Bayonetta 2

Bayonetta 2
Developer: PlatinumGames Publisher: Nintendo Platforms: Wii U, Nintendo Switch Released in JP: September 20, 2014 (Wii U), February 17, 2018 (Nintendo Switch) Released in US: October 24, 2014 (Wii U), February 16, 2018 (Nintendo Switch) Released in EU: October 24, 2014 (Wii U), February 16, 2018 (Nintendo Switch) Released in AU: October 25, 2014 (Wii U), February 16, 2018 (Nintendo Switch) This game has unused animations. This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has revisional differences.

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

...But does it make sense? The translations on this page need to be proofread. If you are fluent enough in this language, please make any corrections necessary!

To do: Check the sound files, and more of the models. One video on the PlatinumGames development blog is utilizing a debug mode. Look to see if it can be accessed in the final release. See if there are any more differences between the Wii U and Nintendo Switch versions, besides amiibo and controller illustrations.

Bayonetta 2 is one of those few examples of a grimdark sequel done right. It also improves on and/or adds more features, such as having a much better-written, better-paced, and less convoluted plot, a larger amount of weapons to choose from (including a mech!), a new animal form that makes navigating through water easier, a wider selection of characters (with easier ways to unlock them as well), and much more. But at the same time, the combat system has arguably been made easier, especially due to the implementation of Umbran Climax.

Bayonetta 2, along with the first game, was ported to the Nintendo Switch in early 2018.

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Unused Models "New model, huh?"

Unused Text Happy Friday!

Unused Images

UI Textures

• ui_test.dat is a goldmine of early/test content:
  • A font used for the text in messtest.mcd.
  • A render based on the first game, depicting Bayonetta fighting Affinities, with the number 10 in the background.
  • A work-in-progress render of the Results screen background from the E3 demo.
  • A repeating screenshot of a test room.
  • A location name texture that translates to "Ruins of Chaos - Völuspá".
  • A texture of a red and green swirl, accompanied by normal and specular maps.
  • An early title logo that can be seen in the E3 2013 trailers. The magic circle is a darker shade of blue, and is more detailed. There are no demonic letters inside the word "Bayonetta", making it look more similar to the first game's logo.
  • A screenshot of Tag Climax in development.
  • An early scoreboard or save menu, depicting the world map from Bayonetta in the background.
  • A picture reading, "AaaaaAAAAAaaaaAAAaaa" over and over.
  • An early options menu, using a whole mixture of languages, and black dots in place of the button icons.
  • Another location name texture, translating to "Underground Graveyard - Cathedral of Cascades". The text is in multiple different styles.
  • An assortment of angel and demon names, and the PlatinumGames logo.
  • An inverted picture of an Acceptance, along with more angel names and a halo.
  • A group of HUD icons of the various items found in the game-- of note is an early design for Takemikazuchi.

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  Testing, testing...

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  You are feeling very, very sleepy...

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  Sheesh, calm down.

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• The uisptex folder has some concept art pieces that are not shown in the game's Gallery. A few of these unused works ended up being printed in the Bayonetta 2 artbook, "The Eyes of Bayonetta 2", each captioned with a title.
• The works that are artbook-exclusive will have their respective title beneath them. Any image without a title beneath it is in neither the Gallery nor the artbook.
  • An alternate version of used concept art, with an added blimp and angels.
  • A picture of some taxis driving on a metal bridge.
  • A picture that seems to be sequential to the one before it, with taxis and other cars now escaping explosions.
  • Some more chaos from the Prologue, as blimps above the city catch fire during the parade.
  • A picture of the railway in the Prologue.
  • The Prologue's cityscape, after Gomorrah goes berserk.
  • Noatun's main square, containing a different central building and the elevated walkway on the left rather than the right.
  • An image of Noatun's boats, along with with a yacht looming in the background.
  • Two pieces that depict Chapter I's courtyard, each with differences such as a statue instead of a door, a pond, and a waterway running through the center.
  • An image of Bayonetta activating Witch Time with help from the wave summoned by Loki.

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  "The City - Platinum Stars"

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  "Battle on the Tracks"

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  "The Water Capital - The Port Square"

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  "The Church - Courtyard"

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  "Witch Time - Jetstream"

• The above artworks also have thumbnails that would have been shown when scrolling through the Gallery.

