Bayonetta has made a bit of a splash amongst the gaming blogerati. Like it or love it, a game that centres around a woman whose clothes are made out of her living hair, which is also used in her weaponry is going to get some people up in arms.
Whatever your take on the gender politics, you have to admit that any press is good press. Certainly, that worked on me, so I downloaded and played through the demo. I was going to review it, because even though it was pretty brief, I was thoroughly entranced. And then I watched Ryan’s review over at Giantbomb:
I don’t think anything more can be said. If you like this sort of thing, then you’ll be getting it. If not, I don’t care – I’ll have a librarian-dominatrix game to play with.