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@piroshi3rd
I am obsessed with this introduction. I'm going to shift into full autism mode and analyze it scene-by-scene just to really hammer in how awesome this intro is.
-Spooky mostly-monochrome graveyard really hits home the aesthetical origins of a lot of staff's work on Devil May Cry, which was originally drafted as a spinoff of the Resident Evil Series, a pure king of horror. The Gravestone saying "Team Little Angels" is a reference to the team who developed the first Devil May Cry game, Team Little Devils.
-Yuji Shimomura being credited first after Platnium as cinematics director is particularly relevant to this scene. His name is on first because this whole cutscene is the team's pride.
-Probably not placed there on purpose for anyone to point this out, but did you know the producer's birthplace, Osaka, is known for it's comedians?
-Director Hideki Kamiya, though seemingly a massive narcissist in his persona as a public figure, still lets his name get literally pissed on in his own game. That's some humble class.
-Humpty-Dumpty/Eggman is a reference to Sonic the Hedgehog, which makes sense, since SEGA is the publisher of Bayonetta. Since Bayonetta was a new IP and PlatniumGames was still pretty new at this game's release, you could interpret it as a sort of love letter in thanks to SEGA, especially killing their beloved Hedgehog's villain for them. (Though they technically didn't, and this is acknowledged by the fact the coffin is containing Rodin, not Eggman. No cross-universe lorebreaking here!)
-Enzo plays the "shit-eating grin mobster you love to hate" trope so well. It's obvious he's deeply inspired by the actor Danny Devito, famous for playing comedic roles as grossly shady individuals. His ridiculous swagger going so far as to line his every finger with rings even when he's wearing gloves is so over-the-top, it's perfect. By the way, did you notice Enzo is wearing sunglasses? Did you realize that every character in the game has or wears glasses? Keep an eye out for it.
-The first F-bomb of the game is a guy calling his kids cute in affection. There's something extremely endearing about this - campy and funny and casual, it sets the whole vibe of the game as wonderfully human despite it's over-the-top cool hollywood bravado.
-Enzo's self-assured bravado and swaggar immediately dissipates into pathetic panicking when the angels come. Perfect comedic tonal shift.
-Bayonetta's dedication to her nun persona is hilarious because who the hell would take or mistake this woman as an actual nun? Do nuns wear flare-cut skin-tight sexy clothes and 4-inch heels like this? Even at a glance it's a fashionista's take on a nun theme instead of a true uniform, and her lack of breaking character further hammers down how wonderfully dumb it is. That's true camp. (Funfact; did you notice she wears a different pair of glasses than usual in this outfit? Wow, that's some dedication to details.)
-Do you guys know what's happening here? It's not made clear, so let me explain. Bayonetta just opened up and jumped into a purple portal into Purgatorio, which is the invisible world of spirits that most closely overlaps the human world. Enzo goes semi-transparent because his human form is not whole in Purgatorio, still being trapped in his mortal body. Bayonetta can travel between both realities at will through her spell, which she uses often throughout the rest of the game's storyline. Enzo cannot see the angels since he cannot see into Purgatorio. This is why he goes on to freak out so much at seemingly invisible attacks around him, making his panic totally justified. Also - angels really don't care about collateral damage killing the humans they seemingly are supposed to protect. Angels are pretty much just another type of generic monster in this universe. I really think the lore of this game is neat!
-Back to Bayonetta's nun persona - at the same time I criticized it, however, I must admit this nun persona scene of her floating up to enter her oncoming meeting with the angels sets up Bayonetta as a truly otherworldly woman in elegance and beauty, a theme that never truly leaves the entirety of the game's feminine and beautiful vibes in art direction.
-And then that elegance is shattered in a hilarious whiplash as it turns violent. Perfect comedic timing. She is fucking surfing on an angel to throw it's friends into the ground. Why is that happening? It's great. It's so dumb. This fully represents what Bayonetta is - equal part comedy and fun and equal part feminine elegance and beauty. Reminds me of why I love drag queen culture so much.
-I contemplated why "Let me tuck you in" felt so tame for Bayonetta's oftentimes dominatrix-inspired jokes - it's a play on the imagery of a sweet gentle motherly Christian nun figure so kindly being gentle to her children. Lmao.
