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  • Artist Info: Bayonetta takes place in Vigrid, a fictional city in Europe. The title character is a witch who shapeshifts and uses various firearms, along with magical attacks she performs with her own hair, to dispatch her foes. She awakens after a 500 year sleep and finds herself in an unfamiliar area with no memories of who or what she is. Over time, she begins to remember what caused her current predicament. 500 years before the incident that caused Bayonetta's memory loss, there were two factions preserving the balance between darkness and light in the world—the Umbra Witches, who are followers of darkness and their counterparts, the Lumen Sages, who are followers of light. The factions shared two distinct treasures, the 'Eyes of the World' that were separately named the 'Left Eye' and the 'Right Eye', which they used to oversee the just passage of time. Both factions mysteriously disappeared from Vigrid under unknown circumstances. Bayonetta still has an ornate piece of jewelry which contains a small red gem, and believes this gem is the 'Left Eye' of the 'Eyes of the World'. While searching for the "Right Eye", she often receives flashbacks that make her remember what caused her current predicament.<br />
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    A male character known as Luka (ルカ?) had met Bayonetta as a child, and is now a "possible love interest" for her. Other characters include Bayonetta's rival and fellow Umbra Witch Jeanne (ジャンヌ, Jannu?), who wields four guns like Bayonetta; Rodin (ロダン, Rodan?), the owner of a bar called the Gates Of Hell where Bayonetta can buy various weapons and items; an informant named Enzo (エンツォ, Entso?) who looks and sounds similar to actor Joe Pesci, and provides comic relief; a young girl named Cereza (セレッサ, Seressa?) whom Bayonetta meets early in the game; and the main antagonist Balder (バルドル, Barudoru?).<br />
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    The dimensions Bayonetta inhabits are the game's different settings which borrow from Dante's Divine Comedy: Paradiso , which generally takes the form of a heavenly yellow or golden valley or palace and is the home of the "Angel" enemies she faces; Purgatorio , a metarealm that functions as an "in between" for metaphysical beings and stands alongside yet outside of the plane humans exist on ; and Inferno , which is the game's hellish realm that contains infernal demons of the sort that Bayonetta herself occasionally summons with her Witch powers. Further research uncovers that the Witches actually drew most of their power from the Demons that exist in Inferno.<br />
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    In the present day, an informant named Enzo has joined up with Bayonetta, a witch who was revived twenty years ago from the bottom of a lake and has little or no memories of her past. When Enzo informs her of the possible whereabouts of the person that owns the "Right Eye," one-half of a set known as the "Eyes of the World," she sets out to find this person, hoping that it may help her regain her lost memories.<br />
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    Bayonetta follows Enzo's information to a city called Vigrid, and once there she's forced to fight Angels in order to progress. Shortly after her arrival, Bayonetta is confronted by Jeanne, another Umbra Witch, who seems to have allied herself with the Angels. Afterward, she meets a young man named Luka , who has been trying to track her down because he believes she is responsible for his father's death. After fighting her way through Vigrid, Bayonetta encounters Fortitudo, one of the four Cardinal Virtues, and faces him in battle. After being dispatched, Fortitudo reveals that he is merely a sacrifice to Jubileus, the Creator, whom the Angels are trying to resurrect.<br />
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    After defeating Fortitudo, Bayonetta makes her way through the Crescent and Sunrise Valleys, and upon reaching the end, finds Jeanne conversing with Temperantia, the second of the Cardinal Virtues. Jeanne attacks Bayonetta, and the two Witches face off in battle, with Bayonetta emerging victorious. Continuing on her path, she eventually meets a lost child named Cereza, who wears glasses and carries around a stuffed cat named Cheshire. Much to Bayonetta's frustration, the child believes she's her mother and follows her around. Together, they make their way to a portal leading to Paradiso, where Bayonetta is forced to defend Cereza from the Angels. Upon returning to the human world, Bayonetta leaves Cereza with Luka and confronts Temperantia, who is defeated. Continuing her search for the Right Eye, Bayonetta follows Luka and Cereza down Prominence Bridge in an attempt to reach the island known as Isla del Sol, but becomes trapped in Paradiso. After escaping, she is attacked by Iustitia, the third Cardinal Virtue, and defeats him.<br />
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    Luka devises another plan to infiltrate Isla del Sol by boarding a Valkyrie jet headed for the island. However, Cereza becomes lost in the jet, and Bayonetta is forced to search for her. Interrupting her search is Jeanne, who knows full well about Cereza. The two Umbra Witches fight, with Bayonetta emerging victorious. However, during their battle the jet was shot down by Sapientia, the final Cardinal Virtue. Finally recovering Cereza, Bayonetta escapes the sinking Valkyrie with the girl and hands her to Luka. She is then attacked by Sapientia, who reveals after being defeated that the gem Bayonetta believes to be the Left Eye is nothing more than a "worthless rock." After the battle, Bayonetta heads for Isla del Sol with Luka and Cereza in a helicopter. However, their helicopter is suddenly shot down with missiles from the island. The group somehow survives, with Luka becoming ensnared in one missile's fins, and Bayonetta and Cereza safely perched on another. Bayonetta guides the missile back to Isla del Sol, shooting down attacking forces of angels, including clones of Fortitudo and Temperantia.<br />
