Bayonetta 3: Why Stylish Action Games Are Amazing

[@cessarmtc]

The amount of details, references and most fashionable character! She’s a bad ass ❤

[@SwiftD]

She really does it all!

[@IvanVZA]

DUDE the editing was amazing! Great analysis and honestly watching this video I would love to try out Bayonetta 3 (and 1 and 2). Got me hella interested in it. Great work!

[@SwiftD]

Thank you so much! I really put in the time to make this one a spectacle haha, had give the series the edit it deserves! Really glad my video could get you interested in the games, definitely give them a try sometime!

[@ryuuzaakii1656]

Dude your editing and production value are through the roof 🔥

[@SwiftD]

Thanks man, I really appreciate that!

[@queerythingsart1455]

It's really nice to see a review that doesn't get perturbed by the story being so so. It's a fashionable action game! It's campy fun with stupid drama! I love how you captured that in this video.

[@SwiftD]

Exactly, that's the whole point! My goal really was to showcase that in this video, and I'm glad it come off well

[@Chamomile369]

Completely agree!!

[@shamar9818]

This is such a well-made video and in depth-analysis. Great job!

[@SwiftD]

Thank you! I really appreciate that, a lot of work went into this one! More to come!

[@HDGamerofficial]

Absolutely incredible video!!! I love the Bayo games and it’s always awesome to see others appreciate and talk about them with praise like me 😁

[@SwiftD]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@macrouki5402]

This action game as so much creativity, and gameplay mechanic, every time I load the game I find something different

[@SwiftD]

Exactly, you can get so creative with all the different weapons and mechanics, it never gets old. Especially when playing at higher difficulties that force you to use everything

[@krkr120]

This game has more depth to the gameplay than I thought. The interaction between demons and demon slave offsets. This game is crazy. Personally, it has more depth to the gameplay than dmc5.

[@SwiftD]

@@krkr120 I agree with the level of depth but when it comes to DMC5 I have a lot more to say there, which I may or may not be talking about sometime soon

[@nesida808]

I don't know why I am JUST stumbling on your channel, however I LOVE IT!!! Your analysis is just superb. Can't wait for your Devil May Cry video. Keep up the great work.

[@XantaurSino]

Well said man, definitely think most feel the same way you do.

[@SwiftD]

I appreciate that man, glad to see many others agree

[@shardinhand1243]

i do still miss the og voice actress, i trusted her side of it but turns out she was just stupid and greedy, and she lost a huge claim to fame for it.

[@jaguar4120]

Sadly she will never voice Bayonetta again. But she lied and tried to burn down Bayonetta as a whole. I will never respect that.

[@shardinhand1243]

yeah.@@jaguar4120

[@StatikSocks]

Found you from honeebell's community and wanted to say your thumbnails and editing and such is clean! Definitely inspiring.

[@SwiftD]

Ayy always nice to see someone from Nicole's community here, I'm glad you decided to check me out. Thanks a lot, I really appreciate that!

[@Creelien]

This was a video I needed to see! Thank you!♥

[@SwiftD]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching! ❤️

[@MikeMohamed]

Bayo 3 is so goddamn underrated. Tied as best character action game for me with DMC5.

[@krkr120]

It was a video with high insight into the stylish action genre. This game clearly has its drawbacks, but it has great advantages. Great video

[@SwiftD]

Thank you!

[@rockhyde7775]

I love this game as well. I love these kinds of games, especially action RPGs and fighting games because combo potential. Combos are so goddamn satisfying to pull off.

[@SwiftD]

Some of the reasons I love these games too, I'm big into fighting games so having all those different strings and combos to play around with make the games so fun to me.

[@EmeraldKing6987]

The only thing I don’t like about bayo 3 is how it looks (because two looked amazing in comparison to this, bayo one very rarely looks better and the story, I wish they didn’t just kill everyone, and they all worked together or something, although I know the reason these things are the way they are and Nintendo couldn’t do much about it

[@FlutterSwag]

The enemy design kinda sucks in 3

[@EmeraldKing6987]

@@FlutterSwagI like that’s they are semi simpler than the others

[@plainsalt]

@@EmeraldKing6987 They aren't just simpler, they're forgettable and look too similar to each other.

