I did have Ninja Blade on Xbox 360, nailed it on hardest iirc, not a candle to NG for terms of grinding.
DMC > all other hack and slash actions games in terms of difficulty. a lot will disagree, but you know why it is? Anyone, and I mean anyone, with enough patience, can grind through Ninja Gaiden/Blade & God of War etc. You'll die
a lot but you'll get there, as is the case with most games.
Devil May Cry is another beast entirely, in order to truly succeed at it, you have to of course beat it on Hell & Hell mode with full SSS mission rankings. Nobody can grind that, get hit once? Dead. Can you block? No. Fail a few combos? Bye bye SSS rank. Waste your chances at building points by repeating similar combos? Again, bye bye SSS rank.
I haven't played Bayonetta (although I might just for dat ass
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) but isn't it from the creators of Devil May Cry 1 or something? If so it'll hopefully be like Devil May Cry. But yeah, if you want some true satisfying, difficult games, grab some Stylish Hack & Slash games (an actual sub genre btw) like the two mentioned previously.