Game:

Bayonetta (2009)

Duration: 14:11

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Where last we left Bayo, she was stuck in Paradiso and had taken out living ships! Onwards!

Here's ANOTHER ground pound verse. Yes, there is an achievement for hitting every tentacle. And you one-hit Inspired if you manage to hit them...if her ground pound is so strong why doesn't she do that more often?!

Now, I KNEW that as soon as you hit the ground here you're swarmed with three more Joys, but even so....that's a cruel trick, game! Seriously! Platinum isn't normally this sadistic...but I was ready for these things this time. Consider this payback for Route 666! So yeah, I did well here and got to show off their Torture Attack. Kinky. Oh yeah, and fun fact: doing a Torture Attack on a Joy when they're barely damaged (their armor is still on) has a slightly different animation, where the camera zooms in on their jiggling breasts before pulling back and bringing the pain (and pleasure!)....I guess they don't want to show the jubblies if they're all gross and fleshy!

One thing that bugs me about this game in general is that its hard to know when a Verse is really over. So you see me waiting to see if a barrier is going to get destroyed for a bit before we move on. Here's Verse 9, a really oddly hidden Verse. You have to kinda fall off those beam platforms to even discover you can go here, but I knew ahead of time, of course. This starts a theme we'll see later on in our time with Paradiso: enemies hidden in statues... Keep looking around and hey, the final LP fragment! And we just happen to have a portal to the Gates of Hell handy!

Here it is, Lt. Col. Kilgore, the final weapon in the game....that I'm going to get. There are a few more secret weapons in the game I'll chronicles later, but there's no way in hell I'm going to get them. Kilgore is a huge shout-out to the film Apocalypse Now, taking the name from the rather brutal man. The song that Rodin uses is the famous "Ride of the Valkyries" from Richard Wagner's opera, Die Walküre. That song was ALSO used in Apocalypse Now.

Kilgore is the "power weapon" of the game, and like weapons of this type, its slow but strong. Bayo swings the things around like tonfas and if you hold the button down she'll fire some rockets! Kilgore can heavily stagger foes and is safer to use than you might expect...but its a little situational.

Time for some platforming fail! I somewhat blame the camera here, but I also rushed through it. You're clearly meant to do this as Bayo's human form but I just wanted to get to the end.

Who's that Pokemon?! Iiiiiiiiit's Golem! Time to finally take this thing out after its made this level horrible! Aim for the core...but good luck getting to it! Yeah, Kilgore isn't super good for this fight. And I was SO CLOSE to beating it before I died...good to know that it reforming hurts you, huh?!

We continue our stay in Paradiso next time! It seems Bayo is ascending the blocks (which have her name on it! :P ) and reaching the top. So that means its all downhill from here, right? Ugh...I'm not looking forward to Chapter 10...

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