Details about Bayonetta 3 are just beginning to emerge, but they are enough to get fans excited about the next installment in this stylish action series While Bayonetta began as a multi-platform game, the series is now a Nintendo exclusive, with the second game debuting on the Wii U and the third coming to the Switch

The exact release date and game content for Bayonetta 3 is unknown, but a short trailer and a new weapon for the main character have been released

Here is everything we know about "Bayonetta 3" so far, including glimpses from the 50-second teaser trailer

To be clear, the release date of "Bayonetta 3" is unknown At this point, we don't even have a timetable for it Our primary source of information on "Bayonetta 3," the game's teaser trailer, says only that it is "in development exclusively for Nintendo Switch

That trailer was released in 2017, which means the game has been in production for at least three years This is enough time to complete most major games, but some development cycles last five years or even longer

If past release dates are any guide to guessing future release dates, it may be that Bayonetta 3 will be released sooner rather than later; the first game debuted in October 2009, and the second was released in September 2014 With exactly five years between games, more than five years have already passed since the second game was released

However, according to what we know from the game's voice actors, Bayonetta 3 is not expected to be released anytime soon Gray Delisle Griffin, who played Jeanne in the first two games, recently tweeted that as far as she knows, the game has not yet begun recording voice work It is possible that Platinum has recast Jeanne, that Jeanne is not in the game, or that Delisle-Griffin is just floundering, but if not, it may be a while before "Bayonetta 3" debuts

Most of what we know about "Bayonetta 3" - again, not much now - comes from the teaser trailer unveiled at the 2017 Game Awards You can watch the entire 53-second production below:

In it, Bayonetta's ribbons can be seen flowing past a blood-red moon as the protagonist herself is attacked en masse by a flaming purple enemy She fires back with two new guns, falls under the onslaught, and Well, sort of

The trailer doesn't delve too deeply into the story or gameplay; it just lets us know that the game is in production In that respect, it's good enough

While we have yet to see specific gameplay of Bayonetta 3, we can infer it from the previous two games Bayonetta 3 will almost certainly be a fast-paced action game with a high skill ceiling and a somewhat punishing difficulty curve, just like its predecessors

Bayonetta is expected to juggle enemies using both melee attacks and guns (The new gun she wields in the trailer is called the "Whittingham Fair," not unlike the "Scarborough Fair" in the previous game)

There will probably be a new vehicle section, animal transformations, and torture attacks, many of which will require the entire Freudian canon to analyze Bayonetta 2 is a refinement rather than a reinvention of Bayonetta's gameplay, and one would expect the third game to follow a similar pattern