Rating issues
The original game Bayonetta contains a lot of sustained violence with blood & gore, lots of gross violence – bodies exploding/ripped apart – a monster eating human like characters, – a human like character being decapitated in guillotine/squashed in spike machine – the head being pulled off an obviously naked woman and a urinating mannequin, the penis of which is visible.
The demo of Bayonetta 2 contains one instance of realistic violence towards a human character which manifests itself during combat with a large boss character.