We just don’t get enough good action games anymore. No, I’m not talking about games like Monster Hunter: World or Bloodborne, I mean the good stuff. “Character” action games like Devil May Cry or Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance have been mostly usurped by the Souls-like genre, with its slower-paced and more methodical combat. The days of cuh-razy combat and aerial combos can sometimes seem passed, but with Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2 arriving on Switch this week, we are served a triumphant reminder that the genre isn’t quite dead yet.

People like to talk about their first “wow” moment in videogames, whether it’s the first time they played Metal Gear Solid on PlayStation 1, or literally their first WoW (read: World of Warcraft) moment. I may be considered a late-bloomer in this regard, because my first mind blowing experience with gaming was probably the moment I played Bayonetta on...