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A Modern Rail Shooter
posted by MichaelO (PITTSBURGH, PA) Jul 19, 2012
Member since Sep 2010
Sin & Punishment is, by today's standards, a unique gaming experience... in spite of the fact that, at its core, it is a callback to the days when video games were about a solid arcade experience. Most of the game is structured as a rail shooter (to me the classic example is Panzer Dragoon) in which you control your dodging with the joystick while you aim at the screen and shoot using the remote. There's plenty of stuff to shoot at and plenty of stuff to dodge as you, an agent for a nefarious organization, decide to defy orders and protect a "dangerous" nonhuman woman instead of killing her as instructed.
Pros:
-Tons of arcade goodness. Just plain old shoot 'em up fun straight out of 1995.
-Although a rail shooter at its core, the game mixes in some 2D side scrolling action once in a while to keep things fresh.
-Interesting setting: a sci-fi dystopian future in which the earth has long since been ravaged by war and is now populated by monsters and futuristic armies.
-Choice of two playable characters with different abilities.
-2 player coop option. Ability to switch between 1 player and 2 player between missions.
-Adjustable difficulty level.
Cons:
-The story is interesting, but underdeveloped. This game is all about the action, not spending a lot of time fleshing out what all is going on.
-It's a bit short (just a few hours of gameplay if you don't get stuck) with limited replayability. Good for a rent only.
-In 2 player coop mode, the 2nd player has no onscreen avatar, no ability to dodge, no health gauge, and only the basic "machine gun" attack. They're really just tagging along with the 1st player's game.
-Although this game would have made a big splash if it had come out in 1995, younger gamers may be unaccustomed to this type of gaming experience.
In summary, I had a lot of fun with this game. If you used to play rail shooters back in the day (or you'd like to see what the genre is all about), definitely rent it.
Pros:
-Tons of arcade goodness. Just plain old shoot 'em up fun straight out of 1995.
-Although a rail shooter at its core, the game mixes in some 2D side scrolling action once in a while to keep things fresh.
-Interesting setting: a sci-fi dystopian future in which the earth has long since been ravaged by war and is now populated by monsters and futuristic armies.
-Choice of two playable characters with different abilities.
-2 player coop option. Ability to switch between 1 player and 2 player between missions.
-Adjustable difficulty level.
Cons:
-The story is interesting, but underdeveloped. This game is all about the action, not spending a lot of time fleshing out what all is going on.
-It's a bit short (just a few hours of gameplay if you don't get stuck) with limited replayability. Good for a rent only.
-In 2 player coop mode, the 2nd player has no onscreen avatar, no ability to dodge, no health gauge, and only the basic "machine gun" attack. They're really just tagging along with the 1st player's game.
-Although this game would have made a big splash if it had come out in 1995, younger gamers may be unaccustomed to this type of gaming experience.
In summary, I had a lot of fun with this game. If you used to play rail shooters back in the day (or you'd like to see what the genre is all about), definitely rent it.
can you say sensory overload!?
posted by jjohn2478 (OCEANSIDE, CA) Jul 9, 2010
Member since Feb 2008
I immediately fell in love with this game, until it gave me heart palpitations!
It starts off relatively slow and teaches you a few things, then you are thrown into a few dozen enemies flying across the screen shooting at you all at once! It seems to me that if you are going to play on anything above Easy, you better have a partner to help you out!
If you like Arcade Style shooters, check this one out! One of the best the Wii has to offer!
It starts off relatively slow and teaches you a few things, then you are thrown into a few dozen enemies flying across the screen shooting at you all at once! It seems to me that if you are going to play on anything above Easy, you better have a partner to help you out!
If you like Arcade Style shooters, check this one out! One of the best the Wii has to offer!
Not Quite Sinful Enough
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Jul 2, 2010
Member since Jan 2008
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor is a basic rail shooter that feels like it came from the arcades back in the 1990’s.
The idea here is to shoot down as many bad guys with your machine gun/secondary fire as possible while dodging their fire to keep your health bar from emptying.
The best parts of the game are the various things for you to destroy; there are waves of small creatures, groups of man sized creatures, several large creatures, and massive bosses all set to be demolished. The graphics in the game are some of the best I’ve seen in a Wii game; the enemy looks menacing and I get great joy seeing them blow up.
Another nice feature about the game is that it can be played with a Wiimote/Nunchuck (my preferred way to play it) or with a classic controller.
You can modify the button configuration in many ways, so it’s easy to find a configuration that fits your playing style, and your partner’s (if you are playing this game two player mode).
But, alas, not all is great about Sin and Punishment. You only get three types of attack: the machine gun, the lock on attack (missiles for the girl, energy blast for the boy), and a melee attack. I was hoping for a missile launcher, magnum bullets, a shot gun, or an alien weapon - but nope, they don’t appear here
And these attacks you do get can not be upgraded or enhanced, and your character can’t be modified in any way, either.
This makes the gameplay repetitive - and some players can get bored with holding down the fire button while blasting targets while dodging the return fire.
Which may be a blessing in disguise that the game lasts only five hours for a run through - and does not give a very good reason to play it a second time. But I found this lack of shelf life to be the biggest problem that this $50 game has.
The bottom line, I say, is Sin and Punishment: Star Successor is a must rent, and fans of the genre will want to purchase it.
The idea here is to shoot down as many bad guys with your machine gun/secondary fire as possible while dodging their fire to keep your health bar from emptying.
The best parts of the game are the various things for you to destroy; there are waves of small creatures, groups of man sized creatures, several large creatures, and massive bosses all set to be demolished. The graphics in the game are some of the best I’ve seen in a Wii game; the enemy looks menacing and I get great joy seeing them blow up.
Another nice feature about the game is that it can be played with a Wiimote/Nunchuck (my preferred way to play it) or with a classic controller.
You can modify the button configuration in many ways, so it’s easy to find a configuration that fits your playing style, and your partner’s (if you are playing this game two player mode).
But, alas, not all is great about Sin and Punishment. You only get three types of attack: the machine gun, the lock on attack (missiles for the girl, energy blast for the boy), and a melee attack. I was hoping for a missile launcher, magnum bullets, a shot gun, or an alien weapon - but nope, they don’t appear here
And these attacks you do get can not be upgraded or enhanced, and your character can’t be modified in any way, either.
This makes the gameplay repetitive - and some players can get bored with holding down the fire button while blasting targets while dodging the return fire.
Which may be a blessing in disguise that the game lasts only five hours for a run through - and does not give a very good reason to play it a second time. But I found this lack of shelf life to be the biggest problem that this $50 game has.
The bottom line, I say, is Sin and Punishment: Star Successor is a must rent, and fans of the genre will want to purchase it.
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