For as little mainstream coverage as it's gotten, I'm surprised I both remembered and desired to play Ignition Entertainment's forthcoming hack and slash effort, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Actually, scratch that. With just how amazingly distinctive the look of this game is, I couldn't help remember it from way back in E3 of 2010. Now, one year, one Giant Bomb quick look, and one XBLA download later, I got to play the game for myself (well a demo anyway).
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Apr 28, 2011
An action game in which the player takes on the role of Enoch, a virtuous mortal from Heaven who, in order to prevent a great flood, ventures to imprison the seven Fallen Angels that turned their back on God.
"Everything's Fine": El Shaddai Demo Impressions
For as little mainstream coverage as it's gotten, I'm surprised I both remembered and desired to play Ignition Entertainment's forthcoming hack and slash effort, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Actually, scratch that. With just how amazingly distinctive the look of this game is, I couldn't help remember it from way back in E3 of 2010. Now, one year, one Giant Bomb quick look, and one XBLA download later, I got to play the game for myself (well a demo anyway).
For as little mainstream coverage as it's gotten, I'm surprised I both remembered and desired to play Ignition Entertainment's forthcoming hack and slash effort, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Actually, scratch that. With just how amazingly distinctive the look of this game is, I couldn't help remember it from way back in E3 of 2010. Now, one year, one Giant Bomb quick look, and one XBLA download later, I got to play the game for myself (well a demo anyway).
Oh dear lord it's releasing on july 26th too? thats when Catherine comes out!! man your tearing me apart game... But a great read, when i played it I had only played the Japanese demo so I didn't know what was going on or half the time what the game wanted me to do XD So maybe the english version will clear up any issues I had with the game. The one button concept is strange but I had started to get the hang of some of the combo's though it took a lot of trial and error (and getting my ass beat) to do so.
Yeah, the first real fight I had in the demo, I got my ass handed to me. It takes a little while to get used to the ebb and flow of combat, and even when you've got the hang of the Arch, the combat completely changes when you change weapons.
I too am now torn between picking up El Shaddai on July 26th and saving up for another game, or just splurging and getting both Catherine and El Shaddai that day. Definitely got some thinking to do.
Played the demo a month or so ago and found the combat to be pretty fluid. I had already seen all of the weapon swapping and timed combos from that GB video from a while ago so I didn't really have any problems fighting any of the enemies. The only real problem I had with any of it was some of the 3D jumps were a little hard to judge the distance, I'm sure thats something you'd get comfortable with playing the full game though. Game looks absolutely gorgeous.
I've been really looking forward to this game ever since I first saw it. The game looks visually stunning. Just don't know whether to spend a little more and import it along with Catherine or just wait for it's release in the UK (September).
Yeah, the platforming was the only thing I really could foresee problems with. Of course, that's a pretty standard concern for most hack and slash games, but seeing as this game also has 2D platforming sections, it might become a bigger problem. Stil, I'm not too worried about it.
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