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• Luka's journal has some unused textures that reveal the identities of his "lovers" Claire, Ammy, Trish, and Silvia. Bizarrely, there is also a picture of his father in his death throes, with a peace sign and a man's face superimposed over him.
  • The second image shows more unused textures: a picture of Noatun, Bayonetta, and the world map from the first game. The Japanese text on the left says "ファンタズマラネア" ("Phantasmaraneae") and "首なし天使マーク2" ("Headless angel mark 2"). Valor's concept art also labels it as "kubinashi" (首なし, "headless"), so this may be an early or temporary name for it.

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• When an enemy is first encountered, a screen appears that displays their name, halo, and title, with a few exceptions. These identifiers, along with a render of the enemy, can then be viewed in Lemegeton's Guidebook and the Hierarchy of Laguna.
  • Labolas one such exception-- it is only fought in a secret Tag Climax verse, and gets no introduction. However, placeholder textures for it still remain in the game. They include an early title ("Fate Destroyer" instead of "Destroyer of Fates"), and renders of an Acceptance. The Japanese version also gives it an additional name: "グラシャ・ラボラス" (Glasya-Labolas). In the final game, it is simply known as "ラボラス" (Labolas).

Japanese	English

• The Wii U version of the game contains more unused introduction/Guidebook textures.
  • Two versions of Gomorrah's unused Lemegeton Guidebook entry, in Japanese and English.
  • Placeholder names for Bayonetta's summons, including "snake" for Hydra, "wild horse" for Diomedes, and "frog" for Baal.
  • Textures intended for Malphas and Hekatoncheir's entries.
  • A texture translating to "Queen Sheba", who is not summoned in this game.
  • A single early render of an Acceptance. There are four sequential files that share this texture, labeled "DemonName_23", "DemonName_24", "DemonName_25", and "DemonName_26".
  • Two textures that contain unused renders of Pride and Hideous-- two Demons that did not get a unique enemy intro in the final.
  • An odd compilation of different Hierarchy of Laguna textures. The text at the top reads "Horse angel" and "Third Sphere Powers". Underneath is the Second Sphere halo, a render of Golem, and the name "Belief".

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  Gomorrah

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  "Snake"

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  "Wild horse"

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  "Frog"

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  Malphas

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  Hekatoncheir

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  Queen Sheba

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  "Horse angel" - Third Sphere Powers

• The Wii U version also contains additional unused location names.
  • Location_00.dat translates to "Ruins of Chaos - Völuspá". Notably, the Japanese characters for "Ruins of Chaos" match ones found on a soundtrack title-- "ST02 Noatun, Ruins Of Chaos". This may mean Völuspá was an early name for Noatun.
  • The Ark would have been a separate location, perhaps leftover from the scrapped puzzle sequence.
  • Five scrapped locations in Inferno-- "Stygian Swamp" would later be referenced in Bayonetta 3.
  • A number of unused or placeholder Vigrid locations. "Moonlight Valley" appears to use different Japanese characters than the final's "Crescent Valley".
  • Two location names intended for the final Chapter. "Fimbulventr" is spelled "Fimdelventr" in these images.

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  Ruins of Chaos - Völuspá

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  Crushed Bridge - Holiday City

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  Ark - Lake Bottom

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  Road of Entrails - Demon Beast Interior

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  Chapel of the Deep - Ruins of Lost Memory

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  Before the Gates of Hell - Ruins of Lost Memory

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  Limbo - The Depths

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  Johnson Forest - The Depths

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  Malebolge - The Depths

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  Stygian Swamp - The Depths

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  Cocytus - The Depths

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  Training Grounds Back Garden - Medieval Vigrid

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  Pilgrimage Road - Medieval Vigrid

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  Underground Pilgrimage Road - Medieval Vigrid

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  Underground Caves - Medieval Vigrid

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  Witch's Training Chamber - Medieval Vigrid

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  Start of War - Medieval Vigrid

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  City Area - Medieval Vigrid

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  Stone Bridge of Demons - Medieval Vigrid

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  City Square - Medieval Vigrid

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  Over the City - Medieval Vigrid

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  Falling Things - Medieval Vigrid

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  In Front of the Clock Tower - Medieval Vigrid

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  Moonlight Valley - Medieval Vigrid

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  Training Grounds - Medieval Vigrid

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  Jetstream - Over Noatun

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  Approaching the Summit Shrine - Fimdelventr

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  Sovereign Quarters - Fimdelventr

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  Triumphal Flight - Holiday City

• Other miscellaneous Wii U-exclusive textures can be found throughout the uisptex folder as well.

