


Summoning demons seems to be a huge part of the combat this time around. Once I was on-foot in the middle of monster-infested Shibuya, I was able to hold the left trigger to summon Gomorrah and control it directly, while Bayonetta was still in the field. But the partnership between Bayonetta and her demon pets (which you could previously summon for flashy killing blows in the other games) was the big standout from this demo. That, in and of itself, was visually impressive and silly in all the ways Bayonetta has been in the past.

This prompted Bayonetta to summon a huge demon called Gomorrah so she could ride it through a mostly on-rails sequence where the player's only involvement consisted of dodging wayward train cars. The demo began in a subway train in Tokyo, but it quickly went off the rails (pun intended, of course) as a gigantic monster threw the train into the air, along with a bunch of buildings. It’s totally normal stuff, in other words. All of her trademarks are still here: Bayonetta still dual-wields pistols while rocking another pair of pistols in her shoes, and she still transforms her hair into gigantic demon monsters to help out during fights. Like its predecessors, Bayonetta 3 follows the titular witch as she does battle against all kinds of weird supernatural creatures.
