Hellena Taylor, the English voice actor for PlatinumGames’ Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2, has known as for gamers to boycott the upcoming Bayonetta 3. Over the weekend, Taylor launched a collection of movies alleging that she was supplied low pay to voice the character that she’s been taking part in since 2009. 

While online game franchises have recast characters up to now, Taylor actively calling on followers of the franchise to boycott the discharge of Bayonetta 3 is uncommon. 

In her movies, Taylor claims that she was supplied $4,000 to return and play Bayonetta for the third sport, whose trailers trace at a number of variations of the identical character showing in it. That quantity of pay, whereas she acknowledged as being authorized, was additionally “immoral.”  

“The Bayonetta franchise made roughly $450 million. That’s not together with merchandise,” mentioned Taylor. “This is an insult to me [and] the period of time that I took to work on my expertise and all the pieces I’ve given to this sport and to the followers.”

In Bayonetta 3, the titular character can be voiced by Jennifer Hale, whose profession consists of Mass Effect and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Platinum defined to Game Informer earlier within the month that Hale’s casting was attributable to “varied overlapping circumstances.”

Taylor went on to assert that she wrote to government director (and PlatinumGames’ VP) Hideki Kamiya in an try to get higher pay, however the mounted worth remained. She continued by saying that strolling away led to her having anxiousness and despair. “Fat cats cream off the highest and depart us the crumbs.” 

In response to Taylor’s movies, Kamiya dismissed the allegations on Twitter, calling them “unhappy and deplorable.” Later within the weekend, his Twitter was deactivated, nevertheless it seems to be again up at time of writing.

Beyond the video games bearing Bayonetta’s title, Taylor voiced the character within the anime movie adaptation of the primary sport. She additionally voiced the character in Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. (2014) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Bayonetta additionally appeared as a visitor character, voiced by Taylor, in Platinum’s Anarchy Reigns and The Wonderful 101. 

At time of writing, neither Platinum or Nintendo (which has revealed the Bayonetta franchise since 2014), have offered an official assertion. 

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— Hellena Taylor (@hellenataylor) October 15, 2022