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  An placeholder Alfheim intro render.

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  An early Tag Climax character select screen. Weapons from the first game can be seen.

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  A placeholder concept art texture for the Gallery. The text below Resplendence is taken from the game's Records of Time narration.

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  The same placeholder texture as the previous image, tinted red.

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  Weapon renders for each character. At the bottom are unused weapons such as a demonic chair, a blue version of the early Takemikazuchi seen in ui_test.dat, a pair of gatling guns, and Durga from Bayonetta.

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  A Blue Witch Heart, which goes unused as Angel Attack does not return in this game.

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  A Gold Moon Pearl, which goes unused as Angel Attack does not return in this game.

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  A blurry picture of a Mandragora Root. This is used as a placeholder image for the files "ItemGet_16", "ItemGet_22", and "ItemGet_23".

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  An Arcade Bullet, which goes unused as Angel Attack does not return in this game.

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  Umbran Elegance #4 from Bayonetta. It is used as a placeholder image for the files "ItemGet_24" through "ItemGet_34".

• An image named "title_effimg" is in ui_title.dat. Lyrics to the song "Love is Blue" are written inside the magic circle, instead of the usual phrase ("From the darkness I draw my strength"). Below the circle is a strip of text with additional lyrics.

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Miscellaneous

Within pf0f.dat in data002\phf is an unused screen meant to be displayed at the end of a demo. The text at the bottom says "This is all you can play in the demo version. Please enjoy the rest of the story in the full version."

One of the character select screen textures contains leftover graphics for Xbox 360 controller buttons.

A background extracted from bm00062.dat, which contains a low resolution model of a portion of Noatun. It shows a blocky, unfinished version of Noatun's main plaza.

To do: Is this render shown when using amiibo to unlock the Star Mercenary costume? It isn't displayed when selecting weapons in-game, even when the costume is equipped.

A render of the Arwing Guns equipped when using the Star Mercenary costumes.

(Source: @pacciuli)

ev2010.evn, which holds data for the cutscene where Enzo and Bayonetta take a plane to Noatun, contains a large render of Urbane's Angel Arms without any flame effects.

A placeholder image of a missile found alongside the satellite and missile models used in Aesir's battle.

es1201.dat contains a copy of the world map shown in Chapter I with the kanji for "temporary" (仮) written over it.

An image with columns of colors and coordinates, titled "colorgrid".

An image of an arrow found in many files, titled "testtex".

A placeholder for effect textures.

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  "Arrow"

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  "Arrow_attraction"

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  "Arrow_repulsion"

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  "Paint_arrow_camera"

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  "Paint_restart"

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  "Waterarea"

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  "Sharch"

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  "Yougann_atari"

An assortment of small placeholder images-- their filenames are the only clues as to their use.

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An early texture for the Noatun merchants' flower carts. Details on the top of the canopy are missing, and the prices on the labels have not been translated into Noatun's alphabet.

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An alternate, less-demonic version of Rodin's signature displayed when scanning amiibo.

Cutscene Placeholders

• Within the game's data are two sets of placeholder images for event cutscenes, most of which appear to be intended for Chapter XIII. Some pictures use concept art as a background, while some use in-game screenshots. Many of these screenshots display Rosa's model from the first Bayonetta, indicating that her design may not have been finalized at this point of development. She is also referred to in these placeholders simply as "mama" (ママ).

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  6st arrival - Bayo arrives in the past through the dimensional portal

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  Encounter with Mama - After encountering mama, Fortitudo appears, burning down the mob witches

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  Fortitudo battle ends - Fighting off Fortitudo with mama

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  Entering the underground passageway event - Mama materializes the portal to the hidden underground

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  Beloved's hand breaks through a wall and takes out a mob witch - Beloved's hand breaks through the wall and takes the mob witch away

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  Beloved swings around the passage - Beloved swings Bayo around the passage

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  Witch Time with mama over the falls - Activate Witch Time with a gimmick and cross the waterfall

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  Two Beloveds in pursuit - While demolishing the passage, two Beloveds chase you

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  Two Beloveds battle begins - Jump out of the passage onto the floor and go straight into battle

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  Giant Beloved battle begins - A giant Beloved breaks through the ceiling and appears

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  Giant Beloved battle ends - Climax attack with mama

