Bayonetta 2: Bayonetta 2 100% Completion Guide

This section covers the short training stretch called the Records of Time and the three verses of the Prologue: a fight on a fighter jet, a boss on a train roof and a boss on a skyscraper. It also sets up the whole run: how the game saves, which difficulty to pick, and one Tear you work on through every cutscene. There is nothing to pick up here, and nothing to buy yet.

Chapter I runs from the harbour of Noatun across a water plaza, down into ruins under the water, along a street to the Cascade Foregrounds, through a church and its courtyard and out past a canal. Panther Within is yours from the first step, and Witch Walk works on the gravity ring you reach partway through. Four Muspelheim portals and three hidden Verses sit off the path, and the first Gates of Hell portal is where you buy Crow Within. Three pickups here need moves you get later; the guide comes back for them after the story.

This chapter takes you along the Noatun canal to a round town square, over the water and into the Room of Prayer, then up a wall to its last fight. You have Panther Within, and Witch Walk works where a gravity ring allows it. Three of the nine verses are hidden and start only if you turn back: at the town square, at the waterside past the wooden door, and at two Resting Places in the fountain hallway. Two Muspelheims sit on the path. The chapter's Golden LP goes to Rodin at a shop stop once the chapter is over.

This chapter is a single boss fight in two parts, with no pickups and no hidden verses. Keep a ranged weapon on your hands, such as Love Is Blue, which you already have: the first part needs one. The chapter's Journal's Echo is added by itself when it ends.

Cross the sunken rooftops of Noatun to a stone bridge, topple a tower to reach the next building, climb it by moonlight, then follow the street beyond to a leaning tower, Rodin's portal and a big door. You arrive with Panther Within and the weapons from earlier chapters. From Verse 3 a full moon lets you Witch Walk up the walls here, with no gravity device needed. This chapter's two LP pieces become a new weapon at the portal, and a freezing Tear starts with it. Three hidden fights and one Muspelheim sit just off the path; nothing here needs a later ability.

This chapter crosses the lake in front of the cathedral, the Underground Graveyard beneath it and the Grand Hall above, and ends on the cathedral roof. Snake Within arrives in the opening minute, so from here on you can swim fast and reach the high ledges of flooded rooms. Three Muspelheim portals and three hidden fights sit just off the path, and the Golden LP of this chapter comes in two halves. The Chapter I pickups that need swimming wait for the Chapter I replay after the story. No chapter-clear Umbran Tear fires at the end of this chapter: the next one comes when Chapter VI ends.

This chapter is a single boss fight in two parts, with no pickups and no hidden verses. It starts on the bridge that Chapter V rebuilt. Bring a ranged weapon such as Love Is Blue or Kafka, which you already own, for the moments the boss pulls back. Nothing is left behind here, and the Chapters V-VI Complete Tear arrives when the fight is over.

This chapter starts with a boss fight in flooded caverns under the mountain, then follows one path of flesh inside a demon to a round platform where it ends. The ordinary enemies here are all demons. The path holds one Journal's Echo, one crow and one Muspelheim, down the right-hand branch of a fork; there is no Golden LP here. You have every weapon and form from earlier chapters, and nothing here needs more. The Chapter VII Complete Tear arrives when the last fight is over.

This chapter crosses the broken bridges at the edge of Inferno, steps through Loki's golden portal into the Garden of God and back, then takes you through a flooded church and the Ruins of Lost Memory to a last flight toward the pyramid. Enemies hit much harder from here on. Three Muspelheim portals and two hidden fights sit off the path; both hidden fights start by going somewhere the path doesn't lead: back to where the chapter began, and round behind Loki's second golden portal. Two of the three pieces of the Golden LP The Harmonious Blacksmith are here; the third, and the weapon Rodin makes from it, come in Chapter IX. Two stretches only go forward, a staircase and the closing flight, and each gets a warning just before it. No chapter-clear Umbran Tear fires at the end of this chapter: the next one comes when Chapter IX ends.