Bayonetta is making a comeback for a third installment that’s more epic than ever. Reunite with the high-heeled witch in a new Nintendo Switch exclusive that looks like it’s got some panache.
[Mis à jour le 25 octobre 2022 à 16h56] PlatinumGames will have taken its time in developing Bayonetta 3, since fans have been waiting for the release of this third installment for nearly five years. But the wait is over, our beloved witch is making her comeback in a new adventure in a few days, a release that will also have the ability to restore the image of the Nintendo Switch, tarnished by two years without a major exclusive release. Bayonetta 3 promises to be a great vintage, a large-scale adventure on which we take stock in our article just below.
Bayonetta 3 is already available for pre-order. The game is offered in three versions, ranging from the Standard version of the game, at €59.99, to the collector’s version Trinity Masquerade at €99.99. This edition contains the base game, a 200+ page artbook, and three special cover art. If you also want to buy the Trinity Masquerade collector’s edition, you can go to the CDiscount website just here.
To make it short, Bayonetta 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch on October 28, 2022. An exclusive release on the Nintendo console, which needed a little boost in the field of its novelties in 2022. The console can therefore boast of having a very attractive title for new players. The title is already available for pre-order on the Nintendo UK official site, at the fairly substantial price of £49.99 (probably €49.99 in France). We will inform you when pre-orders are available on Nintendo’s French site.
Collector’s Editions on sale:
Bayonetta’s voice acting changes
It will no longer be the popular Hellena Taylor who will double the English version of the dark witch, but another video game regular, Jennifer Hale, who we could find in Mass Effect, Return to Monkey Island and Overwatch. A transition confirmed by an interview between PlatinumGames and Game Informer, and which may be difficult for fans of the young series. Note that the young woman revealed that she refused to resume her role because of the ridiculous fee offered to her by Nintendo ($4,000) for a full game dubbing. Information that does not embellish the image of the Japanese firm.
New skills, action more brutal and epic than ever, Bayonetta is clearly shaping up to be a Nintendo Switch blockbuster. The Nintendo and PlatinumGames game gives us a look at its plot and gameplay in this teaser that’s just over three minutes long. We can see emblematic characters of the franchise, and especially our favorite Umbra Witch. In this third installment, Bayonetta finds herself battling a mysterious enemy using her time-slowing powers and her favorite weapons. She must also repel an invasion of Homunculi, biological weapons built by Man.
If you are not familiar with the Bayonetta series, which is probably not the case if you are reading these lines, know that the game is placed in the category of action adventure games, while borrowing a lot to the beat-em-all category. In Bayonetta 3, you embody both Bayonetta, the Umbra witch with well-defined skills and weapons who does not hesitate to use her powers and take the form of demons to overcome groups of enemies by ten. But that’s not all, in this new part, you will also have the opportunity to embody Viola, a young apprentice witch accompanied by her feline demon Chouchou