Articles tagged guns

Wow. There are very few games that can leave you speechless and perhaps a little confused upon completion but Bayonetta is certainly one of them. Once you've hacked and slashed your way through the game you'll have massacred hundreds of angels, ridden missiles across the ocean, tortured cherubs, battled dragons while plummeting through mid-air and even have driven a motor bike up the side of a rocket on its way to outer space. Make no mistake; Bayonetta is excessive, gratuitous, exploitative and ludicrous, it also happens to be a whole load of fun.

Why is it that all game writers and developers suddenly lose any shred of creativity the moment they have to pen a female character? They always seem to resort time and again to the ‘bad-ass chick who takes no shit from anyone'. Here's Wet where you play as bad-ass chick Rubi, who takes no shit from anyone. If you don't care it's because her character has just been copied and pasted from every other female protagonist in the history of gaming.