Today marked the final Nintendo Direct dedicated to Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS. Since the release of these two games, the development team has provided regular post-launch content support in the form of characters, stages, costumes, and balance patches.
Closing out the roster after Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud Strife and Fire Emblem Fates’ Corrin is Sega and Platinum Games’ iconic action hero who erupted onto the gaming scene last generation: Bayonetta. Borne out of a partnership between Sega and Platinum Games at the time of release, the first Bayonetta game was widely enjoyed by consumers and critics, and a partnership between Nintendo and Platinum Games produce the second Bayonetta title.
Bayonetta’s default costume is her Bayonetta 2 look, but she’ll also have her look for the first game as an alternate palette. Each character in Smash Bros. For Wii U and 3DS has eight outfit options, and in this game a color scheme based on jeanne is selectable. Her character trailer shows off a variety of her attacks, from Bullet Arts, to the Wicked Weaves (which appear to be Smash Attacks?) and even shout-out type attacks like the After Burner Kick. She also appears to have a very unique counter, in the form of Witch Time. If she successfully dodges an opponent’s attack upon activating Witch Time, it greatly slows down the movement speed of your opponent and hinders your opponent character’s ability to defensively react or evade any retaliatory attack from Bayonetta. Other characters’ counters can be evaded much more easily in comparison, because none of them afflict anything like Witch Time.
Nintendo supports their Smash Bros. characters with Amiibos (somewhat trainable A.I. representations of a character, that come in the form of a mini-figure) and it is confirmed that Bayonetta will have Amiibos produced for her. Sometimes when she attacks in her own games, parts of her body are exposed, but this was a trait removed for this game probably with the intention of accommodating a wider audience. Alongside Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega has two representatives in this generation’s set of Smash Bros. games, and the same idea applies to Street Fighter’s Ryu and the Classic incarnation of Mega Man representing Capcom.
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