Check out CCC's in-depth Bayonetta review for the Xbox 360 to find out if this game is worth buying, renting, or if you should avoid it altogether. Games with Gold Offers Bayonetta, More in August. All Xbox 360 games in the Games for Gold promotion also work on Xbox One in Backward Compatibility mode too. So Xbox One users with Xbox Live.
In Chapter 2, Verse 3 or later, stand in front of the specified telephone in the plaza from Verse 3 while not in a fight, and enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function. The 'Weapons' phone is the left phone by the stairs. The 'Accessories' phone is on the right. The 'Characters' phone is the stand alone phone on the other end of the plaza. Note: A certain number of Halos are required to activate the codes.
- Bracelet Of Time
Stand in front of the 'Accessories' phone, then press Up(4), Down(4), Left, Right, Left, Right, LT. This code requires 3 million Halos to activate.
Climax BraceletStand in front of the 'Accessories' phone, then press Up(4), Down(4), Left, Right, Left, Right, RT. This code requires 5 million Halos to activate.
Eternal TestimonyStand in front of the 'Accessories' phone, then press Up(4), Down(4), Left, Right, Left, Right, RB. This code requires 2 million Halos to activate.
JeanneStand in front of the 'Characters' phone, then press Up(4), Down(4), Left, Right, Left, Right, B. This code requires 1 million Halos to activate.
Little ZeroStand in front of the 'Characters' phone, then press Up(4), Down(4), Left, Right, Left, Right, X. This code requires 5 million Halos to activate.
BazillionsStand in front of the 'Weapon' phone, then press Up(4), Down(4), Left, Right, Left, Right, Y. This code requires 1 million Halos to activate.
Pillow TalkStand in front of the 'Weapon' phone, then press Up(4), Down(4), Left, Right, Left, Right, A. This code requires 1 million Halos to activate.
RodinStand in front of the 'Weapon' phone, then press Up(4), Down(4), Left, Right, Left, Right, LB. This code requires 5 million Halos to activate.
Successfully complete all chapters on the Normal difficulty to unlock the Hard difficulty.
Non-Stop Infinite Climax modeSuccessfully complete all chapters on the Hard difficulty to unlock the Non-Stop Infinite Climax difficulty.
Play as JeanneGet a 'Platinum' rank in all chapters on the Normal or higher difficulty to unlock Jeanne. Alternately, unlock the 'Eternal Marionette' accessory.
Play as Little ZeroSuccessfully complete the 'Lost Chapter' to unlock Little Zero.
Bonus weaponsSuccessfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding weapon (or LP):
Bazillions: Successfully complete the game on the Hard difficulty.
Durga claws: In Chapter 5, defeat the angel mini-bosses (Grace and Glory) to get the first part of the weapon. The second part can be found at the coiled 'snake' road that leads to the Staff of Jormungandr. When starting on the road, turn to the right to get the second part from the chest, which then becomes an Alfheim portal. The third part of the weapon can be found appoximately halfway up the coiled 'snake' road. Search the 'rest area' found just before the road begins breaking apart to find a chest that contains the third part of the weapon.
Handguns: Successfully complete the game on the Normal difficulty.
Kilgore launcher: In Chapter 9, the first part is found past a wall with a sun symbol at the first fight. The second part is dropped after defeating the enemy warships (Kinship). The third part is located near the shop portal after passing the Golem (metal sphere) in the town square. To reach it, jump the gap, and go to the top of the stairs to find another wall with a sun symbol.
Kulshedra whip: In Chapter 3, defeat an angel (Fearless) to get the first part of the weapon. The second part can be found in the fight after obtaining Panther form. Get past the first area to reach a small pool with Witch Time statues. Drop down into the water, and turn to the left. Search the rocks to find a chest that contains the second part of the weapon.
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Odette skates: In Chapter 6, look directly behind Bayonetta at the start to find the first part. The second part can be found behind a hidden wall in the second area that has the Inspired angel enemies. The third part is dropped by the angel (Joy) at the end of the chapter.
Onyx Roses shotguns: In Chapter 1, defeat an angel (Beloved), then visit the shop to unlock this weapon and its alternate.
Pillow Talk: Successfully complete the game on the Non-Stop Infinite Climax difficulty.
Rodin: Purchase the 'Platinum Ticket', and defeat Father Rodin.
Sai-fon: Successfully complete 100 chapters on the Normal or higher difficulty.
