History VideoGame / SinandPunishmentStarSuccessor

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: [[spoiler:The ''Sin & Punishment: Franchise/StreetFighter Edition'' moment with Deko in Stage 6.]] Notable in that, if you're playing as Kachi in any mode, you're forced to use Isa for it.

* WolfpackBoss: A few group bosses in this style are fought throughout the game, including the Moray Keeper in Stage 2 (only the yellow-eyed Keeper has a health bar, with others popping out in a whack-a-mole style alongside it) and Guardian 17 in Stage 3 (the main boss is a pillar that hides behind a circle of weaker pillars with their own attacks; killing every pillar creates one of the stage's medals).

* AnimalMotifs:
** Ariana wears a mask resembling a raven's skull and her feet look like talons.
** Armon Ritter's power is to transform into various monsters that resemble sea creatures. Some of his forms include a giant stingray, a sea horse and a pod of dolphins.

** Armon Ritter's power is to transform into various monsters that resemble sea creatures. Some of his forms include a giant stingray, a sea horse and a school of dolphins.

* UnderwaterBossBattle: The bosses in the first half Stage 2 fall under this, as well as a few partial examples in the swamps and lakes of Stage 4.

** Some of the boss names were modified between versions, mostly because the original ones sound either ridiculous or unthreatening to westerners. An armed plane originally called the "Squirrel" is renamed the "N5 Ironbat", and the first Keeper boss, a giant chicken named "[[UnfortunateNames Cock Keeper]]", was renamed "Phoenix Keeper".

** Some of the boss names were modified between versions, mostly because they sound either ridiculous or unthreatening to westerners. An armed plane originally called the "Squirrel" is renamed the "N5 Ironbat", and the first Keeper boss, a giant chicken named "[[UnfortunateNames Cock Keeper]]", was renamed "Phoenix Keeper".

** Some of the boss names were modified between versions. An armed plane originally called the "Squirrel" is renamed the "N5 Ironbat", and the first Keeper boss, a giant chicken named "[[UnfortunateNames Cock Keeper]]", was renamed "Phoenix Keeper".

* BattleshipRaid: The N5 Molten Echo fight in Stage 6 strongly evokes memories of the original game's aircraft carrier level, this time with a lava submarine.

* WeaponizedExhaust: Orion Tsand in Stage 7 has an exhaust-based attack, but it only uses it when faced at an angle where its other parts cant't be hit.

* NonStandardGameOver: Both of the game's instant-fail conditions are in stage 6.
** Staying in the air too long while on top of the [[TraintopBattle trains]] in the Komodo Keeper will result in Isa/Kachi flying off and losing regardless of their remaining health.

* OneToMillionToOne: In Stage 2, Armon Ritter transitions between his forms by disspating into black blobs. Destroying them in the first two phases only helps to build up the score multiplier, but failing to shoot the small amount left by Stage 3 will ruin the multiplier right at the end of the level.

* SequelHook: If the game is beaten on the Isa & Kachi Mode, [[spoilerthere's an extra cutscene where Isa and Kachi discuss how their enemies will still inevitably come for them. Kachi's memory starts to return, and she remembers that she is in fact [[BigBad Achi]] (or, depending on interpretation, this reveals that she was faking amnesia).]]

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: [[spoiler:The ''Sin & Punishment: Franchise/StreetFighter Edition'' moment with Deko in Stage 6.]] Notably in that, if you're playing as Kachi in any mode, you're forced to use Isa for it.
* AnimalMotifs:

* BadassInANiceSuit: For someone who's ordered to kill you, Armon Ritter is sharply-dressed for the occasion.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: Near the end of Stage 2, the boss theme begins to play as what appears to be the boss, two Moray Keepers, begin swimming towards you. Right before they can attack you, they are killed off by a giant laser from the actual boss: the N5 Barracuda (called Brimstone in the Japanese version).

* TheBattleDidntCount: You fight every member of the Nebulox, bringing their HP to zero, yet they live to come back in the final stage.
* BattleshipRaid: There's a segment of Stage 6 that strongly evokes memories of the original game's aircraft carrier level.

* BeamSpam: A particularly obnoxious case of it is directed at you from an underwater boat.

* BlackAndGrayMorality

* BladeOnAStick: Used by Deko's OneWingedAngel form in the final battle.
* BossGame: Like its predecessor, the game has multiple stage bosses or a series of boss battles in every stage, but they go for broke on the final stage, which has a battle royale versus all members of Nebulox in their most powerful forms.
* BossRush: The second half of the last stage is comprised entirely of boss battles against the Nebulox members, culminating in the final battle against Deko.

* BrainInAJar: The first of the Nebulox you face turns out to be this, your boss fight having been against a puppet body.

* BulletTime: Ariana sends out red and blue ravens that change into orbs (for some reason). Touching the blue ones slows down time. Touching the red ones does the opposite.

* ChargedAttack: Isa can charge his gun to fire a single powerful blast that explodes in a wide radius, while Kachi can charge hers to fire several bullets at all locked-on enemies.
* CheckPoint: Very prevalent throughout the game, much like in {{First Person Shooter}}s. Dying and continuing sends you back to one, but wipes out your score.

* ChewingTheScenery:

* ClimaxBoss: Stage 6 ends with a {{sequential|Boss}} climax boss.
* CollapsingCeilingBoss: Giant/Horror Keeper, the final boss of Stage 3. The beginning of the battle is mainly spent navigating a block maze and deflecting his missiles back at him when he pops up to stop him from harassing you; the second phase of the battle consists mainly of this.
* CombatTentacles: Hibaru can spawn them from her clothes and grab you with them if you get too close while they are out. A Stage 7 boss has mechanical combat tentacles.

