

She currently works as a part-time nun, apparently, but believes that a priest by the name of Balder may have the key to unlocking her past. Bayonetta was asleep for five hundred years in a coffin under a lake but woke up several years ago with no memory of who she is or how she got there. That’s a lot of information already but exactly is Bayonetta about? Well, it’s about a woman named Bayonetta who’s an Umbria Witch, one of a race of witches who apparently deal with demons and kill angels, but they’re not evil, they just really like to shoot things and summons otherworldly beings to do their dirty work.

To build upon the release of the sequel an anime adaption was announced to be made by none other than Gonzo, with the director of Afro Samurai behind the helm. A sequel wasn’t released until earlier this year for the Wii U (which caused some controversy due to moving away from the platforms the franchise it made its mark on). When it was officially released it did not disappoint it was well received, commercially successful and the main protagonist made her mark as a gaming icon for a generation of gamers. Before the release there was a lot of hype for the game due to the famous director of the Devil May Cry series, Hideki Kamiya, being behind the Bayonetta game as well. Bayonetta first burst onto the video game scene in 2010 for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
