Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon
Long before this trainee of the dark arts would come to be called Bayonetta, she took a fateful journey into the forbidden Avalon Forest. Alongside her was Cheshire, her very first demon, possessing Cereza’s…
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon is an adventure developed by PlatinumGames, released 17 March 2023 on Nintendo Switch.
What Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon is
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon is an adventure game developed by PlatinumGames and released in 2023. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Six hundred years before the witch Bayonetta's later exploits, a young and timid girl named Cereza lives under the strict care of her stoic teacher Morgana. Born from the forbidden union of a Lumen Sage and an Umbra Witch, Cereza carries the weight of that scandal: her father was banished and her mother imprisoned as a result. Longing to prove herself and to free her mother, yet feeling underappreciated no matter how hard she trains, Cereza is drawn into the forbidden Avalon Forest by a mysterious boy who appears in her dreams. Deep within the woods she is set upon by faeries and, in desperation, performs a demon-summoning ritual, binding an unruly demon to her beloved stuffed cat. Naming…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Bayonetta series
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon is the 16th of 16 entries we hold in the Bayonetta series. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 87 is 2 points below the series average of 89. The highest-rated entry is Bayonetta at 91.
How it was received
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon launched on 17 March 2023, within three weeks of Resident Evil 4, Dredge, Octopath Traveler II and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 4, Dredge, Octopath Traveler II, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.
Cheats and codes
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