Comments on: Bayonetta http://wp.me/p1B5QK-dJ Putting boredom in a choke-hold Thu, 17 May 2012 17:14:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jack Clarkson http://unbored.co.uk/reviews/2010/01/17/bayonetta/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Jack Clarkson Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:16:36 +0000 http://unbored.co.uk/?p=851#comment-177 <p>Ah yes. Yeah, I did get the phrase from him. I originally meant to use another phrase instead... but there really isn't anything that describes it quite so well. Especially in this case, not only are you encouraged to show off, you are rewarded for it!</p> <p>It's like <em>Burnout</em> filling your boost meter by driving into oncoming traffic and narrowly dodging cars. The flashier and sillier the moves you use, the more narrow the dodge, the more you taunt the enemies... In this game, you live on a self inflicted knifes edge, encouraging your enemies to attack you more in order to dodge them more. And that makes this so fun, you don't just complete a level, you complete it and promise yourself to get a perfect platinum medal as well!</p> <p>If that isn't a spectacle fighter, I don't know what is.</p> Ah yes. Yeah, I did get the phrase from him. I originally meant to use another phrase instead… but there really isn’t anything that describes it quite so well. Especially in this case, not only are you encouraged to show off, you are rewarded for it!

It’s like Burnout filling your boost meter by driving into oncoming traffic and narrowly dodging cars. The flashier and sillier the moves you use, the more narrow the dodge, the more you taunt the enemies… In this game, you live on a self inflicted knifes edge, encouraging your enemies to attack you more in order to dodge them more. And that makes this so fun, you don’t just complete a level, you complete it and promise yourself to get a perfect platinum medal as well!

If that isn’t a spectacle fighter, I don’t know what is.

]]> By: DunK http://unbored.co.uk/reviews/2010/01/17/bayonetta/comment-page-1/#comment-175 DunK Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:53:10 +0000 http://unbored.co.uk/?p=851#comment-175 The "Spectacle Fighter" comment. Zero Punctuation coined the phrase. :) (to the best of my knowledge) The “Spectacle Fighter” comment.

Zero Punctuation coined the phrase. :) (to the best of my knowledge)

]]> By: Jack Clarkson http://unbored.co.uk/reviews/2010/01/17/bayonetta/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Jack Clarkson Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:37:26 +0000 http://unbored.co.uk/?p=851#comment-166 <p>If you don't like it, it'll be precisely for that last reason. It plays very similar, whilst feeling really different, it's less about hitting enemies until they fall down than it is about waiting for them to strike and punishing them for being such naughty. naughty boys!</p> <p>It is to fighting games what Burnout is to racing games, it encourages reckless behaviour and showing off rather than tactics or memorising all your combos.</p> If you don’t like it, it’ll be precisely for that last reason. It plays very similar, whilst feeling really different, it’s less about hitting enemies until they fall down than it is about waiting for them to strike and punishing them for being such naughty. naughty boys!

It is to fighting games what Burnout is to racing games, it encourages reckless behaviour and showing off rather than tactics or memorising all your combos.

]]> By: Steve http://unbored.co.uk/reviews/2010/01/17/bayonetta/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Steve Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:22:31 +0000 http://unbored.co.uk/?p=851#comment-165 All the reviews I've read of this say a similar thing to yours - you know you should hate it while you're playing it, because it's big, dumb, and obvious... but all the same, you can't quite stop playing it, because it's oddly addictive. I'm curious to play it myself for precisely that reason - especially as I didn't much like the Devil May Cry games. All the reviews I’ve read of this say a similar thing to yours – you know you should hate it while you’re playing it, because it’s big, dumb, and obvious… but all the same, you can’t quite stop playing it, because it’s oddly addictive.
I’m curious to play it myself for precisely that reason – especially as I didn’t much like the Devil May Cry games.

]]> By: Jack Clarkson http://unbored.co.uk/reviews/2010/01/17/bayonetta/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Jack Clarkson Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:14:29 +0000 http://unbored.co.uk/?p=851#comment-164 <p>How do you mean?</p> How do you mean?

]]> By: DunK http://unbored.co.uk/reviews/2010/01/17/bayonetta/comment-page-1/#comment-163 DunK Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:47:10 +0000 http://unbored.co.uk/?p=851#comment-163 Ah, I see someone is a Yahtzee fan. ;) Ah, I see someone is a Yahtzee fan. ;)

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