* CoresAndTurretsBoss: Guardian 11, which periodically drops its shield to shoot at you, as all its other turrets are destructible and Guardian 17, which consists of a number of large columns that open up to fire at you which the main target, a green column, keeps hiding behind.

** An armed plane originally called the "Squirrel" is renamed the "NC Ironbat", and the first Keeper boss, a giant chicken named "[[UnfortunateNames Cock Keeper]]", was renamed "Phoenix Keeper".
** The Nebulox's Japanese name, "Group of Five Countries", is more commonly referred to in media as "G5". Make of that what you will.
* CutAndPasteTranslation: The U.S. English version suffers heavily from this, made crystal clear with the inclusion of [[BilingualBonus the Japanese voice track]]. Entire lines are cut/changed entirely (including many of the {{Mind Screwdriver}}s, and numerous lines aren't even in the Japanese, making it a different plot entirely. Among the major cuts are Isa's FreudianExcuse and outright hatred of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien the Creators]] (referred to as "Gods" in the Japanese), as well as casual mention of his origins on Earth-2.

* DamageSponge: While it does considerably less damage, the Hatchling Keeper has more health than all but the very last of the end game bosses.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Ariana Shami, the magician/shaman of the Nebulox, has dark skin and long red locks coming out of her skull helmet.

* DefeatEqualsFriendship: The Griffin Keeper boss of Stage 5 is impressed by the heroes' strength and agrees to help them reach Mt. Fuji.
* DegradedBoss: An unusual ''inter-regional'' example: In the Japanese version's Stage 4, the fourth and final mid-boss is the Wheel Keeper. In the North American version, not only is it moved to just before the [[GratuitousNinja Ninja Keeper]] (the second mid-boss), it ''loses its boss status''--that is, it doesn't get a LifeMeter nor a time limit.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: More like prophets or apostles, seeing as to how the Nebulox are servants of the Creators, but the fact that you do, in fact, [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom literally punch one out]] and considering who they got their power from, it's kinda hard to resist placing it under this trope.
* DifficultyLevels: Just like in original, there's three difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, and Hard.
* DishingOutDirt: The Hatchling keeper can lay explosive globs of lava.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Kachi and Isa have an... ''interesting'' conversation on what makes a human "human". Kachi breaks it down into body parts. Slowly. With the camera following pointing at her respectively.
* DreadlockWarrior: The Horror Keeper has things on its head which sort of resemble dreadlocks.

** Hibaru's final transformation in stage 7 involves splitting herself into twin swordsmen transformation.

* EnemyMine: In the final stage, [[spoiler:the Keepers, whom you've been fighting with for pretty much 90% of the game, join you in stopping the Nebulox alongside Isa, as they ''are'' supposed to be the defenders of the planet, and the Nebulox is not only a threat to Isa and Kachi, but also the planet.]]
* EpicFlail: The little guy (Horror Keeper) will attack with a chain around one his fingers after you knock him down enough times.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: This happens in the cut scene where Armon Ritter first shows up and should be a hint at the player not to bother shooting at him for awhile.
* ExtraEyes: A Stage 7 boss has a whole lot of extra eyes.
* ExtremityExtremist: Kachi's only strikes are kicks, Ariana's are hand slaps and claps after being disarmed.
* EyeBeams: Armon Ritter's first and fourth transformations use an eye beam.
* FantasticRacism: The Nebulox show no mercy towards beings of Outer Space. Them targetting Kachi sparks the game's main conflict.

* FlashStep: Hibaru can do so while flying. Orion Tsang achieves the effect by teleporting. Ariana can do this in her normals state, leaving behind after images and takes it {{up to eleven}} if you get caught in her red raven orb.
* FlechetteStorm: [[spoiler:Deko's monstrous form in Stage 7 comes with a ring of giant daggers, which he manages to fling around in the vaccuum of space. He keeps using them in the second phase, where they can only be countered with melee attacks.]]
* FlunkyBoss: The first phase of Deko at the end of Stage 6, he spends most of his time floating stationary while his army of {{mook}}s and mechas assault you.
* FreefallRomance: Isa and Kachi share a tender moment together... while falling towards a volcanic crater filled with lava.
* FusionDance: The Saberhook and Vulture Keepers in Stage 5 merge together to form Gryphon Keeper, the stage boss.
* GaiasVengeance: The Keepers are artificial life forms designed to defend Earth from those who would try to harm it; Isa explains that they are the Earth's "immune system". The Keepers spend a great majority of the game harassing Isa and Kachi, as if the Nebulox weren't enough of a threat. In Stage 7, [[spoiler:when it becomes clear that the Nebulox pose a major threat to the planet, the Keepers strike back against them, working alongside Isa and Kachi.]]

** Stage 5 is part DrivingGame.

* GatlingGood: Some of the tanks the Nebulox uses have mounted chain guns for the soldiers to use.
* GiantSpider: The wheel keeper can release spiders as big as the player characters.
* GigglingVillain: Hibaru laughs a lot during her boss fight, fitting with how she's one of the more casual and sadistic members of the Nebulox. The Japanese version makes Deko laugh during his fight, but this isn't apparent in other voice tracks.
* GlowingEyeLightsOfUndeath: The skull keeper has one eye light.
* GreenThumb: The Ninja Keepers will make the grass spontaneously grow taller so they can hide in it. Ariana can summon explosive Lilly flowers.
* TheHero: Isa is the game's main protagonist, and is a kind, heroic person fighting purely to save someone innocent from the Nebulox and the Creators. [[spoiler:However, it's possible that he became an UnwittingPawn to Achi by doing this]].
* HeroAntagonist: The Nebulox in the American English translation, in the Japanese version the group are known as G5 and are characterized much more like cackling villains whose power has gone to their heads. Even then though, [[WellIntentionedExtremist their goal is no less sympathetic]].

