Bayonetta 2 has hit 1 million sales

[DivinePaladin]

Ballas said:

DivinePaladin said:

Since when was Bayonetta's best-in-the-genre gameplay shallow?

Best in genre is VERY subjective, don't state it as if its an undeniable truth, its not.

I played Bayonetta, the first one, and I would put DMC, GOW and MGR as having better gameplay and some of them having better level design and pacing as well. All of them have a much better story.

MGR and DMC have just as nonsensical stories; the difference is that Bayonetta and MGR don't take themselves seriously in doing so, compared to later DMC games. To say the pacing or  story in a DMC game is good is laughable, considering it's just about as self-indulgent!

 

As for gameplay, there's no argument to be had here. Bayonetta 1 came out of nowhere and perfected a genre that at that point was growing stagnant. GoW, by comparison, is one of the simpler hack and slash games, and Bayonetta absolutely trounces MGR and DMC in nuance. If you haven't gotten that you simply haven't played the game enough. You can prefer one series to another. THAT is subjective. When I say "best in the genre," I'm referring to the insane variety in the mechanics, weapons, dodges, cancels, enemy design, and so on. There's so much depth that  it's absolutely nuts, even compared to other games in the genre. Nothing comes close to Bayonetta in that regard; the closest is a distant DMC, which makes sense since it was designed by mostly the same team.