Riachu on 14 January 2010
I think Bayonetta's appeal is limited due to the main character. The game also shows that its very Japanese with its campy voice acting, incoherent story, bishonen love interest. Gamers have pretty much moved passed this time. Bayonetta is a great action game that suffers from how Japanese it is. Final Fantasy actually does a much much better job of appealing to Western gamers despite its bishonen characters and melodrama.
I think Darksiders's sales can be attributed to the low expectations of skepical gamers. It really suprised them with the positive reviews it got.
