BAYONETTA 3. One of the wildest series of video games returns for a critically acclaimed adventure. If you too want to be part of it, we find the game for you at the best price.
[Mis à jour le 27 octobre 2022 à 14h44] PlatinumGames brings us a new adventure of our beloved witch after more than five years of development. Bayonetta 3 will be available on October 28, a release as eagerly awaited by fans as it has been hailed by the specialized press. The latter was indeed full of praise for this third episode, which reached peaks in its overall ratings. If you too want to join the adventures of the high-heeled sorcerer, full of action, drama, and wacky, we find you the best offers on the game before dissecting all the essential information about it.
Bayonetta 3 is still available for pre-order! Before its release on Friday August 28, the game is available for pre-purchase in its two versions. You will find the standard version of the game at €59.99, but also its collector’s edition Masquerade Edition which includes the game, a 200-page artbook and other accessories for €99.99. For the moment, the game is not yet on promotion, but we will keep you informed of the evolution of its price in the coming weeks.
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 want to take the temperature of a game, or rather its quality, you generally go to Metacritic. The site lists the opinions of the various international critics and brings them together to form an average rating indicating fairly well the quality of a title. After its 70 critics, Bayonetta 3 reaches the note of 89/100, a score close to excellence which places him slightly below the acclaimed Bayonetta with his 90/100. Bayonetta 3 convinces everywhere, especially in France, with editors like JVC who attributes to him without flinching 19/20 : “With this new adventure, Bayonetta proves once again that she is the queen of beat’em up by offering battles that are still as exhilarating and spectacular as ever, which are sublimated here thanks to many new weapons and the mechanics of summoning demons. which changes the way of fighting.“
Same on the side of gameblog who is full of praise for this third part of the adventures of the famous witch and attributes to her 9/10which is close to perfection and barely lacks it due to technical and aesthetic weaknesses largely due to the power of the Nintendo Switch: “IIt’s impossible not to fall under the daunting charm of Bayonetta 3. PlatinumGames has again given birth to a creation that borders on perfection, relying on an impeccable game system and undeniable achievement. Always more disproportionate, frenetic, rich, varied and with even more monstrous and epic bosses, the game is not in the lace. The developers have a great time without almost ever being caught out. A production as pleasant to handle as phenomenal with which his queen stings us in the heart.“
On the international side too, the charms of the witch have had their effect. Destructoidthe famous reference newspaper in video games, offers us as usual an original review, which undoubtedly justifies the note of 10/10 attributed to the game: “As an introduction to the Bayonetta 3 universe, you’ll start out water-skiing as a giant demon-dragon, and it gets crazier and crazier from there. When I played Bayonetta 3, I had no idea what was going to happen at any time, much to my delight.“The newspaper insists on the unpredictability of the title which does not hesitate to shoot in the frankly wacky for the greatest pleasure of the fans.
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.
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 tens. 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.