* HolierThanThou: According to Airan Jo on the European release site, the inner space creators call themselves "God" and the outer space aliens refer to themselves as "holy women". Since the two are at war with each other this trope is the logical conclusion.
* HumansAreWarriors: {{Enforced|Trope}}, the creator gods want humans to be hostile to everything else. Human populations that find a way to be peaceful are exterminated and replaced by a planetary defense system known as "keepers" until a sufficiently warlike people are found and allowed to settle the planet. [[spoiler: [[JustifiedTrope In the last game, the Earth's population was kind of destroyed after they consumed too much food and then saw their efforts to fix the problem sabotaged by something that looked human but was not]].]]
* HumanWeapon: Considering humans in general are treated like tools in this setting, both of the player characters and all five of the Nebulox would qualify [[PersonOfMassDestruction as weapons of mass destruction]].

* {{Jetpack}}: Some armored enemies in stages five and six have them. Actual jet packs, not that thing Isa wears. The ones in six have them built into their power armor even.
* JustEatHim: If the snapper keeper manages to bite you, you will eventually be spat out if you have enough health.
* KamehameHadoken: Play around with Orion Tsang and he'll attempt to vaporize you with what is clearly a [[Manga/DragonBall Kamehameha wave]].
* KickChick: Kachi's melee attacks consists solely of kicks. Kicks that can send back rockets and knock away the claws of especially large keepers.
* LaserBlade: Isa's gun doubles as one. If you have good timing you can even use it to stop a lot of physical attacks done by the enemy. Even if they are much larger than Isa.
* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: Some Keepers come in forms that appear to be lava crabs, lava rays and lava beavers. [[spoiler:There is even a lava submarine!]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: The eel keepers can damage you with their screams.
* MarathonLevel: All of the stages are exceptionally long by arcade standards (you could watch a movie in the time it takes to finish the game even on one credit and with no breaks), but Stage 6 takes the cake, taking over half an hour to complete. And it's ''not even the last stage.''
* MeaningfulName: Much like the first game, Isa rebels against his superiors and is hunted down for doing so.

* MeleeATrois: In the underground city of stage one, you will see many soldiers constantly firing their weapons even though you'd have no chance of running into their path, as well as keepers wandering around with no sense of purpose. Stage six reveals they've been fighting each other, in addition to you, though it you look carefully, there are some hints even before then. Even the Nebulox would rather avoid some of the larger keepers.
* MetaMultiplayer: This game featured online leaderboards. Unfortunately, due to the sever shutdown of June 2013, this feature of the game was axed along with the servers.
* MultiarmedAndDangerous: The little guy, but he only uses two of his six arms to attack you, the others are used to climb after you as you fly around (he has no legs). The Medusa Keeper of the water tunnel uses regenerating arms with eyes to block your path.
* MultipleHeadCase: You get to fight a turtle with two heads at the end of stage 1. In stage four you fight the Skull Keeper giant who dribbles a collection of heads like a basketball in between its attacks and you must destroy the heads to win.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Hibaru Yaju meets Isa for the first time, immediately checks him out, and if you're playing as Kachi, asks him out for a date "once she's done killing his girlfriend." Girl moves fast.
* NayTheist: Isa's doesn't believe there is a real God, as a real God would not tolerate "the Creators", who he has no respect for as told on [[http://nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/wii/sin_and_punishment_successor_of_the_skies_13571.html the European web page]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After beating Isa & Kachi, it becomes quite clear that [[spoiler:you helped Achi, the villian of first game, by killing her opposition!]]

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: After the Infant Keeper is spawned, the heroes take sympathy for killing its mother, the previous boss, so they spare it. It immediately kidnaps your partner, straps them to a pulley, and slowly lowers him/her into the lava.
* NobleBirdOfPrey: The Cock Keeper and the Vulture Keeper, given they are defenders of the planet.
* NonStandardGameOver:
** Staying in the air to long while on top of the train will result in it leaving you behind.
** If you fail to rescue your partner in Stage 6 from the Infant Keeper in time, you're treated to a cutscene of Isa/Kachi being dumped into lava.
* OneToMillionToOne: The only way to do lasting damage to Armon Ritter at first is to shoot while he is transitioning between these states.

** Many of the Stage 3 enemies will continue to attack even after half of their body has been shot off.
** In the beginning of Stage 1, Kachi is impaled through her ''stomach'' yet when she wakes up, she acts like nothing ever happened. Then slide herself off the spike ''from her waist'' without so much as a prick on her torso, let alone any damage to her clothes.
* OnlySixFaces: There are only six characters that do not have obscured faces, bringing the count down to four.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: The climax boss of [[spoiler:Stage 3, the Horror Keeper,]] is a biologically engineered, dreadlocked monstrocity that chases you down a narrow shaft while launching missiles from its chest and swinging the flaming debris on its arm. The [[spoiler: [[OneWingedAngel One-Winged Angel]] forms the [[HiredGuns Nebulox Commanders]] take]] in Stage 7, if you disregard them still being sentient beings and the mechanical parts of one.

** In stage four, there are spider enemies who can obscure the screen with their webs.
** By stage six, the gun caliber of the enemy has gotten so high the bullets hit the screen too.

* PlayingTennisWithTheBoss: Deflecting missiles, as in the original game. There's also a mandatory segment at the end of Stage 4's boss involving huge boulders which require you to time your melee combo perfectly on them or they just keep on coming. Well, not completely mandatory but you're better off playing tennis, as the other option is much longer and more difficult.

** A few of the Keepers have fire attacks, with the wheel keeper leaving tracks of fire behind it as it rolls.

* PoweredArmor: Most of your human enemies wear them, but aside from squad commanders, it isn't until stage six that you encounter any that are really threatening to you without largely outnumbering you.

* ReflectingLaser: Armon uses these while trapping you and himself in a beam box.
* TheReveal: In the Isa & Kachi Mode ending, [[spoiler:Kachi reveals she has remembered her past identity: Achi, the previous game BigBad]].