[@EmeraldKing6987]

@@plainsaltthat’s your opinion, however that doesn’t mean that our wrong

[@William-Sunderland]

What a game Bayonetta 3, one of the few I really want to play from Nintendo, maybe my most wanted.

[@Clout_Strife]

This channel is quality as hell

[@SwiftD]

Thank you, I really appreciate that! Trying my best to made some quality entertainment for you all. They take some time but I'm working on new vids as we speak

[@delta9011]

Thx for this video. I love bayonetta 3 and for me it's the best in trilogy. Sure it have some flaws, story feels a little rushed and we definitely missing 2 or 3 chapters, also players need some time to get used to game camera and combat system, but overall, it's a great game. And hey, ending was strong, can't wait for Violetta 4😅.

[@SwiftD]

Haha Violetta 4 would be something

[@weirdjimothy]

I love you editing style, you should give me some teaching sessions sometime

[@SwiftD]

Thanks! I feel like I've been bouncing between so many styles but I've finally found my thing with the last two videos. I'm happy to answer any questions you got! I'm pretty much self taught, and get all my inspiration mainly from movies I love and railers honestly, and just weaved it all together with my spin on it all

[@SetnaroX]

Extremely well made video. My feelings with this game very much matches with yours. I initially disliked Bayonetta 3 during its original release, but after spending some additional time really understanding the score system, the combat, accepting the many changes the game made from previous entries, I ended up embracing the game and its faults the same way I did with The Wonderful 101, because the combat, arguably its best core aspect, is top notch. I do hope that some day this game can get a multi-platform release, if only because the Switch is the single thing holding the game back from being a truly excellent 60fps experience.

[@jurtheorc8117]

I believe i've seen your comments before on the videos of ChaserTech.

[@SwiftD]

My thoughts exactly on the multi-platform release point, if only. Hopefully one day we get a remastered version

[@MrTsukihami]

​@@SwiftDwe had our chance back with Bayo. Nintendo is the only thing why we actually have second and third game. Family... Friendly... Nintendo...

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

While limiting games to few consoles is never good, it's sadly what saved Bayonetta. The second game was basicaly saved by Nintendo under the condition it would come only for the Wii U, but at least the game not only came out at last, but did so splendidly, and it continued the franchise so we could get the third and origins and perhaps more!

[@hoovyaj]

Finally a Bayonetta 3 video that doesn't dogpile on the game so much, i understand the game is the weakest and strongest entry of the entire Bayonetta franchise but people focus on the negative aspects on it too much. As much as i agree with the majority, i still love the game and this video was awesome and puts a shine on Bayonetta 3 and im glad it does!

[@SwiftD]

Glad you enjoyed it! My goal exactly was to highlight some of this games great points

[@generaldiego]

dope

[@SwiftD]

Thanks 🙏🏿

[@christiantaylor1495]

There's just something about Bayonetta.

[@unicron8soundwave724]

A whole lot to have a funtaztic time to. 🎵🎃 Could you shine somemore light on Alice: Madness Returns

[@SwiftD]

I've never played that game before, but I'll give it a look sometime

[@SweatpantsAndSakura]

I also started my KZbin channel very recently and I chose Bayonetta as my first playthrough, I know it's an old game but when I was choosing what to play videos like yours helped me to decide to choose Bayonetta, a great video to show how amazing, addictive and full of surprises this game is. Thank you. 🤩

[@cokdstroyr]

too bad its hideous and mercilessly murdered bayonetta the character and im not talking about the story.

[@jaguar4120]

The story was hot garbage from the beginning to end. PG ruined Bayonetta personality. She changed way too much. Plus she was silent throughout the game which is weird for Bayonetta.

[@softwaremediaguru]

devil may cry is the most stylish action I ever seen

[@SwiftD]

I have a lot to say about that franchise, a big video on that is in the works 🙏🏿

[@carltasticdrew9633]

Campy cutscenes, cheesy but great dialogues, good story, over-the-top action, adrenaline pumping, stylish combo meter, stylish but arrogant mc. These are the ingredients on how to make a stylish action game.

