Bayonetta 3 finally has a release date! PlatinumGames’ long awaited sequel is coming this October, with the latest trailer bringing with it plenty of new questions in desperate need of answers. There are new faces, old faces, and even faces being torn to pieces by giant angelic demons bursting forth from the netherworld. It’s pretty sick, with the series losing none of its stylistic lustre in the years since its last instalment.
Our titular character is ‘back and sexier than ever’ according to Platinum, although a new feature has been implemented to accommodate the more prudish among us. Cutscenes and gameplay sequences that have our heroine removing her clothes to summon demons or turn her hair into all manner of deadly weapons can now be covered up with the Naive Angel Mode.
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This means you don’t need to feel embarrassed playing the action game featuring a sexy lady saying sexy things to sexy enemies in front of your hopefully not sexy relatives. Given how much of a mommy Bayonetta is to so many people, why’d you want to play it in front of your actual mum? No amount of nude filters are going to change how awkward that would be. God I can imagine the questions now, although my mum already knows I like anime so maybe this will just lower her opinion of me even further. I’ll find out come October.
If you’ve glanced at Bayonetta for even a second in the past decade, you’ll know that she radiates supreme mommy energy. We want her to step on us and she has the capacity to do so - I mean just look at those heels - meaning she has long become a figure of sexual empowerment that goes far beyond the dated sexualisation we’ve grown to used to in this
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