Bayonetta, The New Lara Croft?

18 August, 2009 18 October, 2021

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She’s the main character of a brand new IP packing duel wielding pistols and the perfect combination of action and sex appeal: A description many could argue belongs to the first lady of gaming, Lara Croft back in 1996. But does the English adventurer face competition from Platinum Games buxom, bookish bombshell? Stephen Totilo from Kotaku seem to think so.

Bayonetta was described as “A Bitch, a sexy bitch” by another reporter the last time the Kotaku journalist had the pleasure of being shown the game. This time around she elected just as strong of a response.

“…A Sega public relations person asked me if I thought Bayonetta had potential as a crossover character. Maybe, I said, though her game might make her too weird a persona to bring her to that Lara Croft virtual celebrity status. Croft’s Indiana Jones in a porn star’s body and short shorts. Bayonetta fights angels to a jazzy soundtrack while colorful butterfly imagery springs off her body.
What’s Bayonetta’s potential? There is no other female game character that I’ve observed elicit such a reaction from my reporting peers, and it’s not like she’s been the only one of such gender, measurements and posture to possibly draw such comments.”

While the success of Bayoneta will be judged mainly on its gameplay creating a new and original main character can’t exactly hurt. Bayonetta stands out as a sight for sore eyes away from the bevy of gravel voiced marines with more muscles than brain cells. Even if Bayonetta as a character fails to garner a similar hype to Lara Croft, she’s still likely to be popular with male gamers from around twelve upwards…

“At one point in the bits of the game I witnessed, a Sega rep got her to pull off (intentional verb choice, Kotaku readers) one of her super moves. The more aggressively she attacks, the less she wears. So as she fired a big hand made of hair to tangle with the boss, she wound up naked, though covered up by a few strands of her hair-suit that lingered.
A reporter who witnessed liked what he saw. He said he’d seen what he showed up to see and joked he could leave now.”

Post originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

9 Comments

I admit Bayonetta is smoking hot but with her curves & her voice actor… I can`t wait to get in 2010

Bayonetta doesnt have any curves… she is lanky and odd looking… Why does everyone think she is so good looking?

It’s a big diffrent between her and Lara Croft. Lara Croft i personaly my favorite character of all time! But I really like Boynetta but I don’t think she will be the new…Lara Croft or something.

Between her and Lara Croft? I may have liked the demo at Comic-Con, but come on. She’s more comparable to Sarah Palin.

is this tssz or a porn forum lol

Your accent is weird, ’cause it sounded like you said “Laura Croft” was Queen of Gaming, & we all know that can’t be right. It’s pronounced “Samus Aran”.

Now, now Stephen. There’s nothing wrong with admiring the female form but on that note I sincerely hope Bayonetta doesn’t go the way of Bloodrayne and appear in Playboy or something stupid. I get the feeling she’s a more classy lady than that. It must be the glasses.
Sarah Palin? *shudders* nice try but one look at the real life Bayonetta model alleviates those fears
While I don’t dispute her popularity Samus has never broken into mainstream culture like Lara Croft did. Maybe being covered by a massive suit of armour 90% of the time has something to do with it. That and not talking a lot.

Maybe you have to be a guy to understand this article… I apologise if this offends you but anybody who actually cares about this ‘queen of gaming cos they look hot’ title needs to get a life.