bayonetta 3's combat is wonderful, and the story was a huge disappointment to me polygon.com/reviews/234214… i'm glad the review embargo is up because i've been sad about this for weeks. i replayed all of bayo 1 + 2 because i was so excited about this game. they were both wonderful. if you're excited about bayo 3 for the same reasons that i was, just replay those two games instead.

"it would be cool to play a version of The Last of Us where you're ellie," i said in 2013, and the monkey's paw curled inward polygon.com/reviews/2020/6… i had to talk about the end of the first TLOU to talk about what this game's about, but also, the embargo (and common sense) prevents me from talking about the issues i had with the late-game story and ending. like the first one, the discourse will be, "well, did you beat it?"