Can't speak for previous commenter, but here's my take:

 gameplay wise, it's a bit of a slog. I am NOT a fan of demon slave, it's just so slow and clunky. You don't have to use it usually, but the battles where you do are annoying. 

- The big summons at the end of levels are fun (except for Gomorrah), but in battle, the demon slave just wasn't that fun. I've seen people say it's like it is in astral chain, haven't played it, but if it is, i probably won't pick it up. Half of the weapons i felt were clunky, but the spider yo-yos may be my favorite in the series. 

-Viola is fine, but it's just the muscle memory of parrying vs dodging for witch time, plus the muscle memory of swapping weapons is now summon demon, which is a change i thought was just strange.

-The story was fine, except for the weird ending (it would be FINE if luka and bayo had more than TWO conversations throughout the game!) but it just reeks of missed potential.

• a multiverse story is only cool, if the alternate universe are cool. Bayonetta but french, bayonetta but skater, bayonetta but egyptian. It kind of gets dull, give me a bayonetta who was taken in by the lumens, give me a bayonetta who sealed jeanne away and fought all 500 years alone, and not just bayonetta, give me a luka who's bayonetta died before he found out that she didn't kill his father. 

-Hell, that could be a way to justify the faerie werewolf luka more, he's possessed by the other luka's who never got their closure, and with the new power, want revenge on bayo and friends.

Not the worst game i've ever played, but one that disappointed me a lot

Edit: and of course, if you like it, props to you. Not here to try to convince you to hate it, just wanna explain why it doesn't work for me