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Christian Videogame Alternatives Explored
Thanks to the TNL forum regulars for pointing to a CBN article discussing the most suitable videogames for Christians (Google cache). The article discusses the "extreme violence, gratuitous sex, and satanic imagery found in many children's video games", and focuses instead on Christian-orientated games such as Ominous Horizons, where "the player takes on the role of a 15th-century Christian who fights demons, but without any blood or gore. The forces of evil - instead of dying - fall to their knees and pray." This N-Lightning-developed game has the player working as a medieval Paladin to return the Gutenberg Bible, which has been stolen by forces of evil, and the developer explains: "..you have a sword of the Spirit.. [that] shoots a burst of light which vaporizes any demonic opponents and the end result is that you know Christ is victorious."
Yeah, you don't need Christian videogames, you already got the Evangelische Omroep and Christian fundamentalist political parties who don't even allow women to join them and want to shut down the country every sunday...
The character shoots beams of lights and there are demons in the game.
If they wanted to make a realistic religious game it would be a bunch of stupid people brainwashing each other since the dawn of the human race. I don't know what the gameplay would be like.
Or they could make a game about the crusades...