[@Lexicon865]

As much as I really do not like this game (to the point that I've genuinely dropped the franchise after this), I will say though actually playing as Bayonetta is the most fun in this game, or at least has the potential to be. Unfortunately, enemy design is somewhat underwhelming in terms of gameplay and actual characrer design

[@TokenCast]

Was he paid to ignore every problem with this game in a video?? Jeanne aint playable like Bayo and Viola...she's LITERALLY only useable in predetermined segments nothing like she was in 1/2 wtf.....

[@SwiftD]

No, I wasn't paid to ignore anything, I mentioned the personal issues I had with this game in the "drawbacks" section of the video. I didn't have an issue with Jeanne not being playable in the main story missions after beating the game. She's more or less a clone of Bayonetta who already has so many alternate costumes now, as well as having now Viola who has a completely different playstyle. Jeanne is still available to play as in pretty much any other mode in the game too. I can how it's a shame she's not available to replay every story chapter like before but it's not a big enough deal for me to complain about. Reviews are subjective, I may have an issue you don't and vise versa.

[@TokenCast]

@SwiftD I'm glad you understood that that wasn't a rhetorical question. I'll give you that reviews are subjective. They're also supposed to be unbiased as in objective. Like a judge in court, however a judge actually being objective is not a garantee. This review came off mentioning more personal likes, then actual amalgamation of pros and cons or should I say perceived pros and cons (not sure on the wording) for the entirety of the finished product, independent of an individuals "feelings". To avoid this being perceived as or turning into some form of hanous back-and-forth, I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree, when I watch a review I should not have a bias otherwise it can easily be perceived as problematic, or viewed as deliberately hiding/disregarding issues. That's the best way. I can sum up my issues with the video.

[@SwiftD]

​@@TokenCast I respect your opinion, and yeah we'll have to agree to disagree here.

[@zeroderorero3948]

Viola not being as cool as Bayonetta is kida the point She isn't a full fledged umbra witch (yet) and her father's genes and propensity of getting in trouble don't help much

[@D_YellowMadness]

Knowing why it's the case doesn't make the story good.

[@jaguar4120]

@@D_YellowMadnessExactly the story was hot garbage from the start. 😮

[@martinez1129]

Everyone who hated this game just because of the story MUST watch this video. It is the worst of the franchise according to "fans". Can't say anything about bayo 2 because I haven't played it but Bayo 1 had huge problems that bayonetta 3 did better other than something so meaningless like the story in these type of games.

[@brucewayne4864]

There's nothing that this game does better than Bayo 1, except for the areas where it possibly couldn't do worse due to having a luxury of being a third game in the series. Yet still achieved, for some reason.

[@martinez1129]

@@brucewayne4864 can you mention one at least? Difficulty: In Bayonetta 1 every single player, in their first playthrough, gets like only one or two trophies that are not stone and that is in normal mode. But what happens for those who want something more relaxed- easy? If you choose easy or very easy then the game plays for you because it dodges and do combos by itself. So basically the game has one finger mode (easy and very easy), hard mode (normal and hard) and impossible (non stop climax). It's just wrong. At least to me it was not problem but I think for casuals was just terrible. Bayonetta 3 has an earring that fixes that problem. -to get platinum or pure platinum (normal mode) requieres a lot but lot of time and attempts more than it should. In bayonetta 3 feels balanced, some of them take time, some others don't. -The levels: Literally, the player only has to move forward to complete it, there is no exploration and there is no reward for exploring (at least not enough). I'm not gonna say bayonetta 3's level design is perfect but it does a far better job than the first one. Atmosphere is better in bayonetta 1 though. -The alphyens: I explore a lot in games and I found like 4 portals in my first playthrough, however there are like almost 20 and you WON'T find them unless you look up for a guide on KZbin (hit a trash can to unlock a portal? Come on...). And they are really important for these games, why hide them this much? What's the reason? -Combat: opinions are going to vary whether you prefer one over it, but Bayonetta 3 has a deeper combat because of demon slave and just because of that is objectively better. The only let down, probably, are the torture attacks. In bayonetta 1 they are mostly great but there are a couple of them that take too much time to do and in games this fast it stops the fast pacing of combats. -Bayoneta 3 has more unique bosses, Bayonetta on the other hand has more action-packed bosses. I think both are great, it just a matter of taste if you like one. -And lastly, the extra content: And AGAIN, you WON'T figure it out how to unlock most of the extra content because they are just extremely hidden and I don't know why.

