PlatinumGames on Bayonetta 3 and No Restrictions from Nintendo

PlatinumGames vice president Hideki Kamiya has recently commented on Bayonetta 3 during an interview with IGN. Kamiya told the site that the Nintendo Switch exclusive will have “its own color” compared to prior entries in the series. He even expressed that there will be “new types of gameplay”.

If you look at the trailer we released in September, hopefully that should reassure you that we have been hard at work on development, and it should also show you that there are a lot of new elements in this game that were not in Bayonetta 1 and 2. I hope the footage released so far will fuel your expectations for this game.

At the beginning of the trailer, viewers might have been confused about what game it was for, and then we introduced some enemies, and still it was kept unclear, and then Bayonetta appeared. I think the fact that we were able to pull off this misdirection in the trailer shows that the new game has its own color. Bayonetta 3 looks a little different, and it includes some new types of gameplay, so I hope players will find it fresh.

Hideki Kamiya, PlatinumGames Vice President

Bayonetta 3 is happening largely thanks to Nintendo, as was the case for Bayonetta 2 before it. Surprisingly, though, Kamiya has said that Nintendo has not put up any restrictions and is allowing PlatinumGames to run Bayonetta 3 how they see fit.

When we released the previous trailer, some fans thought that maybe working with Nintendo had meant we were under some kind of restrictions in terms of creative expression, but that is absolutely not the case. This will be a very Bayonetta-esque Bayonetta game.

Hideki Kamiya

There has not been a whole lot more information regarding Bayonetta 3 since that trailer dropped during the September 2021 Nintendo Direct. Despite that, the title is still planned to release some time this year, and I for one am beyond looking forward to it.

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