haha i totally want to play this game thanks to the GB quick look.  ppl tell me i remind them of bayonetta! crazy!!  i also saw this game for sale already lol... japanese import shop.. my buddy ALMOST bought it. 
 
ps. that la roux song is remixed by skream [i guess i'm not surprised no one else mentioned that.....].  my mind is BLOWN that that song made it into a commercial O___O i've been jammin to that song in the club for over a year!! i go to dubstep shows all the time!!!  wow.... wowwwwwwwwwwwwww go dubstep, you can do it!! my bf is even making a remix of the remix lol!!!!!  again wow.... skream you little bastard! [i think he's younger than me!]     
 

gonna giv this one a miss

Its just too weird for my taste lol

No.

I fucking hate the Bayonetta ads simply because I hate the song that plays during it, with an intense passion.

I have to admit, all the outstanding praise  has given me pause about this game, but I'm really not a huge fan of this genre as a whole (I do like Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry and God of War in theory, if not in execution). Might pick it up once it drops in price, but for now all the money that I don't spend on lunch is going to the ArbitraryWater Mass Effect 2 fund for Great Justice.

I never really understood the hype for this game. I can see why it's interesting for a lot of people, but I just cannot see myself paying 60$ for a game like this. I'd rather spend it on something else, or just save it. 
 
I might consider it once it hits the bargain bin, but not before then.

It arrives tomorrow from GameFly! I got lucky.

There's a featured user review from moderator Kush on the front page.

I have no interest in this game. 

Have played the demo through a good few times, the combat system really is excellent and I've just about convinced myself that I'll be able to look past the things that really turned me off the game (practically everything but the combat system especially the fact is seems that awful music will play in every fight scene like the hideous death metal in DMC4) and just have a great time beating the shit out of things.

I played the demo and it wasn't for me, which is weird because i adore games like Ninja Gaiden and God of War (which is probably why I'm stoked for Dante's Inferno) but this one, even with the chick with a nice ass and huge ass monsters and over the top action, i didn't feel like it was for me.. i'm glad to see people are loving it, though. 

I got it today, FUCKING AWESOME!
 
Honestly anyone who doesn't find this game fun must hate life and fun itself.

I dunno, there's just something about it that repusles me, I can't put my finger on it... 
Anyway, I hope you guy's have a laugh with it either way. :-)

I rented it. It has a really novel charm in that it's both campy and cool at the same time.

@Linkyshinks said:

" @crusnchill:  
 
I do actually know what you mean, almost everything about it so garish and extravagant way beyond what seems necessary, but just that, aside from the great combat, is exactly what some of us find so appealing.  Bayonetta has a cohesive art style which aids the the gameplay really well, the game also has a good degree visual subtlety that you simply wont find on Western games of this type.  
 
The fact is I see beauty all over this game - I see beauty in the chaos.  
 
 
@septim:   The game does it really well - I've seen the odd cut scene, lol. "

I would pay money for this game to flop badly.
This is exactly what is ruining every credibility of the medium.

"I would pay money for this game to flop badly. This is exactly what is ruining every credibility of the medium. "

I'm not getting it day one (too many games from the holidays and ME2 on the 26th), but I definitely will get it.

"I would pay money for this game to flop badly. This is exactly what is ruining every credibility of the medium." 

Linky & Icemael: I am very well aware of the fact that there might be a good game behind that. That it might even be a clever game, a well written game, and a very fun game. That I could even enjoy it very much.

 
But that doesn't change the fact that this here ^ is the essence of why the medium will not progress any further than hurr hurr durr in the near future. And I will keep on hating the  wasted potential of interactive audiovisual storytelling from the bottom of my heart. :D

 
regardless of how good they may be, moves the medium one step further away from being explored in ways worthy of not being completely embarrassed about.

Ice: As I said, I can very much enjoy such games. I cannot comment on the quality and fun value of Bayonetta. I haven't played it, but judging from reviews and opinions it seems to be very enjoyable. But I still don't want it to succeed financially.
 
I also enjoy splatter movies very much. But if 90% of movies released were splatter movies, than no matter how good they were, it would make me want to stab those responsible in the face.

"But if 90% of movies released were splatter movies, than no matter how good they were, it would make me want to stab those responsible in the face."

Bayonetta and HotD: Overkill are both purposefully over the top as a design choice, so I don't see why you would find problems with this one in particular. Maybe the style of gameplay is not your thing, but it at least seems like you have double standards. Bayonetta is pretty unique stylistically though, so I don't get the Darksiders comparison.

I've been watching Ryan play Bayonetta for the past couple of days and it looks completely insane. I'm hoping I'll have time to get into it myself once i'm done reviewing Darksiders. Considering I have absolutely zero love for DMC, I'm sort of surprised that such a surface-similar game is grabbing my attention, but that demo was pretty fun. High hopes over here!

I bought it yesterday and played it for 6 hours. I think i've almost beaten it. But I fully intend to go back and play though on hard.

Steve_C: There is absolutely no difference between OVERKILL and Bayonetta in terms of what I'm saying. I will say it again: If I played Bayonetta, I would probably find it entertaining. 
 

 90% of the movies released are generic, clichéd pieces of shit that fall into a small number of genres, all of which have been beaten to death.

