A pie painting for 4 years, “Bayonetta 3” is finally born, and the Chinese 3A pie is still on the way

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GameLook report/For all Nintendo fans and players, 2022 will be a carnival year.

At the face-to-face meeting that just ended this morning, Nintendo brought the latest news about a series of games to players around the world. Action shooting game “Splatoon 3” announced new weapons, new costumes and the latest single-player mode “Return of Mammals”; the new work of the pink demon “Kabi: The Forgotten Island” also debuted today, and will It will be on sale next spring.

At the same time, it also announced the latest news of the “Mario” animated film. Nintendo said that the film will be released on December 21, 2022 and will be jointly produced by Nintendo and the “Minions” Illumination studio.

But among all the games, what surprised the author the most was to face the final of the meeting. After many years, there was finally new news about Bayonetta 3. After all, who is not an old player who loves action games (LSP) anymore. In addition to the new promotional video, Nintendo also generously announced after the meeting that the game is expected to be launched in 2022, and the news that Bayonetta 3 will finally have Chinese support.

The latest promo:

You can always trust Hideki Kamiya

I think that the last time I saw news about Bayonetta 3 was because the producer Hideki Kamiya tweeted back to the netizens who stunned the game, “Is there something dirty in your DNA?” .

The news of Bayonetta 3 was announced in 2014 before the second generation was released. But it wasn’t until 2017 that Bayonetta 3 released a promotional video of less than one minute on TGA, indicating that the game will be exclusive to the Switch.

Since then, except for the news that Hideki Kamiya would occasionally say “game development is very smooth” in Twitter or various media interviews, “Bayonetta 3” has always been in the existence of “check no such tour”. It can be said that the promotional video of this Nintendo face-to-face meeting can be said to be a long drought for fans of the game.

TGA promotional video:

Soon after the face-to-face meeting, “Bayonetta 3” related topics appeared on Twitter’s trending list. Under the YouTube video, some foreign players said that in the trailer, Beyonita (hereinafter referred to as Beijie) One of Wink, it is worth the 4 years of waiting. And the semi-self-deprecating sentence in the trailer, “I seem to be late”, speaks out the aspirations of many players.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

Although there are some domestic players who have complained about the braided hairstyle and the slightly tighter clothes when Sister Bei returned to her childhood, most of the players still keep looking forward to this classic action game, plus Nintendo’s announcement of game products that will be launched in 2020 has made netizens call “2021 I don’t want to pass a day.”

For “Bayonetta 3”, after the face-to-face meeting, game director Yusuke Miyata and producer Hideki Kamiya have updated a small composition on the official website of Platinum Studios, and also added some information that is not in the trailer for all players.

Miyada Yusuke mainly analyzed the core of the “Bayonetta” series and the innovation in the action system of the third generation from the design of the game. He believes that the appeal of the game is first of all the mysterious and attractive charm of Beijie itself, and secondly Play as you like. In the action system, this game also added many new elements, such as players can control the demon in the game, release a large number of different moves.

While Hideki Kamiya thanked the players for waiting for many years, he also promised the players, “No matter how much your expectations increase, we promise to provide an experience that exceeds many times.” Of course, it is more noteworthy that Hideki Kamiya is pushing When replying to the question of the daily tweet netizens about whether Bei Jie’s clothing will gradually decrease with the battle, he also said “Look forward to it, idiot, how can I be a good boy”.

Old players (lsp) relax

Different from the same root

Speaking of “Bayonetta”, its influence at home and abroad may not be as strong as that of Hideki Kamiya’s other work “Devil May Cry”. As Hideki Kamiya’s first action game after leaving Capcom, the fate of “Bayonetta” can be said to be completely different from “Devil May Cry”.

The beginning of the “Bayonetta” series is quite prosperous. The first game released by Sega in 2009, “Bayonetta”, sold 138,000 copies on the day it went live in Japan. It was the best-selling game in the week of release. At the same time, the Xbox 360 version was also available on “Famitsu”. After a full 40 points, it can be said that word-of-mouth sales have doubled.

But under this premise, “Bayonetta 2” was stopped and abandoned by Sega during the development stage, and other game publishers (Microsoft, Sony) did not intend to continue to assist in the development, until Nintendo finally shot it. , It saved the project that was on the verge of miscarriage.