Shuraba sword: In Chapter 2, defeat two angels (Beloved), then visit the shop.
Successfully complete all chapters on the Normal difficulty. Load the cleared saved game file, then go to 'Gates Of Hell'. Enter the 'Rodin's Treasure' menu, and purchase the 'Super Mirror' for 100,000 Halos to get the Umbran Komachi (Kimono). The other alternate costumes (listed as 'Couture Bullets') will now be unlocked for purchase for 100,000 Halos. Note: To change costumes, press R1 at the 'Chapter Start' screen, then select the 'Costume Change' option. The following are the available costumes for purchase:
- Couture Bullet (d'Arc)
- Couture Bullet (Nun)
- Couture Bullet (Old)
- Couture Bullet (P.E. Uniform)
- Couture Bullet (Queen)
- Couture Bullet (Umbra)
- Couture Bullet (Various)
Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding item in Rodin's shop for purchase:
- Bracelet Of Time: Successfully complete the game in under three hours on Normal or higher difficulty.
- Climax Bracelet: Get 101 Umbran Tears Of Blood.
- Eternal Testimony: Get 50 Umbran Tears Of Blood.
- Immortal Marionette: Successfully complete the game on the Very Easy or Easy difficulty.
Successfully complete the game to unlock the 'Bonus Gallery' option at the main menu, which allows access to the game's concept art, cutscenes, and other extras.
Alternate stage musicDuring the entire opening cutscene of Chapter VIII or XIV, hold LT + LB to hear retro Afterburner and Space Harrier music during the stage.
Alternate tauntsHold [Taunt] to perform an alternate taunt with each character.
Practice modeHold Back at the loading screen to lock it in Practice mode. Press Select again after the machine has completed loading to exit.
Free itemsWhen Bayonetta is sucking a lollipop in a cutscene, take note of its color. Hold the controller button that matches the color of the lollypop to get an item. For example, if the lollypop was green, hold A during the cutscene to get a green herb lollipop.
Marking wallsWhile facing a wall that will display bullet holes when shot, hold [Shoot], and Bayonetta will shoot the letter 'B' or a small heart into that wall.
Defeating Jeanne in Chapter 2When the flashback battle at the start of Chapter 2 begins and Jeanne jumps down, shoot her. She will block most of the bullets, but soon after she will crouch and fire her guns in a quarter-circle. During this time she is vulnerable and you can attack her, but it is recommended you just shoot and dodge her bullets. Once she is finished, her next attack will probably be a Wicked Weave. You can see it coming when a red circle appears under her. If you dodge her Wicked Weave, you will enter Witch Time. However, it does not last long, so try to use the time well. Either keep shooting her if you are too far away, or move close to perform a combo and deal a good amount of damage. There is a chance that Jeanne will try to move closer instead of using a Wicked Weave. If this happens, get some distance between the both of you by dodging. To get the most attacks in, always dodge towards her when dodging her bullets and Wicked Weave. Make sure you are in Witch Time before attacking.
AchievementsAccomplish the indicated achievement to get the corresponding number of Gamerscore points:
Bayonetta Xbox 360
- A Primer In The Magical Arts (10 points): Complete the Vestibule.
- Fortitudo, Bringer Of Flame (15 points): Defeat ????? on any difficulty.
- Temperantia, Manipulator Of Wind (15 points): Defeat ????? on any difficulty.
- Iustitia, Giver Of Life (15 points): Defeat ????? on any difficulty.
- Sapientia, Controller Of Seas (15 points): Defeat ????? on any difficulty.
- Master Of The Heavens (15 points): Defeat ????? on any difficulty.
- Taste Of The Witching Hour (30 points): Complete all Chapters on any difficulty.
- Chapters 1-4 (Normal) (20 points): Complete Chapters 1 through 4 on Normal difficulty.
- Chapters 5-7 (Normal) (20 points): Complete Chapters 5 through 7 on Normal difficulty.
- Chapters 8-11 (Normal) (20 points): Complete Chapters 8 through 11 on Normal difficulty.
- Umbra Witch (20 points): Complete all Chapters on Normal difficulty.
- New Testament: Ch. 1-4 (Hard) (20 points): Complete Chapters 1 through 4 on Hard difficulty.
- New Testament: Ch. 5-7 (Hard) (20 points): Complete Chapters 5 through 7 on Hard difficulty.
