Platinum Games and Nintendo announced the release date of the upcoming action game Bayonetta 3.
The game will launch on Nintendo Switch on October 28, so get ready to kill the wizard angels of our favorite BDSM antihero.
Bayonetta is one of those wonderful characters who manages to be a sex symbol and empower women at the same time. He has guns in his high heels and his outfit is made with his magic hair, so while he jumps up and uses his magical hair powers, he stains the skin.
Honestly, it’s not just a very clever character design, it’s one of the most productive (and sexy) action game franchises, with a tough female protagonist kicking evil angelic forces and never shivering.
So, naturally, he incurred the angry reproaches of suffocating the hounds of the games and the angry father or the informal politician, despite the fact that the character was conceived, at least in part, through a woguy (the character was created jointly by Hideki Kamiya, a boy – and Mari Shimazaki – a woguy – however, it is evidently the product of a wonderful team of artistic and technical magicians).
For anyone who is still convinced of those arguments, I’ll point to this Paste Magazine article via Maddy Myers that addresses the concept of “male gaze” and how the game’s complaint is not yet in a position for in-depth discussions on topics like ‘sexual positivity’ and so on (although one might have expected us to have come a long way since the article was written, I’m not sure we did. )
In a prominent passage, Myers asserts that American culture itself is partly to blame for Bayonetta’s suffocating interpretations as a type of male sex object:
“Part of the bias against Bayonetta stems from our own anti-sexual baggage as a society (at least, here in the United States); however, an even more vital part, I think, is that video game critics simply they disagree”. a position to communicate about it. Bayonette. It can be said, given the common usage among critics of the word “male gaze,” that we are still a bit far off when it comes to understanding feminist denunciation of media and the concept of sexuality. positivity in general can be a bit too complex for the game’s complaint.
“What would a game be like with a female heroine who has a firm look of genuine sex?Would we be able to recognize it, if we put it on a shelf between Dante’s Inferno and Killer Is Dead?Don’t bother me when I see critics of supposedly progressive male games arguing on Twitter about which sexually autonomous women in games make them uncomfortable or not. FYI, men? I’m pretty sure Bayonetta doesn’t care if you love her. this is not the case with Hideki Kamiya.
In the third Bayonetta game, Platinum Games has included a new self-censorship option that allows you to disable the pieces in which Bayonetta shows the skin while turning her magic hair and also adds more garments to other characters in lighter outfits.
Several here:
Congratulations, Platinum Games! We salute you!
Bayonetta 3 launched on Switch on October 28 and I’m in a position to do so, I wish it had reached platforms with better graphics. What a pity that no one nintendo is investing in the sequels yet!Maybe one day they’ll start making PC ports of some of those games.