That actually does sound like the missing mojo from their console efforts. You just don't give a damn about the character.
Yes just one of the factors sadly absent in their actiojn games. I went back to playing Beast Rider and even Viking the other night and you could see where they were going but for whatever reason didn't make it. Bayonetta of course does have but it has the character thing on top which is the icing on the cake. The game explodes in her character from the get go the personality exudes the game if you know what i mean, something i haven't seen in a game since the first sonic game.