Bayonetta has been receiving lots of news coverage over the past few months, and every bit of information and media that was released helped build some solid hype for the game. Does it live up to it all? Surprisingly, it lives to to most of the hype, but more importantly, it’s just a fun game to be playing.

It’s very difficult to explain Bayonetta, you’d rather wanna see it for yourself, kinda like the good ‘ol Tim Burton movies. In essence, in Bayonetta, you play as a witch who can, among other things, summon demons and creatures from her spiraling black hair, which serves as a portal to hell. Think that’s over the top? We barely just got started on how weird, surreal and flat out over the top Bayonetta is. The story, what of it we could understand is as follows: between two clans of witches which stand for the opposite powers, and, as one might expect, they’re in an all out war against each other. The story isn’t clear and most of it doesn’t make sense, but luckily, the gameplay and the sheer weirdness of the world of Bayonetta makes up for it. Read the rest of the Bayonetta review