The game's subtitle is Star Successor in the US that gets it on June 27, and Successor of the Skies in Europe, where it's just releasing today. Here's a trailer, though it must be seen in 60 fps to see that the game actually looks good, which most flash players do not offer. Check out the Jap, US and EU websites for more, including developer challenge clips. And yes, I know the dub is horrible, it's told you can play with the Japanese voices and English subtitles. Either way, this is Treasure and rail shooting at its finest. Any fan of the original, the Starfox and Panzer Dragoon series, or just good shmups should not miss it.

What The Critics Said

Trying to improve a masterpiece is surely not an easy task: risks are many and the comparisons are always dangerous. Yet Nintendo and Treasure fully reached their goal by making Sin & Punishment 2 a game that's better than the original in every single way. Nothing to object to, this is an epochal landmark within the history of the genre, a product that will be remembered for years.

Good scores and that alone is enough to give me confidence.  Not sure when the local release is, but there is quite a few games on my buy list that need satisfying yet.

Watch a few videos and suss out the gameplay.

 Nothing to object to, this is an epochal landmark within the history of the genre, a product that will be remembered for years. 

It doesn't say by how many it will be remembered :P

I'm sure genuine shmup fans will lap it up.

13 reviews total now, more to come.

How is a hypothetical Star Fox Wii even going to top this game? I am only at stage 3 now, and it is starting to get REALLY good. The first two stages are comparably tame, that's why it took me a while to warm up on it. Much like this video starts out slow and then dives right into it.
 

Honestly? Looks really boring. 

I've never really been into the idea of on-rails shooters though, so that probably has a lot to do with it. I can play and enjoy top-down and side-scrolling shoot 'em ups, but behind the back and first-person perspectives just don't do anything for me unless I've got full control. I just feel restricted and passive, and get bored.

" Honestly? Looks really boring. I've never really been into the idea of on-rails shooters though, so that probably has a lot to do with it. I can play and enjoy top-down and side-scrolling shoot 'em ups, but behind the back and first-person perspectives just don't do anything for me unless I've got full control. I just feel restricted and passive, and get bored. "

" @Icemael said:

" Honestly? Looks really boring. I've never really been into the idea of on-rails shooters though, so that probably has a lot to do with it. I can play and enjoy top-down and side-scrolling shoot 'em ups, but behind the back and first-person perspectives just don't do anything for me unless I've got full control. I just feel restricted and passive, and get bored. "

Sin&Punishment is a side-scrolling shooter most of the time? The perspective changes a lot, and you have got as much control over your character as in any other top-down or side-scrolling shooter. "

Sega, see this?  Where is a new Space Harrier like this?  You made a decent After Burner, keep it going.  Of course this also brings me to mention a lack of a Panzer Dragoon title this generation.

I don't see how it's so different to regular shmups just because the screen scrolls in any number of ways, thanks to being 3D. In the end it's just a visual effect, the enemies still come from all directions as in a shmup. It plays like a shmup that lets you fire in any direction rather than just left to right or bottom to top, and constantly shifts the perspective from side scrolling to forward scrolling, to whatever it wants any given moment, without changing the controls which allow you to move and dodge around the whole screen like any shmup (aside from sections you can't hover in and so are restricted to the bottom + jumping.

THIS LOOKS AWESOME! Whats with the Wii and having so many good games lately? NMH2, Galaxy 2, Sin and Punishment 2, MH3, and Other M is coming this summer. WIIIIII!!

" THIS LOOKS AWESOME! Whats with the Wii and having so many good games lately? NMH2, Galaxy 2, Sin and Punishment 2, MH3, and Other M is coming this summer. WIIIIII!! "

" @xyzygy said:

" THIS LOOKS AWESOME! Whats with the Wii and having so many good games lately? NMH2, Galaxy 2, Sin and Punishment 2, MH3, and Other M is coming this summer. WIIIIII!! "

It has to do more with these appealing to you more. "

" @Willy105 said:

" @xyzygy said:

" THIS LOOKS AWESOME! Whats with the Wii and having so many good games lately? NMH2, Galaxy 2, Sin and Punishment 2, MH3, and Other M is coming this summer. WIIIIII!! "

It has to do more with these appealing to you more. "

Well still. I haven't been this appealed by the Wii library since it launched. "

It's already out here in Europe and I've put up a review of it
 
 

51 seconds before the actual review starts = No, no, no. You lose 50% of your viewers. 
 
Good selection of footage, but boring editing + voice over. Still good though, thanks!