* RollingAttack: The rolling gun machines of Stage 3, which will barrel forward on their tread-wheels, turn around to fire a spread of bullets, and then repeat. The Hatchling Keeper boss from Stage 6 can curl up for a charging roll, though a properly timed charged shot will flip it onto its back.
* SandIsWater: In Stage 5, both the giant sand worm enemies and the Sabrehook Keeper can glide through the desert's sand smoothly.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The N5 Molten Echo, a lava-borne submarine in Stage 6, attempts to submerge and flee once its main cannon is destroyed (follow a BattleshipRaid sequence where most of its other guns are taken out). It can be destroyed before this by performing a melee combo on it after the cannon fight.
* SequelHook: If the game is beaten on the "Isa & Kachi Mode, [[spoiler:we see Isa and Kachi discuss how their enemies will still inevitably come for them. Kachi's memory starts to return, and she remembers that she is in fact [[BigBad Achi]].]]

** All beings from Outer Space have no set forms, and can freely shapeshift into any form. That would include [[HumanoidAbomination humans]], animals, rubble, and even entire ''planets'', as demonstrated by Achi in the previous game. The Nebulox claim to have a device that can force Outer Space beings to reveal their "true" form though.

** Isa [[spoiler:inherited Achi's blood from his father, Saki. As such, he's capable of becoming a monstrous Ruffian, and the power could very well corrupt his soul like it once did to Saki.]]
* ShieldBearingMook: Two of these try to stop your advance in stage 3 by blocking off a hallway. You can instantly bring it down by deflecting a [[{{BFG}} comically large rocket]] fired by a third mook.

** Orion Tsang's name in the Japanese version (Cheng Long Lee) is Creator/JackieChan" translated into Chinese.

* ShutUpHannibal: At the end of the game, Isa says this to Deko, after he calls Kachi "a monster"
-->'''Isa''': There's [[YouMonster only one monster I see here]]... [[NoYou AND THAT'S YOU, DEKO]]!
* SicEm: In stage 7, Deko orders his subordinates to fight Isa one by one, growing increasingly frustrated as each of them are slain.

* SpreadShot: Kachi's[[note]]and Isa's, once Autolock has been unlocked for him[[/note]] shots spread out if not locked onto anything.
* StarCrossedLovers: The story begins with the two heroes escaping, already inexplicably crazy about each other. [[spoiler:[[ThePowerOfLove Their affection for each other]] eventually brought out Isa's [[SuperMode Ruffian powers]] for the final showdown.]]
* StationaryBoss: Brimstone (the one with that name in the English version) is just a rotating tower with weapons on it.
* StuffBlowingUp: EVERYTHING blows up, even the corpses of fallen enemies.

* TalkingToAnimals: Kachi talks to artificial lifeforms that sometimes vaguely resemble animals anyway.
* TeleporterAccident: Kachi explains that a mistake in teleporting can get one lost in the folds of space and time. [[spoiler:And winds up teleporting Isa and herself into someone's dream right after she said this. Ariana manages to follow them.]]
* TimeLimitBoss: Unlike the original game, only boss battles and certain enemy encounters are timed. Should the timer reach zero, your score multiplier diminishes. That said, most of the boss timers are extremely lenient.

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Somewhat with the Squad Leader from Stage 1. While his boomerang sword has an impressive sweep across the ground, it can be shot back by the player.
* TraintopBattle: In Stage 6, you run along a train shooting down tons of foes. However, the true objective is to detach the train carriages as you go along so that the Komodo Keeper behind you runs into them.
* TransformingMecha: In the area before the Komodo Keeper in Stage 5, there are enemy jets that unfold into mechas that can fire bombs and charge right at Isa/Kachi.
* TripodTerror: A few in the third stage, appropriately enough. They are more sensibly designed than most examples as far as mobility goes-weapon placement not so much.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: After Isa's ship is shot down one of the robots in it goes haywire and attacks.

* UnderwaterBossBattle: About three full examples. A stationary boss, a wolf pack boss and a boat filled with soldiers. Then two partial ones in a swamp and above the water with a Nebulox who periodically dives in.

** Stage 5 is entirely grounded till the very end, as [[spoiler:Kachi rides a little Therapod thing while Isa rides a hover speed thing]].

* VideoGameFlight: Added to this game, you can usually fly anywhere as long as the environment allows it. Since the stage tends to scroll against your will that's not as much freedom as you may think. If you're playing for score, you get an ongoing bonus if you stay on the ground, and in the TraintopBattle in Stage 6, you get a NonstandardGameOver if you stay in the air for too long.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The first boss of Stage 6 is the NS Molten Echo, the main cannon of the battleship the player has been taking on from afar. You see this cannon come out of the ship while at a reasonably safe angle and distance. So what does the game have you do? [[RuleOfCool Why, fly in front of the cannon to do battle with it, of course!]]

** A few early bosses (like the aforementioned Tsang) are much harder to defeat if you don't use your melee attack. Hibaru Kaju, the Stage 3 penultimate boss, on the other hand, is the first boss that is ''impossible'' to defeat if you don't use it.
* WalkingTank: Many of these to go around. There are even machines that can tread across lava, one of the few instances it is treated like the non Newtonian fluid that it is.

* WallCrawl: From crab keepers under water to the torsos of what are presumably androids in the sky fortress.
* WeaponizedAnimal: Enjoy those bomb dropping dogs on the train.
* WeaponizedExhaust: A Boss on Stage 7 but it is easy to play through it several times without noticing or even encountering the hazard, since you can't really do any damage from behind it.

