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James Mastromarino, NPR gaming editor and Here & Now producerĥ05 Games Crime Boss: Rockay City features a stacked cast of TV & film stars, including Chuck Norris. But Cereza and the Lost Demon does succeed at making you feel like you're playing a team slowly learning to work together - whether you're doing that by yourself, or with a friend. It also lacks the mechanical depth of truly cooperative games like It Takes Two. It's got the quality animation and aesthetic you'd expect from Platinum Games, but little of its baroque, intense action.

I got through most of the game with my wife, who enjoyed Cheshire's pure destructive force, while I played support as Cereza.Īll in all, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon is a curious beast. You can always just hand a Joy-Con to a buddy, and suddenly you're playing an (unofficial) co-op game, where the challenge isn't hand-eye coordination, but rather verbal communication. It can feel like the schoolyard challenge to rub your tummy and pat your head at once. Where Brothers used the dual-character format to deliver a wrenching story, Cereza and the Lost Demon uses it to tickle your brain and vex your fingers. The control scheme resembles 2013's Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, only more fluid, even arcade-y. That's up to Cheshire, who can leap into action as a giant cat-monster, ready to tear into enemies and smash through obstacles like thorns and rocks. Cereza can bind enemies and activate magical flowers, mushrooms, and the like.

Push the right to move Cheshire, a demon reluctantly possessing Cereza's beloved cat doll. Push the left joystick to move Cereza (AKA, kid Bayonetta). Instead, you'll rely on rhythm-based spells, elemental abilities, and simple brawn to conquer impish faeries and environmental puzzles.īut here's what's really audacious: you'll spend much of the game controlling two characters, independently, with one controller. Gone are the gun heels and the ridiculous combos. They took a character famous for stylish violence and sensuality, shrunk her down, and made her wander a vast forest as a lost little girl. Platinum Games made some wild choices in designing Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Play as both a demonic stuffed cat and a witch-in-training in Nintendo's latest Bayonetta title.īayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon

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