Sin and Punishment: Successor of Space

Sin and Punishment: Successor of Space is the third instalment in the Sin and Punishment franchise, released in 2019 for the Hunter.
==Story==
===Background Information===
A race of aliens called the Creators took over Earth at an unspecified time, using humans as dispensible tools in an endless war against a group of rival aliens from "outer space". Every time the Earth's civilisation becomes too advanced, or when the humans refuse to fight, they destroy the planet and establish a new one.
In the events of "Successor of the Earth" (2000, N64), Earth-5 is gripped by famine, which has led to scientists creating Ruffians, a living food source, which eventually went savage and started attacking people. So, the American armed forces formed a non-profit army to hunt down the rogue beasts. However, they tried to oppress the Japanese citizens while doing so, leading to a resistance forming.
This resistance consisted of Achi, a psychic zombie who can bring dead people back to life using blood transfusion technology, and two humans known as Saki and Airan, both saved by Achi's blood.
During a raid on the Armed Volunteers, the group is attacked by a woman named Kachua, who is a follower of Brad, who formerly served Achi before joining the Armed Volunteers instead. Saki and Kachua do battle, both transforming into Ruffians in the midst of the battle.
Amongst the chaos, Achi teleports Airan out of the battle, bringing her to an Armed Volunteers battleship. After Airan single-handedly destroys their entire fleet, Achi tells her that in order to turn Saki back into a human, she will have to shoot him. Airan refuses, and Achi brings her into a dream sequence in response.
During the dream sequence, set ten years in the future, Airan comes across Saki, who tricks her into shooting him. The dream sequence then ends, and Airan and Saki, the latter in a state between human and Ruffian, wash up on a beach. During their time here, Achi kidnaps Airan, forcing Saki to go after her.
At this point, Achi takes the form of a planet, and attempts to destroy Earth-5, saying that if Saki wants to defend Earth-5, she'll simply replace it, forcing her to defend him. Saki then absorbs Airan's soul and becomes a Ruffian once again, although now able to control himself due to having Airan's soul with him, and defeats Achi.
Several years later, Saki goes berserk in an unspecified circumstance, supposedly killing Airan during his rampage. The Creators then kidnap Saki and Airan's son, Isa, and force him to work for them.
Several more years later, Achi, now in a human form known as "Kachi", falls from outer space, but ends up landing on the ruined Earth-4. The Creators send Isa to eliminate the intruder, although he ignores the mission and decides to escape with her instead. This leads to the events of "Successor of the Skies" (2009, Wii).
The Creators, in response, send for a Creator-aligned army called the Nebulox to shoot them down as they escape. Isa and Kachi end up in the ruins of Fukuoka, and are pursued by Orion Tsang, one of the Nebulox (although the Orion we see here is actually a puppet body). After they escape, Isa devises a plan to take an underwater tunnel to a floating air fortress, which they will infiltrate to find an airship to escape on.
Isa and Kachi carry out their plan, although they are forced out of the Air Fortress by Hibaru Yaju, another of the Nebulox. They then decide to take on the Nebulox head-on, by raiding their base on Mt. Fuji.
After crossing an ethereal forest and a desert, Isa and Kachi make it to Mt. Fuji and defeat Deko Gekisho, the leader of the Nebulox. After the battle, however, Deko activates a machine which will supposedly reveal Kachi's alien form. Isa and Kachi try to escape, although Mt. Fuji erupts as they do, causing them to be knocked into the lava.
This leads to Isa absorbing Kachi's soul and entering a Ruffian form. He then discovers that Deko is planning to destroy Earth-4 from the Nebulox's orbital satellite, and manages to disrupt this plan.
===Chapters 0-5===
Six years after the defeat of the Nebulox, the Creators discover a form of data, which they intend to use to wipe out the human race and create a new species to replace them, knowing that this new species will not try to oppose them. However, the data is found by a boy named Haruki, who uses it to create a set of equipment.
The Creators respond by having a dragon attack Haruki while he test-flies a spacecraft, which causes him to crash-land in England. Here, he meets Clara, and the two find that they are still hounded by the dragon, and try to find a way to escape.
