Platinum shares a few Bayonetta 1/2 details
This information comes from director Yusuke Hashimoto and executive producer Atsushi Inaba…
Bayonetta 1
– Includes optional touch screen controls
– Original Japanese voice track also included
– Gyro sensor functions in certain places
– However, “that’s not a very big part of the game”
– Inaba and Hashimoto say they can’t reveal whether they had planned to develop a port of the original game when they first signed the sequel with Nintendo, or later as a reaction to negative comments online
– Platinum wanted to do it and suggested it to Nintendo
– They also hint that Bayonetta 2 may include certain Nintendo references as well
Bayonetta 2
– Kamiya has been overseeing Bayonetta 2
– Kamiya helped create the story and monitored the world in a supervisory role
– Work is done on Bayonetta 2
– Just working on bug fixes
– Game is coming out 5 years after the original
– Development only lasted 3 years
– Bayonetta 2 went through an experimental phase for its first two years
– In the third year production “spiked exponentially”
