The Greatest Game With the WORST TITLE EVER

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***How to Play El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron***

***Timecodes***

1. Marketing is Hard: 0:00 - 2:27
2. Why the Title Sucks: 2:28 - 3:52
3. Summarizing the Game's Greatness: 3:53 - 5:10
4. Esoteric Inspiration: 5:11 - 8:30
5. A Comparable Yet Incomparable Style: 8:31 - 9:31
6. Gameplay and Visuals: 9:32 - 12:22
7. A Literal Dream in the Form of a Game: 12:23 - 13:21
8. Story Analysis (NO SPOILERS): 13:22 - 15:35
9. More Esoteric Inspirations: 15:36 - 19:18
10. Outro: 19:19 - 20:04

#gaming

[ojisankusai]

I once wrote a high school, 5-paragraph-essay on why I hate 5-paragraph-essays for a teacher who literally said that as long as we write something down, we wouldn't get a 0.

I got a 0.

[AndrewChumKaser]

"Ride or El-Shadai"
No no that's good, go with that.

[XenoSineMusic]

You either el shaddai a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the metatron.

[officialyeen]

Oh man, I remember telling my adult cousin about this game when I was a teenager and explaining the story and the meaning of the title and he paused after I was finished with a blank look on his face and asked me "...and this is a game? That you play?"

[glaceRaven]

Slight correction with regard to ICO: The original North American version of ICO was rushed to market before even the Japanese version released. The reason they changed the cover art was because the art used by the Japanese and European versions hadn't actually been given to them as it wasn't finished yet. It wasn't because they thought the more iconic, minimalist one wouldn't appeal to gamers; they never saw it in the first place, so they worked with what they had.
(I recently started playing ICO and became obsessed with it, so I did a bunch of research to fuel my obsession and that was what I found)

[Nevir]

I literally ONLY played ICO because a GameStop employee I was on good terms with told me it was MUST PLAY. Even then, I didn't believe him, but I bought it because it was cheap used, as nobody wanted it, and they also had a 7 day return policy.

Needless to say, he was right and I'm grateful I experienced it at a time when it was more or less state of the art.

[Servings]

Believe it or not, when this game came out in Japan, you could buy the jeans Enoch is wearing in the game. What an obscure piece of merch...👖

[williamboisdenghien]

The name of the this game has been mentioned during a scientific lecture at the Collège de France to show that yes the niche interest of the biblical scholars in the room does influence media at times.

[elaremalaka_]

I still remember how a "friend" that I had invited to my birthday party back when I was in elementary school gave me this game cause he found it somewhere cheap, as an attempt to get a low effort gift and when he gave it to me he said "I got you this. It includes swords and fights or something". I had never seen this game before in my life, but I still played it and loved it. Never seen it being mentioned even once since then, and I also haven't revisited it. Maybe I should

[cynicap]

i genuinely love how he refuses to shorten the name to just el shaddai or smth

[elizabethalmendarez]

I got so excited when you revealed the game was El Shaddai Ascension of the Metatron. Literally said aloud " yes finally someone else played the game too".

[PaulZeroSolis]

Okay, while "El-Shadai: Ascension of the Metatron" is a mouthful, at least it isn't "Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth By Sleep: A Fragmentary Passage".

[superbad]

Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never El Shaddai.

[xtty]

I call the period around when this game came out "the weird era of gaming" - around the late PS2/XBox era and early PS3/Wii/XBox 360 era. I think video games were opening up as a creative medium as directors had finally fully gotten the hang of realizing their vision in full 3D and it seemed like "anything went". It was also the time period when some games like SotC and Journey came out and people started looking at what kind of artistic visions could be realized within games. A lot of very weird, sometimes bad, but always very creative and just plain *different* games like God Hand, No More Heroes, Asura's Wrath, the original NieR, and so on came out around this time and I love whenever anyone goes in-depth about them. Great video, thanks for this!

[SweaterPuppys]

I’m a very firm believer in the idea that a games sales hardly reflect the quality of the game. I’ve played games that sold well and they actually are unplayable

[ryno_]

They could’ve just called it Ascension of the Metatron.

[DiegoMantilla]

I played this game as a child. I didn't have much money, one day I went to a game store and gave them one of my games, paid a little and they gave me this game, they chose it for me, like a game no one was buying so they just gave it to the first person they could trick to make him leave with it. I really don't remember much of it, I didn't understand it; but I liked it enough to remember it for years and search for it online, but not many people have analyzed it, so I'm happy someone is talking about this deeply. Describing this game as a ''dream'' is very fitting, that's how I remember it, as a dream that I had years ago and still remember years later.

[TheNovaWollf]

"Shaddai harder" IM DYING LMAO

[YojimboBlade]

1:44 to be more precise, Okami did not sell well when it launched. Since Capcom remastered it in 2017 for all consoles and PC, that version has sold 2.4 million as of their most recent quarterly report, and is the 46th best selling Capcom game in its history.

[dingus_maximus]

At a certain point, a bad title can actually become good not because it accurately tells you what you’re in for, but because it’s so batshit insane that you just have to find out what this game could possibly be.