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CaptainExplosion said:

TheRealSamusAran said:

To be fair, no one will look Bayonetta and say "ah yes, that's what a real witch is like", that'd be like watching Thor and saying "ah yes, just like in the old Norse scriptures". Plus, the "witches" from the witch hunt centuries weren't even witches in the modern sense, they were just regular women who were persecuted by the church so the peasants could think they were being saved from something.

As for the question, Fatal Frame V is pretty graphic.

But the wicked witch image was also made to demonize female practitioners of pre-Christian European folk magic and midwifery, from faiths that actually treated men and women as equals.

Modern witches use the term witch to honor those women and to stand against the Puritans and other witch hunting psychos.

Don't believe me? Look at history.

But enough of that, GoldenEye, despite the lack of major bloodshed, was very violent for a Nintendo published game.

Technically a female practicioner of pagan religion in Europe could be considered as a witch. The European pre-christian religions weren't dogmatic, and everyone could practise them to their liking. And as always, every religion that is "not your own" comes from the devil, so technically these witches worshipped the devil from christian viewpoint. Bayonetta is a Japanese game, so it views witches how the Japanese intreprets the Euro-christian witch. Japanese have a tendency to take something from western culture and sell it back re-packaged.