- New Testament: Ch. 8-11 (Hard) (20 points): Complete Chapters 8 through 11 on Hard difficulty.
- Umbra Elder (40 points): Complete all Chapters on Hard difficulty.
- Legendary Dark Witch (100 points): Complete all Chapters on ???? Difficulty.
- I'm A Bit... I Mean Witch. (5 points): Execute a Torture Attack.
- Feels Good, Doesn't It? (20 points): Execute 50 Torture Attacks.
- You Want To Touch Me? (10 points): Engage Witch Time successfully 10 times.
- Nice Try (20 points): Engage Witch Time successfully 10 times consecutively.
- Platinum! (20 points): Earn 10 Platinum Medals. Must be earned in 10 different battles.
- Double, Double, Toil And Trouble (10 points): Create 20 Concoctions.
- Tread Not So Softly (10 points): Kill an enemy by jumping on top of them.
- Nice And Relaxed (5 points): Avert 10 enemy attacks with the Moon of Mahaa-Kalaa equipped.
- Touch And It Will Hurt (15 points): Counter 10 enemy attacks with the Moon of Mahaa-Kalaa equipped.
- Touch And It Will REALLY Hurt (25 points): Counter three enemy attacks consecutively with the Moon of Mahaa-Kalaa equipped.
- Come Here, Little Boy (30 points): Taunt and defeat five plus angered enemies while taking no damage. Gaze of Despair may be equipped.
- Wicked Weaver (10 points): Execute a Wicked Weave attack while using Dodge Offset.
- Wicked Weave Master (20 points): Execute 20 Wicked Weave attacks while using Dodge Offset.
- The Deepest Cut (20 points): Kill 20 enemies using only Iai-Jutsu with Shuraba. (Iai-Jutsu performed by holding the Y button.)
- Higher And Higher (20 points): While never setting foot on the ground, grab enemies 10 times using Kulshedra.
- The Ice Witch (20 points): ????? 20 enemies while wearing ?????
- Seeker Of Magic (10 points): Purchase three new techniques.
- Commander Of Magic (20 points): Purchase all techniques.
- Record Collector (10 points): Obtain three complete Angelic Hymn Gold LPs.
- Record Fanatic (20 points): Obtain ????? complete Angelic Hymn Gold LPs.
- Treasure Collector (10 points): Discover half of all the Umbra Witches' final resting places.
- Treasure Fanatic (20 points): Discover all of the Umbra Witches' final resting places.
- The Path To The Heavens (30 points): Discover all Alfheim portals.
- Angel May Cry (20 points): Complete half of all Alfheim portals.
- Angel Slayer (30 points): Complete all Alfheim portals.
- Truth In Its Purest Form (30 points): Collect all of Antonio's Notes.
- Naughty Tentacles (20 points): Destroy all the tentacles that drop down together during in single sequence in Chapter 9.
- A Mother's Love (20 points): Defend ????? during the ???????, ensuring ????? takes no damage.
- Fire The Afterburners (20 points): Earn Platinum Medals during Verse 1 and Verse 2 of Chapter 14.
- Just In The Nick Of Time (5 points): Dodge the ?????? during Chapter 2.
Additionally, there are four secret achievements:
- Chapters 12-13 (Normal) (20 points): Complete Chapters 12 and 13 on Normal difficulty.
- Chapters 14-Epilogue (Normal) (20 points): Complete Chapters 14 through the Epilogue on Normal difficulty.
- New Testament: Ch. 12-13 (Hard) (20 points): Complete Chapters 12 and 13 on Hard difficulty.
- New Testament: Close The Book (20 points): Complete Chapters 14 through the Epilogue on Hard difficulty.
Bayonetta 3 Xbox
The belated introduction of backwards compatibility to the Xbox One won’t just allow you to play Xbox 360 games on Microsoft’s newer console. It’ll allow you to use your old save files, too.
To get that feature to work, you’ll have to transfer your 360 saves to the cloud. It’s easy, so long as so you still have access to those saves on an Xbox 360.
It’s also something more and more gamers will be doing as Xbox 360 classics including several remakes of Rare games and the entire slate of Gears of War games become available to play on Xbox One, with many more to follow when the feature launches for all Xbox One users in November.
A few preliminary things to note:
To get that feature to work, you’ll have to transfer your 360 saves to the cloud. It’s easy, so long as so you still have access to those saves on an Xbox 360.
