I'm Hello everybody and welcome to the Canaan Rince podcast, Volume 14, issue 685.

And today we're going to be talking about Bayonetta 3.

Joining me, a crokey, Leon Cox, in this issue.

It's Brian Edwards.

Hello, hello.

And Leah Haydoo.

It's about time I got moving again.

That, yeah, that waypoint sound bite was just a little unnecessary.

Anyway, more on that later.

Yes, apologies, listeners, my voice is a combination of a mild illness and a severe case of shouting my lungs out at a late winner in a game of

sport yesterday so please bear with bayonetta three is a third person character action game

and unsurprisingly the sequel to bayonetta 2. We covered the original

bayonetta on the Canaan Rince podcast way back in volume 1 in December 2011 when we were

still attempting to do two games in one show in the same depth. Obviously, we still do

series shows and things like that. But, um, that was a bayonetta and vanquish podcast in issue 12.

Then quite some time later, we covered bayonetta two in issue 2 in issue 219 and 2017.

And in that one, uh, myself, Leah and Mikiel, along with guest, Joshesque, discussed the changes that were made and how, I think for many of us, it was still a great time and a real spectacle.

But Joshesque, as a kind of expert, character action player and Bayonetta superfan was representing that part of the community that found that the second game didn't have quite the same depth as the first game in terms of mechanics.

Capone Adam from our Patreon says, I loved Bayonetta 1 and 2 and completed them both,

but for me, the third game was one of those rare games that I quickly regretted paying full

price on. I played about three hours and just wasn't enjoying anything about it. For whatever

reason, it lacked the depth of the previous games and mostly felt like I was just mashing

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