I agree with this 100%. I was closer to not getting W101 after the demo than before. Luckily my curiosity still won over. Wacky and unique with a few minor minor annoyances that for me couldn't overshadow the over the top action. Not everyone's type of game but then neither is Bayonetta.

Gamepad use in W101 was very good, it definitely wins points there.

But it  just didn't feel as good as Bayonetta. When I pummeled bad guys in Bayo 2's demo, it had a sense of impact and power. In Wonderful 101 my blows against enemies felt irritatingly impotent.

Plus the crowd mechanic generated some real headaches; the big disorderly clump of characters made it hard to tell exactly what was going on when the action heated up, and made judging hitboxes annoyingly difficult. And having your gang scattered when you get hit was a real pain.

Bayonett 2 just felt so much more polished and user friendly.

I really loved W101, i would rate it 8,5/10. The only thing it got wrong, IMO, was the camera.
I do expect Bayo 2 to be just as good or better.


I became a big fan of Platinum Games too. To the point Scale bound makes me think about a X1 instead of a PS4, whener i do the jump. For now i am still going to get a PS4. Who knows, maybe scalebound goes PC.

The crowd mechanic was definitely a headache sometimes, especially on the platformer sections where I couldn't really tell where my guy was. 

As for the sense of impact, I really didn't feel there was a problem. In regular mode it did feel like you just hacked away, nothing special. But when you went into overdrive mode you could tear through WAVES of enemies. Weapons were bigger, the characters was faster, and damage and knockback decreased. 

Bayonetta does have a sense of polish that does exceed W101 though. So I do see your point.

You really need to play Okami. It's a fantastic game with a major Zelda influence and you can play it thanks to the Wii U's backwards compatibility. Shame we can't play Viewtiful Joe though as I haven't played that one myself.

I just can't get over how Platinum have managed to squeeze that Gomorrah boss fight into the Wii U. I'm still not sure whether that Gomorrah model is tessellated or just using a ridiculous amount of polys. Either way, I can't see how it's being done with a GPU only pushing 176GFlops/352GFlops and drawing 20-odd Watts of power.

Yeah, I love Platinum and completely respect them for being the very few devs in this day and age to release demos but their demos are a little less than stellar. With Bayo 2 I felt the problems were to few enemies (the entire demo has around 20 enemies), made it look like the levels will be VERY short (takes 10 minutes to complete demo, and half of that was tutorial and cutscenes), and it doesn't let the player customize their own loadout (it would have been nice if in the demo they let us play with the Fox or Link costume). 

That being said, I still love the fact that I get demos.

played the middle section at my brothers house (he loves the metal gear series). He loved the game. But played for a few hours. got decently far.

I heard a lot of great things about Okami from everyone. I'm definitely going to have to seek that out after Bayo and Bayo 2.

Hm. It's not exactly one of those games you have to play much of to get into. *shrug* guess it's just not your type.

It was definitely an impressive scene, especially with such an expansive cityscape stretching into the distance and running with such fluidity. The rain-distorted reflections in the side of the building was a nice touch also.

I don't think Gomorrah was tesselated though, he's just a high poly model.

And mark my words, this isn't the best we'll see from Wii U. ;)