The wait is finally over for the West to grab their hands on one of the most anticipated games for 2010, Bayonetta. As a global release (US, EU and AUS) last week, I manged to grab my copy last Thursday to ensure I had a high chance in grabbing the exclusive collectors item of the Scarborough Fair Gun along with my Climax edition. :)

Credit goes to one of my team leaders for allowing me to take an extended lunch break or I would’ve missed out. He knew what I was coming back with. LOL

cd soundtrack

As many are already aware, the Climax edition contains more than just the game as it also includes a 36 page hardcover artbook and a CD soundtrack featuring 6 songs packed in a slipcase. When the game was first released in Japan a few months back, I didn’t see any collectors edition or any other special items bundled with the game so with SEGA  approach in releasing a collectors (climax) edition to it’s western region is a nice way in saying thanks it’s people for the wait. Heck, I was close in picking up my Japanese version from Play-asia but I’m very happy the patience has paid off even if I had to fork out a couple more bucks for the climax edition other than the game alone.

Artbook

After digging into the game for a couple of hours, I can honestly say this is the most wildest game I have ever played. The story is original and captivating and the fight scenes are just wicked and crazy at times. One moment you could be fighting angels and demons and the next moment you could be facing a boss 10 times the size of you and at times, there are critical moments where it’s either life or death so if your caught off guard for a split second, game over. :)
The gameplay is fun and easy to learn. At first I had doubts in being able to play such a fast paced game with so many different executions of attacks and combos to learn but SEGA made it very easy with a 2 button combination setup and with over 30 different combination of attacks, your likely to hit one on the spot. I guess the difficulty is knowing the attacks you did since there are just too many to remember. lol

Finally, a look at the exclusive Scarborough Fair Gun. Please note once again, the gun is not included with the climax edition as it’s a standalone item. At a few stores for example eb games, the gun was only available for people who preordered the climax edition but if you were lucky to be able to buy the climax edition on the day it was released, you would’ve had a good chance in grabbing one like I did at jb-hifi.

You can slight see the rough finish. :(

Overall, the gun was a nice collectors item to have but the quality was very disappointing. The paint job looks sloppy and the colours are kinda off. If you look closely at the paint job, you can see the colours are not in between the lines and what you can’t see is the paint feels very rough. It’s not a polish finish as I would expect it to be but given the fact it’s a limited collectible, it’s should’ve been at least an above average quality but I can’t even label that. Even the colours doesn’t help in improving that polish finish as I mentioned earlier, they look kinda off. You can’t see it well because of the lighting during the times of these shots but the guns has this goldenish colour but what we get is a dark yellow that looks like mustard. At least I find they got the other colour right but if they worked on the quality a bit more, I wouldn’t bother at all about the colours since quality is my top agenda.
On a whole, I didn’t pay a cent for the gun and I consider it as a free gift so I’m not too picky about it. It’s nice to see something game related in the living room. :D

Something random. :)

For the price of $118AUD for the Climax Edition with the gun, it was indeed worth every cent but I understand it’s pricey for some. The game alone is $98AUD RRP and honestly, it’s worth every cent. If adventure and fighting are your type of genres then this game is a MUST HAVE!!! Reviews has been positive all the way and if this game was released before the end of 09, it would’ve been a serious contender for the game of the year. ^^

Launch Trailer