Ignition Entertainment’s cult classic action-adventure El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron finally has a PC release date and will be making its way to Steam on 2nd September.
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron – which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, having originally launched for PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2011 – is perhaps the first and only game to be inspired by the apocryphal Book of Enoch.
It recounts the story of Enoch (re-imagined as blond, denim-clad pretty boy) as he hunts downs seven fallen angels at the behest of God – a quest that blends 3D and side-on platform segments with some deceptively simple, and thrillingly balletic, three-weapon combat.
Admittedly, the platforming is only passable and combat doesn’t really evolve much over the course of the adventure, but El Shaddai’s issues are easy to forgive in light of its wonderfully imaginative, dizzyingly relentless reinvention, with the game switching perspectives, psychedelic (and frequently breathtaking) visual styles, even genres on a whim.