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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron Headed to Switch

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron Headed to Switch - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 May 2022 / 1,020 Views

Developer crim announced El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is getting a released for the Nintendo Switch. No details were revealed.

The game first released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011 and for PC via Steam on September 1, 2021.

View the Switch trailer below:

Here is an overview of the game:

El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, originally released in 2011, is a unique third-person action adventure filled with a deeply artistic world-building, outstanding aesthetics and thrilling battles. Experience an incredible mix of 2D-like platformer action and a colorful 3D world in an exceptional setting.

An Ever-Changing Endless Visual Experience

El Shaddai‘s artistic setting aims to provide a canvas-like world that changes in an organic way as long as you progress your adventure. The world keeps changing constantly in the most creative and innovative ways, perhaps even nostalgic.

Easy to Play, Hard to Master

You’ll only have four buttons: jump, attack, guard and weapon stealing. But this simple way of proceeding is deeper than one can expect. There is no need of manuals or walkthroughs to get into the game, but if anyone is ready to deepen into the mechanics, the game will offer a profound, precise and rewarding timing-based action experience. The motto of El Shaddai’s gameplay always was to be “easy but profound.” Many of the game’s mechanics such as the offense-defense systems were carefully created to provide the best possible game feel.

The game received the “Future Game of the Show” award in the Tokyo Game Show 2010 and the script, noting some of the characters lines, got a gold mention on the Internet Buzzword Awards 2010 as well. The original aesthetics, the uniqueness of its concept and the feeling of being ahead its time (2011) were widely discussed on the international media.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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ireadtabloids (on 18 April 2022)

Exciting news for Nintendo gamers. This is still a very unique and fascinating game.

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TheTitaniumNub ireadtabloids (on 18 April 2022)

I agree, love this game! Definitely a good fit for the Switch, should find a nice little audience there!

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Leynos (on 18 April 2022)

It's weird that the sequel was released on Switch in 2018 but the first game gets a port 4 years later.

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