I beat Bayonetta already, but perhaps I should note I was playing it on Easy. I had first started the game in Normal mode, the hardest difficulty available, but after dying like crazy trying to get through one area, I switched it to Easy and just carried on like that. I’m playing through it again on Normal and it’s much more difficult. The game lets you keep all your stuff after you beat it, so I have all the same weapons and items as before. I assumed I would still have the marionette Accessory from the first time through, so when I saw it was for sale at the Gates of Hell, I ignored it. Turns out it took that Accessory away from me, either because I beat the game or I started playing again on Normal. Now I can’t afford the darn thing but it was so helpful to have. It allows you to bang away on the two main attack keys and it will generate random combos. I pretty much do what Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation said in his review of Bayonetta: flail around on the two attack buttons and hope for some awesome combo to come out. Often times, it does. *shrug*

One thing I wanted to point out (can’t remember if I’ve said as much before on here) is that I haven’t had any problem with the game’s load times. I know I read in different reviews online of the game that everyone thought Bayonetta’s load times on the PS3 were ridiculous. Now I haven’t tried the 360 version, but I did do one thing that I didn’t see other PS3 reviewers mention: I chose the Install option before I ever started playing Bayonetta. I saw it in the main menu, didn’t know what it would entail, but it sounded like a fine idea. I’m guessing that doing that speeds up loading considerably by copying necessary stuff to the PS3 instead of always reading from disc.

I have Eternal Sonata ordered and it should arrive in a couple days. Just in time, too, since I beat Bayonetta only yesterday. I’ve been playing Pixeljunk Eden also, though I’ve only gotten 4/5 Spectra in Garden 1 and nothing in any other garden.