-Bayonetta swinging a body around to hit other enemies really proves how absurdly strong she is and how unafraid she is to physically go all-out in physical stance. Any gentle feminine elegance you had in mind for her a minute ago just went out the window, didn't it? Hilarious.
-"It's my friggin birthday!" is going to stay with me forever. It's just such a fucking funny thing to scream out in agonized desperation when you're in a life-or-death situation.
-The domino gravestones. Who the fuck set them up like this? That's not how gravestones are set-up, ever. We don't know why it's there like this which makes it all the funnier.
-Rodin standing up so fast that the top of the coffin just flies off into the sky is fucking hilarious.
-I've heard people say Rodin's red eye might be a reference to Wesker from Resident Evil. I think it's a bit of a stretch but eh, why not - some of the same staff worked on both series. If nothing else, I feel like it's a beautiful example of his equal parts of light and dark - in Rodin's character design, he wears all gold angelic-inspired jewelry on one side of him, and on the other, all silver and edgy like inferno's aesthetics. His necklace has both gold and silver to unite both aesthetics in the center of him.
-THE COFFIN LID FALLING DOWN AND BREAKING IN HALF OVER HIS FUCKING SKULL, AND HIM BEING COMPLETELY UNPHASED. 11/10
-Rodin is apparently so powerful and cool that just yelling is fucking up the angels. Did you know he's voice acted by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lee Everett in Telltale's Walking Dead? Guy always bats a hundred.
-"GO! GO! GO!" being mirrored with "RO-RO-RO" from Enzo is so silly. I love it.
-Rodin doesn't need a fucking lighter bc that's just how cool he is. Did he have to blow it out if he's controlling the flame though? LOL
-The fucking angel trying to run away from Bayonetta before she grabs him. How far did it think it would get? Did it forget it could fly away?
-WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ANGELS LINED UP PERFECTLY?? FOR A LINE DANCE LOL?? Side note - the grave they end at his Kamiya's.
-Bayonetta's first true dominatrix-inspired line joke. And man, we are starting off strong for the rest of the game. I still blush!
-SHE JUST DID A FUCKING WRESTLING MOVE
-Rodin says what we're all thinking. Beautiful.
I have to split this comment up into the replies since YouTube's system does NOT like this much text at once.
@piroshi3rd
-The sexual lady sounds of "uh!" sound like they were stock sound effects thrown on instead of Bayonetta, really hammering down the delightful goofy B-movie aesthetics. The trope of a character getting their clothes torn/cut off in really specific sexy ways is such a huge stupid trope in anime, and this is just going all-out on it without any shame. This scene is just absolutely embarassing and smutty in a cheap-feeling way. And I can't help but adore it for just saying "fuck it" and doing it anyway. It's hilarious. I once heard someone describe Bayonetta as a huge dork, and this really cements that vibe - she has no shame about going too far.
-And in the following scene, man, she OWNS that over-the-top smutty sexiness. She turns it into the most fucking fabulous catwalk shit you've ever seen in your life. Instantly she looks insanely good in comparison to the boring outfit she had on before, with an outfit that contours her curves beautifully and has a huge amount of minor detailing that truly feels like a grand piece of high-class high fashion art. She is in the SPOTLIGHT for a reason!
-Just realized the first time we hear her name, "Bayonetta", is when Rodin is about to throw her a couple guns. It's like literally calling her "Ms. Bayonet" or "Miz Guns". They really were not trying to hide the fact her name is just Gun-ta.
-Bayonetta's purgatorio portals come back just so she can get a good hold on those guns in the spirit world! And man, it's no big dramatic drawn-out flair after the first two she's made - she's just throwing those up without hesitation or care after, like it never actually took any concentration to do them to begin with. She never had to pause or kiss her fingers for it. She's just doing those things to show off.
-The underneath the crotch shot is genuinely a really amazing camera angle pan. It follows the motions of her hands and the guns beautifully and naturally. You know it's there for the smutty reasons, but that doesn't mean it isn't good camera direction.
