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Bayonetta (2009)

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Back to Chapters split into parts! Hope you enjoyed the shorter videos while they lasted! The game is no longer pulling its punches, so its time to prepare! We'll start by...buying ALL of Rodin's Witch Hearts. Hey, I need all the health I can get!

This place certainly looks familiar...we're not back in Chapter Two, are we?! City of Deja Vu indeed! Rodin was onto something when he said Vigrid was a little too close to Paradiso, huh? Its asset reuse, sure, but its SMART asset reuse that ties into the setting! Neat!

However, we'll be traversing this stage primarily through golden platforms of...hardened Spirit Energy or some such nonsense, so that sets this chapter apart from what came before. Once we're done with that enemy encounter and use that key...let's explore! These breakable walls are something to really keep in mind, as they hide goodies like another LP fragment....and an Alfheim. Ugh.

So yeah, "Out-of-Body Battles" aren't used again in the main game, but they ARE extra challenges! Which are kinda hard! Hey at least I got to show one off! Probably shouldn't have left my body right smack dab in the middle of the arena though, huh?

Ascending the golden platforms here is...kinda dizzying. Mario Galaxy, this ain't. I'm glad I can show off Odette's movement and such a bit more though. See? I told you I would! In particular it makes that segment where you outrun that strange sphere a lot more manageable! How nice of that lightning to exist to allow us to use Witch Time, huh?

A pole dance later and we find ourselves at some more familiar areas...and that sphere just isn't gonna leave us alone, will it? So yeah, splitting a key we need to move forward wasn't enough, it has to constantly try to flatten us while we're retrieving it too! I...do not like this section, primarily because of that ball. There are some places in the area where it can't go, but for the most part you're at its mercy as you fight a Grace and Glory (though separate if you're sane!) AND a Fariness! Is it me, or are Fairness enemies getting more health as we go? These seem to take so long to kill all of a sudden! Hell, it gave me more trouble than Grace and Glory! (Though they're a LOT more managable if you can ever face them alone, obviously!) Also, calling bullshit on the fact that Grace and Glory can hurt you IMMEDIATELY after being freed from the chests. Not only can you not see that coming your first time through...I'm not sure if you can even avoid it. If you use a Wicked Weave from far enough away maybe but that's a dirty trick if ever there was one.

After this aggravating section is done I do one last comb over to make sure I didn't miss anything. I swear there was something under that one roof where you fight the Grace enemy, but I guess I'm thinking of Chapter 2?

You'll see I'm VERY cautious of chests now because of that little uh...altercation, but its a health upgrade! Totally fine! And before we end this first part of Chapter 9, let's introduce probably my most hated enemy: Kinship. Now, I'm totally on board with their punny names and their cool design but...these things can be a total pain.

For staters, there's the missile barrage straight out of a cutscene and I mean STRAIGHT OUT. Thank God for Bat Within (which also make Grace and Glory a lot easier to take care of!). Then there's the fact that you have to take the fight to THEM and attack their bodies, but of course they won't take that lying down. In addition to missiles, we see claws that attempt to grab you. Thankfully once they die you can use their remains to jump ship to any other ones in the area. This encounter went very, VERY well, but uh...we're not at the encounter that made me hate Kinships.

We have a very familiar-looking object appear in the aftermath of the fight and ANOTHER LP fragment, but that'll wait for next time. I apologize for the sudden cut, but I couldn't find any other good place to cut the footage.

Onwards!

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