El Shaddai - Ascension of the Metatron (PS3)

El Shaddai – Ascension of the Metatron is an action video game that has been designed and published for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. The game was developed and published by Ignition Entertainment, as headed by Devil May Cry character designer Takeyasu Sawaki. While the game was already released in 2011 in Japan, North America and Europe, Ignition has announced that a version for the Wii U and Vita may soon be developed.

El Shaddai features platform game elements. The protagonist Enoch starts unarmed but starts stealing weapons from enemies. A curved blade called Arch, a ring-like weapon called Gale and a shield-like weapon aptly called Veil are the three primary weapons in the game. All of these weapons do get weaker after every. They need to be constantly purified.

As the title of the game and the name of the weapons may have already suggested, the game has biblical inspirations. El Shaddai is supposedly loosely based on the apocryphal Book of Enoch. In the game, Enoch is a priest who is looking for seven fallen angels in order to prevent the destruction of mankind through a great flood. Lucifel aids Enoch in his quest. Four Archangels, Raphael, Uriel, Gabriel and Michael also come to his aid.