-Bayonetta flying towards the camera/the angel from a far-off distance with the camera completely focused directly on her crotch as she opens it up and slams it into the camera/angel is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my fucking life. Any fragment of a second you thought maybe they weren't self-aware of how awkwardly forceful the smuttiness came off as, they just LITERALLY SHOVED HER VAGINA IN YOUR FACE to confirm they were doing it all 100% on purpose with pride.
-Man, Bayonetta's long limbs wrapped around the angel in symmetry as she spins along with it just looks like a genuinely artistically beautiful art piece. The guns are still hilariously unfittingly modern in that old-style artistry, though.
-RODIN IS A GUNSMITH, WHY DID HE BRING A COFFIN FULL OF GUNS RATHER THAN JUST A FEW GOOD GUNS AND AMMO.... Wait, was he laying down with that huge pile of guns that whole time? LMAO.
-The entire idea of throwing away your guns and replacing them with new guns instead of just taking the second to reload them is fucking 10/10 comedy. It's just too much. Imagine the cost of that. (Funfact, 7 yrs later Overwatch also did this same joke with Reaper's reload animations.)
-Even if you look at the lore and understand that Bayonetta controls her hair and it's most likely she's pulling the triggers with the hair around her ankles as she shoots the guns with her feet, do I really need to explain to you how fucking absurd it is to strap guns to your feet? The camera angle of showing you the gun move onto her feet is also hilarious, it looks like it was made by an amateur animator.
-This whole fight scene is just beautifully directed. There's a lot of left-right pans and symmetry going on. It's just a treat for the eyes.
-IMPROVISED POLE-DANCING, BABY!
-She just shot-farted that guy.
-Rodin throwing her the lollipop wasn't totally out-of-place - in normal gameplay, red lollipops are a strength power-up medicine.
-The utter tonal delay of the fast-paced battle to stop for a slow and steady closeup of Bayonetta enjoying a lollipop is hilariously out-of-place.
-Bayonetta casually playing with the lollipop in her mouth by shifting it around as she shoots the head off of an angel is hilarious. This is fight is a normal everyday low-effort chore for her, you can imagine it's frustratingly insulting from the enemy's PoV.
-Funfact! Rodin's scene of hitting those enemies off into the sky like he's playing baseball is an absolute 100% direct reference to Clover's "God Hand", a really unknown but absolutely fantastic gemstone of a game you absolutely need to play, especially if you like beat-'em-ups. (Clover was what Platnium used to be called back when they worked for CAPCOM. They also made Okami.)
-"That was your last call, no more shots from me" literal bartender speak.
-Bayonetta dodging underneath the angels Rodin just hit away just so she can assist their destruction with a backwards kick. Chef's kiss.
-Guess what? Rodin actually made all the disposable guns. If you pause at the right time when there's a closeup of her holding one of them, you can see his logo "The Gates of Hell", with his logo.
-The disco pose under the spotlight! Disco is really out of style nowadays, but it was a golden age of feminine fashion and empowerment, an era of women really fighting for their equal rights for the first time in US history. (drag queens LOVE this era)
-Bayonetta's motion capture artist Maiko Uchida, AKA MAIKO, does a fucking phenomenal job with that strut across the gravestones. If you look up a video called "γJAZZγγ¦γ©γΌγγ³γ° RISING Dance School MAIKO γΈγ£γΊγγ³γΉ Walking" you can see her do that exact strut. Absolutely fucking beautiful, so over the top but so damn perfect for the vibe.
-Why the sexy mouth moment? Fuck it, why not the sexy mouth moment?!
That's all I have to say in analzation! Please add observations if you want to. love you xoxo
@TheFoxInTaleAFC
" As long as there's music, I'll keep on dancing BLEAGH "
@lepidlover0557
PURHHH
@Rakunx
This deserves a pin XD
@wayverleesoulsong
More like βUahh~β
@lowhp_comic
"π"
@darksoulsfanboy1917
They could not have started this game in a better way. Perfection
@aniocitex1131
Fun fact: Enzo is also Danteβs informant
@derrickdaniels3955
Yes
@nelosangero
Well before morrison came along
@thanhcutun8227
Just a throwback from DMC. Luka's father shared the same name with Dante's alias: Tony Redgrave