Sinful City

Sinful City is a Japanese fighting game developed by Arc System Works and published by Sega on June 8, 2020. The game was originally a PC exclusive and was released on Steam but due to good sales, it was later ported to PlayStation 4. The game, like Arc System's other fighting games, is a fast-paced fighter that features characters that are designed in a traditional anime style with thick outlines that make them appear 2D.

Gameplay
Sinful City focuses on fast-paced action and has the traditional combat system of fighting games, featuring both light punches and kicks as well as hard punches and kicks. Performing combos with certain attacks and inputting specific button commands allows the characters to perform special attacks that allow them to deal more damage to the opponent, place status effects on them, or use other abilities that give the player some kind of advantage.

The game's single-player has four different modes that the player can choose from, referred to as Story, Ladder, Tournament, and Action. The Story mode has the player pick a character and see how their storyline plays out, showing their relationships with other characters and what motivates them. The Ladder mode has the player pick a character and fight their way through every character in the game, ending with a battle against a boss that can't be fought in the other modes. The Tournament mode is, as the title implies, a tournament that can host up to 16 fighters. Finally, Action mode is a simple battle between two fighters. All four of these modes can be played by two players and, if the player isn't picky with their character, they can leave the characters chosen as random.

The online mode of the game is played in either the Tournament or Action modes, having the player face off against other players from around the world. The online mode also has a feature referred to as the Death Room, which is similar to the Arenas from Super Smash Bros. The creator of the Death Room is able to invite friends into their room or leave their room open for anyone to join. The Death Room allows for constant Action battles one after the other until the room is shut down.

Synopsis
In the fictionalized world the game is set in, during 1930, the citizens of America had become increasingly worried about their country due to both the Great Depression and the slowly closing in threat of World War II. In an attempt to install hope in its people, the government decides to give people a god they can trust and pray to, knowing they will answer.

To do so, they gather up the smartest men and women in the world and form a group known as CrossWorld in an attempt to create a man-made god that the world can turn to for salvation and hope. Using a combination of science and alchemy, a human-made god named Adam is forged. However, Adam refuses to be the god of the world, as it believes that the human race is responsible for its own problems and doesn't deserve a god to forgive them.

Using a combination of science and what can only be described as magic, Adam unleashed a large ball of energy all across the Manhattan area. Now, 20 years later, the government, corrupt and desperate, decides to rebuild the American people's wills by any means necessary. To do so, they begin repopulating Manhattan and building an army to keep the new people of Manhattan unaware of the lingering effects of Adam's great catastrophe, which include the dead coming back to life, people slowly losing their minds, and mystics coming to America in an attempt to collect Adam's energy.

In this new, borderline sinful version of Manhattan, oddities are the norm and the only people that can reveal the truth of both CrossWorld and Adam to the public are the types of people that would've never existed without Adam's creation, as well as the types of people that CrossWorld and the government are trying to keep hidden from its citizens.