As the game’s theme was centered around “sexiness”, the game’s protagonist’s attacks had to take this into consideration.  The protagonist’s various attacks were designed in such a manner to reveal her body, this was accomplished by giving her magical hair that is used to form clothes to cover her body but in order to perform particular attacks her magical hair is required and the clothes are stripped from her body to perform the attack.  While She can magically shape her hair into anything and use it as a weapon to eliminate her enemies, she also has access to four guns, two handguns and two attached to her high heels.

Kamiya previously worked for Capcom and their subsidiary Clover Studios on such games as Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe and Okami.  His past experiences helped influence the game’s development and the game even makes occasional references to these games.  While he continued to build upon the action hack and slash style he created when developing Devil May Cry, Bayonetta concept is completely original.  After 500 years of sleep, a witch named Bayonetta awakes to find herself confronted by enemies.  With no recollection of who she is or the reason she is being attacked, she must battle her way through the city of Vigrid while her memory slowly returns.

The game received praise for its combat, presentation, and soundtrack when it released in October 2009 in Japan and in January 2010 in North American and Europe.  The game won several year end accolades and sold over a million units worldwide between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 releases.  Bayonetta became PlatinumGames’ best-selling title at the time and the development studio partnered with Nintendo to develop a sequel exclusive for the Nintendo Wii U.   Since the Wii U did not receive the original release of the game at the time of release, the game was ported to the Wii U to launch along side it’s sequel.

To celebrate the game’s ten-year anniversary, Sega announced a compilation for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.  The retail release included a steelbook with Bayonetta, along with another PlatinumGames title Vanquish, on a single disc.