Sin and Punishment 2 Star Successor hits June 27th and brings that ‘bullet hell’ game play to the Wii. While the characters Isa or Kachi are the successors to Saki and his gang of characters, you will notice a lot of similarities between the original game and the sequel. Such as the player traverses through on-rail levels, moving and shooting independently.

While Sin and Punishment 2 might be overshadowed by E3 and Other M, it’s still a great game and worth taking a look at. Are you excited for Sin and Punishment 2?

At the 2010 Nintendo Media Summit, there was nothing on display – not even the behind-closed-doors demonstration of Metroid: Other M – that looked quite as good as Sin & Punishment: Star Successor. Every other game I sampled due to curiosity or a sense of duty; but with Sin & Punishment 2, the reason I chose to play was because I simply couldn’t keep my eyes off the screen.

The rainbow of brightly colored projectiles, beams and explosions, the fluidity and grace of the character animation and the huge quantity of detailed foes on screen made other Wii titles on display look drab by comparison, and the screenshots you’ll see here don’t do the game justice. Graphics are hardly the only reason to be excited about Star Successor, of course. But for those to whom “Sin & Punishment” sounds more like the title of a Nietzsche book than a video game, let me digress: (more…)