This is also why the previous generation of “Bayonetta”, which aimed at “next-generation 3D action games”, is now exclusive to Switch.

Interestingly, in April 2017, Sega announced that “Bayonetta” was logged on to the Windows platform (Steam). About a month after it was released on Windows, John Clark, then Vice President of Sega Europe Publishing, said that the Windows version of the game has been sold. Over 170,000 sets, and Sega is “very satisfied” with this performance.

In fact, as far as the author is concerned, “Bayonetta” is actually not a very Nintendo game. After all, from Mario to Pokémon, Nintendo’s principle has always been “all ages”, and a producer publicly stated the game on Twitter. The character clothes in the battle will become less and less action games, which is obviously impossible to meet this standard.

The encounter between Bayonetta and Nintendo was like an accident. Nintendo needed a game specially developed for its own “failed” host Wii U, and Platinum Studios also needed a publisher to take over.

Although the final sales volume of the second generation in the first week was less than 40,000 sets, and “Bayonetta 2” failed to save the Wii U’s fatigue at the time, but after the game was registered on the Switch, the sales were exceptionally good, the first released in Japan. Under the premise that only 9,532 copies were sold in a week, the sales volume in the first nine weeks of the game reached 400,000 copies.

It’s a pity that such a beautiful back is not cupping

Of course, in addition to sales, the adult style of “Bayonetta” is also one of the reasons why Nintendo will choose to keep this IP. Although all ages mean that it can meet most of the needs of ordinary players, when the same kind of action games in the console market are full of violent elements and meaty products like God of War, Nintendo also needs one that is fun enough, but at the same time It can also make adult players feel that they are an adult game product.

In addition, from the “sour” comments of some netizens, it is not difficult to see that “Bayonetta” is also attractive to a group of core console gamers on Xbox and PlayStation. Except for Ms. Bei who is stepping on high heels, who can refuse Hideki Kamiya (the action game).

Manga Cake Road

However, the operation of the cake in “Bayonetta 3” also reminds GameLook of “Black Myth: Wukong”. As a domestic masterpiece, “Black Myth: Wukong” has just started its first year of drawing cakes, but fortunately, the trailer for game science is the new year, and there will be some additional news during the festivals for players to taste the sweetness. .

But this cake, “Black Myth: Wukong” is estimated to be a few years away. Coupled with the domestic game review system, once the game needs to be modified, even if it is a model, the workload is bound to be difficult to compare with the familiar mobile games. In the case that it takes nearly a year for the version number of many mobile game products to be approved and launched, the time for “Black Myth: Wukong” to draw the cake will only be longer.

GameLook believes a lot. In fact, many stand-alone gamers have a simple yardstick in mind for the production cycle of a masterpiece. But after all, the atmosphere of the domestic console game culture is actually quite limited, and some people don’t understand the development process and cycle of this masterpiece, and it is difficult to guarantee a normal heart in the face of game-related news, and worry about the game’s death whenever there is a turmoil.

The four or five years from the early promotion to the finished product of “Bayonetta” is actually a process that most large-scale games must go through. Although this kind of 50-second trailer is drawn directly for 4 years, it is also an extreme case. Of course, similar to the old game company like Ubisoft, it can use industrialized production and the application of materials to reduce the development time of the game to a certain extent.

Take Capcom, which I think is the most regular, for example. The production cycle of a masterpiece like “Resident Evil 8” is about 4 years. Of course, Capcom’s cleverness is to cook cold rice for two years in the middle to create A feeling that I am a bigger factory in the next year.

When Resident Evil 8 was revealed, players familiar with the game knew that the 4th generation reset was stable.

However, as a domestic masterpiece, although many netizens worry that the game will be killed, “Black Myth: Wukong” can gain this level of attention from the beginning without the money to build a reputation and popularity. From a propaganda point of view, it is already a very impressive achievement.

And, although for a game house like the author, even if the game science chooses not to draw a pie anymore, I will buy the game at that time. But for a large number of ordinary players who still pay attention to the dynamics of the game, especially those who have rarely been exposed to large-scale games before, and the core overseas console/PC players, it is still very important to refresh their faces on a regular basis. From this perspective, the game The hand of science drawing the cake can’t stop yet.

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