* WhamLine: In TheStinger for Isa & Kachi: "Long ago, [[spoiler:I wasn't called Kachi. I was known as... '''Achi'''.]]" This is only really a Wham Line if you've played the first game, in which [[spoiler:Achi, [[BigBadFriend ostensibly an ally]], turns out to be EvilAllAlong]].

* YouKilledMyMother: The Infant Keeper tries to murder your partner as revenge for you killing his mother.

* CallASmeerpARabbit: During Stage 6, Kachi rides on a "donkey", which in this setting is [[HorseOfAnotherColor a hairless mammal with a raptor-like body shape, hooves, and antennae]].

* ChestBlaster: The Horror Keeper can shoot missiles out of its chest

%%* ArmedLegs: A few of the enemies of Stage 3.

%%* BreathWeapon: The Snapper Keeper, The Horror Keeper, Saberhook Keeper, The Vulture Keeper, Komodo Keeper

%%* BewareMyStingerTail: The saber hook keeper.

%%* BigBad: Deko Gekiso

%%* BlowYouAway: The Griffin Keeper, particularly if its tail manages to knock you into the sand.

%%* BulletSeed: From the Swamp Keeper.

%%* CallASmeerpARabbit: Kachi's "donkey", also Isa seems to wear some kind of anti-gravity device the European website describes as a "jet pack".

%%* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Ariana Shami.

%%* FlechetteStorm: In space no less in Stage 7

%%* GigglingVillain: Hibaru, especially in the Japanese version, where Deko is one too

%%* TheHero: Isa.

%%* HighSpeedBattle: Most of stage 5

%%* IronicNickname: The Little guy in the sky fortress.

%%* MechaMooks: Many, particularly in the sky fortress.

%%* RoarBeforeBeating: The Swamp Keeper
%%* {{Roboteching}}: A whole lot of this from the enemy in stage seven.
%%* RollingAttack: The rolling gun machines of stage 3. The Hatchling Keeper does too, though a properly timed charged shot will flip it unto its back.
%%* SandIsWater: The saber hook keeper treats it this way. There are also ''massive'' sand worms in stage 5.

%%* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The lava sub in stage 6, following a comically long shootout in which you take it apart gun-by-gun.

%%* ShieldedCoreBoss: Armon Ritter's second transformation
%%* ShockAndAwe: The hatchling keeper and later, Ariana.

%%* SimpleStaff: Ariana's, at first.

%%* TiredOfRunning: [[spoiler: Isa, in the true ending.]]

%%* TransformingMecha: The transforming jet mechas in Stage 5.

%%* TurtlePower: Snapper Keeper, the final boss of Stage 1.

%%* WallJump: Hibaru occasionally.

%%* WhipItGood: Orion Tsang and Deko.
%%* WolfPackBoss: One is under water and the others come with a CameraScrew!
%%* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Watch out for Deko's [[Wrestling/NaoyaOgawa STO]]!

%%* ZettaiRyouiki: Kachi's [[FashionableAsymmetry one-leg thigh-high]]. Hibaru's [[ProperTightsWithASkirt pantyhose]] gives the impression of this. Isa is a RareMaleExample.

* DifficultyLevels: Just like in original, there's three difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, and [[NintendoHard Hard]]. Considering how much Treasure [[SequelDifficultySpike cranked up the difficulty]] in this installment, though, you might want to practice on Easy first. You will not get to see all of the level's content unless you play on normal but then again, [[BulletHell maybe you do not want to]].

* ActionGirl: Kachi. Hibaru is on the {{d|arkActionGirl}}arker side of the spectrum.

* AnimalMotifs: Ravens for Ariana. She even wears a mask resembling a raven's skull and her feet look like talons. Sea life for Armon Ritter.

* ArmedLegs: A few of the enemies of Stage 3.
* AttackAnimal: Ariana's ravens. Deko can turn his coat into a dragon.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: [[spoiler:One of the Nebulox even makes fire burn in space!]]
* TheBattleDidntCount: You fight every member of the Nebulox, bringing their HP to zero, yet they live to fight another day.
* BattleshipRaid: There's a segment of Stage 6 that strongly evokes memories of the original game's aircraft carrier level. The first half of the final stage also counts.
* BreathWeapon: The Snapper Keeper, The Horror Keeper, Saberhook Keeper, The Vulture Keeper, Komodo Keeper

* BewareMyStingerTail: The saber hook keeper.

* BigBad: Deko Gekiso.

* BladeOnAStick: [[spoiler:Used by Deko's OneWingedAngel form in the final battle.]]
* BlockingStopsAllDamage: The Nebulox like to invoke this trope. [[SubvertedTrope There is a way around it]] [[PlayingTennisWithTheBoss sometimes]]. Often you just have to wait them out.
* BlowYouAway: The Griffin Keeper, particularly if its tail manages to knock you into the sand.
* BossGame
** Like its predecessor, the game has multiple stage bosses or a series of boss battles in every stage, but they go for broke on the final stage.
** BossBonanza: The final stage features an enhanced {{Boss Rush}} (previous bosses with new forms) along with new bosses and an ultimate multi-stage final boss.
* BossRush: The second half of the final stage.

* BulletSeed: From the Swamp Keeper.
* BulletTime: Ariana sends out red and blue ravens that change into orbs (for some reason). Touching the blue ones activate this. Touching the red ones [[OhCrap does the opposite]].
* CallASmeerpARabbit: Kachi's "donkey", also Isa seems to wear some kind of anti-gravity device the European website describes as a "jet pack".
* CallingYourAttacks: Only one character, one time about one attack but a called attack all the same.
* ChargedAttack: New to this game and a new reason you may not want to use auto-aim mode, since charging disables it automatically.

* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:The last phase of the final battle has Isa deflecting and shooting back projectiles while protecting Kachi's soul. Remind you of [[VideoGame/SinAndPunishment Saki's and Airan's stand-off with Achi to save the Earth]]?]]

