Bayonetta 3 age rating3/29/2023 Get ready for the latest and long-awaited third installment of the non-stop climactic action experience. My hot take is I don’t get the bluster here.Eight years have passed since Bayonetta graced us with her presence. ![]() People are mad she kissed a boy and not a girl, even though they always thought she liked to kiss boys and girls. ![]() Essentially, dying was her ‘getting married to Liam Hemsworth’ moment and, given the outcome of that marriage, maybe seems fitting. I think there are better ways to give Bayonetta a canon romance than ‘this guy who’s nearby’, but also, if they confirmed she was gay and then killed her you’d get a lot of other complaints. Likewise, though Bayonetta has always felt, in a way few video games have, as being ‘for the gays’, I don’t think that is burned down when she and Lukas are painted as tragic lovers here. She didn’t stop being queer during the time she was married to Liam Hemsworth. ![]() Cyrus has publicly dated several women but, also, has married a man. Cyrus, like Bayonetta has often been interpreted as, is pansexual. Bayonetta has always felt like ‘what if Miley Cyrus was a video game’ for that reason. However, it has also been highly sexualised in every which way you can. Bayonetta, as both a game and a character, has always been queer-coded. I’m going to address them in order of ‘most outrage’ to ‘least outrage’, which means starting with Lukas. This has been controversial for a number of reasons, and number one on my list has barely registered. She adopts the title of ‘Bayonetta’ - Bayo’s real name is Cereza - and that’s where the game ends. In fact they do very little and the ‘main’ Bayonetta (protag of Bayo 3) is killed and sent to Hell, along with Lukas. Lukas and Viola are trapped out of this battle but, just when it seems like all hope is lost, two other Bayonettas (from the first two games, complete with iconic designs) show up and… look, if you haven’t played the game and just want the plot summary, you’re probably expecting me to say ‘save the day!’, right? Well, no. Bayonetta then fights the Singularity, a cosmic force that has been sweeping across the multiverse, generally wreaking havoc and, most importantly, killing the other Bayonettas of other universes. Lukas and Viola are also there - that’s important for later. We succeed in this, but when Bayonetta and Jeanne are reunited, Sigurd kills Jeanne. We play as Jeanne in an array of strange side scrolling missions throughout the game, all aimed at rescuing Dr. Let’s cover the basics, then explore what they mean. ![]() The first thing to get into is that the Bayonetta 3 ending is extremely hectic. Related: Bayonetta 3 Reinvents What 'Cinematic' Means In Video Games So here, properly, let’s discuss the Bayonetta 3 ending. A few reviews implied thoughts about the ending (in my view, within acceptable limits that critiqued without spoilers), and some fans seemed to jump on this with their own interpretations. Even stranger, a lot of people were just wrong about what happens. I’m skeptical of spoiler culture in general, where anything that wasn’t specifically marketed to you in an advert is off limits to critics, but it does seem odd that even as the Bayonetta 3 reviews dropped, all of the chatter was about the ending. I don’t believe reviews exist entirely as buyer’s guides, but I think it’s poor form to spoil what happens at a story’s culmination when someone just wants to know if it’s going to be worth their time.
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