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  • So basically the game is good because of dancing hot dogs and toliet seat weapons? Wheres the storyline..or at least something to show its actually good.

  • What about giving us some of the bad things about the game instead of all good?

  • Also picked up today on newegg $16.04 free 2 day shipping.

  • Newegg has the PS3/360 versions for $15. Just picked up a copy and looking forward to it!

  • What a deal

  • Yup! Picked it up for 20 bucks. What deal

  • okay I wanted an HP gauge and like skill gauge!

  • great review!!!

    the game looks really beautiful, but i'm not completely sold on buying it.

    when i play a hack and slash i want blood and gore, not pretty colors and dancing.

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  • Y'know, this is incredible.

    Frankly, most "Christan" games suck ----- and the only other recent "Good" one was Dante's Inferno. This one of course is based on a troubling aspect of the Bible and the extra text of Enoch, but very powerful.

  • This guy says the polar opposite of the what the IGN dude said about this game's combat.

  • nice graphics in game...creative but weird ass story which i dont really care about for the most most part... but the game play gets the same over and over quick

  • @xbimpyx That's the thing though, you are supposed to care about the story :P Playing a hack'n'slash just for the gameplay is probably the most silliest thing I have heard xD!

  • :O wow gamespot lol you didnt rate this game bad like ign does everything thats not a shooter :p

  • The demo sold me

  • Omg, it's like dante converted to christianity : O

  • its like a lesser of heavenly sword as which heavenly had deeper combat and much more engaging story, shaddai instead has a one button combat with its own depth in a way and creative visuals, despite being a lesser of heavenly sword I like shaddai MUCH more

  • @VayuPurana How is it a lesser =/? The fact you don't have to press 2 or 3 different buttons to make a combo doesn't make it better as you need to be rhythmic with this game. The story of Heavenly sword as well was sub par at best to be frank. "Uhhhh, dont use the sword. oooomg you used the sword, now you gotta save us" "Uuuurrr give me the sword, women, god dammit, uuuhhhhh you beat me, uhhhhh"

  • @bourky93 its a lesser cause its doesn't have as much depth in combos as heavenly sword did which had over 150 combinations while el shaddai has what less then 25 maybe idk lol, I said I like el shaddai better but heavenly sword exceled a lot more in certain areas then el shaddai, as for heavenly sword's storyline I didn't care for it but it made more sense then el shaddai's story.....

  • @VayuPurana The thing with those apparent 150 combos is that a majority of them are the same combo with 1 button slapped on the end... hardly in depth in any sense. Even so, no one remembers all those combos anyway because when I played it, I only remembers a dozen at most because that's all you need. You have as many combos in the game as you feel like, but not a single person will pro actively go out of their way to actually remember each of them since there is no point... it's redundant...

  • @bourky93 redundant is a given in hack n slash games :p

    I only used one combo again and again with Heavenly Sword, some orange attack, i don't remember the exact combo lol

    oh yeah you're offended for some reason, cause I said it was lesser? in terms heavenly sword has more to offer with it, but like I said again and again I do like el shaddai over heavenly sword same as you so what's your problem exactly?

  • @VayuPurana I'm not offended, just saying that heavenly sword shouldn't be put above El Shaddai in any sense (or any other hack n slash for that matter) and such a bolstered claim is a little odd. Heavenly sword was a simple release title and its main purpose was to fool around with the six axis feature in the PS3 controller.

  • @bourky93 they're both hack n slash action games so I don't see why not, its not like I'm comparing El Shaddai to a different gaming genre completely like a FPS lmao

    they only did that cause they thought it was expected of it being on one of the first of next gen consoles, honestly I hated the whole six axis feature for heavenly sword, it almost ruined the game for me, it was so fucking annoying =___="

  • ...Fuck. I just realized that I really need to own and play this game.

  • 4:42 thank you for ruining another good action game, whats the point of fighting enemies at all if u cant die or lose? this is just why i didnt play fable 3...

