Game

Bayonetta 2

2014 · Wii U · Nintendo Switch · Shooter · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Adventure

89IGDB player score
259 ratings

Previously Take

An 89 score from 259 devoted raters — the math of a game with a real following. An adventure game leaning hard into fantasy — more about the journey than the destination. Come for the campaign, stay because your friends won't let you leave the lobby.

Awards & honors

The Game Awards 2014

Game of the Year — Nominee

About this game

The witching hour strikes again. Brimming with intricate battles that take place in, on and all over epic set pieces, Bayonetta 2 finds our sassy heroine battling angels and demons in unearthly beautiful HD. You’re bound to love how it feels to string together combos with unimaginable weapons and to summon demons using Bayonetta’s Umbran Weave in this frantic stylized action game.

Starting a few months after the events of the first game, Bayonetta and Jeanne are fighting off a group of angels who attacked a city during a parade. During one particular attack, Jeanne protects Bayonetta from a sudden demon summon gone wrong, causing her soul to be claimed by the depths of Hell. Upon a tip from her informant Enzo, Bayonetta heads to the sacred mountain of Fimbulvinter. An entrance to Inferno, the Gates of Hell, is said to be inside and Bayonetta plans to use it to save her friend.