The Bayonetta early access hints at things to come for American players, who won't get their hands on the game until January 5th next year. Jumping into the game, the player is presented with easier control modes or the more complex Regular option. With Regular Controls you have more of an elaborate layout on your controller. The directional pad will use items, the left analog moves your character while the right analog moves the camera. There are two attack buttons, an action button and a jump button. The bumpers and triggers evade, change weapons, taunt, and lock-on.
Choosing your difficulty of controls before the tutorial truly starts, you then face off with what appears to be a gryphon-looking archangel with a spear whilst being serenaded with J-Pop at the bottom of a lake of blood. No joke. The tuotorial requires that you punch and kick when prompted, and before long you're invited to utilize both techniques to unleash combos that sometimes summon a giant heel to kick the (Heaven?) out of Bayonetta's foes. Evading is just as shiny, for when it’s done at the last second “Witch Time” is activated, effectively slowing the enemies.
Holding Y or B will send a steady flow of lead from Bayonettas gun or heel. Yes. Her HEEL. Holding the B button will unleash a devastating roundhouse kick which she’ll hold in order to outdo Chun-Li, shooting from her heelguns at winged heads that seem to be a mix of one part Dali, one part Spawn.
Bullet Climax is activated by rotating the left stick and pushing either B or Y. Just as shooting with Y uses her normal guns, using the B button in Bullet Climax activates the 360 degree mode as well, but this time Bayonetta is shooting from those soon-to-be-famous heelguns.
The player leaves the tutorial only to fight archangels atop a clock tower that is plummeting to the ground. Despite the craziness of the entire ordeal up until now, the dramatic music paired with the gorgeous visuals somehow make this awkward formula enjoyable. There’s just so much going on, and that’s before the clock tower bashes into even smaller pieces, forcing Bayonetta to navigate and recalibrate in midair. Though this escape scene is autopilot, it is forgivable in both brevity and reprieve; this is a fast-paced game, so one might feel grateful when momentarily allowed to appreciate everything going on in the world of Bayonetta.
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