![]() ![]() The game also knew you were playing to have fun and so, as a final send-off, the game’s credits were a series of battles you needed to complete in order to earn the coveted but hard-to-attain Pure Platinum rating. It kept its cheekiness restrained just enough for it to be refreshing, funny, and titillating, but never tiresome. I never cared for any of them but the sax-playing former band geek in me remembers performing Gustov Holst’s “ Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity,” so I appreciate its remixed inclusion on the soundtrack.īayonetta was a game that took itself seriously but also didn’t. The LPs always referenced an actual classical song that you could listen to on the jukebox in his shop. In Bayonetta, you collected golden LPs that you traded in at Rodin’s in exchange for a new weapon. The bar/item/weapons shop is a place that radiates cool, especially as the smokey, sultry, “ The Gates of Hell” croons with its muted trumpet and soft brush sounds. Speaking of Rodin, his bar in Purgatorio is where Bayonetta goes to purchase items as she fights her way through the choir of angels. As she puts them on, she cavorts about her demon friend Rodin’s bar in increasingly suggestive poses that I felt should have clued me into my burgeoning “you’re not quite straight are you?” feelings right away - all while the eponymous “ Scarborough Fair Equipped” song plays. One of my favourite scenes is when she first equips her famous guns Scarborough Fair. I was always firmly on the “empowerment” side of the argument. I was never one of those people who took issue with the way Bayonetta is sexualized in her games. ![]() It’s over the top to the point of jarring ridiculousness, but done so damn well that it loops back around to cool. “ One of a Kind” evokes the same emotion as John Williams’ “ Duel of the Fates,” which is fitting because you first hear this song as Bayonetta fights an onslaught of demonic angels on a chunk of masonry that’s slowly - very slowly, considering terminal velocity - hurtling toward the earth. When Bayonetta’s not remixing hits from the golden age of lounge singing, its orchestral songs are damn good too. ![]()
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