 
Will it progress further than hurr durr in terms of what kind of interactive experience you can deliver? Yes; in fact, they already have.  

"@crusnchill:  As far as I'm concerned, Bayonetta's a woman who's in control, and that naturally means sexually also. The use of sexuality in the game is perfectly appropriate given who she is as a character, and the theme of the game.  I find it very telling that many gamers dislike here, seemingly because she's not the typical dumb big boobed character they're well used to, but instead a strong female who's in perfect control of her sexuality, and who chooses to flaunt it.   .....   PS, I've been facing severe lag issues on site ,so I've had to post this a few times (soz) "

   @crusnchill said:

" @Linkyshinks said:

"@crusnchill:  As far as I'm concerned, Bayonetta's a woman who's in control, and that naturally means sexually also. The use of sexuality in the game is perfectly appropriate given who she is as a character, and the theme of the game.  I find it very telling that many gamers dislike here, seemingly because she's not the typical dumb big boobed character they're well used to, but instead a strong female who's in perfect control of her sexuality, and who chooses to flaunt it.   .....   PS, I've been facing severe lag issues on site ,so I've had to post this a few times (soz) "

To explain, I was joking around about the whole pervert thing earlier, so if you think I was being aggressive, then apologies for my wording it wrong. 
I did get a small response  in the groin area while watching her get naked in the quick look, but I personally just get creeped out at the idea that somebody uses their hair for clothing. It's just weird to me. 
Strong, intelligent women are the most attractive women in my eye. So I agree, the world of media uses the dumb blonde cliche character way too much. 
 
But I do think that the Bayonetta game as a whole, still follow's some of the same gaming cliches because they have a woman flaunting her sexuality in such a way that it seems pointless. She flaunts too when nobody is around except the person who's controlling her movement. So if I'm to understand that correctly, the flaunting is solely for the benefit of the adolescent playing it or just to attract guy's to it. (I hear there's even a button simply for making her do a pose, now THAT is definetely gimicky for me. And it pushes me away.) My bet, women will hate this game.
I just get the image of a 12 year old boy gettting really over excited because skin has been exposed, no matter which part of her body it was that was exposed. For me it just stink's of that whole overexagerated breast wobbling tech that fighting games have in them like street fighter IV and some other that I don't recall the names of.Don't get me wrong, I like women and I like them flaunting their sexuality whenever they please, but the way it's shown in games makes me laugh at the gimicky feel it has. Thikn about it, how many women play games compared to men. There're other reasons why women prefer doing other thing's but just like that woman on one of the recent Giantbomb E3 podcasts was saying. She sighs whenever women are portrayed in such way's because it's usually a fantastical and silly light to show the females of our species in. (not to say I don't like the odd bit of porn, but I simply prefer real life to a pixel lady, thank's.)At the end of the day though, this's something new and different. Which is alway's good in this industry. Again, I hope you enjoy playing it. :-) "

Bought it day 1 (yesterday), finished it today. Loved every minute of it and had it been released in 09, it would have been my GotY. 
 
It's has a great sense of humor, is so insanely over-the-top, and is fun as hell. 
 
Though OMG is Hard mode ever hard. Normal did not prepare me for this!! x_X

" Bought it day 1 (yesterday), finished it today. Loved every minute of it and had it been released in 09, it would have been my GotY.   It's has a great sense of humor, is so insanely over-the-top, and is fun as hell.   Though OMG is Hard mode ever hard. Normal did not prepare me for this!! x_X "

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I think I'll buy it eventually. I just don't want to buy a lot of games recklessly right now, since I just started school again and should manage my cash.

Just bought it on my lunchbreak thought about skipping the rest of work but decided against it, sucks having to work for money in order to exchange it for goods and services. I really liked DMC3 & 4 once I gave them a proper chance and really got into them, can't say i liked them right away but once i got into them they stuck with me. I'm super excited for an intense over the top deep action game.

  So, I would pay money for Bayonetta to flop. Because Bayonetta being successful would send - or reinforce - a message about the nature of the medium that I find utterly despicable. :D "

The gametrailers.com videoreview finally sold me on Bayonetta. They do a great job a showing me why Bayonetta is more than just another samey samey Hack 'n Slash game.
 
 

" The gametrailers.com videoreview finally sold me on Bayonetta. They do a great job a showing me why Bayonetta is more than just another samey samey Hack 'n Slash game.
 
 

"

" I think I'll buy it eventually. I just don't want to buy a lot of games recklessly right now, since I just started school again and should manage my cash. "

" Just bought it on my lunchbreak thought about skipping the rest of work but decided against it, sucks having to work for money in order to exchange it for goods and services. I really liked DMC3 & 4 once I gave them a proper chance and really got into them, can't say i liked them right away but once i got into them they stuck with me. I'm super excited for an intense over the top deep action game.

Picked this up day one (had it preordered after I saw the QL) and it's really a fantastic game. As for the sexual nature of the game...to be honest everything (including said sexual content) is so off-the-wall absurd that it almost doesn't register.

The Guardian, one of our most respected broadsheet papers here in the UK, gave Bayonetta - 10/10  
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/dec/31/bayonetta-game-review-xbox-ps3