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  Mama murder event - Mama is murdered by the Prophet in the witch's building. Pursuing the Prophet

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  Iustitia battle begins - Overcoming the onslaught of ship angels, enter into battle with Iustitia

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  Iustitia battle ends - After defeating Iustitia, now landing on the cliff

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  Temperantia's cliff punch - The entire scaffold's bedrock is blown away by Temperantia's onslaught

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  Arrival at the clock tower - Arrival in front of the clock tower after overcoming Temperanti's [sic] onslaught. Prophet disappears to the upper floor of the clock tower

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  The clock tower collapses - At the Prophet's signal, angels attack the clock tower en masse

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  Prophet battle ends - Prophet escapes. Bayo and the others cross the dimensional portal and return to the present day

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  Event under production

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  Simple event under production

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  Enemy introduction event under production

• The second set of images remain the same as the previous placeholders, except Rosa's name has been changed from "mama" to "Rosa" (ローサ), and their size has been altered a bit.

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Unused Gate

• In the texture files are several images called "gatepart", each surrounded by words and letters in the in-game angelic language. There is also a piece of background concept art where the exact design of the "gate" in the first image can be seen.

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In the same files as the above "gates" is a simple image of a white keyhole. There are also singular angelic words, titled "keyhole_word".

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Characters

Little King Zero

At ID 57 is Little King Zero, a character that was playable in Bayonetta. When loaded in-game, his model is T-posing, and he takes the same base damage as Bayonetta (unlike the first game, where he would die in 2 hits). He also retains Bayonetta's Crow and Panther Within forms.

If his model (pl00b0.dat) is viewed in a tool like Noesis, we can see that Zero has idle animations.

Unused Animations

To do: There are more animations in pl0043.dat.

et0069.dat contains a model of Madama Butterfly as well as various animations. There are idle, walking, and generic attacking animations (likely copied from Bayonetta's model), but there are also some animations seen only in prototype footage.

In that sequence, Bayonetta summons Madama Butterfly to perform a Climax Attack against Valiance. She picks up and slams Valiance's sword into its neck. Then, she pretends to lean in for a kiss, but instead punches it repeatedly. There are also quite a few animations where she winds up to perform a headbutt, one of which is used to finish Valiance off in the prototype.

ba0304.dat is a model of a low-poly witch apprentice performing a summoning pose. It can be seen in concept art for Chapter XIII, where multiple apprentices strike this pose to summon a massive Scolopendra.

Bayonetta's headbutt counter against Balder inside Insidious has an additional portion where she blows him a kiss. Due to the camera shifting to Balder after she performs the final headbutt, this segment of the animation cannot be seen in-game. (The portion of the animation that is visible in-game has been cropped out.)

Unused Cutscene Animations

To do: Record the animations.

Exclusive to the Switch version of the game are several .evn (event) files that contain motion data for cutscenes not used in the final.

Listed below are the files, and which models their motion data corresponds to.

Event	Motion Data
ev6a0a.evn	Umbran Armor
	Resplendence
	Worship
ev6a0d.evn	Bayonetta
	Temperantia
	Hekatoncheir
	Summoning portal
ev6a0e.evn	Bayonetta
	Balder
	Loptr (child)
	Witch apprentice
	Affinity
	Umbran Clock Tower
	Vigrid building piece
ev6a20.evn	Chapter XIII cutscene placeholder texture - "Beloved swings around the passage"
ev6e00.evn	Chapter XIII cutscene placeholder texture - "6st arrival"
ev6e10.evn	Chapter XIII cutscene placeholder texture - "Encounter with Mama"
ev6e30.evn	Chapter XIII cutscene placeholder texture - "Mama murder event"
ev9001.evn	No motion data, but ObjList.bxm mentions Jeanne and Valor's model files
ev9002.evn	Bayonetta
	Valor
	Platinum Stars jet
ev9003.evn	Jeanne
	Belief
	Platinum Stars jet
	Prologue train
ev9005.evn	Bayonetta
	Gomorrah
	Belief
	Bayonetta's hair swirl effect
ev9008.evn	Bayonetta
	Belief
	Prologue train
	Hierarchy of Laguna
	Second Sphere halo
ev9009.evn	Bayonetta
	Jeanne
	Belief
	Belief's tentacle arm
	Train bridge
evfffe.evn	Empty

(Source: Rikan)

Unused Sounds

Balder's voice bank has three unused files, one of which is a man saying "lurfando" (one of his Enochian lines in the first game), and another of a shout. The man's voice doesn't match Balder's in either of the games, in English or Japanese, so their identity remains a mystery. The third file is of his typical voice saying the Enochian word "nalvage", which could be a scrapped summon or attack signal.

