I’ve had the PS3 for a few day but with work and I only been really able to play yesterday and today. While I get some other games for it in the future for right now I only have the one game: Boyonetta. So far I’m only have a couple of hours of game play with the game so as the title says this is only early impressions.
Overall the character design is pretty unique. Boyonetta runs around in a outfit made mostly out of her own hair and her high heels have guns mounted on the heels, who came up with that? She is definitely designed for sex appeal, long legged, large bused and the cut scenes love to do tight zooms on her perfectly proportioned posterior. Thou Sygnin the artist of one of last years SDFs did have something to say about Boyonetta’s character design that I have to agree with. That being her head is way to small and some of the poses just make it look even smaller.
The intro to the game I feel was a bit on the long side with several cut scenes both pre-rendered and in-engine. Speaking of pre-rendered cut scenes, they us a film effect durning several of them reducing them to several still with voiceovers. One problem I have with the game so far is more of personal preference thing than a real problem. And, that is the game is originally a Japanese game but they striped the Japanese voice track out completely, why? I mean they went through the trouble to do english subtitles for the whole thing why rip out the Japanese voice track. I mean it’s not like they don’t have to room on a blu-ray disc.
Edit: Well scratch what I said above. This will teach me to research before writing these things seems that there is no Japanese voice track. Even the Japanese version has english voice actors with Japanese subtitles.
So far game play has be a bit on the not very much side. Like I said there were some long intros. And so far what play there has been is a bit on the button mashing side. I expect that to change thou as the story develops. There have been a couple of easy puzzles to get you use to the controls but nothing major. I am liking the game so far and hopefully they will mix things up enough with story and game play to keep me going. With any luck Boyonetta will join the short list of games that I have finished.
