In an interview with Famitsu, Kamiya the director of Bayonetta has explained how the sexy witch design has ended with her hair covering all of her body:

“I had Mari Shimazaki, one of the designers, draw her for me,” the designer said. “She gave me a woman in a full-body black suit with her hair running through her hands. I thought that having black hair and a black outfit would make it hard for the player to see what the character was doing. But I loved that long hair; I could see it flowing in the air as she fought and I wanted to depict that. So we went through lots of minor changes; at one point she had red hair. But at the end of it, we went back to a style that had her hair around her arms, making her look really witch like and from there we said ‘Well, why don’t we just have her hair cover her all the way?’ That was how the current Bayonetta was born.”
 

You can read the full interview at 1up.com.
 

Bayonetta is a stylish and cinematic action game with a similar tone to devil may cry. You play as a witch who shape-shifts and uses various firearms, along with magical attacks she performs with her own hair, to dispatch her foes. In addition to possessing four handguns, she has also been pictured with shotguns, rocket launchers, a glowing whip and a two-handed katana.

Although the game was announced to hit japan this October, the release date for US and Europe is still up in the air.

Update: the game will hit the US in January 2010.


The game will be released on PS3 and Xbox 360, Check E3 trailer below.