This is a guest review of the Square Enix Play Arts Kai Bayonetta by Ayeffkay. I wasn’t familiar with the character at all before starting to play the Sega game a few days ago. While the figure’s proportions looked a little elongated to me before, they’re actually completely accurate to the game. Big thanks to Ayeffkay for the review and the loads of pics!
Bayonetta is a game where you say “holy shit, that’s awesome” a lot. She jumps and dances around a lot with a gun on each limb, kills more and bigger angels with every level, and wears a catsuit made of her hair, which flies off and turns into a demon whenever you have a boss to kill.
I went to Google to find some good scenes from the game to recreate. If there was any Play Arts figure that should’ve come with those little stands, it’s this one, but I dug up a bunch from some Play Arts Final Fantasy 7 figures to keep her upright. The hair that hangs near her elbows is flexible, which is great, but it’s also kind of heavy and made her hard to balance. I also couldn’t decide in some pictures whether she was jumping backward and firing behind her, or jumping forward and firing ahead, so sometimes I just took the hair off to uncomplicate it. That’s really all I have to say so hopefully Ron will edit this into something less drivelly.
[Editor’s note: sorry, all the drivel was retained.]
Also I’ve never taken pics of one toy like this before so while I’m sure AFP has all kinds of fancy screens and backdrops, I made a wall out of MotU Classics shipping boxes to hide my messy desk.
