Rainy Frog and crim announced El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster is coming to Nintendo Switch on April 28, 2024. The upcoming Nintendo Switch release comes two and a half years after the original Steam release on September 1, 2021.
Final Weapon’s review of El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster notes that its a lucid action game, interpreting the Book of Enoch in a new light. Right after the game’s release, game creator Sawaki Takeyasu confirmed that the studio was looking into a Nintendo Switch version. The Nintendo Switch version was officially announced in April 2022, and the release follows up exactly two years afterwards.
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster Finally Comes to Switch
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster will be sold digitally on April 28 worldwide for Nintendo Switch. In Japan, a physical standard edition will be sold for 4,950 yen, and a physical limited edition will be sold for 8,250 yen. The limited edition includes a drama CD and its script.
Check out the new trailer and screenshots below, via Rainy Frog:
Game Overview
Lastly, here’s an overview of the game, via Steam:
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.
