During Tokyo Game Show 2024, crim founder Sawaki Takeyasu announced that El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster is coming to PS5. Further details about the PS5 version were not revealed, but it will likely retain many of the same features of El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster.
Takeyasu first announced that the team was looking into a Nintendo Switch version, shortly after the release of the PC version on September 1, 2021. A Nintendo Switch version was announced in April 2022, and its release followed up on April 28, 2024. In Japan, a physical standard edition is available for 4,950 yen, and a physical limited edition is available for 8,250 yen. The limited edition includes a drama CD and its script.
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. 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.
