>Unique and charming art-style helmed by Sawaki Takeyasu (Devil May Cry, Okami, Fatal Frame 4) >Interesting subject matter tackled in a such way that it doesn't veer into either preachy territory or full-blown fedora tipping territory >Notable cast of actors in both English (Jason Isaacs, Christopher Obi) and Japanese (Shinichiro Miki, Ryusei Nakao) >Promoted adequately, being featured several times at E3, Gamescom and TGS >Well-received critically
Why do it flop so badly even by the standards of fairly niche Japshit? It reportedly only made back around a tenth of the budget, with Ignition seeing so little in the IP afterwards that they let Takeyasu buy it back with his own money.
As much as I loved this game, it was incomprehensible. And unfinished. Apparently there are data books or some other typical Jap shit that continue the story, but playing the game itself doesn't lead to a satisfying conclusion.
Still, a lot of its visuals really stuck with me, and it stands out as a unique, niche game. I think it's easy to see why this game didn't achieve commercial success, as much as I wish otherwise.
>too weird This. It was a bit up its own ass but at least it was something different.
Nolan Russell
Budget. After the failure of the original one, no way that Kadokawa were gonna give him a bag of money substantial enough to do another risky AA action game. An above-average SMT clone is a much safer investment.
Kaneko's doing some guest demon designs for it btw
Jeremiah Russell
It being SMT clone and having Kaneko design major demons as guest designs is the only reason why I even care. Any chance of SMT5 to have FEATURING ENOCH FROM EL SHADDAI SERIES?
Ian Gomez
no problem
everything's fine
Oliver Perez
*snap*
Lincoln Campbell
Reminder that its sequel is being localized later this year (or early next year I forgot the exact date)
Adrian Williams
It was a high-risk project in an era of low-risk IPs. I thought it was amazing, but I also bought it on sale.
Mason Morales
It didn't flop. the lose child came out and is a bunch of thematic continuances from el shaddai. Go play it.
Benjamin Garcia
Yes, early next year. Sadly it's being done by NISA, but I guess that's preferable to not getting it at all.
Gavin Morgan
Wasn't cute enough. Beautiful game though.
Jonathan Collins
>Enoch is still around >Modern day Japan >Satan Okay, what? What the hell is going on and will we get a English release?
This what I get for not looking at gematsu for a year.
Isaiah Edwards
It's being """localized""" by NISA so I fully expect massive amounts of censorship, bugs and straight up Google Translation. It also doesn't have a vocal cult fanbase like Ys games so they won't even try to unfuck it like with Ys8.
Charles Ramirez
We want SMT audience.
Logan Wood
>Well-received critically
Critics agreed that it was pretty but played like ass
Carson Cook
>tfw NISA did such a bad job with Strangers from Sword City that Kadokawa released the expansion pack without NISAs influence That still gets my goat to this day.
Owen Garcia
Is the expansion pack available on PC and does it include the base game retranslated?
Parker Edwards
No, it's Vita and PS4 only. PC users got cucked.
Jaxon Brown
That's fine too, but does it include base game retranslated? Also what's this new Xbone version?
Camden White
>Take a creative looking game and make the most uncreative looking sequel ever
What did Kadokawa mean by this?
Ryder Scott
>Speaking of male depictions, it interests me that El Shaddai does not resort to the eye-rolling female character stereotypes that Japanese games often unfortunately fall back upon, choosing to depict handsome and occasionally sparsely-clad men rather than women whose clothes disappear when they perform a magic spell. "A lot of Japanese gamers don't have girlfriends," offers Sawaki as an explanation. "They've got a crooked way of looking at women, that's probably why you get these depictions. Me, though, I have a wonderful girlfriend," he grins.
Carter Ortiz
Are you sure that's enough armor?
Luis Cox
i bought it a while because i really liked the demo. still haven't played it.
