The game has me playing as Enoch, a priest who is looking for seven fallen angels in order to prevent a great flood from wiping out man kind.

The gameplay is fairly fluid with two buttons assigned to attack and two to jump with a further two buttons assigned to purify your weapon and defend respectively. Various combinations can also change the nature of the attacks. At first, I had a little bit of difficulty landing attacks on the enemies and died fairly quickly but after I got used to the pace of the game and worked out the button combinations, I had much better results. I enjoyed that the games fodder enemies were not just few hit wonders but actually required a bit of work to defeat with careless button mashing being a sure fire way of being defeated.

The game also has side-scrolling platform elements. The standout feature of these sections are the waves which the tips of can be ridden by Enoch to transverse the levels. I am under the impression that these sections are being used to go between major game locations, somewhat similar to the side-scrolling sections of Disney’s Epic Mickey.

The El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron demo is available on the Japanese PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for gold subscribers. I played the PlayStation 3 version. The full game will be released April 28, 2011 in Japan. You can pre-order at Play-Asia.com.

• Dog Days
• Nichijou (Everyday)
• Toriko
• Hanasaku Iroha (Blooming Flowers)
• Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai (We Don’t Have Wings)
• Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi (A Bridge to the Starry Skies)
• Sengoku Otome ~Momoiro Paradox~
• STEINS;GATE (same universe as Chaos;Head)
• SKET DANCE
• Hidan no Aria (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)
• A-Channel 
• Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko (Electromagnetic Wave Woman and Adolescent Man)
• Maria-Holic Alive (sequel to Maria+Holic, a series from SHAFT)
• Softenni (Soft Tennis)
• Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (One World, First Love ??)
• Ao no Exorcist (Blue Exorcist)
• Yu-Gi-Oh ZEXAL (loved Yu-Gi-Oh when I was younger, didn’t like 5D, but will give it one chance to win me over)
• Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai II (The World God Only Knows, Season 2)
• C – The Money of Soul and Possibility Control (a Noitamina series, enough said )
• Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai
• Appleseed XIII (enjoyed the movie, hoping for enjoyment from the series)

Random Curiosity has more information on the Spring 2011 anime series or you can click the individual links to find out what a series is about.

Please be sure to leave a comment and let me know what series you plan to watch.

Friday 17th December:

12pm: Watched Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (For You in Full Bloom) while eating lunch.
1pm – 4pm: listened to various J-Pop (iTunes Media Library) while studying and occassionally looking at interesting things in my feed reader (Google Reader via Feedly).
4pm: checked Twitter feed and Facebook accounts, nothing needs my attention.
6pm: Watched Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows) Episode 11 via Crunchyroll subscription.
8pm: Listened to Windows Weekly ep 187 podcast on twit.tv
9pm: commented on Facebook about GoDaddy and an idea I have been thinking about.
9:30pm – 11pm: Listened to a couple of Japanese Pod 101 podcast Japanese lessons.

Summary: Watched Hanazakari no Kimitachi e while eating lunch, then proceeded to listen to music (and study) before checking Twitter and Facebook, then watched Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai, listened to Windows Weekly, then finally posted 2 messages to Facebook.

Note: Will go through browsing history and note various sources I read via links from feed reader by Sunday or Monday morning.

I would like to thank Letitia Coyne for organizing this.

Ergofiction recently published an ebook called Other Sides which is a compilation of fiction from various web fiction authors. It seems like it’s worth a read and I will be starting it after I finish reading Boundary of Emptiness.

If you haven’t seen Muse’s Success since it was purple, please go check it out! I think you’ll like the changes.