{"id":787,"date":"2025-09-15T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:34:19","slug":"it-was-a-bit-of-a-perplexing-experience-hideki-kamiya-on-the-fan-reaction-to-bayonetta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/it-was-a-bit-of-a-perplexing-experience-hideki-kamiya-on-the-fan-reaction-to-bayonetta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Was A Bit Of A Perplexing Experience&#8221; &#8211; Hideki Kamiya On The Fan Reaction To Bayonetta 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sequel launched in 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/bayonetta_3\">Bayonetta 3<\/a> launched on the Switch in 2022 and received high praise from critics, but it&#8217;s fair to say that the reaction from long-time fans was decidedly more mixed. Criticism was raised against the title&#8217;s more approachable gameplay, lacklustre stealth segments, disappointing visuals, and more, and it apparently had quite the effect on series creator Hideki Kamiya.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/features\/interviews\/clovers-interview-kamiya-and-koyama-talk-okami-2-industry-layoffs-and-a-potential-future-with-capcom\/\">VGC<\/a>, Kamiya said that seeing how folks reacted to Bayonetta 3 was a &#8220;perplexing experience&#8221;, noting how fans&#8217; ideas of what a Bayonetta sequel should look like didn&#8217;t necessarily align with what developer PlatinumGames wanted to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/09\/it-was-a-bit-of-a-perplexing-experience-hideki-kamiya-on-the-fan-reaction-to-bayonetta-3\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequel launched in 2022. Bayonetta 3 launched on the Switch in 2022 and received high praise from critics, but it&#8217;s fair to say that the reaction from long-time fans was decidedly more mixed. Criticism was raised against the title&#8217;s more approachable gameplay, lacklustre stealth segments, disappointing visuals, and more, and it apparently had quite the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}