El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
El Shaddai is an action-platformer for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It is based on Judeo-Christian myth. You play as Enoch and your mission is to track down and purify (kill) some fallen angels who came down to Earth. Background Enoch is featured in the book of Genesis and lived for 365 years before he was taken to heaven by God, being one of two humans noted in the Bible that never died. There are apocryphal works that indicate Enoch eventually ascended to archangel status, where he was known as the Metatron--"he is appointed guardian of all the celestial treasures, chief of the archangels, and the immediate attendant on God's throne." (wikipedia.org) Plot (no spoilers) Enoch eventually tracks them to a tower set amidst a distortion in space-time. This takes him several hundred years. (Although he is human in the game, he is immortal.) Within the tower are various floors, each ruled by a fallen angel and each its own little world. This is the backdrop in ...