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    When they reach the island, Bayonetta is confronted once again by Jeanne, who is revealed to be the one controlling the missiles with a remote. Atop a tall building, she explains that Bayonetta was a child born from an Umbra Witch and a Lumen Sage. This was strictly forbidden by the clans' ancient commandments, as it was foretold that this would bring calamity to the world. Jeanne says that for that reason, allowing Bayonetta to exist is a danger that cannot be accepted. Luka suddenly arrives in a stolen vehicle and steals Jeanne's remote, before leaving with Cereza; however, the vehicle drives off the building and explodes. As a stunned Bayonetta looks on in stupefaction, Jeanne states, "Time is of the essence. This can wait no longer!" and the two Umbra Witches fight one last time. Their battle begins atop the building, which then collapses onto another building, where the battle continues and Jeanne's clothing changes to a white version of Bayonetta's. The battle then shifts onto two separate missiles, before culminating atop another building. Bayonetta finally defeats Jeanne, who states that the reason Bayonetta possesses the Left Eye is because she has accepted her fate. Bayonetta hands Jeanne the gem she had been carrying, which triggers a recall of the events that occurred 500 years before. Bayonetta suddenly remembers that her real name is Cereza, and that Jeanne was once her friend; it was Jeanne who sealed her away, giving Bayonetta the gem to protect her and the Left Eye. Their reunion is short-lived, however, as Jeanne sacrifices her own life to save Bayonetta from a missile attack. Bayonetta is blown through a window of the Ithavoll Building, and is joined by Luka and Cereza.<br />
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    Upon walking up to a large double door, Cereza begins to hear a familiar voice and claims that it is her "Daddy." Bayonetta follows her up the tower, fighting clones of Temperantia, Iustitia, and Sapientia along the way, as well as encountering an enormous statue of Jubileus, the Creator, inside the building. Upon reaching the very top of the tower, Bayonetta finally meets Father Balder, the supposed last of the Lumen Sages, who has taken up residence in what is presumably the "highest point of Lumen hierarchy and society."<br />
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    Balder reveals to Bayonetta that he is her father, and that he plans to reunite the three universes by resurrecting Jubileus, the Creator. To accomplish that, he needs the Eyes of the World, and one of those eyes - the Left Eye - is Bayonetta herself. Balder explains that due to her memory loss Bayonetta could not awaken the Left Eye, and the only way for her to realize her true potential was for her to regain those lost memories. When Bayonetta asks him where he got the girl, he reveals that Cereza is in fact her younger self and was part of the plan to make Bayonetta remember her past. Luka suddenly emerges from the shadows and ridicules Balder's "entrepreneurial philosophy." It is then that Balder reveals that it was in fact he, and not Bayonetta, who orchestrated the death of Luka's father. A furious Luka is lifted into the air by the limbs by four angels, and Balder tells him he will have the dignity of dying in the same manner as his father. Bayonetta kills the angels before they can dismember Luka; however, Balder telekinetically throws Luka out of a window. Balder further upsets Bayonetta by revealing he had mentally reprogrammed Jeanne to obey him, at which point Bayonetta attacks him. However, Balder easily overpowers her, grabbing her in a choke-hold and flinging her across the room, before absorbing Cereza to increase his power. An enormous shock wave destroys the room and begins to travel down the tower, reducing it to rubble. Bayonetta manages to recover and engages in battle with her father. Fighting amidst the falling rubble, Bayonetta ultimately manages to defeat Balder.<br />
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    After the battle, Balder's lifeless body hits the ground, and Bayonetta lands safely with Cereza in her arms. A missile suddenly flies overhead, with Luka once again ensnared in its fins. Using her Umbran Watch, Bayonetta manages to open a time portal to bring the child, her younger self, back to her original timeline. However, this causes her to regain all her memories upon returning to the present time, causing her to fall unconscious. A seemingly unharmed Balder then reappears, stating that the Left Eye has now been awakened. He then transports himself and the unconscious Bayonetta towards the statue on top of the tower in order for them to begin the resurrection of Jubileus and take their places as the Eyes of the World, who would oversee a new reality for all eternity. As they both enter into the eyes of the statue, the tower's outer structure crumbles to reveal a missile which launches into space.<br />
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    With Bayonetta imprisoned, Jeanne suddenly makes her reappearance. It is revealed that the gem she got from Bayonetta managed to remove Balder's mind control and allowed her to shield from the incoming missiles in the nick of time. She ascends the statue on her magically enhanced motorcycle by riding along the surface of the missile used to launch Jubileus into orbit. Arriving just in time to save Bayonetta, she pulls her out of the statue's left eye, causing Jubileus to go berserk and consume Balder in the process. Bayonetta and Jeanne manage to defeat the deity, but end up in a free-fall towards Earth. Both Bayonetta and Jeanne manage to survive the descent, and the epilogue shows them continuing their battles with the Angels.<br />
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