It’s also something more and more gamers will be doing as Xbox 360 classics including several remakes of Rare games and the entire slate of Gears of War games become available to play on Xbox One, with many more to follow when the feature launches for all Xbox One users in November.
A few preliminary things to note:
- Your Achievements in any backwards-compatible game are yours forever and therefore carry over without you doing anything. Technically, they were already there. This does not mean your saves automatically carry over. Those only do if you had originally saved your Xbox 360 game’s saves data to the cloud. If you did, disregard the rest of this guide. The Xbox One will sniff out your saves when you start your 360 game and will inform you that it is syncing your data. All done!
- Microsoft requires that you have an Xbox Live profile to use Xbox One backwards compatibility. This is likely so that they can check which digitally-purchased downloadable 360 games you have the rights to but also because Xbox One backwards compatibility actually requires the newer console to download a copy of whichever 360 game it is going to run. Even if you put a backwards-compatible 360 disc into an Xbox One, the newer machine will start downloading a file. The Xbox One doesn’t run any games directly off discs, including 360 games. So if you have no online connection or Xbox Live profile, you can’t do any of this. (Note that you don’t have to have a paid Xbox Live Gold profile. The non-paying Silver tier is fine. UPDATE - 3:42pm: Silver members can’t use cloud storage, though, so while you will be able to use backwards compatibility, you won’t be able to transfer saves.)
- While we have not run into any instances where you can’t move your saves into the cloud, we have seen instances in the past when some publishers blocked the copying of saves on, say, a small number of PlayStation 3 games from one PS3 to another. In those cases it was a publisher decision, and it would be surprising to see that be an issue with many, if any, 360 games, especially given how the save-transfer process below really just involves putting 360 saves into official Xbox 360 cloud storage, a feature that should work for any game.
- Xbox One Backwards Compatibility is currently active for users of the console’s preview program. A list of supported titles can be found here. Prior to the full November launch of the feature for all Xbox Live members, backwards compatibility can be used on a case-by-case basis, such as using it on the Rare games included in Rare Replay or for any Gears of War games for purchasers of the Gears of War remake.
Most 360 gamers probably saved their games on the console’s hard drive or even on USB storage. That’s what I generally did and had to poke around a little to get them onto my Xbox One. I recently ran through this process using the Xbox 360 version of the game Banjo-Tooie.
Here’s how it works:
Just to set things up, here is the game running on my Xbox One. As you can see, I have no save progress. This is the problem I needed to solve!
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Step 1 - Make sure you have a 360 save file. I hadn’t played any Banjo-Tooie on my 360. I bought it to have ready for whenever I finished playing the remake of its predecessor, Banjo-Kazooie. I wanted to show this save-transfer process, though, so I played a little of Tooie on my 360. I played enough to get a save about six minutes in.
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Step 2 - Access the 360’s storage management screen. Go to Settings —> System —> Storage —> Games and Apps —> Name of the game you care about —> Saved Game
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Step 3 -Copy or move your save and profile data to the cloud. Your games may have multiple files associated with your profile. Put all of it in the cloud. Note that 360s are tied to a 512MB cloud storage limit per user. The Xbox One storage limit is effectively unlimited, but it will only be able to pull from the 360’s 512MB allotment. The 360 helpfully indicates how much room it has left in the cloud, so you can easily tell how much you can load up in one go and how much you need to clear out if you need more space. UPDATE - 12:54pm: To be clear about this, if you ever remove a 360 save file from your 512MB Xbox 360 cloud storage, you won’t be able to access that save from your Xbox One.
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*Some save files won’t “copy” over. This happened to me with my Viva Piñata saves. Don’t worry. I was able to “move” them. Try that.
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Step 4 -Let your Xbox One find your saves. You are pretty much done. Try running your 360 game on your Xbox One. As long as you are logged in to the sale Xbox Live profile it will grab your data from the cloud and notify you that it is syncing it. If it notices a discrepancy between any existing save progress that you already have on your Xbox One, it will ask you which file you want it to use.
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Bonus fact. It works both ways, meaning that your 360 will sync any save progress that you make while playing a 360 game on an Xbox One. That’s happening in the shot above as my Xbox 360 registers that I made progress in Perfect Dark while playing the game on my Xbox One. It makes sense that this happens in both directions, since the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility feature basically just has the Xbox One pretending to be an Xbox 360.
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