It’s here! It’s finally here! Treasure’s Sin and Punishment has arrived in Europe on Virtual Console. It’s been a long time coming, so finally we get a chance to sample the on-rails N64 shooter that savvy importers have been proponents of for years. Now if only they weren’t trying to rip us off points-wise.

It seems that this special occasion has warranted a special price: 1200 points, in place of the usual 1000 reserved for Nintendo 64 titles. Cheers for that, Nintendo.

Of course, we should have expected this. It’s been the underlying theme these last couple of weeks during the time of Nintendo’s increasingly tenuous Hanabi Festival, an excuse to put some titles previously unreleased in Europe onto VC and charge more money for them. Following along those lines is horizontally-scrolling shoot ‘em up Gradius III, itself costing 600 points (100 points more than normal SNES titles). Of course, it already came out in some form on PS2 and PSP, but, from what we can gather, gives the player an easier time than the arcade original.

Last, and separate from all this jacked-up price nonsense is Legend of Hero Tonma. What of the what what? It’s a Turbografx platform game that looks a little Wonder Boy-ish to us. Yes, we are judging it on a couple of screenshots. What of it? We’d never even heard of it before now. At least it’s the standard 600 points.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 5:28 pm by James Lyon
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