TheBayonetta 3controversy seems to have finally come to an end as Hellena Taylor, the former voice actress behindBayonetta, has confirmed that she was offered up to $15,000 for the entire Bayonetta 3 project rather than her previous claim that implied she was only offered $4,000.Earlier today, Taylor shared a new thread of tweets reacting to the reports fromBloombergandVGCclaiming that she was actually offered $4,000 per session, which would total $20,000 for five sessions for the entire project. While Taylorreferredto the aforementioned report as “fabrications” and “lies,” she did clarify thatPlatinum Gamesoffered $10,000 for the Bayonetta 3 project in the first place, but Taylor contacted the studio head and game director Hideki Kamiya for more, asking for what she was worth.
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Taylor indicated that Kamiya respected her contributions to the Bayonetta franchise and offered an additional $5,000, which would have made the total and final offer for the project $15,000, but she declined to be a part of the project. She clarified that Platinum Games then offered a flat $4,000 for voice acting some lines and not the entire project. This is actually the part that Taylor put the emphasis on in her recent Twitter videos, but she never made it quite clear in the videos that the $4,000 offer was for a smaller role and not for the entire voice acting process of Bayonetta 3.
Later in her tweet thread, Taylor revealed that she was only paid £3,000 for the original Bayonetta game, and “a little more” for the sequel. Calling Bayonetta a $450 million franchise, Taylor said she had indeed been interested in Bayonetta 3 since 2011, and she did want to voice the character again.
Recently, the new voice actor for Bayonetta’s character in Bayonetta 3,Jennifer Hale, mentioned that she supports every voice actor having the right to be paid well for what they are doing, but she also pointed out the fact that Bayonetta 3 has been created by a team of hard-working developers, implying that boycotting the game is not the right way to deal with the situation.