* CowardlyBoss: [[spoiler:Orion Tsang's OneWingedAngel form probably counts: once you damage him enough, he [[StationaryBoss stays stationary]] while you'll be able to move around him and the attacks he uses depend on where you're currently positioned in relation to him. [[TacticalSuicideBoss He only reveals his weak point if you're right in front of it so it can attack you]].]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: At the end.
* CulturalTranslation

** Granted, some of the boss names that were changed are for the better: an armed plane originally called the "Squirrel" is renamed the "NC Ironbat", and the first Keeper boss, a giant chicken named "[[UnfortunateNames Cock Keeper]]" was renamed "Phoenix Keeper".
** Averted in the [[http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/wii/sin_and_punishment_successor_of_the_skies_13571.html European release website]], where all references to God in the original script are kept intact, since it is a direct-yet-flavorful translation of the Japanese pages. If you read it, it is clear that "God" is not supposed to be the genuine article, so there wasn't much to be upset about anyway.
** Also, the Nebulox's Japanese name, "Group of Five Countries", is more commonly referred to in media as "G5". Make of that what you will.
* CutAndPasteTranslation: The U.S. English version suffers heavily from this, unfortunately; made crystal clear with the inclusion of [[BilingualBonus the Japanese voice track]]. Entire lines are cut/changed entirely (including many of the {{Mind Screwdriver}}s, and numerous lines aren't even in the Japanese, making it arguably a different plot entirely. Among the major cuts are Isa's FreudianExcuse and outright hatred of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien the Creators]] (referred to, [[ValuesDissonance unhelpfully]], as "Gods" in the Japanese), as well as casual mention of his origins on Earth-2).

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Ariana Shami.

* DefeatEqualsFriendship: [[spoiler:The Griffin Keeper boss of Stage 5]].

* DishingOutDirt: The Snapper Keeper of Stage 1, Ariana, the Nebulox introduced in Stage 4 and the Saber hook keeper. The Hatchling keeper can lay explosive globs of lava.

* DualBoss

** Also, [[spoiler: Hibaru's twin-swordsman transformation in Stage 7.]]
* DualWielding: The Squad Leader in Stage 1, who's swords double as a [[BattleBoomerang boomerang]] when combined.
* DuelBoss: The sword duel with Hibaru in Stage 3 springs to mind [[spoiler:(which can be disqualified if you play on Isa & Kachi Mode)]]. [[spoiler:The fistfight with Deko in Stage 6 definitely counts.]]
* DubInducedPlotHole: The "Creators" ''are'' referred to by name in the first game, but the translators handled the word differently. See CulturalTranslation and CutAndPasteTranslation above.

* EveryBulletIsATracer: Be thankful for it.
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Or not, since they are your enemies, though sometimes they will attack the Nebulox soldiers before they come after you and you can generally fly over them.

* EyeBeams: Armon Ritter's first transformation uses an eye beam [[spoiler: as well as his fourth]].
* FantasticRacism: The Nebulox, towards beings of Outer Space, particularly Kachi. [[spoiler:Considering [[VideoGame/SinAndPunishment who Kachi really is and what she did in the previous game]], the case against her [[BlackAndGreyMorality might]] be justified.]]
* {{First|Town}} UndergroundCity: Stage 1. Stage 0 comes first though.
* FisticuffsBoss: See the entry about UnexpectedGameplayChange, which also doubles as YouWillNotEvadeMe, and also triples as {{Fanservice}}.

* FlechetteStorm: In space no less in Stage 7

* FreefallRomance: Isa and Kachi share a tender moment together...while falling towards a volcanic crater filled with lava.

* GameplayRoulette: Most of the game is spent as a third-person RailShooter with mostly-free movement, although there are several segments thst switch to a {{horizontal|ScrollingShooter}} perspective. Stage 5 is part DrivingGame. The end of Stage 6 [[spoiler:is a brief one-on-one FightingGame segment]].
* GatlingGood: Gatling-Not-So-Good when you're up against Deko. Some of the tanks the Nebulox uses have mounted chain guns for the soldiers to use.

* GigglingVillain: Hibaru, especially in the Japanese version, where Deko is one too

* GreaterScopeVillain: Depending on your point of view, either the creators, [[spoiler: or Kachi herself.]]

* TheHero: Isa.

* HighSpeedBattle: Most of stage 5

* HumansAreWarriors
** {{Enforced|Trope}}, the creator gods want humans to be hostile to everything else, [[UncannyValley particularly things that look human but are not]]. Human populations that find a way to be peaceful are exterminated and replaced by a planetary defense system known as "keepers" until a sufficiently warlike people are found and allowed to settle the planet. [[spoiler: [[JustifiedTrope In the last game, the Earth's population was kind of destroyed after they consumed too much food and then saw their efforts to fix the problem sabotaged by something that looked human but was not]].]]
** [[spoiler: Also from the last game, it appears Aichi, if not outer space as a whole, intended to make humans go to war among each other for the purpose of training a {{war god}}. After that plan fell through [[XanatosSpeedChess the goal became]] to cultivate a new race to rival their enemy, but that may have fell through too due to Aichi's amnesia.]]

* IaijutsuPractitioner: Hibaru, who's quite skilled with a blade.

* IronicNickname: The Little guy in the sky fortress.
* {{Jerkass|Gods}} SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: [[spoiler:The Creators, who made humanity solely for the purpose of having soldiers in their war with Outer Space.]]

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Hibaru certainly thinks so.

