TOKYO – Ignition Entertainment's mysterious action game El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron turned some heads when it appeared (in trailer form) at E3 this year. I played the game here on both Xbox ...

You hear a lot of discussion about whether video games are an art form, but few games take that quite as literally as El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. An utterly overlooked cult classic released ...

More information will be revealed later this month. The 2011 cult-classic action game, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is finally getting a Nintendo Switch port. Just last year, game developers ...

For better or for worse, it's always nice to see a developer try something truly different. El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is one such attempt. It's a third-person, story-driven action game ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Back when El Shaddai was originally released in 2011, it already ...

El Shaddai is Hebrew for God Almighty, the awesome and terrifying force that shapes the entirety of the Old Testament. He is no less powerful in El Shaddai, the upcoming action game from Ignition, ...

Writes about all things tech and gaming. Spends off-hours on Apex Legends or on another Witcher 3 Baldur's Gate 3 replay. Other times you could find Neville trying to catch up on his annual Goodreads ...

El Shaddai is a wonderful thing. It's brimming over with hyperactive creativity, as stylistically varied and interesting as any game of modern times. It's also totally insane, something that I really ...

Editor's note: This import review of the Japanese version of El Shaddai was originally published in June 2011. We present it again to mark the game's release in the UK and Europe today. There are no ...