  • @Thomas1238fedor u can die..a lot

  • I had a lot of fun with this I beat it in.1 day but I'm keeping it cause it looks and play awesome esp with a 50 inch led

  • its a good game but when i heard him say you can finisch the game in 8 hours i was a litle dissepointed because i like games that are at least 30 hours like final fantasy but the game looks good so maybe i am gonna buy it

  • After getting this i realise we just don't need new consoles just yet if at all when games like this are being made. In other words this game is just amazing and i would recommend it to anyone.

  • this game looks fucking amazing

  • One man's art is another man's turd.

    This is turd to me.

  • This is an inspiring art experiment. That said, it by no means warrants the pricetag it currently holds. I'd wait a few weeks.

  • @Bozguyon What? It's like under 20 bucks right now

  • @MultiPrismatic Notice how I wrote this comment FOUR MONTHS ago. Of course it's gonna be under 20 bucks now.

  • @Bozguyon I wasn't aware of when the game came out.

    I though it came out much earlier in 2011

  • Gamespot, fair? No bribes? lol, try googling Jeff Gerstmann.

  • Gamespot... no bribes involved? lolololol!

  • oh wtf only xbox360 ?

  • @afrojavix It`s on PS3 too.

  • Beautiful game and i like christian (but i dont like fanaticism for religious) much things that game say like nephelim or fallen angel are from christian books but the only wrong is that all nephelims eat only humans and fallen angels cant go with women because angels dont have body.

    So fallen angels on true are elochim that go with women and from those women born Nephelims. Enoch at his first book say for all this.

    Read Hebrew bible or book of Enoch and u can find much for early christian.

  • this game is good, but 60 bucks is just too much. sometimes i wish game publishers would change their prices according to the game's quality

  • @FeioArthur 60 is cheap.

    If you lived in Norway, THEN you can complain about the prize (100) :P

  • i hated the this game sooooooooooooooooo much it makes no sense and im sorry but when im getting christian subtext shoved in my face every 5min i cant stand it fuck this game sorry people this is just me but go ahead and thumb me down or what you want to do.

  • @xXxValleyKidxXx I thumbed you down, don't worry. I don't like the christian garbage either (Christianity/religion in general is BS) but the game is fun.

  • @xXxValleyKidxXx i thumbed you up. Your not in a minority. After 4 hours of playing I found the game play too dull and really didn't enjoy it at all

  • thihasgot to be the worst game i have ever played in my entire life the closest thing is alpha protocol

  • I don't feel this review gave me any real insight on the game...

  • must..play..game ....so ....beautiful....

  • Did Gamespot just ask us to subscribe?

  • good review, i have always trusted gamespot to give a fair review even when i don't agree with some of the scores given i respect their opinions.

  • i cant imagine this game on acid....

  • I take my hat off to GameSpot Reviewers!

    They know how to review a game! :)

  • This looks as stupid as it felt in the demo.This would be the best $15 PSN/Live title, but.....

  • IGN < Gamespot

  • haha love the end of this

  • All this arguing about reviews brings to light the inherent problem with them: That a review, which may well be just an opinion of the journalist, is more "potent" or "valid" than the opinion of the rest of us because it's posted on a professional website or magazine. People then take this "Empowered opinion" as fact, and misjudge a game accordingly. It's for this reason that Metacritic exists (not that Metacritic is doing the games industry any favours either, but still).

  • armoros

    

  • IGN is so stupid

  • im not trolling but infamous 2 is a sequel hence it will have the same style of gameplay hence it will have a different story hence it will have some changes

  • @cb19882000 No idea why you said that, but saying "hence" is annoying.

  • 4 people like IGNorant reviews.

  • My Weave got itchy at 6:12 so i took it off

    xD !!!

  • That floppy yellow dildo made the video

  • also on PS3

  • this looks great to me, I thought the demo was awesome. I'm buying this as soon as I have the money.

  • Wait: Is this a 60$ title, or something on XBoxLive?

  • @liberate29 $60 title. I'll wait till the price drops, it doesn't sound like there's enough content for the price.

