I have just gotten past the first boss (Kid X-mas) and so far there really hasn't been anything good, Ryona wise. Even when you fail the QTEs (which I failed on purpose, of course, lol), they don't even lead to game overs. It's pretty lame.
There was this perfect opportunity when Nilin gets ambushed by the other female bounty hunter, Olga, earlier in the game. She gets the drop on Nilin and puts a knife to her throat. You then need to click a button to try to mess with her memories before she kills Nilin. However, there is no danger of dying as the game pauses and tells you what to do. It would have been nice if you can fail, either by not accessing her memories quickly enough, or just messing up the process of altering her memories. Instead, the entire sequence plays out like a lame tutorial.
And don't even get me started on the whole pixelated effect when you are low on health/dead. I really hate how every developer seems to do that nowadays. Why even have it in this game when we already have a freaking health bar? lol
And Max I guess I can agree with Bayonetta being a step above the other two games, but Ryona wise, I think it's Wet that belongs in its own league. Sure the normal gameplay doesn't really offer anything Ryona related, but the QTEs probably have the best fail sequences I have ever seen. The one where that guy shoots the wire or whatever around her throat and the fights against Tarantula (female assassin) and the last boss towards the end were amazing. Eliza Dushku's voice acting for those fail sequences was great, the sort of gurgling sounds she had to act out were spot on.
Anyways, going to finish up this game and see how the rest of it is. The actual game is somewhat alright and I like Nilin as a character so far so we will see where it goes.