* LethalLavaLand: Stage 6, taking place at Mt. Fuji.
* LifeMeter
** In Stages 1 through 6, you start each stage with 100 HP. The final stage, when [[spoiler:Isa transforms]], grants 1,000 HP, but damaged is scaled up tenfold so it doesn't really matter.
** MultipleLifeBars: The bosses with more than 500 HP, with a different color per bar.
* LightGunGame: If yo use the Wii Remote's pointer to aim, the game is effectively this. The main differences are that the game is in third-person and you can (and have to) move your character relative to the screen.
* LightningGun: The NS Energy Diffuser, sort of. It forces you to weave in between pillars of electricity.
* TheLostWoods: Stage 4 probably qualifies as this. [[spoiler:Except that it isn't real.]]

* MechaMooks: Many, particularly in the sky fortress.

* NiceHat: Armon Ritter wears a tiny tilted hat, which he ends up losing after his boss fight.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: After beating Isa & Kachi, it becomes quite clear that you helped Achi, the villian of first game, by killing her opposition!]]
* NintendoHard
** Even if you have played through the original game, you're probably better off starting on Easy mode.
** Funnily enough, its original incarnation was apparently much easier, due to the Wii remote being better suited to the game than Treasure anticipated, and they were told by playtesters at Nintendo to ramp up the difficulty. Satoru Iwata's reaction to hearing this was quite amusing: "Of all things, you told none other than ''[[NintendoHard Treasure]]'' to make it more difficult?"
** [[ThisIsGonnaSuck You know it's gonna suck]] when the game's Hard mode warns that "[[LampshadeHanging You will be punished]]."
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The Infant Keeper. After being spawned, the heroes take sympathy for killing its mother, the previous boss, so they spare it. [[spoiler:It immediately kidnaps your partner, straps them to a pulley, and slowly lowers him/her into the lava. You did kill its mom, but ''oh'' how you will want to gut the little bastard.]]

* NonStandardGameOver: Staying in the air to long while on top of the train will result in it leaving you behind. [[spoiler:If you fail to rescue your partner in Stage 6 from the Infant Keeper in time, you're treated to a cutscene of your partner being DUMPED INTO LAVA!]]

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Isa and all the Nebulox crew in Stage 7.]]
* OnlyAFleshWound

* PaintingTheMedium: You often have to avoid lasers by staying away from the spots they are striking the screen. Moving lasers can be seen being dragged across the screen. In stage four their are spider enemies who can obscure the screen with their webs. By stage six, the gun caliber of the enemy has gotten so high the bullets hit the screen too.

* PlayingWithFire: A few of the Keepers have fire attacks, the wheel keeper leaving tracks of fire behind it as it rolls. Ariana Shami does once her "blood is on fire".

* PuzzleBoss: Many of the bosses require you to figure out how to do more than ScratchDamage to them, ''especially'' the [=G5=]/Nebulox. Basically, if you think you can just brute force [[WakeUpCallBoss Orion Tsang]], you're going to fight him well past [[TimeLimitBoss time-out]] at best and see the Continue screen at worst.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Crossing in to WhamLine during the Isa & Kachi Mode ending, where Kachi reveals herself as Achi.]]
* RoarBeforeBeating: The Swamp Keeper
* {{Roboteching}}: A whole lot of this from the enemy in stage seven.
* RollingAttack: The rolling gun machines of stage 3. The Hatchling Keeper does too, though a properly timed charged shot will flip it unto its back.
* SandIsWater: The saber hook keeper treats it this way. There are also ''massive'' sand worms in stage 5.
* ScoringPoints
** Par for the course, but things are done differently from its predecessor. For starters, instead of picking up point items without taking any damage to rack up the highest points, there's a score multiplier that boosts score from enemies and coins, from x0.0 to x16. The multiplier raises as you shoot stuff up, but easily goes down for taking damage. Also new to this game are special medals that rewards you bonus points at end of the stage for performing certain feats (e.g. killing ''X'' number of a certain enemy, parrying certain attacks). Finally, since the game gives you the option to take flight at any time (except in Stage 5 and the very end of Stage 6), you gain points simply for being on the ground; standing still yields a small stream of points, but being in parts where you walk or especially run will earn more points. Should you die and continue, your score resets to 0, much like in arcade games.
** ScoreMilking: Because the boss timers generally go for so long, it's possible to combine the multiplier with the flunkies and other hazards that show up during boss battles for large amounts of points, moreso than what can be gained simply by speedkilling the boss.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The lava sub in stage 6, following a comically long shootout in which you take it apart gun-by-gun. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments The camerawork at the end really sells it.]]
* SelfImposedChallenge: If you ''really'' want to, you can use the Classic Controller, the D-pad on the Wii Remote, or the analog stick on the Nunchuk to aim rather than the Wii Remote's pointer functionality.
* SequelDifficultySpike: Definitely steps above the original. And it's longer too.
* SequelHook
** If the game is beaten on the "Isa & Kachi Mode, [[spoiler:then we see Isa and Kachi discuss how their enemies will still inevitably come for them. Kachi's memory starts to return, and she remembers that she is in fact [[BigBad Achi]].]]
** [[spoiler:Or that she was just faking her memory loss, and she knew who she was all along? That's what [[DubText the American version implies]] anyway.]]
* ShapeshifterBaggage: In Spades! It kind of highlights the weirdness of the sources behind the changes.
** All beings from Outer Space have no set forms, and can freely shapeshift into any form. That would include [[HumanoidAbomination humans]], animals, rubble, and even entire ''planets'' [[spoiler:as demonstrated by Achi in the previous game]]. [[spoiler:The Nebulox are all capable of transforming into monster forms, including ''groups'' of creatures.]] The Nebulox claim to have a device that can force Outer Space beings to reveal their "true" form though.
** [[spoiler:Isa inherited Achi's blood from his father, Saki. As such, he's capable of becoming a monstrous Ruffian, and the power could very well corrupt his soul like it once did to Saki.]]

* ShieldedCoreBoss: Armon Ritter's second transformation
* ShockAndAwe: The hatchling keeper and later, Ariana.

