Bayonetta 2

Bayonetta 2 is a 2014 Hack and Slash for the Wii U, developed by Platinum Games and a direct sequel to Bayonetta.

After the events of first game, Jeanne and Cereza are living their lives on the route to Christmas as usual: buying gifts for their friends, buying caviar for the Christmas dinner, and killing angels. But Bayonetta's latest summoning, Gomorrah comes awry, and the demon attacks. Jeanne dives to save an unsuspecting Bayonetta, but this pushes her soul out of her body, and she is dragged to hell. Enraged, our heroine fights her own summon and finishes her off with a new one.

Rodin says there's no way Bayonetta could have lost control of her summoning by lack of experience, and it is pretty likely that this unlikely turn of events was caused by the death of Balder, the Right Eye of the World, breaking the balance between Light and Darkness.

But the deed is done, and as the fallen angel bartender explains, Cereza only have around twenty-four hours to rescue her essence before Jeanne's soul is completely absorbed into hell, preventing any resurrection attempt. Bayonetta pushes Enzo along so she can go to Fimbulventr, a mountain where the gates to Hell are locked.

Many of the gameplay elements of the first one return, and a new mechanic called Umbran Climax was added: when Bayonetta's magic meter is full, the player may press a button to strengthen the player's character and regenerate her health for a short period of time.

Directed by Yusuke Hashimoto.

Tropes used in Bayonetta 2 include:

Amnesiac Hero: Loki remembers nothing about himself except how to use his cards for combat and how he must go to Fimbulventr.
Bait and Switch: The first confrontations with the masked Lumen may look like he is gunning for Bayonetta, but actually he just wants Loki and is annoyed by her insistence on protecting him.
Big Bad: The Prophet, aka Loptr, who commands angels and demons so he can obtain both Eyes of the World so he can reset the trinity of realities.
Book Ends: The story begins with Jeanne's soul being tackled out of her body and ends with Loptr's body being tackled out of his soul.
Darker and Edgier: Hell is a nightmarish place filled with entrails and blood unlike anything else on the first game and the Masked Lumen's backstory is filled with tragedy.
Determinator: No matter how flawlessly and quickly beat Fortitudo is, he will match Madame Butterfly's punch at the end of Balder and Bayonetta's first fight despite looking pretty beaten.
Demonic Possession: Inverted. Balder grabs Loptr with his body at the last chapter and will not let him go so he can't reincarnate, but is heavily implied his behaviour on the first game is because Loptr did eventually gain control of his body.
Dramatic Unmask: The Masked Lumen finally has his mask broken at the mid of the game, revealing a familiar face to Bayonetta: Balder, her father.
Eleventh-Hour Ranger: Jeanne only joins Bayonetta at the last chapter after having her soul restored to her body, though with the justification that they were in the past for the last quarter of the game.
Evil Gloating: Temperantia gloats about how humans are easy to manipulate as Balder mourns Rosa.
Fish Out of Temporal Water: Averted with Balder. He is only interested into vengeance and cares little about what time is it, but more if Loki is breathing or no.
Foreshadowing: Loki uses tarot-like cards to attack. Anyone familiar with the origins of tarot knows its Christian origins. Loki is basically the Bayo-verse's equivalent of Jesus.
Generation Xerox: Rosa turns out to be almost a twin of Cereza, though we never see his face and she plays and acts differently. But the animations are spot on.
Hero Antagonist: Balder simply wants revenge for his lover's murder, and it will not let simple things like amnesia stop him of killing Loki, who he thinks it's the murderer.
Humongous Mecha: Umbra Witches in the past are shown to use using magic-powered robots to fight.
Powered by a Forsaken Child: Alraune uses Jeanne's soul as battery to empower herself for the second phase of her battle with Bayonetta.
Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: The Prophet's default method of attacking involves disembodies fists punching Bayonetta quickly.
Reality Warper: Manipulating the Remembrances of Time gives its wielders this ability. Both Loki and the Prophet can use it.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Prophet models himself as such. He brings Balder from the past so the world can have a right eye and seems to want justice to be done for Rosa's murder even if Loki is amnesiac. He reveals himself to be one but in a pretty different way in the final chapter: he thinks humans misused the gift Aesir bestowed upon them and want to reset the trinity to prevent further evil.
Womb Level: After an Insidious swallow both she and Loki, Bayonetta spends the next entire chapter, aptly titled "The Ark", exploring its interiors to find the kid.