When Bayonetta 3’s first gameplay trailer hit final 12 months, her new braided coiffure caught the eye of followers for its resemblance to the look of Cereza, the little lady who tagged together with gamers within the first recreation. Spoiler for Bayonetta 1: Cereza is the kid model of Bayonetta, so maybe our hero merely wished to return to her adolescent roots. Nevertheless, the third recreation’s concentrate on the multiverse has prompted some followers to contemplate a extra tantalizing idea.
First, to offer some context, this is a (comparatively) fast refresher of Bayonetta’s backstory for newcomers or lapsed followers. 5 hundred years previous to the occasions of the primary recreation, Bayonetta, whose actual identify is Cereza, was born the kid of an Umbra Witch and a Lumen Sage. Because the light-worshipping Sages have been rivals to the darkness-wielding witches, this was considered as a forbidden union. Cereza’s mom, Rosa, was imprisoned in consequence. Thus, the witches handled Cereza as an outcast throughout her childhood and initially banned her from studying magic (however she does anyway), although Rosa does her finest to lift Cereza regardless.
A younger Jeanne was the one witch who confirmed any actual kindness to Cereza, befriending her and forming a lifelong bond. Twenty years later, the witch hunts that led to the Umbran order’s destruction started. Jeanne is chosen to steer the coven into battle, and she or he chooses to duel Cereza as a ultimate take a look at of her skills (a lot to the Umbran elders’ chagrin). Angels assault the witches throughout this duel, and Rosa is killed. This loss causes Cereza to lose her will to struggle. To guard Cereza, Jeanne seals her away on the backside of a lake, sparing Cereza from the Umbran order’s extinction. Centuries later, Cereza awakens within the modern-day along with her reminiscence wiped, together with her true identify, which is why she adopts the Bayonetta alias.
Younger Cereza and Bayonetta within the first recreation.
Because the story of Bayonetta 1 unfolds, she encounters a baby model of herself. Neither acknowledges the opposite on account of Bayonetta’s amnesia and younger Cereza believing grownup Bayo is their mom, because of the resemblance. They tag alongside for a lot of the recreation, and it is later revealed that little Cereza was plucked from the previous and introduced to the current by their father and the sport’s villain, Baldur. We’ll skip over Baldur’s motive for doing this (it is lots), however the recreation concludes with little one Cereza being returned to her correct timeline.
Nevertheless, this act creates a brand new parallel universe the place the as soon as lonely and shy Cereza, now having skilled the love and bravado of her older self, beneficial properties the boldness to struggle again through the witch hunts. Since she participates within the battle, Jeanne by no means seals her away, and the pair handle to fend off their attackers. There are another large parts at play right here (such because the Left Eye of Darkness), however that is the principle gist of the story.
Now, all of that has led followers to invest that the witch we’re enjoying as in Bayonetta 3 is that this alternate model of Cereza and never “prime” Bayonetta. So which witch are we getting? Once I requested director Yusuke Miyata, he was cagey about giving a solution.
“I can neither verify nor deny whether or not it is a grown-up model of Cereza,” says Miyata. “Since this recreation includes the multiverse idea, she may very well be Bayonetta from an alternate universe who occurs to look similar to Cereza, or it may very well be the grown-up Cereza. I’d like to depart this as much as gamers’ imaginations as they benefit from the recreation.”
So there you might have it. Whereas it is probably not a concrete reply, the truth that Miyata didn’t shut this rumor down outright means followers who consider in it might hold the hope alive. Or, on the very least, we’re nonetheless enjoying because the Bayonetta we all know and love, and Miyata doesn’t need to rain on gamers’ parades. It is enjoyable to see Platinum formally acknowledge this idea, if nothing else.
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