** [[spoiler:In the fight with Deko, the game briefly turns into a simplistic 2D fighting game, although you're bound to see some juggle combos when he hits you with [[Franchise/StreetFighter dragon punches, flash kicks, and tiger knees]].]]
** Stage 7 invokes plenty, most of them from previous Treasure-developed games:
*** [[spoiler:A battleship raid? Sounds awfully close to ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun''[='=]s Stage 5 Victim and VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}'s Stage 4 Reality.]]
*** [[spoiler:The villains watching Isa take down the ship via a large monitor, with each subsequent member leaving to face him? Looks too much like ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes'', perhaps?]]

* SicEm: A whole lot of these on Stage 7, at least in the English Dub. In Japanese the villain instead laughs as his subordinates are picked off.
* SimpleStaff: Ariana's, at first.
* SkySurfing: If you're playing as Kachi you're free to do so.

* StuffBlowingUp: Constantly. EVERYTHING blows up, even the corpses of fallen enemies.
* TagTeam: Isa & Kachi Mode, unlocked by beating the game with both characters. They even have their own individual life meters. However...
** In Stage 6, against the Hatchling Keeper's first phase, [[spoiler:your partner is being held captive and you can't switch until the phase is completed.]]
** Again in Stage 6, in Deko's final phase, [[spoiler:you're locked out of switching to Kachi due to her being incapacitated.]]
** In Stage 7, [[spoiler:it comes back, in a way: you are stuck playing as Isa and thus you only have a single lifebar, but you can still switch between the two characters' shot types at any time.]]

* TiredOfRunning: [[spoiler: Isa, in the true ending.]]

* TraintopBattle: Played more-or-less straight in Stage 6, where you run along a train shooting down tons of foes, except [[spoiler:you have to detach the train carriages as you go along so that the Komodo Keeper behind you runs into them]].
* TransformingMecha: The transforming jet mechas in Stage 5.

* TurtlePower: Snapper Keeper, the final boss of Stage 1.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange
** The first part of Stage 3 plays much like a HorizontalScrollingShooter, and one of the boss battles seems awfully like ''VideoGame/{{Senko no Ronde}}''.

** A real monster of a switch at the end of Stage 6; [[spoiler:it turns into a 2D fighting game in which you have only one combo and are handcuffed to the boss, which both serves to prevent you from rolling away too far and allows the boss to yank you in at his leisure.]]

* WalkOnWater: Ariana, but it might just be her downplaying her ability to levitate.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: [[spoiler:[[MrFanservice Deko]], for whatever reason ([[{{Fanservice}} eye-candy]], perhaps?), takes his jacket off while fighting Isa with GoodOldFisticuffs.]]

* WallJump: Hibaru occasionally.

* WhipItGood: Orion Tsang and Deko.
* WolfPackBoss: One is under water and the others come with a CameraScrew!
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Watch out for Deko's [[Wrestling/NaoyaOgawa STO]]!
* YouKilledMyMother: [[spoiler:The Infant Keeper's reason for attacking your partner.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: Kachi's [[FashionableAsymmetry one-leg thigh-high]]. Hibaru's [[ProperTightsWithASkirt pantyhose]] gives the impression of this. Isa is a RareMaleExample.

* TheSouthpaw: Unlike Isa, Kachi holds her gun with her left hand.

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*** [[spoiler:A battleship raid? Sounds awfully close to ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun''[='=]s Stage 5 Evasion and VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}'s Stage 4 Reality.]]

** ShoutOut: Orion Tsang's name in the Japanese version (Cheng Long Lee) is Creator/JackieChan" translated into Chinese.

*** [[spoiler:In the fight with Deko, the game briefly turns into a simplistic 2D fighting game, although you're bound to see some juggle combos when he hits you with [[Franchise/StreetFighter dragon punches, flash kicks, and tiger knees]].]]

*** [[spoiler:The FiveBadBand watching Isa take down the ship via a large monitor, with each subsequent member leaving to face him? Looks too much like ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes'', perhaps?]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The lava sub in stage 6, following a comically long shootout in which you take it apart gun-by-gun. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The camerawork at the end really sells it.]]

* WhamLine: In TheStinger for Isa & Kachi. It's only really this if you've played the first game to the end and thus can understand ''why'' this a Wham Line to begin with.
--> '''Kachi''': Long ago, I wasn't called Kachi. [[spoiler:I was known as... '''Achi'''.]]

* WhamLine: In TheStinger for Isa & Kachi:
--> '''Kachi''': Long ago, I wasn't called Kachi. I was known as... [[spoiler: Achi.]]

* EnemyMine: In the final stage, [[spoiler:the Keepers join you in stopping the Nebulox, as the Nebulox is not only a threat to Isa and Kachi, but also the planet.]]

* StrangeBedfellows: The Keepers, whom you've been fighting with for pretty much 90% of the game, start attacking the Nebulox alongside Isa at the end of the game. They ''are'' supposed to be the defenders of the planet, after all...

* ShoutOut: Stage 7 invokes plenty, most of them from previous Treasure-developed games:
** [[spoiler:A battleship raid? Sounds awfully close to ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun''[='=]s Stage 5 Evasion and VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}'s Stage 4 Reality.]]
** [[spoiler:In the fight with Deko, the game briefly turns into a simplistic 2D fighting game, although you're bound to see some juggle combos when he hits you with [[Franchise/StreetFighter dragon punches, flash kicks, and tiger knees]].]]
** [[spoiler:The FiveBadBand watching Isa take down the ship via a large monitor, with each subsequent member leaving to face him? Looks too much like ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes'', perhaps?]]
** [[spoiler:The last phase of the final battle has Isa deflecting and shooting back projectiles while protecting Kachi's soul. Remind you of [[VideoGame/SinAndPunishment Saki's and Airan's stand-off with Achi to save the Earth]]?]]