing a person she cares for.]]

** Luka's first words in the game are about how Fate brings him and Bayonetta together. Bayo herself repeats these words to him [[spoiler:as they go down to Inferno together.]]

%%* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:In an early encounter with her, Singularity cryptically refers to Arch Eve Bayonetta as a woman who is "out of time" just like the worlds that are being ended, and she doesn't disagree. Sure enough, the game ends with her contract expiring almost immediately after Singularity's defeat, but at least Luka is allowed to accompany her, and the epilogue implies that she's gotten a pretty sweet deal down in Inferno as Butterfly's enforcer.]]

* PsychoShowerMurderParody: '''Subverted''' by Jeanne who can execute an unlucky Homunculus for trying to peek at her.

** Luka loses his comic relief tendencies [[spoiler:in his second Strider match, lashing out in self=loathing.]]

** Also according to lore, [[spoiler:a variant of Luka, named Lukaon, is actually the King of Avalon, thus also making him fey. Bonus points, Lukaon is a combination of Luka and Oberon, who is traditionally seen as King of Fairies]]

** A subtle one. Viola is the one being the narrator this time, when in ''1'' it was Antonio Redgrave and in ''2'' it was Luka. [[spoiler:That's because Viola is Bayonetta and Luka's daughter, and Antonio's granddaughter.]]

** Take a good look at Strider's cape when you fight him the first time. The color and tails of it [[spoiler:resemble Luka's longcoat, hinting they are one and the same.]]

** Luka's surname is actually hinting to his ultimate fate. [[spoiler:He gets dragged off into Inferno with Bayonetta and Inferno is associated with the color ''red''.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Accepting that her life in this realm has ended, Bayonetta and Luka smile as they're taken into Inferno.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:A variant of Luka, Lukaon, is King of the Fey.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: You won't see a shred of Bayonetta's usual confidence and sass in the teaser, where her expressions during the Witch Time barrage show she ''knows'' she isn't going to win.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Enzo is shown in mourning in the Gates of Hell, staring at a photo of his family [[spoiler:who presumably died in the prologue]] to signal that things are serious than ever before with Rodin being the only thing keeping the gangster alive. [[spoiler:Thankfully, the ending shows they survived]].

** The prologue shows a version of Bayonetta getting killed by Singularity. [[spoiler:He attempts this on the player Bayonetta midway into his FinalBoss battle (implied to be him rigging the outcome of the battle), only this time, it doesn't work.]]

** The alternate Bayonettas met don't fare as well against the Homunculi [[spoiler:with each of them dying by the end of their world while passing on their weapons and demons to Origin Bayonetta. β3 at least, manages to live past the boss fight and dies making a HeroicSacrifice to save Origin Bayonetta instead]].

** [[spoiler: After Bayonetta's alternative selves do a collaborative beatdown on Singularity, Bayonetta is able to get a clean gunshot through his chest center leaking out three additional souls. One of them was Jeanne. The other two? They were the past two sequel Bayonettas preparing their BigDamnHeroes entrance just when Singularity was about to off our protagionist.]]

* GottaCatchEmAll: Once again, the Umbran Tears of Blood. However, this game handles it differently from previous games: Whereas before you must collect every last one of the tears to get any reward whatsoever, this time, there are three tears per chapter that unlocks that chapter's BonusLevel once you gather them all.

* BadMoonRising: The regular blue-gray Bayonetta moon is shaded into a blood moon at the teaser's beginning, as well as the end of the gameplay trailer, not quite matching the hue used for the ''Bayonetta 2'' moon during battles with demons.

** Luka's flirting with Bayonetta in Shibuya mimics his first appearance in the first game: He's chased by enemies, stops and walks back to a girl he passes by (though back then it was just some NPC), promptly woos that girl with the exact same line, and resumes his escape when the enemies catch up to him.

%%* EndOfAnEra: Marketing for the game has described it as "the end of Cereza's story". [[spoiler:Sure enough, by the end of the game, all versions of Bayonetta across the multiverse are KilledOffForReal and Jeanne is dead, leaving only Viola left to inherit the title of Bayonetta and Umbral Witch.]]

** As you progress during the Paris levels, you can hear NPC chatter where the soldiers seem to suddenly fight among themselves. Eventually you find out that Perlucidus, a PuppeteerParasite homunculi, is responsible for hijacking these unfortunate humans [[spoiler:including that reality's Rosa and Bayonetta.]]

* SummonMagic: After being limited to {{Finishing Move}}s and weapon-tied temporary {{Assist Character}}s in the previous two games, Infernal Demons can be summoned as fully combat-capable parts of Bayonetta's arsenal through the Demon Slave ability, which involves summoning one of several possible demons, from [[DragonsAreDemonic Gomorrah]], [[FeatheredFiend Malphas]], [[GiantSpider Phantasmaraneae]], to [[GiantWoman Madama Butterfly]]. Bayonetta controls them as a partial PuppetFighter by commanding them to attack foes, or just lets them do their own thing if she has Nucleus of Talos equipped, and each demon has unique abilities for different combat situations. In special designated levels, Bayonetta can even ride demons like Phantasmaraneae, which lets players control them directly as mounts. There is one limitation to this: You cannot summon demons, even as Wink Slave and Assault Slave, in cramped spaces, like tight corridors or underground tunnels.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While the game is not confirmed to be the Grand Finale, Bayonetta 3 is the darkest entry so far in the game featuring a powerful villain that terrorizes the multiverse on a sheer, unprecedented scale. [[spoiler:Also, several variants of Bayonetta as shown dying, with some of them being done in by the main Bayonetta herself. And in the end, even she's not spared as she and Luka - who chooses to accompany her out of sheer love and devotion - are pulled down into Inferno after her watch breaks, all while their daughter watches in despair and heartbreak]].

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Unlike in previous games where Torture Attacks are LimitBreak you can use anytime if you have enough magic, here you can only use Torture Attacks on enemies you successfully daze, which requires sustained assault using your demons or Masquerade Rage, thus they function more as extra firepower instead of instant-kill shortcut against harder enemies. As a trade-off, however, whereas previously Torture Attacks can only be used on human-sized enemies (meaning you can't use them on Beloved, for example), any mook here is fair game, even gigantic ones like Cumulonimbus and Virga, plus, it's now possible to execute multiple Torture Attacks in rapid successions on all dazed enemies regardless of your magic.

* DemotedToExtra: The angels of Paradiso, after being the primary enemies of the previous two games, have that role taken over by the Homunculi. Angels show up here almost exclusively as optional, hidden encounters, so rare their halos are considered a special currency used only to buy cosmetics, and not a single angel gets the honor of MookDebutCutscene. Demons fare little better; whereas demons enemies are quite common in the second game, you only fight a handful of demon bosses and barely any demon mooks, the latter of which also gets no MookDebutCutscene.

* GiantWaistRibbon: Bayonetta has a big, braided bow completing [[ElegantGothicLolita her new ensemble]].