Gamechanger mademang. Cant believe we only find out about it now... You can even do 2 evades. Its absolutly amazing how you can just press evade and connect the next action. All I could think of is "have been playing this wrong the whole time". Surprised the game never explains it.
It gives a lot of breathing time. My new style is backing off with 2 evades, evading an attack or not, and then continue the attacks. Those alfheim missions btw really help learning the mechanics. It was one of those elfheim missions that got me to master it. There was one where you could only kill with wicked weave attacks. So I had to back off a lot of times from them to charge up the ppkkk combo. Usually doing 2 evades away from them when holding the first kick in the combo. Those last 2 (weave attack) kicks do a lot of damage.
Btw, does anyone use any other weapons than the guns? I recall using the sword a lot in my last playthrough years ago, but now I only sticked with the guns so far.
Nice! It's so much fun when you get the hang of it. Like you, I didn't use it my first time through, only really 'got it' when I was playing Bayonetta 2 and made a concious decision to try and use it. So good.
The game does actually teach you how to do it, but instead of being in a tutorial it's just one of Antonio's Notes and doesn't explain it very well. I guess they gloss over it because it's not really 'required' and might scare off newer players if they had to do it in a tutorial?
As for weapons in Bayonetta 1: I used to use the shotguns (Onyx Rose?) a lot. They do absolutely disgusting damage at close range with the free aim, and you can use all your regular combos as well since they have the same move-set.
I remember I enjoyed using the bazookas (Lt Col Kilgore) a as well, but that was a bit more gimmicky or for Halo Farming.
Finally the claws were pretty cool and fun to use.
In Bayo 2 I fell in love with the Bow and Arrow and another weapon I wont spoil for you
