Sin and Punishment is one of the strangest cases in the history of the Wii’s Virtual Console. This Treasure Co. project was a Japanese-only Nintendo 64 game set in Japan with Japanese protagonists voice acted entirely in English. It was only after the advent of WiiWare that it saw a proper English release, complete with translated menus.
But digital distribution is a double-edged sword. With the impending death of WiiWare on the horizon, Sin and Punishment has begun to fall back out of reach. It remains available via the Wii U’s eShop, but given that the Switch has no Virtual Console in sight as of Nintendo’s current plans and it’s only a matter of time until the Wii U eShop suffers the same fate as WiiWare, it probably won’t be available forever. Which is a shame, because it’s one of the most ambitious rail shooters around and my favorite game to come out of the Wii Shop Channel.
Source: Destructoid With WiiWare going, Sin and Punishment’s English release is on life support