During their escape, they come across creatures known as "Keepers". Keepers are artificial lifeforms created by the Creators, usually sent to defend ruined planets. However, they have been set loose in Earth-5 in order to hinder Haruki.
Haruki and Clara hide in a factory, and travel through an underwater tunnel in order to escape. Along their route, they find themselves in an underwater lab, where they encounter a scientist who has been reduced to a monster-like state after a series of experiments.
Clara is uncomfortable within the lab and heads out of the place, further along the underwater tunnel. This leads her and Haruki to the Isle of Skye, a Scottish island. After destroying a giant robot, Clara explains that her father was involved in some kind of bizarre experiments.
While Clara explains this to Haruki, Kaito Amisuto, one of the lesser Creators, appears and confronts Haruki. Haruki refuses, and he and Clara hijack a pair of speedboats in their attempt to escape. Kaito fights them during this escape sequence, but is eventually defeated.
===Chapters 6-10===
Haruki and Clara then reach the west coast of Scotland. Haruki decides on a plan for the two to get out of the country to avoid the Creators. Along their way, they enter a forest, where they see Kachi fighting Miyako Kariudo, another of the Creators.
Miyako stops fighting Kachi when she notices Haruki, trying to get him to hand over the data. Haruki ignores her, and fires a laser at a nearby tree, causing it to fall down and create enough of a distraction for him, Clara and Kachi to escape.
During their escape, however, the group are attacked by soldiers who are apparently hunting Clara. Kachi uses teleportation magic to allow the group to escape. During the teleporation sequence, she explains who she is and decides to stay behind as Haruki and Clara head out along the mountain wilderness.
Some way along the wilderness, Haruki and Clara engage more members of the group pursuing Clara, then fight Miyako again, who reveals both that she was the one who sent the soldiers after Clara and that the Creators are always watching their opposition, making any attempt to escape from them impossible.
===Chapters 11-15===
Considering what Miyako said, Haruki and Clara devise a plan - to try and find the Creators again and pretend to give in, but then trick them into revealing where their base is in order to fight them directly. The two go searching for the dragon that pursued them at the start of their travels, leading them to the coast of Scotland.
Here, Haruki explains to Clara why he hates the Creators, saying that his father was forced by the Creators to murder someone in another country, but died during this mission, which eventually caused his mother to commit suicide out of sorrow. Clara says that her mother had been killed in a sudden attack, and says that the one who killed her looked quite similar to Haruki, confirming a connection between the two.
The two then notice the dragon and chase after it, leading them to a floating mechanical island. Here, they find a database and, against their original plans, hijack it to learn more about the Creators. They manage to find out why the Creators are controlling humanity, although they are attacked by a security system afterwards, forcing them to escape from the island.
Haruki and Clara then continue their chase after the dragon. The dragon eventually notices them, although Isa ends up entering the scene, landing an attack on the dragon which causes it to try and escape.
Haruki chases after Isa, closely followed by Clara, seeing him escape to the peak of Ben Nevis. When Isa stops to regain his strength, Haruki catches up with him and asks for his name. The group are then attacked by Kenji Kamiryu and Katherine Yureiyu, the leaders of the Creators.
Isa stops the battle after some time, and Haruki and Clara take this chance to carry out their plan. Haruki pretends to turn himself in, saying that he used the data to make his equipment. Kenji and Katherine tell him to bring his and Clara's equipment to their base in the deepest part of Earth-5, which Isa identifies as Challenger Deep, in Mariana Trench.
===Chapters 16-20===
Isa, Haruki and Clara return to where Haruki's ship crash-landed at the start of the game. After they manage to repair the ship, Isa agrees to fly the two over to Japan. From there, Isa leaves Haruki and Clara as they go to a shipyard to find a way of getting to Mariana Trench. Upon arrival, however, they find that the shipyard has been taken over by the Creators.
