The Sin & Punishment games are the best kept secret in Nintendo's catalogue. I've pretty much known nothing about either game until this year, I've essentially opened and closed the year playing the sequel and now this, and I've come to realize these are some of the best games Nintendo has their name attached to.

Insane visuals, especially for the N64 which most games can't claim to have looked very nice, fast paced rail shooter gameplay, and the best type of nonsense. The most insane shit will just happen in this game, and you have zero time to process it because it will keep getting bigger and bigger until you get the most absurd finale you could ever imagine a game like this ending with. It is tragic this game got a full translation and dub with no localization effort, and essentially a doomed existence to obscurity and being an Assist Trophy in Smash. Star Successor is somehow even more batshit than this game, but this still managed to blow my mind in just all the right places.

Reviewed on Dec 28, 2022


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