  • that last part.... wtf?

  • wow this game looks beautiful.

  • The beauty of youtube is that you get to watch whatever videos you want. If you really hate ign reviews so much, then watch someone else's game review that appeals to you. Many people commenting haven't even played the game and formulated their our own opinions on it. They list negative comments out of the idea that ign is biased. If that is the case, and ign is performing dishonest reviews, then choose to not watch them. That way, at least, you'll be decreasing their popularity.

  • 6:00 If he starts singing "Bad" I'm gonna loose it :D

  • lol the IGN Reviewer didn't even know how to play it xD

  • xplay gave this game a 3/5(Morgan webb was the reviewer)

    she says at the end of the review"this game walks a very thin line" because of bad camera angles and repetitive boss fights and frustrating platforming sections but it has a awesome artstyle and unique mixture of gameplay styles you might end up liking this game.

  • this game is really cool :), really artisitc, though the platforming is... meh.... for me

    all in all 8.8/10

  • Allow viewing on the iPad plzz

  • WAyyyy too short for me.

  • Is it firefox or youtube whenever I click a link on this site the screen goes with witht the little (not responding) message at the top and i have to minimize and maximize like 10 times before the page loads. Anyone else have this problem? It's only on youtube nowhere else.

  • @salyen15 no. just no.

  • OMG.......this.....is......so.­...gay

  • 4:59 - Anti Christ One eyed. But anyway a cool original game.

  • I feel more inclined to agree with IGN on this one after playing the demo. Although the art style is truly amazing (I wouldn't expect less from the man behind the art of Okami) but the gameplay falls completely flat with stiff platforming and repetitive combat (even within the space of 10 minutes the combat was stale)

  • El Shaddai = God Almighty. Awesome.

  • if only religion was this cool

  • I´m anxious to get into El Shaddai, Catherine and Child of Eden. Gotta love inovative, surrealistic stuff. Gaming has evolved so much as an art form!

  • don't blame the sites,blame the reviewers and at the end of the day it's their opinion anyway.Unless of course they plan to change their views so you people would agree and stop talking about the "should be" scores.

    If you disagree with scores than probably you've already played the game so you should just state your own opinions instead of just bashing other's. :D

  • needs more weapons few more abilities maybe co-op some armour variety.. plus need more combos not feeling just using 1 button with no mod.. how about having some kind of bow & arrow double and duel blades.. how more unhanded combat..

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  • Why does everyone think that IGN are a bunch of MW fans.

    Because they gave COD4,MW2 and black-ops if your counting it good reviews. They were great games when they came out.

    Some people just get tired of games that are menioned in every comment.

    Top comment guy was prob a MW fan too.

  • @86THEMADHATTER true but they bash other games and give like a 8 for a all around good game.. but with like mw2 and blk ops it seems the only thing that they touched on is the graphics... no MP.. hell the SP was short as hell. IMO gamespot is more fair and they review every game fairly.. and hell they gave reach like a 9 or something when it's really more like a 7.5-8

  • @VideosNoOne Ya i def agree about Reach being more of a 7.5-8. The campaign was pretty boring. I didn't play the others but i looked at the story behind them and they seemed way more complex.

    Reviewing is prob the hardest thing to do anyway because out of millions of gamers there's going to be differences of opinion.

  • @86THEMADHATTER yeah and it's sooooo easy to jump on the fanclubs... it's SOOOO MUCH EASIER to agree with the community than be the opposite.. (mw2 blk ops halo reach etc.)

  • Games like this are the reason why I couldn't give a shit about a powerful PC. Art style drives games for me, and with stuff like El Shaddai, I see no reason to "upgrade". It's a beautiful game.