After fighting their way through the shipyard, Haruki and Clara take a pair of windsurfing boards and head out to sea. Here, they come across a fleet of ships which they identify as belonging to the Creators. After taking out a majority of the fleet, they raid the lead ship, where they encounter Orion Tsang.
After Orion is defeated, Clara finds out that the ship is heading straight for the Nebulox's base, and gets Orion to let them come with him in exchange for sparing his life.
===Chapters 21-30===
Haruki and Clara travel on Orion's ship as it heads to Mariana Trench. Once it arrives there, it converts into a submarine and heads down Challenger Deep. It then finds a crevice and enters it, leading to the base. Haruki and Clara head out of the submarine and raid the Creators' base, although along their way, one of the two is seized by a mysterious figure.
The one who wasn't captured chases after the figure and frees their ally from a sentient prison. The two then pursue the mysterious figure, eventually gaining assistance from Isa during the chase.
The figure turns out to be Achi, who fights Haruki and Clara, but is defeated. Achi then turns back into Kachi, revealing certain details about her past to Isa, and, perhaps inadvertedly, Haruki and Clara.
Haruki, Isa, Clara and Kachi all head down the Nebulox's base, defeating Kaito and Miyako once and for all as they do. Along the way, however, they encounter a disturbance which forces whatever feels it to show their true nature. Because Isa and Kachi aren't human, they have to stay behind as Haruki and Clara head further down the base.
Eventually, the two fight Kenji and Katherine once again, with the two revealing that they were actually the dragon who attacked Haruki at the beginning of the game, before entering this dragon form for their final battle.
During this battle, the dragon bring Isa and Kachi to them, revealing that they had captured them using an "outside force", presumably Orion Tsang. However, by reflecting the dragon's attacks back at it, Haruki and Clara manage to force the dragon to revert back to Kenji and Katherine, allowing them to destroy the two and end the Creators' machinations.
After this battle, however, the Creators' base becomes critically unstable, forcing Kachi to teleport the group out of there. During the teleportation, Haruki and Clara begin to wonder what those of outer space might do without the Creators to oppose them, although Isa reassures them that humans will be able to find a way to defend against the aliens themselves.
===Extra Chapter===
An unspecified time later, either Haruki, Clara or both set out into space with either Isa, Kachi or both, having found out that the Creators are somehow still active, controlling a base within the satellite belonging to the Nebulox.
They end up finding that Orion Tsang is controlling the satellite, and defeat him once and for all. Haruki and/or Clara then board(s) the satellite and find(s) a hidden data room. Here, he/she/they discover(s) that the Creators once lived alongside the aliens of outer space. After schism between them, however, they made a declaration of war, at which point the Creators took up residence on Earth and decided to use humanity in order to defeat those of outer space.
==Gameplay==
Sin and Punishment: Successor of Space plays out as a three-dimensional bullet hell shooter. The game is split into thirty two chapters, with the first being a tutortial and the last being a sort of "extra stage".
During gameplay, the player is required to avoid large numbers of attacks from enemies. If an attack touches the player, they lose between 1 and 10 health depending on the attack in question. If all 100 health is lost, the game is over. It's worth noting, however, that the player's hitbox is considerably smaller than their character.
The game can be played with either the controller or the Hunter's bow. The actions that can be performed are as follows:
*Movement: Done with the D-Pad on the bow, or the left analogue stick on the controller. You can move only left and right when on the ground, but can move in all directions in the air. When on the ground, tilt up on the Left Analogue Stick to start floating. When in midair, tilt down near the ground to return to the ground.
*Reticle Movement: Done by pointing at the screen with the bow, or the right analogue stick on the controller. Your reticle moves faster when you are not shooting.
*Shooting: Done with a “blue” arrow shot on the bow, or R on the controller. Sends a laser towards the reticle. You'll move slower while shooting, which is useful for precise dodging.
*Melee Attack: Done by pressing the top trigger on the bow, or L on the controller. A three-hit combo involving using a laser blade embedded in the player's weapon. Can destroy certain small projectiles, and reflect certain large projectiles back at enemies.
