El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron completed

I hold a special place in my heart for El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. It’s not often that the Japanese will develop an action title based upon the Book of Enoch, a non-canon Judeo-Christian text. When that game is done in a painterly water color style and is spearheaded by Takeyasu Sawaki, who was integral to Devil May Cry and Okami, well, we’ve got a game worth paying attention to. 

UTV Ignition, the UK publishers behind El Shaddai was happy to let us know today that the game has completed production. It already has a Japanese release date of April 28, and the Western launch date shouldn’t be too long after that, one would hope. I personally am surprised they are waiting so long to release the game, however. Most games go gold just about  a month before launch, and this baby is gold a whole three months early. Props to the Japanese work ethic, I suppose.