You don’t know how happy I am that only a few months have passed since the launch of Bayonet 3 and our favorite witch’s fever hasn’t passed yet.
The truth is that we already needed a good dose of this great saga after so many years of waiting, but this one was worth it. And I can assure you that not only for the third installment, but also for Bayonetta Origins: Cherry and the Lost Demon.
A game that has little to do with what is playable with the rest of the saga Bayonet but it adds a plus that no one asked for because no one knew he needed it. Yeah, that’s what it boils down to Bayonetta: The Cherry and the Lost Demon, a title that any good fan of this franchise unknowingly wanted.
And this is something that I myself have verified first hand because I’ve played it before. These are My first impressions of this game.
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Origins of Bayonetta: Cereza and the Lost Demon
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- Release date subject to change
- Players will take control of Cereza, a young apprentice witch, who will begin a disturbing path through a forbidden forest that will earn her the power to save her mother.
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon has very little Bayonetta and a lot of Cereza
insist that these are impressions and not an in-depth analysis of the game, I’m not here to tell you how exactly the mechanics work, nor to rate the game. I’m going to tell you some things it has and How did they impact me? whether positive, negative or neutral.
The first thing to clarify is that the tone of this game is incredibly different from the Bayonetta games, more than I thought. He has a very childish tone, but in the right direction, for different reasons:
- obviously, the artistic direction: visually it is a simple game but very adorable: everything is done as if it were a classic tale, in a book and painted in watercolor and with very beautiful colors
- Characters: you know that here we control a very young Bayonetta while she was just an apprentice witch, a girl named Cereza, so her personality has nothing to do with the Bayonetta we know: Cereza is innocent, sweet and absolutely adorable, and it gives the game a lot of tenderness
- And the story: the story of Bayonet It’s not that it’s very dark, but one could consider adult and adult stories. Not this one, it’s much lighter, fun, which makes it a perfect game to disconnect and relax for a while
However… That doesn’t mean it’s not difficult! As for the gameplay, it perfectly combines moments of puzzles with those of platforms and also fights. And it’s all in the grace of controlling two characters at once.
With the left half of the Switch controller, whether in handheld mode, on TV, or with a Pro controller, you control Cherry, and with the right half, you control Cheshire, his demon. And if, You can move them both at the same time. with the left lever at Cherry and with the right at Chesire, and there is grace, in that This gives plenty of play for everything.
On the one hand, the world of Origins of Bayonetta: Cereza and the Lost Demon has a map allows exploration and even backtrack as you gain new abilities collect resources or whatever you need. And the combination of Cherry and Cheshire is the key to that, and it’s so much fun!
This is also transferred to the puzzles to advance, and also to fight, because the fun is that Cherry can’t fight but Cheshire can, SO everyone has their role, as Cherry uses Cheshire magic and attacks. And controlling both at the same time to do combos and so on is a bit more complex than it looks.
An absolutely promising spin-off
May I pause to expand on the subject of the capacities (because yes, there is skill tree), dive into combat or even talk about things you can find while exploring. but there is still an analysis to be done later and I suggest that Don’t miss it, because my first impressions of Origins of Bayonetta: Cereza and the Lost Demon translate into what it’s a great game that no matter how different it is from other titles in the saga Bayonets, don’t stay, but sum, and a LOT.