Cult Game El Shaddai to Get Spiritual Sequel

No word on a release outside Japan at this time.

By Jordan Sirani

Game director Takeyasu Sawaki and Kadokawa Games have announced The Lost Child, a spiritual sequel to 2011's El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.

The game - which swaps the first's precision brawling to become a turn-based RPG - is due out in Japan later this year on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

Announced in Famitsu (via Gematsu), The Lost Child takes place in the same world as El Shaddai and will feature the return of the archangel Lucifel, who was voiced by Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs in the English version of El Shaddai. Development on the spiritual sequel is reportedly 90 percent complete.

Here's the plot synopsis for The Lost Child, via Gematsu:

"Magazine writer Hayato Ibuki was chasing the story of the suicide [of] a person who jumped in front of a train in Shinjuku Station. In the middle of his pursuit, he falls onto the platform as if he was pushed by a mysterious black shadow. A mysterious, beautiful woman named Barcia saves him by the skin of his teeth, and hands him a suitcase. It was a Pandora’s Box that should not have been be opened. Inside was the “Demon Gun Gangour,” a tool that can capture and enslave demons and fallen angels. Using this ability, Hayato successfully took on his own demon subordinates. Together with a woman named Rua, who calls herself an angel, Hayato will pursue the mysteries that occur in various places and find the beautiful woman who gave him the suitcase."

While the first game has picked up a cult following, our reviewer at the time was less impressed: "In the end, El Shaddai attempts to do too much, and much of what it does it doesn't do well."

Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @jdsirani.

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