I DEFINITELY need a Bayonetta icon

[spindizzy]

Lex got me Bayonetta 2 for Christmas because he's a STAR, and I've finally gotten around to starting it! I guess spoilers for the prologue?

I love all the harking back to the opening of the first game it did – the falling, the battle where you can just flail around wildly to get used to the controls, the teaming up with someone you don't know yet to kick angels off your rubble, the obligatory intro where you ruin Enzo's life! (There are new shinies too, like A MECH and angels that are CENTAURS and evil giant demonic flying rays?) And Luka's doing the explanatory voice over, so I'm genuinely just sitting there like "!!! MY PRECIOUS IDIOT SON IS IN THIS GAME, YAY!!!"

And it's CHRISTMAS and Bayonetta and Jeanne have apparently swapped aesthetics, and Bayonetta is swanning around in a stylish dress buying stuff for her Big Queer Christmas Bash, and Rodin is dressed as Santa and Jeanne is an ABSOLUTE MENACE when she's happy, and I'm honestly delighted by all of this. And look! The plot appears to be "So you know how we killed god that one time and probably threw the entire world out of balance? Yeah, surprisingly enough that has ripple effects!" I'm very here for that! And Bayonetta's demons are slightly out of her control, cool, interesting way to carry over her powers from the end of the first game while still having a power curve in the second —

— And then Jeanne dies.

I am FURIOUS.

I know that this is what the game WANTS me to feel, and that the entire plot is hinging on going into hell to drag her back out, but also: WHAT. NO. WHAT. HOW DARE YOU. JEANNE RODE A MOTORBIKE INTO SPACE JUST TO GIVE THE PATRIARCHY THE FINGER AND YOU WANT ME TO BELIEVE THAT SHE COULD GO DOWN BEFORE THE GAME EVEN REALLY STARTS?! What is this nonsense? Why is it actually WORKING on me when I'm usually just annoyed at fridging?

I have already faced God once in this franchise, if you think that I won't walk into hell and start raising it then THINK AGAIN.