El Shaddai Creator’s New Game The Lost Child Launches This Summer in the West

The Lost Child, an upcoming dungeon crawler based on the mythos of El Shaddai: Ascension by Sawaki Takeyasu, got a new trailer showing its characters, monsters, and celestial beings.

Watch The Lost Child’s ‘Walking Among Gods’ Trailer:

If Sawaki Takeyasu’s name sounds familiar to you, he is the man behind El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron for PS3 and Xbox 360, and the character design of Okami.

The game will launch for PS4 and PS Vita both in North America and Europe this summer. A more precise release date was not provided.

Here’s The Lost Child image gallery. Click on any of these image thumbnails to see the full-size screens:


About the Game

Occult journalist, Hayato Ibuki, encounters a strange girl during his investigations into a series of mysterious suicides in Tokyo. She implores that Hayato must live, before bestowing upon him a mystical device that allows him to capture celestial and arcane creatures. He is now thrust into a world beyond our own, home to horrific monsters and celestial beings. In it, he must delve into dungeons called Layers and solve the mystery of the device. Where his journey leads him could decide the fate of the our world…

Key Features

Mythology Unbound – Features 50+ entities from myths and legends to capture, each with three unique forms to progress through!

Spread the Wealth of Knowledge – There are more than 250 skills to learn and distribute among your party of captured Astrals.

The Infinite Abyss Awaits – Test yourself against massive dungeons with up to 99 floors of deathly dangers!