Game of the Year Awards 2010 Day 4

2010 heralded Platinum Games into the limelight with some awesome games and that is why Bayonetta is at number 7 of my Game of the Year Award 2010.

7:

Bayonetta (360, PS3):

Bayonetta was the guiltiest pleasure of 2010 with its WAY over the top action, a stunning new female lead and some jaw dropping visuals. The plot was pretty much rudimentary with something about good witches and bad witches, a nasty rendition of Angels and some quack wanting the ultimate power but Bayonetta is SO not about the plot and makes no effort in correcting that. Rather the kinetic yet smooth and silky game play and quite possibly one of the greatest main character ever conceived makes Bayonetta linger in the mind even after finishing the game.

Bayonetta game play borrow very heavily from the Devil May Cry series (its pretty obvious as the director is the same guy, Hideki Kamiya), but just..I dunno...multiplied by a zillion!!!. I mean the game play takes the phrase 'over the top' to another level, nay another world, no...another dimension!!. The titular heroine can be made to dish out massive combos, perform outrageous moves, using an assortment of swords, shoot with handguns and heel guns (guns mount of heels!!!), torturing enemies with the use of torture machines! ...and if those antics fail then Bayonetta could summon these huge grotesque beasts from the netherworld to devour anything in her path!!..Yes Bayonetta is that insane. And oh yeah as embarrassed as I am to admit this but I thought the sound track was really catchy, hell I even loved the the rabidly hated battle theme!!

And although I did play the game on easy mode but that did not take away the fun, it actually made me like that game a bit more (after getting my back handed to me by one of the earlier bosses. Mentioning the character Bayonetta is quite important as she is really awesome. For starters her clothes are made from her hair (no funny ideas please), she has a whole librarian/school teacher/military instructor thing going, but with copious amounts of wanton sexuality and who loves to 'spank' naughty demons and all done with a charming British accent. Quite awesome if you ask me.

Platinum Games look set to become the toast of the gaming industry as the developers are not afraid in taking chances. And if you have legendary developers such as Hideki Kamiya and Shinji Mikami taking the reins on the games then you bet your bottom dollar that games are going to be amazing. Bayonetta is a testament of that.