Talk:Loki/@comment-11516959-20140620145458/@comment-1661895-20140620154210

I personally think that Loki will get his own gauges and theming whilst playing as him. Keep in mind that the shot that is from is all the way back in February and the game has had a lot of work done to it since then with Bayonetta having new vocalisations for her attacks (instead of her old ones being used as placeholders like the original demos), the co-operative mode fleshed out, the finalisation of certain sequences such as the 'Jet Set Holiday' becoming the World of Chaos prologue and a lot more. After all, development was still ongoing when that trailer was released.

In the latest E3 demos, Loki does have his own heathbar beneath Bayonetta's gauges when they're together which is stylised to represent his colour scheme and the cards he uses. I imagine we'll end up using something similar to that when we play as him in the 'campaign'.

Now having said that in relation to the supposed multiple playable characters in the co-op, only Jeanne and the Masked Lumen have potential to be picked since they are the only characters that share the abilities of combo-based attacks, summoning, animal forms and special attacks like Wicked Weaves (Angelic 'Weaves' in the case of the Sage). Loki's AI from how he was shown in trailers/demos (and to an extension his combat style) acts completely different to this. He throws his cards from a distance at enemies, doesn't get too close to them to deal direct damage and doesn't move around as drastically as the usual combat with Bayonetta would need to be. It seems unlikely that that his programming would hold back on direct attacks if he is capable of them as Jeanne is shown doing that when she fights controlled by AI. I think Loki will be a strictly single player character.