*Charge Shot: Done with a “red” arrow shot on the bow, or RR on the controller. Hold down the button to charge, release once fully charged to launch a powerful attack. After using a Charge Shot, your weapon will be overheated, forcing you to wait before you can use another one.
*Dodge: Done by pressing the lower trigger on the bow, or LL on the controller. An evasive movement. Can be done on the spot, or in any direction by moving while dodging. Certain attacks that seem impossible to avoid can be avoided by dodging at the right moment.
The player can choose between two characters, Haruki and Clara. Haruki has a more powerful attack, but has a smaller reticle, while his charge shot is very powerful but lacks splash damage. Clara, on the other hand, has a weaker attack that lightly homes in on enemies and a larger reticle, while her charge shot is weaker, but causes massive splash damage. After completing the game as both characters, one can play Haruki and Clara mode, in which they can press A to cycle between Haruki and Clara.
The player can choose one of two game modes before they start. In Classic Mode, the player can choose to continue from their previous save point whenever they die, but have their score reset to zero when they do so. In Successor Mode, the player has three lives and automatically revives if they die - if they lose all three lives, however, the game ends without an option to continue. In general, Classic Mode is recommended for those simply aiming to finish the game, while Successor Mode is recommended for those aiming for a good score.
One can also choose between one of four difficulties at the beginning of the game...
*Easy: "You will be sheltered".
*Medium: "You will be tested".
*Hard: "You will be punished".
*Insane: "You will be annihilated".
==Scoring==
The scoring system in this game works as follows...
*Every point of damage you deal to an enemy is worth 100 points.
*Coins are obtained by defeating enemies, and can be collected. A bronze coin is worth 1000 points, a silver coin is worth 5000 points and a gold coin is worth 10000 points.
*Medals can be found when special conditions are met. Every chapter, excluding chapters that only consist of a boss fight, has three medals, each worth 200000 points.
*In sections where the player has a choice between being on the ground and being in the air, one earns as many as 600 points per second if they are on the ground.
*Defeating enemies will raise your multiplier. Every enemy defeated, and every destructible object (excluding enemy bullets) destroyed, raises the multiplier by 0.1, and defeating a boss raises it by 1. The maximum multiplier you can reach is 16, while the minimum multiplier (and the default multiplier) is 1.
*Defeating a boss gives 1000 points for every point of health you have left (In Haruki and Clara mode, both characters' health is averaged).
*In every phase in a boss fight (one phase being equal to 500 HP), there is a timer. When the phase ends, 500 points are earned for every 0.5 seconds left on the timer. If there is less than one second left, however, the bonus is preset to 30000 points. No bonus will be earned if the timer ran out.
==Chapters==
The game is split up into thirty two chapters. The first chapter is a special chapter, treated as Chapter 0, and serves as a tutorial. The next thirty chapters make up the main story, while the last chapter is a particularly challenging "extra stage", accessed separately from the main story. Each chapter should take about five minutes to complete, although Chapter 0 and the extra chapter are considerably longer.
From the stage selection screen, the player can choose to play any completed chapter, or to play any completed "set". The available sets are Chapters 1-5, Chapters 6-10, Chapters 11-15 and so on.
For detailed information about the chapters, see Sin and Punishment: Successor of Space/Chapters.
==Gallery==
Successor of Space Haruki.jpeg|Sketch of Haruki.
Successor of Space Clara.jpeg|Sketch of Clara.
Successor of Space Isa.jpeg|Sketch of Isa.
Successor of Space Kachi.jpeg|Sketch of Kachi.
Successor of Space Dragon Twins.jpeg|Sketch of Kenji (left) and Katherine (right).
Successor of Space Orion.jpeg|Sketch of Orion.
Successor of Space Kaito.jpeg|Sketch of Kaito's human form.
Successor of Space Miyako.jpeg|Sketch of Miyako's human form.
Successor of Space God Dragon.jpeg|Sketch of the combined Kenji and Katherine.
Successor of Space Demon Kaito.jpeg|Sketch of Kaito's demon form.
Successor of Space Demon Miyako.jpeg|Sketch of Miyako's demon form.
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