For those of you that are unaware, Bayonetta is a game which is touted as being spiritually related to the Devil May Cry series, mainly due to the fact that the game was designed by Hideki Kamiya, the designer of the original Devil May Cry game.

When the demo came out on XBOX Live I downloaded and played it, then felt very dissatisfied, then played it again and still felt the same. The main problem I have with the game is the controls; I’m not sure why but somehow I can’t correlate the buttons to the actions because to me the actions the buttons perform don’t seem to be deterministic; this ultimately results in random button mashing (and quite often death).

I’ve played through Devil May Cry and I really enjoyed that game, mainly because I got the controls since they always did the same thing. I am told that Bayonetta isn’t so bad if you play the actual game from the beginning, and if that’s the case then I would consider the game demo to be a failure since I’m not going to be buying the game due to not being sure I can play it (given, I could put it on super-easy one button mode but that would just make me feel like an idiot, and no-one wants to feel like an idiot).