  • Destructoid IS FAIR AND DOES NOT SUCK EVER

  • El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

    GAMESPOT-8/10

    IGN- 5/10

    GAMESPOT IS FAIR, IGN SUCKS

    INFAMOUS 2

    IGN-9/10

    GAMESPOT 7/10

    IGN IS THE BEST, GS SUCKS

  • @link211211 El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron

    gametrailers 86/100

  • though its the weirdest game ever but I like the extreme visuals...stunning

  • @mamatamba2 yea that seems to be the opinion of most people who played the demo only. the full game release is sooo much better. the demo really does it no justice.

  • is this game or will it be avaible for the pc?

  • IGN: NEVER WATCH THEIR REVIEW...EVER!!!

    GAMESPOT: FAIR REVIEWS, NO BRIBES INVOLVED.

  • @xMrStrongCockx Little did he know. A reviewer at gamespot got fired because he negatively reviewed a game that was getting them a lot of money in advertisements

  • @xMrStrongCockx Can you explain why they gave GTA 4 10/10 when in fact its very boring and lacking content? Similiarly RDR?

  • @xMrStrongCockx giant bomb says hi

  • @xMrStrongCockx you know all reviews are opinion, and everyone has different opinions... Don't hate a howl company because they have differing opinions than you.

  • @xMrStrongCockx What their review of Kane and Lynch: Dead men, where the publisher edios paid for multiple banner ads and background ads featuring the game. After the reviewer gave the game a six the publisher allegedly took issue with the review, threatening to pull their advert, and the reviewer was promptly fired.

  • @xMrStrongCockx how dare you say that

  • rise of the Megatron?! uh oh...somebody better call the Autobots

  • This game... looks amazing. Where's my money? :(

  • 0:01 to skip adverts?

  • @IBrodyHD get ad block if u use firefox then u won't get ads :P

  • @dmajorhiphopproducer lol thanks!

  • @IBrodyHD doesn't work

  • That's what I love about games. Art designs change to something beautiful and adds to the excitement. Games like Mirrors Edge, No more Heroes, even Super Street Fighter 4, have such beauty to look at. Fps, rpgs, mmos, etc. They do not give you something different to admire other than gameplay. Games are an art and reusing it, makes it boring. So IGN doesn't like new art? How.....likely.

  • This game is either a hit or miss with people basically

    you either love it or hate it

    *COUGH*IGN*COUGH* sorry i have a cold :P

  • Better then ign's review

  • Stop putting the spoiler thing at the beginning! There is no use and it just scares people away.

  • It's only for the 360?

  • @Noctivagus23 ps3 also

  • WHY SPOILER WHY? i want to watch gamespot reviews but i can't because i really hate spoilers.

  • @Stephenxs they don't really spoil. its just gameplay footage that is the 'spoiler'

  • yeah my wife traded me in for a kindle too...

  • The demo alone was amazing, I think the actual game would melt my face.

  • @poopikins yaa this game ys simply amazing

  • Is this a full priced game? As in 60 bucks?

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  • I keep seeing different rankings for this game from reviewers. I'm going to wait and see what the gamers have to say.

  • @Lluminari Try the demo and make your own mind up.

  • @Zepthire Not bad...very visual. Very repetitive though. I like it. 8/10

    For some reason, the audio can't seem to match. Their talking is way off when the lips move. It's like watching a bad kung-fu dub.

  • @Lluminari that's only because its synching for the japanese dub, they didn't resynch the english voiceovers. If you put on the japanese dub, it all synchs up

  • @Lluminari go to meta critic it gives the average review from all reviewers also i own it and im lovin it.

  • This game reminds me of Okami a little. At least the graphic style does.

  • this game is awsome i played the demo simply amazing

  • @1Kaka123 You haven't read the books of Enoch, have you?

    Metatron was the name given to Enoch when he ascended into heaven and was transformed into a powerful angel. That's according to the 3rd book of Enoch.

  • WTF at the end with all the crowd cheering..... LOL. XD (I'm buying it by the way)

  • bargain bin

  • worst title ever....

  • @drplbiftin

    Trust me, I can name a lot more titles that are worse than this.

  • Is the pen mightier than the sword??

  • - The combat doesn't seem that deep! I think I'll stick with Bayonetta and GoW3.

