{"id":15164,"date":"2012-05-03T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=15164"},"modified":"2012-05-03T03:32:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T10:32:17","slug":"say-goodbye-to-the-bayonetta-sequel-we-didnt-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/05\/03\/say-goodbye-to-the-bayonetta-sequel-we-didnt-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Say goodbye to the Bayonetta sequel we didn&#8217;t need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"15164\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/The_last_Bayonetta.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/The_last_Bayonetta.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The_last_Bayonetta\" width=\"600\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/spong.com\/article\/26926\/Rumour-Bayonetta-2-Has-Been-Cancelled\">this unsourced rumor<\/a>, a Bayonetta sequel that was never announced was cancelled.  Which can mean anything from someone throwing away a piece of concept art to an entire project scrapped and internal schedule reworked.<\/p>\n<p>My initial reaction is the expected, &#8220;Aww, now I won&#8217;t get to play Bayonetta 2!&#8221;  But it occurs to me that I&#8217;m pretty sure I don&#8217;t want Bayonetta 2.  Some games are fine as self-contained entities, with no further elaboration needed, and no real need for improvements.  Remember when God of War, Devil May Cry, and Mortal Kombat were fresh?  That&#8217;s the same thrill I got discovering Bayonetta that I eventually lost with those other games as they trundled down their path of sequels and remakes and reboots.  If any game deserves to transcend the usual franchise treatment, it&#8217;s Bayonetta.  What&#8217;s wrong with a really good one-off from time to time?  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, time was I would have said the same thing about Bioshock.  Then along came Bioshock 2 and now I&#8217;m giddy with anticipation for Bioshock Infinite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Say goodbye to the Bayonetta sequel we didn&#039;t need - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/05\/03\/say-goodbye-to-the-bayonetta-sequel-we-didnt-need\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Say goodbye to the Bayonetta sequel we didn&#039;t need - 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