El Shaddai Interview - no lead platform, 12-hour long campaign

Scrawl: "While we unfortunately didn’t have enough time during E3 to stop by Ignition Entertainment’s booth, we did get in touch with them afterward about an interview regarding El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. We know many of our readers are interested in the game, so we went ahead and got it."

[wakash]

never heard of this game before

[nnotdead]

thats one of the big problems at E3. too much time talking about who won, and not enough time showing great looking games such as El Shaddai

[CrzyFooL]

They had ads for this plastered all over E3 but I never got a chance to see it.

[Stunt]

Funny thing is they weren't actually showing any of it. They had mega-trailers on display at their booth, but there was no gameplay booths or any behind closed doors looks available.

[gynecologistcobra]

The art style reminds me of Prince of Persia. (2008)

[FrankDaTank]

is it just me, or does el shaddai sound like a terrorist sleeper cell?

[Sandwich Bender]

That's racist! And also yes, yes it does.

[karan8624]

XD

We're going to hear news reports soon about that, itll turn out to be a publicity stunt for the game

[Ashta]

El Shaddai is one of the many names of God. Ya know, from the Bible?

Old Testament to be exact. It literally translates to "God Almighty"

[DigitalAnalog]

Well, it means "God Almighty" in Judaic.

Anyways, it has an Okami feel to it and I'm liking it already!

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[rdgneoz3]

I have Okami, it looked nicer than this and had a better feel to it.

[pippoppow]

We need more games like this. Artsy Fartsy all the way for me.

[jay2]

Just give us Wardevil, or kill it off.....

[jackdoe]

Wardevil is vaporware.

[Lanontscuz]

I've heard of this name before but I thought it was a filipino cult group or some kind of religious group that has a t.v. show

[jay2]

LOL! nope, it's a game being made buy Digi-guys in London'Shock Horror!' Ignision are funding it, and even they say it's still in development, and that Digi-guys 'Hope to show something this YR'.

That's so worrying!

[nnotdead]

"As soon as a cult achieves wealth, power, and glory, it ceases to be a cult. It becomes an established and a prestigious Church. El Shaddai of Mike Velarde and Jesus is Lord Movement in the Philippines of Eddie Villanueva for example are no longer cults, but established churches. The Catholic Church, in its early days during the Roman Empire was a cult. Poch Suzara"

[Katana Yamato]

I'm really looking forward what this game has to offer especially since the Director (Sawaki Takeyasu) worked on Devil May Cry and Okami, one of my two all time favorite games.

The art is weird, and the story seems interesting. And thank goodness its an action-adventure game.

[Trroy]

What does "no lead platform" mean? They wrote it down on paper, and haven't actually done any programming yet?

Honestly, unless their dev studio is actually split 50/50 with 360 and PS3 devkits, there IS a lead platform, whether they care to admit it or not.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

It either means that each version has it's own dev team and budget or simply that they use a multiplat engine that uses the very same code on both consoles and they keep testing what they program to work in both... Or even a combination of those two, with a good multiplat engine and main developing team for making all the content and two minor teams to work on each version separetedely for improving performance.

Leading platform is the one you develop for first, while the other platform will get the same code later and devs will adapt it - a port. At least this is how I think it is, not that I'm a programmer nor nothing, I don't think they need to have the exactly same much devkits or people in each team to make the game have no lead platform.

That said, it must not be a very practical way to develop a game. They would get to find workable solutions for both machines all the time, although when they get it done they would have the game ready, it's simply way too impredictable when would they have it ready - not good for the gaming industry business model - and would probably be easier to get everything done once in one machine and so just try to run it in the other machine and adapt what don't work properly.

[Anon7349]

You're wrong bishop.

It's much easier to do what these devs are doing instead of having a lead platform then trying to port it later.

What you said results into games like Bayonetta, FF13, The Orange Box, Borderlands, Fallout, etc

It's very difficult to port games, especially when the hardware of the two platforms are so radically different.

[DigitalAnalog]

Is that a typo for Lucifer? But then it would be interesting to see if they story would show how Lucifer "fell from grace".

-End statement

[Spenok]

This game looks pretty good. Im going to have to keep my eye on this one and see how it evolves before it releases.