![]() As with competitive fighting games, there is a lot of enjoyment to be gained from playing these games as a button-masher, but there is a wealth of challenge and reward there for the players who want to dedicate themselves to learning and perfecting combos. The combo system is consistently satisfying, as you effortlessly pull off hyper-stylised attacks in quick succession. On the good end, these games contain some of the most satisfying action mechanics ever made. Bayonetta 2 makes some progress in these areas, but it still feels like it too is from a bygone era of gaming. Thankfully, we have seen the games industry mature over the decade since the first entry in this series was released, but that makes it a bit of a shock to go back and realise how immature some games used to be. On the bad end, these games contain some of the more juvenile and tasteless characteristics of gaming culture: over-sexualised women, ridiculous and poorly written characters, borderline nonsensical story and lore. Of the games you could revisit from the past generation, Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2 are both good and bad picks. It is almost becoming a gaming tradition to revisit our favourite games of the past generation on a handheld device. It is equally rewarding to have a PS3-era game on the go now as it was to have a PS2-era game on the Vita five years ago. What we wanted was to feel like we could have the power of the PS3 on the go, and now, eight years later, we can – but on a different console, from a very different company.īut, just because it is an old dream, that doesn’t make its realisation any less satisfying. We did get some attempts at this, with games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss, but they felt like the lesser counterparts of their console entries. Bayonetta was released within a year of the PS Vita, and was the kind of AAA action game that I and many other gamers thought they would be enjoying with the handheld. Playing Bayonetta on my Switch while waiting for a bus, I felt that I was finally enjoying the experience I had been promised by Sony with the PS Vita in 2011.
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