Pose Fighting Scene in Bayonetta Is Metaphorical, Claims Creator

**Yvlla** · 01-10-2011

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...Claims-Creator

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The suggestive sequence supposedly represents the deep rivalry that women feel towards each other.

Bayonetta is a pretty unique game, as anyone who's been exposed to it for more than a few seconds will agree. What's more, underneath the veneer of pole-dancing witches and gun-shoes, beats the heart of a deeply metaphorical work - or at least, that's what creator Hideki Kamiya says.

Kamiya said that his favorite part of Bayonetta is when the titular character meets Joy, her angelic doppleganger. The pair square off against each other in a pose battle, which is a little bit like a dance fight, but a lot more risqué. As you can see in the video - which isn't especially work safe - Bayonetta eventually wins the contest, forcing Joy to drop her disguise and show her true form.

On the surface, the scene is just another part of an already overtly sexual game, but according to Kamiya, it also represents the rivalry that all women feel towards one another. He said that every woman regards every other woman as an enemy, and that's the idea that he was trying to convey. Even women who pass each other on the street will check out how the other looks, he said, with antagonism possible in even those brief meetings. "Women are scary," he added.

I'm not especially qualified to start talking about how women think, but I'm not entirely sure that Kamiya is either. Still, it would be fascinating to find out what messages and metaphors the rest of the game holds, buried deep beneath the partial nudity and lollipops.

**Seraph Zero** · 01-10-2011

It sounds like Kamiya has a deep-seated fear of vaginas caused by an abusive or otherwise overbearing mother. Then again, that's just my take...

**Yvlla** · 01-10-2011

I've heard women repeatedly say something to the effect of what he said here.

Don Chipotle · 01-10-2011

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Originally Posted by Seraph Zero

It sounds like Kamiya has a deep-seated fear of vaginas caused by an abusive or otherwise overbearing mother. Then again, that's just my take...

I think Kamiya just really likes chicks with guns.

**Mina** · 01-11-2011

"Women are scary". I guess he's mad they're too busy checkin each other out instead of him.

Don Chipotle · 01-11-2011

Kamiya gets mad pussy. But it is all Japanese pussy so he's like "Man where's all the good pussy"

**Lancet Jades** · 01-11-2011

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Originally Posted by Don Chipotlé

Kamiya gets mad pussy. But it is all Japanese pussy so he's like "Man where's all the good pussy"

Shush, you'll offend Kimiko.

Don Chipotle · 01-11-2011

Hence the mad pussy.

Snap.

**Seraph Zero** · 01-11-2011

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Originally Posted by Don Chipotlé

I think Kamiya just really likes chicks with guns.

Or, yeah, that too...

**Altima** · 01-13-2011

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Originally Posted by Yvl

I've heard women repeatedly say something to the effect of what he said here.

Someone at work always skawls at women she thinks look a lot better than her or at least act like it. They usually look way better tho, so this is true.

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Seraph Zero Starkfeldherr Join Date: Aug 2004 (6794 days) Location: Virginia Age: 35 Posts: 913 Threads: 19 Style: Blue Hatch Mood: Introspective Time spent on board: 1 week 2 day 21 hour	It sounds like Kamiya has a deep-seated fear of vaginas caused by an abusive or otherwise overbearing mother. Then again, that's just my take... __________________ Some kind of high-powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Don Chipotle Aw shucks, sugar cube Join Date: Jun 2007 (5765 days) Location: Ponyville Age: 33 Posts: 11,819 Threads: 1261 Style: Ocean Shoals Time spent on board: 9 month 0 week 5 day	Kamiya gets mad pussy. But it is all Japanese pussy so he's like "Man where's all the good pussy" __________________ How dreamlike to see my x-sisters, outside the context of a Papa Song dome. They sang Papa Song’s Psalm, over and over; background hydraulics underbassed that sickening melody. But how jubilant they sounded! Their Investment was paid off. The voyage to Hawaii was under way, and their new life on Xultation would shortly begin... Watching them from the hangway, I envied their certainty about the future.

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Don Chipotle Aw shucks, sugar cube Join Date: Jun 2007 (5765 days) Location: Ponyville Age: 33 Posts: 11,819 Threads: 1261 Style: Ocean Shoals Time spent on board: 9 month 0 week 5 day	Hence the mad pussy. Snap. __________________ How dreamlike to see my x-sisters, outside the context of a Papa Song dome. They sang Papa Song’s Psalm, over and over; background hydraulics underbassed that sickening melody. But how jubilant they sounded! Their Investment was paid off. The voyage to Hawaii was under way, and their new life on Xultation would shortly begin... Watching them from the hangway, I envied their certainty about the future.

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Pretentious Mod Raistifer's little bitch Yvlla Our Sweet Prince Join Date: Feb 2005 (6604 days) Location: Cy Age: 35 Posts: 17,389 Threads: 1766 Style: Ultima Time spent on board: 7 month 0 week 4 day	I've heard women repeatedly say something to the effect of what he said here.

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Mina None So Cold - Frozen Soul Join Date: Aug 2008 (5343 days) Posts: 943 Threads: 75 Style: Smoke Time spent on board: 1 week 1 day 3 hour	"Women are scary". I guess he's mad they're too busy checkin each other out instead of him.

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