Again apologies for the nonsense text.

Yegwa:

I would like to make a small correction in your article though, Byonetta’s modeller is a woman not a man. The person you quoted is the game director – Hideki Kamiya.

I did not quote Hideki Kamiya in my piece at all. I said “The emphasis on her rear should not be surprising as the modeler for the character said: “I really wanted to get Bayonetta’s backside perfect. I guess I am into that sort of thing…””
If you click on the link in that section of the post it takes you to a blog post which starts with “I am Kenichiro “Yoshi” Yoshimura, the modeler for Bayonetta.. ” I also did not mention a gender for that individual since I was unsure if it was a male or a female.

So what exactly are you correcting?

I would like to make a small correction in your article though, Byonetta’s modeller is a woman not a man. The person you quoted is the game director – Hideki Kamiya. He did have final say into the design of the character, but at the end of the day, the modeller and character designer did all the work for Bayonetta and her Umbra witch counterpart Jeanne (the Virgil to Bayonetta’s Dante).

On the subject of the torture themes and skimpy outfits etc. in my own playthrough of the game I felt that it was done with tongue firmly in cheek as most of the sequences are quite ridiculous. Having said that, this is indeed a game made by men and I am a heterosexual guy so I guess maybe it wouldn’t offend me.

I do think that as a character, she does fit the bill for what she is supposed to – sadistic, sexual, and to my mind piss-taking. Bayonetta struts her stuff for her own amusement. She’s fighting angels who would be expected to be prudish and so comes out all ‘sex blazing’ and BDSM as if to mock their very existence.

Later on in the game the character does show a bit more depth.

I do think that it is the best game of its type with a huge depth of interplay in its systems, it’s just a shame that so many people have been put off by its presentation, especially when it was done with what I have gathered to be a smirk throughout.

To me offensive is Dante’s Inferno not this.

At first i thought of the character a the standard “tough oversexed women” fetish witch are not so really different from characters like dragon ages Morrigan, mass effect 2 or good old Lara Croft.

Off course Bayonetta with all the stripper and bondage moves is totally over the top. But most of the time i tried too ignored this.

But I came to a point where the game really disgusted me. There are some BDSM themed finishing moves where you execute the asexual “angels” very vivid. This is in strange sense more funny then offensive.

But later you encounter the overfeminine “Joy” angels who are executed in a “rape like” mini cutscene.

(At the end of the video around 1.45)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NaUVRwAky4

What are you thoughts on that?
For me this really crossed the line.