In all honesty Bayonetta 3 is too ambitious for the Switch's hardware. Platinum did good with what they had to work with. But I kind of wish Nintendo would have saved Bayo 3 for whatever the Switch successor will be.
The environments suffer visually, because there's so much more going on screen than previous entries. Much larger open areas, demon slave mechanic that you can switch between 3 demons on the fly, destructible environments, huge enemies on screen, some of the environments instantly change, all these things going on while trying to target 60fps.
The gameplay is phenomenal though. There's so much depth to the combat with all the different weapons, demons, etc. The combat also feels fast and fluid, despite some performance issues.
It's definitely was one of the better releases this year and a top tier character action game. The whole Hellena Taylor situation painted the game in a bad light, even after more info came out, proving otherwise. The damage was already done.
It is still on my to play list, but it came out in the same time frame as Nier, and that one was on my wishlist for...since the game release and was the switch was only announced. (and it was 40$...)
I did not like the framing/setting of Bayonetta 3 (im not a "multiverse" fan, in any way, it always to me seems like a cheap way to try out all stuff without comiting to it...in this case different bayonetta designes)
The inspiration obviously came from kamijas inspiration of Superhero comics and sentai. (i dont imply it copied the MCU, for that it was to far into development already when this phase started, but comics had the concept since...forever)
is the combat probably fun? sure. I really don't care for the kaiju battles, but it seems that kamija is fascinated of this concept (from smal elements in bayo and W101, to the one bossfight in Nier, to Scalebound to Project G.G. and Bayonetta 3).
Bayonetta has had one problem that held it back big time: It started out on XBox360/PS3.
Yeah, Wii U and Switch are Stronger, but its not a generational jump. So the ambitions grew on the side of the developer while still kinda being on a comparable level to the first one for a decade.
Enviromental instant changes: DmC had that, but they had the hardware in mind while designing it.
Platinum obviously pushed to far.
I will play it next year and probably will have fun with it.
But for a game of the year it has to also meet the zeitgeist.
Technically it missed because of ambition,
story wise its kinda played out (i assume from what i gathered), but that's just bad lick with other releases. The drama did not help.