Lurfando!
(shout)
Nalvage!

vo_r581.dat has a few voice clips that were intended for the Diomedes chase sequence in Chapter XII.

Good boy!
More, more!
Faster!

During the Jetfighter Assault minigame in Chapter XVI, Jeanne speaks to Bayonetta from the jet's cockpit. All of her voice lines begin and end with the crackle of a transmitter, and have a filter applied to them. One line that is spoken has an unedited version that remains in the files.

I'll take care of them, Cereza. Hurry to the temple!

vo_pl0212.dat contains audio files of Enzo screaming for help, with a robotic filter over them. This filter is used when characters speak from the human realm while Bayonetta is in Purgatorio. pl0212.dat itself has a model of Enzo flailing his arms (used in the Prologue as his car goes out of control). Unlike the one used in-game, this particular model is shaded in grey, much like how characters are seen while in Purgatorio.

The sound folder also contains many short beeps in different audio channels (along with a single sine wave).

Prerelease Audio

The now-defunct official Nintendo website for Bayonetta 2 contained a soundboard with various voice clips from the game's main characters. A few of these lines ended up unused in the final game.

Bayonetta: I only play with people who have good taste.
Bayonetta: Time to let it all hang out!
Bayonetta: I'm not a role model.
Jeanne: The Umbra will never fall to your kind.
Masked Lumen: Death awaits you!

(Source: Rikan)

E3 Leftovers

ui_title.dat and ui_trial.dat contain leftover images used in the E3 2013 demo's tutorial.

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There is also an image of Gomorrah's enemy introduction from the E3 demo within the files. Its name is written in the game's demonic font, rather than the specific font used for these introductions.

E3 2013	Final

r720.dat contains still images of two scenes from the long version of the E3 2013 trailer.

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rf30.dat has a sound clip left over from the E3 trailers, which plays when the title logo appears.

The movie folder has a file named "ToBeContinued" which displays the short video shown after completing the E3 2013 and October 2014 demos.

Additionally, eve300.evn, eve301.evn, and eve302.evn all contain animation data used in the E3 trailers for the game.

(Source: Rikan)

Revisional Differences

To do: Other changes.

Bayonetta 2 was ported to the Nintendo Switch, and some additions and changes were made in the process.

• The copyright information on the title screen has been updated to reflect the Switch version's 2018 release.
• The overall frame-rate was improved. Docked mode's frame-rate is much more stable than the Wii U version, while Portable mode's frame-rate is only slightly better.
• The addition of amiibo functionality in Rodin's shop, "The Gates of Hell". Players can scan in amiibo to unlock costumes, items, and in-game currency.
• There are some additional written notes by Rodin that appear on-screen when a specific amiibo is scanned. These references include nods to other Nintendo series such as Super Mario, Super Smash Bros., Splatoon, Pikmin, Yoshi's Woolly World, Animal Crossing, and more.
• The names of the difficulty settings have been changed, and are now referred to as "Easy", "Medium", and "Hard" instead of "1st Climax", "2nd Climax", and "3rd Climax". "∞ Climax" remains untouched.
• Controller illustrations were changed in the controller configuration menu to match the Nintendo Switch controllers.

Version Differences

To do: Other changes.

This is for the Nintendo Switch version of the game. No patches have been released for the Wii U version.

Version 1.1.0

This patch was released on September 28, 2022.

• Adds the Korean, Chinese (Simplified), and Chinese (Traditional) languages. This coincided with the Hong Kong release of the first two games.

Version 1.2.0

This patch was released on November 23, 2022.

• Fixed the title of a chapter that was spelled incorrectly in the Chinese (Traditional) language.
  • Though the official patch notes say this is a typo, it is actually caused by a texture layering error. Internally, the titles are spelled correctly. The Roman numerals in the titles for Witch Trials I, II, and III are improperly spaced, and thus all three Trials appear to be called "Witch Trial I". Note how the numeral gets bolder in each image due to the textures overlapping.

Witch Trial I	Witch Trial II	Witch Trial III

• Fixed the text in the beginning of the Records of Time: The End chapter. This was an error, and was not meant to be the same as the original Bayonetta's text.