[@brucewayne4864]

​@@martinez1129 Bayo 1 is of the acessible stylish-action games, because you have a incredibly agile charater that can dodge 5 times in a row without any upgrades, cancel almost out of any attack and destroy enemies in seconds. Difficulty was never a problem, this is the part of the learning curve, you'll eat the dirt the same in DMC 1-3,4, the only difference is because of the medal system you are punished for dying which makes sense. Normal shouldn't be relaxing, it supposed to be moderately challenging, any player will stomp this mode after having collected health and magic upgrades. The game checkpointed very well almost after every verse and doesn't want you to start from the beggining like first version of DMC 3 for example. Bayo 3 on the other hand can leave you 2-3 verses behind for no reason, if you turn off console. It's too easy on normal and ever hard, besides Viola sections and for all the wrong reasons. Both B2 and B3 "fixing" what doesn't need to be fixed, they just think that compromising challenge brings more sales automatically and that's not how it works. It's actually insulting to even imply that as if Capcom veterans were cavemans banging on the sticks and rocks that don't know any better, difficulty is not something that need to be "cured". It keeps action fast and challenging, and replayable because it isn't easy on higher difficulties and it shouldn't be. Just try to play Ninja Gaiden 1 to see a difference between moderately challenging difficulty and the brutal one. The only thing i agree that Easy shouldn't be automatic but still you can unequip marionet artifact in all games. Also NSIC is not impossible, the game leads you the fact that Witch Time is not a crutch but a training wheel and in this mode you need to think fast, position youself better, know enemies moveset well and create space to have make a combos. You still can have a witch time though the use of the Bracelet of time which uses magic.Damage values are very fair, you can be hit like 8-10 times with upgraded health, unlike in Bayo 3 where damage makes no sense where you can be hit like 2-3 hits of your health bar, is that fair? The "imbossible" NSIC in Bayo 1 actually is way more fairer. And in the end whats the point if you allowed to cheat via spamming items and dying constantly and still getting a good rank, that makes no sense, but this is what game design become when you desperately want to appeal to people that don't want to learn combat but have a participation trophy. Both Bayo 2 and Bayo 3 based purely around damage and nothing else, they are not about styling, scores are directly tied to damage. No punishing for spam like in Bayo 1. Making damage is easy, especially which lame buff artifacts. Get a witch time 1-2 times, hit everything with demons, heres your medal, have a cookie. Bayo 1 rewards players heavily with well hidden magic/health items and weapons. It's not worse in any regard. Also finding and buying weapons is better then Bayo 3 approach of just giving most of them by the plot for the player that didn't even accustomed to the old ones, it also stiffles replayability because there's not a lot of unlockables and some of them are very dissapointing. The game is also bloated with useless collectibles, a lot of them are concept arts music and other filler that previous games already give you upon finishing. I never like hidden verse system and they didn't fix it either in Bayo 3. Challenges are most annoying and most restrictive out of the all games. Bayo 3 level design is a leftovers from open-world concept, a lot of empty spaces with not a lot of details, looses heavily to B1 and especially to B2. Virid and Noatun is gorgeous cities, while drab Tokyo and New-York looks like grey mash from the 2000- era shooters. Levels also thematically feel like tokens - here token sand location, here's token lava section, here's rocky section, forgot the jungle one. Caverns with corrals look like they've been procedurally generated, because i don't know how you distinct one part from another besides colour usage. Transformation of reality is used like twice in the game and don't used interesting ways to alter locations. Enemy design is also very simplistic and for the most part boring with few moves, no match for both angels/demons, their theme connection with clouds is incredibly thin and they are basically collection of random things (turret, boring power ranger, medusa, hog) with teal nody and white ornaments. They also don't have unique damage models and death animations. Bosses are never been series strong point. The big ones are very heavily scripted, relying on cinematic fleur and finishers to shine. Bayo 1 has the best big ones because of the best cinemathography, synergy, build up and variety of Bayo approaches to disbatch them. But they offer very little in terms of replayability, they all on a tight scripted leash. Human bosses are the best ones, like Jeanne, Balder and Rodin. In Bayo 2 - Alaurne, Lumen Sage. Bayo 3 big bosses are both easy and gimmicky, kraken is a pushover, thing with dreads is 2/3 is a mini-games antics, the thing that i can't desribe is something out of the Sonic Unleashed and not an action game. Bat thing is okay, Luka is good in the third form, in other he's too easy, i actually get PP on him on the first time on NSIC. I don't even remember Jeanne moveset, besides her frog fast attack with no wind up. Singularity is just a Aesir copy with lame punches and kicks and shield/fog ability from lesser enemies. Rodin is mostly copy-pasted from Bayo 2. Don't know what to make out of shadow Bayo. That's it. The game has worst camera of all 3 games, mostly due do big demons and enemies. The game don't have proper transparency and instead using ugly pixelated effect which also obscures vision. There's also too much VFX which shows that devs prioritize spectacle more than giving player ability to see and read what's happening on the battlefield. Add to that enemies now can attack off-screen, mixed with bad or barely audible audio cues that are buried in the mix and drown out by the music creates a new layer of bs that never existed in previous games. Being hit by the enemies with almost silent attack that you don't see and loose 1/3 of your health on NSIC is a definition of bs. I could go on and on...

