Her limbs and the rest of her design were appealing to Kamiya, and development proceeded on the character's attire. She was given longer legs and arms to make her more appealing as an action-game character, countering what Shimazaki felt was a trend of female characters in such games having short and thin limbs. The outfit color persisted, described by Shimazaki as being her "theme color" due to being a witch.
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The process, which took a full year, went through a hundred character designs and alterations, with early appearances resembling a traditional witch, with a frayed black outfit and a "veil-like look" on her head. Her name was inspired by a bayonet, meant to imply there was "more to her than meets the eye", while her four guns were named parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme after the old English ballad, " Scarborough Fair", due to Kamiya's love of folk music. To this end, he told character designer Mari Shimazaki to create her with three traits: a female lead, a modern witch, and to use four guns. Given the suggestion to create another action game by producer Yusuke Hashimoto, project director Hideki Kamiya decided to create a female lead for the title, having felt he had already done all that could be done with male protagonists. Mari Shimazaki tried to make the witch Bayonetta more appealing with longer limbs and adjusted proportions. Reception of the character has been positive overall, with the common point of praise being her highly feminine image, which makes her both stand out among female characters in video games and go against several set conventions. She is a guest character in other titles such as Anarchy Reigns, The Wonderful 101, and the Super Smash Bros.
She also appears as the protagonist of Bayonetta 2, where she becomes a demon hunter confronting her own literal demons.
During the first game, she goes in search of her forgotten past, heading for her old home of Vigrid and fighting the angelic forces of Paradiso on the way. She was created by Hideki Kamiya, designed by Mari Shimazaki and is voiced by Hellena Taylor (prior to the upcoming Bayonetta 3) in English and Atsuko Tanaka in Japanese.īayonetta is one of only two surviving Umbra Witches, being the child of a Witch and a Lumen Sage. Bayonetta ( Japanese: ベヨネッタ, Hepburn: Beyonetta), real name Cereza, is the titular witch and protagonist of the Bayonetta video game series, developed by PlatinumGames and published by Sega and Nintendo.
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