SEGA has revealed Bayonetta: Climax Edition, the limited edition of PlatinumGames’ hair-raising action game. It comes with a replica pistol and it’s exclusive to Australia and New Zealand.
It features a very limited custom-built replica of the Scarborough Fair, Bayonetta’s beloved pistol which she has strapped to her hands and feet. The aptly-named Climax Edition also comes in premium slipcase packaging and features the Bayonetta game, as well as a 36-page hardcover art book and CD soundtrack featuring music from the video game.
Bayonetta releases on January 7 for Xbox 360 and PS3.
Amano07
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 11:07 AMis there a PS3 version of this? any idea where we can pick this up? is it one of those retailer exclusives?
dofry
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 5:18 PMhttp://www.myps3.com.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=2662
PS3 Edition
opm881
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 11:20 AMDo we have a price for this? Ive had a look at the gameplay footage of the game and looks great! Would love to get this collectors :P
jawbreaker982
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 11:44 AMHang on a minute. Is this replica pistol going to be like the crummy Saints Row 2 replica pistol?
oggob
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:17 PMSeeing as it looks like it’s on a stand, unlikely to be made of cardboard like Saints Row…
DavidR
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 11:48 AMI applaud the headline, Wildgoose.
In other news, I don’t think it’s physically possible for me to care any less about Bayonetta.
Joseph
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 7:15 PMLooks so bad.
brent3000
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 11:50 AMWait AUS gets something exclusive?
I would be intrested to see the price on it as well :)
Jason
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 11:56 AMGlad to see I’m not the only one who thinks it’s overrated……
boo goose
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:27 PMI was going to give this a miss as it just looks like they are going for the porn angle and Ive not really herd much on the rest of the game (generally not a good sign for a good game). But the gun and the book have upgraded the game to my ‘might get it if I’m next to it and have nothing else in my hand’ list. I like when they add cheap toys with thier games, sucks me in every time.
Renee Oflynn
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 6:22 PMGlad to know I’m not the only one. Mind you they could say Free hat and I’m sold…which they’re counting on.
I love devil may cry but being a hetrosexual female I was turned off by the games’ female character posing in the nude. I’m used to big breasted female characters and such but I think they built the character first and slapped the rest on later.
It makes the game less appealing.
Lynn
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 7:00 AMAs a heterosexual female who has played the game, Bayonetta is one of the few female characters I can respect in gaming today. The story is fantastic, and the character is well built. Yes, she is sexy, highly so, but it is not a crime for women to be sexy. It is not a crime, for us to be sexual creatures. It’s not all about appealing to men, it’s about being allowed to express ourselves the way we want to. Bayonetta is a powerfully confident woman who demands respect. She empowers me.
DavidR
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM“might get it if I’m next to it and have nothing else in my hand”
BOOMSHAKALAKA!
Seriously though, this game might be alright, but the marketing sure ain’t. It’s basically been nothing but “ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE…huh? what’s that? some Devil May Cry type-gameplay? Aren’t we a bit past that outdated kind of – ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE ARSE!!!!!”
who am iiiiii
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:46 PMhey, it worked in japan…
Steve
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 1:57 PMYes please.
El Phantasmogoro
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 3:18 PMI played it at TGS. It is entirely uninteresting. Been done before, more entertainingly and with less retarded schoolboy fantasies made of uncooked dough. Also, the character design is disgustingly lazy and unoriginal. Half of the bosses look like they were lifted from Shootemups.
It isn’t a BAD game, it just isn’t worth buying.
Jaysun Lee
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 9:06 PMWow really? If you went all the way to TGS I’d think you’d have interest in what Japanese developers were developing.
I’d assume the sex appeal was intended to be taken humorously, I played the demo and Bayonetta slapping away a boss’s hand appeared to be going for a humorous angle (the boss grasping at Bayonetta at death and Bayonetta taking it as the boss trying to grab a piece of it).
I don’t know about character design, but witches in leather seems pretty crazy to me.
Again, I don’t see how you might dislike this game, unless you are absolutely repulsed by action games. If so cross the blockbuster GOWIII of your to-buy list (personally I don’t like GoW that much as Japanese action games like this).
plmko
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 3:32 PMRemember the batman batarang people!
Neil Williams
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 10:59 PMThe Batman batarang was only an issue if you were under the impression that you would be getting a metal batarang. As a metal batarang would be classified as a weapon under Australia’s durisdiction, none of them would’ve gotten past customs. Besides, I thought the brilliance of the game itself would’ve cushioned the blow. ^^
Sweating Bullets
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 4:23 PMI will be getting this! I just got the art book from Japan and this should tie in nicely with that.
Pocket
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 5:45 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzm9ly94fMk
A video of Bayonetta killing an angel by making her orgasm, if that doesn’t make you want the game then nothing will.
Buronzu
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 7:55 PMI’ve finished Bayonetta on 360 twice now (once on Normal, once on Hard) and I’m gunning my way through Infinite Climax difficuly at the moment.
It’s a brilliant game. Easily my GotY, potentially ‘GoNY’ (game of next year) once I buy the Climax edition as well. ;)
It’s very easy to call a game ‘overrated’ without getting your hands on it. It’s not perfect, but it’s as close as an action game has ever gotten before as far as I’m concerned.
Yoshi594
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 8:03 PMdon’t really care for the gun. i wonder if aus will have the same thing but excluding the gun!
mambodog
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 9:16 PMClimax Edition? Have you no shame, Japan?
Lynn
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 7:04 AMSince when was Climaxing shameful?
Sweating Bullets
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:36 AMAny word on which retailers are stocking this?
I just had a very painful experience at JB with a chick at the counter who was not too sure about pre-orders for games in general.
Jeremy Teong
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 11:52 AMThis is the reply I got from EB “We definitely are – we’re currently waiting for assets from the developer before we can get it online”
Sweating Bullets
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 7:49 PMWtf. I thought I commented but it looks like the website blocked me.
I found out that the Gamesmen are selling this edition – just google it as I think Kotaku will not let me link it. That said I am not too sure what they are like as I have never ordered from them.
Sweating Bullets
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 11:54 AMCheck JB’s website. Collector’s edition of Bayonetta for about $120
Sweating Bullets
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 3:02 PMCancel your JB pre-order. Game’s online webstore have it for $99.
Again not too sure if I can link it.
Denz
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 3:06 PMis the Australian version of the game going to have any censorship though? I’m interested in the climax edition but i think i would rather import if its going to be censored =[
unger
Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 10:22 PMWow. Will this edition be available at certain websites for us “Yanks” to buy? I’m really interested in getting one of those Scarborough Fair replicas. Here in the USA, we sure love our guns, especially the replica ones.