[@brucewayne4864]

@@martinez1129 To keep it short about combat: Summons do have different functionalities, but they themselves have a basic moveset of a smash character, which is not a lot for an stylish-action game. No dodges, no parries, no pause combos and moves that are difficult to pull off. They all have big damage, range and stagger. Add to that genious things like tower that generates free witch time and train, which literally stop the time and the enemies so you can sip a coffee and plan your route, i thought this is an action game and not a railroad tycoon. Wonder why no one mentions the "flow" when things like that are programmed into the game. The combat is also slower because of them, that's just a fact. Talking about being objectively better is silly, since it looks like your definition of better is just more stuff, regardless of how it's implemented. More things doesn't automatically equals better, the series still continue to loose details and nuance of said combat, in attempt to top themselves in spectacle which is a one-trick pony. Magic system is dumbed-down even further, it's just a demons gauge, no demons are actually using it for the moves and you have it every fight because or regeneration, there's no even basic concept of saving resourses for a difficult fight from the old games like Castlevania, in this case magic or a enemy weapons which now don't exist. There's also a free TA's and rage mode, which is basically a freeze-time free damage, which sucks all the tactics that it could have since you not making real-time decinions, and they only way to get it faster is... getting hit. Im not joking. Assault slave is a lazy skill-wise concept, no skill to pull off, another free damage and i-frames, though it's the only part of summond that you can ignore if you don't like it.

[@martinez1129]

@@brucewayne4864 if feels like you ignored my comment. Trying to defend nonsense like all the extra content that is impossible to unlock if you don't use a guide (complete the games in less than 3hrs, collect 10millions halos even though an average player collects less than half of that in a first and second playthrough combined, complete normal mode full platinum and others that I don't remember). The only one that is obvious is finishing the game on hard difficulty, that's it. And then the portals: you are telling me that the challenges in bayo 3 are boring and bad designed, however in bayo 1 you are only able to enter 4-6 portals without a guide to find them. So basically, you are saying that unlocking extra content in bayo 3 is worse but then in bayo 1 the player is not capable of unlocking them because it is impossible to guess that there is extra content because how they are hidden. Makes no sense. I'm not going to talk about combat because it seems you hate it just because you want to. Difficulty cannot even be argued, bayo 1 has imposible quick time events to even begin to react, a normal mode that even after playing in hard mode is difficult to get a platinum verse in any chapter, Non stop climax mode that disables the core of any bayonetta game; the witch time. Bayonetta without witch time is just boring. Level design: bayonetta 1: move forward and that's it. Bayonetta 3: only move forward and you won't unlock weapons, challenges, extra verses to fight angels, moon pearls, witch hearts, the extra level for each chapter, etc. You can't deny that exploration in bayonetta 1 is just not exploring. And the thing that I hated the most: buying and whatching the same cinematic and ticket over and over again ust to fight Rodin. And don't get me wrong, Bayonetta 1 is a really good game. I just hate to see bayonetta 3 been this good and notice how players hate some Bayonetta 3's aspects that Bayonetta 1 do even worse. So contradictory.

[@bakad5458]

Bayonetta 3? More like Floponetta 3 💋