  • I played the demo and this game really is shit. After 3mins I turned it off and deleted the demo.

  • 0th

  • AND IGN CALL THIS GAME MEDIOCRE!!! xD BUNCH OF MW FANS!!

  • @Naesun1 Shut the fuck up about Call of Duty.

  • @Naesun1 haha you're a nub

  • @Naesun1 Ikr i was watching both review at the same time...And man what a difference in viewpoints

  • @Naesun1 Quit your raging. The last time they made a COD comment was ages ago. They even gave black ops a well deserved 7.5. As much as people try to be unbiased, reviews will be somewhat affected by opinion.

  • after so many complements i thought they would give this game a 9 at least ,it seems interesting

  • gamespot reviews are always fair with their ratings.

  • @figaro99999 you just say that because it favors for you, what about their review on infamous 2?

  • @figaro99999 not always they gave monster hunter freedom unite a 6.5

  • @TheMaazster i agree. not always. but most of the time

  • @figaro99999 true unlike ign who are basically the cbs and fox news of the gaming world

  • @figaro99999 um... they gave infamous2 a 3... right

    

  • @cloakmaster1295 infamous 2 deserved a 3 , im tired of crappy sequels that are almost exactly like the game before , its enough that sports games always do that.

  • @mfcold1 I'm sorry but I have to disagree, infamous 2 may have played alot like infamous 1 but IMO thats a good thing, it stayed true to the formula that made first game fun for me and lots of other people to, not to mention improving on alot of complaints from the first 1 like better combat and improved climbing. so overall, I'd say infamou2 made for a much better game.

  • @cloakmaster1295 I played the game , one thing is keeping the formula , another thing is giving us almost the same game for us to play again , the game isnt bad but it is almost like the first one . Gamers are easily pleased if the game already has a name and studios take advantage of that. For example , after the first Assassin's Creed the rest all looked like DLC's. The same happens with Star Wars Force U 2, Skate 2 and 3, CoD Black Ops etc.

  • @mfcold1 well look at it this way, rather than looking at how the games are the same, look for what the devs have changed and improved upon. when looking at assassins creed 1 in comparison to assassins creed 2, you see that there is so much more diversity in the second game, which ads more to the game itself rather than sitting on a bench and taking a nap while to people (unrelated to the story) talk to each other. as for the other games you mentioned, they can go down the toilet for all I care!

  • @cloakmaster1295 it has some improvements but , in its core its exactly the same game as the first , i'm sorry but for me that isn't worth the price you have to play for it besides that the game sounds and feels exactly the same just in a different place with new tricks , I'm not saying thats a bad thing but charging full price for it is ridiculous , AC is turning like a Sports Game, a Dragonball , or a NFS they release one every year with little improvement. Im sorry for some bad english.

  • @cloakmaster1295 correction. most of the time.

  • @figaro99999 yes but they dont look back and compare them with previous games they reviewd like a worse game they gave a 5 maybe and this game was better but maybe they give it lower score even thought its a better game i hope you get me

  • @MSAnemanja2 correction. most of the time

  • @figaro99999 One gamestop reviewer gave a 6.0 to Kane and Lynch while gamespot was being paid a lot in advertisement. He got fired

  • @higoshimaru that was great by the way. havent heard of any IGN staff being fired though. see the difference?

  • @figaro99999 Yeah. That makes gamespot a little less reliable. But anyone most people come to gamespot when IGN negatively reviews a game. But when they positively review one everyone is fine with their review. People should just live with the score of a game and play it for themselves

  • @higoshimaru That's because IGN staff are programmers and people who pay attention to flaws in development. Most of the time, I agree with IGN reviews, but I check gamespot and other reviewers like ZeitgaistReview for other opinions. However, sometimes IGN states some pretty dumb stuff about a game, like in Deus Ex Human revolution, the guy said "The game is actually not a shooter, it's just an RPG where you can shoot at things". Comments like that, tend to be hate material...

  • I agree with tom... Holy shit I thought I would never say tat.