Backloggers Anonymous: El Shaddai Part 1

Backloggers Anonymous El Shaddai Part 1

Starring special guest, Richard Clark, of GameChurch.com!

Yes, that's right, we brought in a special guest for this one: Richard Clark of, well, half the internet really. Mostly he's known for his work at Christ and Pop Culture and Game Church. For our intentions however, it's his work covering our next game, El Shaddai, that got my attention. He's written pretty extensively on the game, and we're very happy to have him on board for these next two podcasts.

I'll be honest, this is probably one of the best recordings we've done so far. What started off as pretty standard fare conversational topics ended up getting deep. Really deep. I'm not going to spoil it for you, but make sure to give this one a listen. Also, be sure to check out Richard's work on the game:

Review for Killscreen.com
Editorial for Paste

And then a four-part series for GameRanx. WARNING! THESE CONTAIN SPOILERS!

El Shaddai as a Roadmap to a Religious Game

El Shaddai and the Importance of Choice

El Shaddai: Choice Made Flesh in Lucifel and Enoch

A Game about Faith on a Personal Scale

#El shaddai #Transformers #Metatron #Christianity #Religion #Enoch #God #Jewish #Hebrew #Christian

leeradical42

10/12/2013 at 01:22 AM

This is a awesome game and the theme on God is excellent and god knows I need as much help as I can get im non denominational and I do go to church just not as much as I should but this game is very good.

SanAndreas

10/13/2013 at 02:20 AM

El Shaddai was an underappreciated gem of a game. Looks gorgeous, too.

10/13/2013 at 04:25 AM

Yes I agree the graphics are magnificent and its all around a great game although combat can be a little repetitive.

daftman

10/16/2013 at 11:56 AM

That was a really good podcast! I have El Shaddai but didn't think I'd have time to participate in this BA but I might make time for it, especially if it's less than 10 years long. I am very intrigued.

Chris Iozzi Staff Alumnus

10/18/2013 at 09:11 PM

FInally got to listen to this one, so excited to hear what you guys thought of it. I loved this game despite the repititious gameplay. The crazy art style and heady themes had me from start to finish.