I am Jesus Christ tried and tested version of Jesus simulator

Who hasn’t read the canonical gospels and hasn’t asked themselves about some of the narrative holes in them? Who wouldn’t want to deepen some aspects with sequels, spin-offs, or descriptions? Who hasn’t searched the authors’ social profiles to protest this or that narrative turn?

We know that curiosity gnaws at your soul just as it does us, but then I tried I am Jesus Christ and a world was opened to us.

bible reading

For example, we finally found out what he did. Jesus of Nazareth, before reaching the play’s hero, John the Baptist. From the famous passage of the Bible, Matthew 3:1-12, we know that the Baptist, dressed in camel hair and a leather belt, and fed on locusts and wild honey, baptized people in the Jordan River, hearing the confession of their sins. . . . After the passing of the Pharisees and Sadducees warned by the Baptist, the coming of Jesus is described: “Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized for John.” Who hasn’t wondered how he got there? What did Jesus do before he began to preach?

Here’s the missing part: “Back then, Jesus lived by the alarm clock. Maria and Joseph always sleeps in their house in Nazareth. One day, divine grace caused an exclamation point to appear on Mary, making her a seeker. Awakened by the strangely sensual words of the Holy Spirit, Jesus went to speak to his mother and took on his first official assignment as the son of God: to find John the Baptist.

Mary did not know where he was, so Jesus had to ask a random girl who had lived for nearly thirty years, but strangely unknown to him, who took him to the market to talk to a merchant. The one who finally sent him by another man, who finally knows something. The man gave her an appointment for the next morning on the road out of Nazareth. Jesus turned to Mary, delighted with his success, then fell asleep to rest for the long journey. The next morning, after the loading screen, he walked up to his guide, who dropped him off in a bushes filled with juicy wild berries near the Jordan River. After running hundreds of yards, listening to the words of the Bible (activated by the occasional fire script), and learning to eat to survive, Jesus finally came to the Jordan River.

gameplay

If you don’t understand yet, I am Jesus Christfirst person adventure we had the opportunity to try it for a few hours and discovered that it aims to be much more serious and meticulous than we thought, even in the face of some solutions that might make you smile. , at least indirectly. Jesus himself is the type of athlete who can run for long minutes without getting tired and make significant jumps where he can jump over walls and other obstacles. He is also immortal because he can fall from great heights without doing anything. Here, if we describe the game, SimulaM in short, we will define it as a title where you run a lot, often for minutes, in environments that are sometimes too bare to engage with the next. Frankly, the version we’re testing is inconclusive, so we don’t allow ourselves to make any firm judgments about the game, but as inevitably we still have an opinion.

Now, it’s hard to make a video game Bibles and I am Jesus Christ seems to show that exactly. In fact, it describes different moments of Jesus’ preaching years through a series of linear interactions that reconstruct events step by step and turn them into many little pursuits.

We are faced with a game of familiar situations (spoiler: Jesus dies but is resurrected), trying to be as respectful as possible to the source text, sometimes not finding an effective key to interpret everything through the video game language, used in a basic sense. No matter how serious her voice may be, we are bound to smile when we see Maria give us a task, or when we have to retrace previously visited sites to perform an action (famous evangelical backtracking).

Also, situationsPress F to show respect“it is constant and inevitable, and leads to the question of whether it would be better if some things happen automatically without the player’s knowledge. It seems strange when the same survival mechanic is applied to Jesus, who has been living alone for forty years as he said days in the desert, but in the game he always needs to eat. Overall the experience is dissatisfied and we will definitely try the final version, but it’s hard to describe whether we’re more involved by I Am Jesus Christ on its own or in indirect delight from a perceived inadequacy of the genre towards the source text. It’s definitely an interesting title for what it’s trying to do.

technical note

From technical point of view There is very little to say at the moment. As the author warns, the test version is far from definitive and lacks many optimizations, so it wouldn’t make sense to comment in depth about the lack of fluidity or some element being out of place. Although it is inevitable that some elements will be quite weak, so to speak, as it is a one-person job, we alone appreciated the efforts made to create believable environments. However, it is really too early to draw conclusions.