The book's a review copy from Udon Entertainment. Highly recommended to fans of the game and those who like the art style. This is one of the rare video game artbooks that come with a making-of DVD so it's a fantastic bonus. The DVD has 73 minutes on the making of Bayonetta. There are buildings, architecture, vehicles, statues and all those design elements on walls and pillars. However, the art is beautiful and detailed. The chapter on environment art is a bit limited considering there are more sets featured in the game. They look stylish and incredibly powerful. There are guns, blades, claws and torture weapons. If you like weapon designs, there's a whole chapter on it. The designs are intricate and requires some time to explore, although sometimes there can be too much things going on, which can get confusing visually. The concepts are out of the world, mixing angels and demons with extra shiny metal. This game has some really unique and exquisite enemy designs. Notes and artists' scribbles are all translated. Costume design is definitely one of the highlights. There are lots of coloured sketches as well as high resolution character graphics, featuring plenty of poses and costumes including many discarded ideas. You'll see Bayonetta, Jeanne, Enzo, Rodin, Luka, Cereza, Balder and other characters. This is mainly a character design book with designs. It features concept art for the characters, Angels, Infernal Demons, weapons, accessories and environment. The Eyes of Bayonetta is the official artbook for Bayonetta, one of the crazier Japanese games I've played. Since the book is just a translated edition, the review that follows is largely adapted from the review of the Japanese edition artbook. The two posters are quite good so it's too bad they weren't included here. What's missing are the slipcase and the two posters featuring the bosses. The English edition is a hardcover book and comes with a DVD that's not region coded.
So what's the difference between the Japanese and English edition? The Japanese edition went out of stock pretty quickly and the DVD was region coded to Japan. It's great that publisher Udon has translated the original Japanese artbook ベヨネッタ設定資料集 (The Eyes of Bayonetta).
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