Bayonetta 3

Bayonetta 3 is 2022 Hack and Slash Video Game about a woman who walks around in public naked.

An indeterminate amount of time after the last game, Bayonetta began to hear voices that led her to a cruise ship. Suddenly, her world is invaded by weird biomechanical creatures. She fights them off but, to her surprise, they are not angels, so her demons will not kill them. She is forced to use a spell called Demon Slave to force them to fight anyway. Regardless of that, said creatures are in such overwhelming numbers than she can't defeat them all as they begin to destroy the Earth.

Taking refuge with Jeanne on Rodin's bar, the Gates of Hell, the two meet Viola, a witch that claims to be from another universe. She says those creatures attacking their world are called Homunculi, and their leader Singularity discovered the existence of the Multiverse and decided to conquer it to then destroy it. Jeanne is skeptical, but Rodin explains that the Multiverse actually exists, that Singularity is actually fusing universes, and that if he can do said fusion, he will eventually be able to fuse together the trinity of realities in one fell swoop.

To stop Singularity, Viola has a plan: she asks Jeanne to go after Doctor Sigurd, a man who will be able to operate a portal to the Alphaverse, Singularity's homeland. Meanwhile, she and Bayonetta must go to the island of Thule, where portals to the large multiverse were discovered by Umbran Witches and Lumen Sages centuries ago, so they can retrieve objects called Chaos Gears from those worlds so Sigurd can use those objects to open a portal to the Alphaverse, the only place where Singularity can be defeated.

Like the previous game on the series, Bayonetta 3 is a action hack and slash where the player controls Bayonetta using a variation of melee attacks and gunplay. The game also introduces two new mechanics, called "Demon Slave" and "Demon Masquerade", that allow Bayonetta to control her demons directly in the first case and fuse with them in the second. Newcomer Viola is also playable during some segments. Unlike Bayonetta, her "Witch Time" mechanic is based on parrying enemy attacks instead of dodging them like Bayonetta, and her sole Infernal Demon, Cheshire, cannot be controlled.

Directed by Yusuke Miyata. Developed by Platinum Games. Published by Nintendo.

Tropes used in Bayonetta 3 include:

• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Main universe's Enzo is probably the least intimidating gangster in the story of videogames. His counterpart on the French Bayonetta Universe is a fearless police inspector.
• Animesque: The Bayonetta series is Japanese already, though with a mix of retro American culture and European gothic culture in their aesthetic, but Japanese Bayonetta seems to be a mash-up of several cliches about female characters in Japanese anime, with bright-colored clothes, pink hair, and odd weapons like giant yo-yos. She wouldn't look out of place in Beyblade or Bakugan, to say the least.
• Darker and Edgier: Though the previous Bayonetta games were no less dramatic, this one certainly feels more tragic, as we see several deaths of sympathetic characters as the struggle with Singularity goes on. Enzo has his role greatly reduced as he spends his time lamenting about his family, that is heavily implied to have been killed.
• Eleventh-Hour Ranger: Bayonetta is helped by alternate versions of her who resemble her as she looked in Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2 during the third stage of the final boss fight.
• Fighting a Shadow: The reason why fighting Singularity is going so bad; he can control his minions at distance, at the safety of his home universe. Most of the game is spent trying to get there so he can't longer hide.
• Hot Mom:
  • The Bayonetta who birthed Viola doesn't look pretty much different from our Bayonetta, that is, extremely gorgeous, despite her daughter being already a teenager.
  • Rosa is alive in French Bayonetta's Universe and seems to not have aged one day since Cereza was a child.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Jeanne is killed by Sigurd, that is actually Singularity, by being impaled by a spike on the penultimate chapter.
• Revenge Before Reason: French Bayonetta decides to kill main Bayonetta because she killed her universe's version of Rosa, even if her mother was brainwashed.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: Cheshire is absent from the final battle with Singularity as the heroes struggle a lot to win.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: Sigurd joins the heroes near the climax, but it is revealed Sigurd is actually Singularity and he was planning to trap Bayonetta in the Alphaverse so she couldn't interfere on his plans all along.
• Something Completely Different: You control Cheshire during chapter 8. Not Viola controlling him like Bayonetta controls her demons, the demon itself, as Viola has passed out because of the heat in that level.
• Take Over the World: Exaggerated. Singularity thinks taking over multiple words is his fate and sets off to indeed do it upon all existence.
• Two Lines, No Waiting: Aside of the main storyline where you chase Chaos Gears with Bayonetta and Viola, you control Jeanne as she searches for Doctor Sigurd in small segments called "Jeanne's Spy Action".