There is a category of unknown players. The "Christian Gamers. Living in their bubble, they have this absolutely phenomenal criteria for scoring games (they have specialized sites, sisi) through their Christian Gaming sites ....
Beyond the criteria of gameplay, graphics, fun, there's something really important for this category of people: the game is it a good vehicle for Christian morality? This one is rated according to the following elements
-Gore?
-Presence of Satanic symbols
-Nudité/Semi nudity
-Magic
Thus, if one is hardly surprised that does not appreciate hugely ChristianAnswers.NET Doom, GTA, and Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball, there is a little surprised they regard as a game Zelda Windwaker deeply perverse and immoral, and causes, we cast spells and there is mention of other gods . "You may find this ridiculous, but just ask your pastor what he thinks!" do we find, as punchline in the review of the same game
course the U.S. is that it happens. You will understand, and not just because of the use of Anglicisms.
But the Mormons (because I calculate that it is primarily the ones who are involved) do not just test games. They DO.
(Christian game ...)
So good, we knew already infamous title: Bible Adventures on NES and Genesis, a collection of 3 mini games completely deficient based on Noah's Ark , or on the passage of Moses or the mother must protect her baby from the Egyptians: an inherited gameplay of Super Mario 2, or Baby Moses replaces the leek (you can swing it too).
Another example, The Bible Game for PS2.
I confess, my first game is biblical. But I had a hallucination every 30 seconds. I played there ale 20 minutes but it remains an extremely traumatic experience.
The game looks like a game show, and like George Beller and the Fair Price, one begins by choosing an avatar. Boy or girl. But Boy or Girl ... white. Necessarily. Even if a cap was upside down. And thinks he's a rapper. They all have cool attitudes, but when the computer chooses to name his characters, they affublent their name a little backward, like "Jacob" or "Isaac." The tone is set.
(ok there 's an Asian too, but it is very Americanized)
The game is then a relatively multi test classic, but only as to the Old Testament. Damn, what is it to have a dressing on what a Christian is but a play Jew? May be, to send a sign of reconciliation between religions, who knows?
Once the intro done, a leader who thinks he's a cool guy you raffled off a type of probation. We are entitled to a "Bible Trivia" that asks questions on passages of the Bible which I've never heard of. Sometimes it is a matching game, memory type, or it must involve pairs (Noah / Ark, Adam / Eve, Priest / Child, etc. ...).
(I have done well to listen to Catechism!)
My game began soberly. And then sank increasingly in the most total delirium.
First, I had the "joy" to discover the mini-games. They started systematically by the moderator who starts yelling "LET THERE BE LIGHT!", Possibly the coolest sentence of Christian culture. It was then stupid stuff like some kind of DDR where you must climb the ladder of Jacob, attracting lions in a trap, down the wall of Jericho, or throw stones at
Phillistins ... Against a backdrop of Christian rock ... Unless a game inspired by the Creation, or are entitled to a soul music and a gentleman we read the first verses of Genesis ... Barry White way. ("In the beginning there was nothing ... oh baby ...")
(Jacob's ladder)
I was already in a surreal experience. The worst occurred just after. One player controlled by the computer fell on the box Wrath of God ("WRAAAAAAAATH OF GOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD!" Then starts to howl facilitator), frogs are falling from the sky and the player has lost all its points. That is a lesson in Christian life: the wrath of God is profoundly unjust and always falls completely at random. Who would thought I could agree with a game Christian?
is again my turn to play. I still fall on another of those damn special boxes, and I was told that all the points I earn in this part will go to my competitor. Obviously, any player normally LinuxTag is called "Super, I'll do it on purpose to play like a foot!"
But a call to order is displayed on the screen. "You can of course be deliberately play badly ... but God will know.." Holy shit! I'm surrounded! And no, do not believe that the game punishes you, the game tells you outright that if you're a bad player, you will go to HELL!
Damn! Even against an opponent CPU?! God does not want me to cons cheat my PS2?
The mini-game begins: a common set of Pachinko (see "The Fakir" in The Price is Right), completely random. Expression can be difficult to play this? After 20 minutes (I set), the game ends, and I finished second in four. Not bad. But doggone, what surreal experience ...
So I go in search of other titles like ... and I have a second shock. I came across a Christian dance game. With only Christian music then.
And its expansion pack "Hip Hop Christian".
And I stayed there, as it, his mouth open for 3 full minutes before my screen to read a review ..
http://www.digitalpraise.com/pdf/breakthroughgaming.pdf
seen on the site IGN: and that is all.