El Shaddai - CouchCastle.de

El Shaddai - CouchCastle.de

El Shaddai - Ascension of the Metatron (video game)

Customer Review

"I'll tell you a story. She plays 360,000 years ago, no, 14,000 years ago. Well. To me, it feels like yesterday, for you it might be tomorrow. It's about a man who is known as the 72 Names . Hm, what shall I call it? When I met him the first time, his name was Enoch! "Lucifel said in the intro. You feel pushed into the deep end? Be confused and wonder what this strange prelude to? Well, so what happened to me as I followed the short intro of "El Shaddai" and the explanation of it all just a little hesitant and reticent therefore came.

Religious Entertainment

"El Shaddai" attacks on religious themes, such as the Tower of Babel and presented a hero who was once invited by God into heaven to bring his stories to paper. His name is Enoch and to him it is now to be to descend back to earth to find the seven fallen angels and to clean. These are hidden from the eyes of God in a remote tower and lead humanity to its original sins into temptation. Sounds exciting? Somehow not really, even if at times really comes up a little curiosity, what is hidden behind all the events. Potential to captivate the player, is definitely there, but it is above all the gaps that present the action partly extremely confused - likely for the reason to give the players a possible mysterious and unworldly impression of the game world. That the developers show on Enochs travel humor, is gratifying, even if not always fit. While Luficel serves as a storage point and his telephone conversations with God are a fun gimmick, make some silly story passages in history the more serious topic questioned something.

Divine action spectacle?

While proposing "El Shaddai" playful in the same vein as a "God of War" or "Bayonetta," but the lack of variety one realizes very quickly. Only three different weapons are available Enoch. The "Arch", an arc-shaped blade, is a fast melee weapon that is weaker than the powerful but slow "Veil". Clearly superior to both melee weapons is the "Gale", which can be fought at a distance the adversary. Each weapon has an effect on Enochs mobility, offer even though a handful of different attacks. Positive side effect: You have no miserably long combos to memorize, so that the combat system is very beginner-friendly. Add to this a rather easy by looking "rock-scissors-paper" system, whose importance in simple opponents even is only secondary. The bosses on the other hand demand from more skill and be defeated only when something rehearsed their behavior. The difficulty is always fair and emerges later on higher difficulty levels as demanding. Incidentally it should be noted that you have to give up a life energy display in the first run. The health condition of Enoch and his opponents is represented by their armor, which is gradually destroyed.

Hopped like jumping

Variety to the gameplay always bring fun Hüpfeinlagen. And as it is currently fashionable ("Alice - Madness Returns and Co. are greeting) is bound in addition to the usual 3D environment in 2D Level latter go always clean by hand, start at first somewhat unassuming, but pull quickly and. really fun! The platforming adventure in 3D basically functioning very well, only prepares the manually adjustable camera in rare cases, difficulty to estimate the distance. Nevertheless, loosen the cracks "El Shaddai" tidy up, especially since which I greatly beloved double jump function is always available.

Psychedelic Trip

With "Okami" developer Takeyasu Sawaki has got off to a visual masterpiece. "El Shaddai" is likely to polarize as far more. As with any work of art you will either not get out of the astonishment or wonder as philistine, what should be hereto as impressive. Personally, I found the first screenshots very appealing, is moving the high-contrast, highly exaggerated Psychodelic graphics in cel-shaded look, at least to my eyes, sometimes very exhausting. Sure, there are scenes, there have really drawn into the graphical spell me - some sections gave me a headache on the other hand very quickly.
In addition, the character design should not even be for everyone. Enoch comes example as radiant Ken doll in arms and jeans and therefore the fallen angels are anything but a feast for the eyes. When Level System to provide long schlauchige corridors and arenas the latch when visually very versatile.

Acoustically makes "El Shaddai" quasi everything right, because if one surrounded the bored-sounding English dub of the Japanese. Sound effects sound very convincing, the background music is always consistent.

Conclusion

Well, "El Shaddai", what can I say? You gave me always bright spots, both visually and playfully. But your dark side was very large: Monotone combat system, hose level, a story that you could chew well in religious education and the optics has given me in a few moments real headache. Please do not be sad, but all in all I can really give you with 'nem been oppressed eye single star, so I'm sorry.

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