Just thought it laughable the way he stretched some of these things to mean what he said they did. Shadow Hearts, for instance, he says you intercept and destroy God to "save the world", but doesn't mention that you killed two other 'gods' during the course of the game for the same reason, or that the final god isn't God, and is described in detail as to how and why it isn't.
Whole thing seems more like he overheard somebody else talk about the game then wrote a review about it. Bit like that guy that posted that Avatar review on here a month or so back, that admitted that he didn't watch the movie, but went off about how the movie hated America and the military and some other such.
Gah, just looking at the list again...almost every single one of these is just flippin' ridiculous.
Nocturne- Pretty sure he means the Shin Megami Tensei one here, couldn't even lable it right apparently. Yes, the main character is a sort of demon, and yes, you can decide to fight against God, but you can also basically align yourself with him. And even then it all comes down to Chaos versus Order, Free Will versus Control.
Tecmo's Deception- Yeah, you can resurrect satan. You harvest souls. But the main character isn't really told right off who he's really working for or towards what end, and when you do find out, you're given the choice of either keeping it up or turning it all around and sealing the devil away for good. Guy doesn't mention that though, does he?
Dragon Age- As was already mentioned, not god, the dude here is the Maker, and he's not gone mad, he just got dissapointed and left. There's the bits about blood magic and all that, but, you don't have to fricken' do them. Player's are given a choice, you don't have to sleep with demons or any of that junk. Guy conveniently leaves that bit out again.
Dante's Inferno- Leaves out the fact that you're fighting the devil, while trying to redeem yourself, and optionally redeeming other souls along the way.
Trapt- Basically Deception over again, with a girl. Again, same deal with the story. Again, leaves out the fact that you can fight the devil instead.
Guitar Hero- Another article by this guy that went into more detail about his choices said it was because you could play as satan in hell. That was it. One character that didn't pop up until the third game, in a stage that didn't really look that different from your average rock show, meant that this game would make you start 'hailing satan'.
Devil Summoner- Again with the Shin Megami Tensei. Same deal with it that he had with Nocturne, and again, he leaves out the same thing about your choices. Swear, this guy would say he hated a movie theater because during some of the movies he watched, people talked loudly, or, because he chose to watch a bad movie instead of a good one. Although you do make deals with demons for their power, so, touche` guy who broadly generalizes games based on their minimal bad parts.
Kouldelka- Seriously guy? Do you hear that somebody is trying to make "a god" and then just say that they mean it's "the god". Same deal here that Shadow Hearts had. Don't even think they really claimed it was even a god in the game, just that it had godly power, or something to the extent, but even still they explain exactly what it is during the game.
Really just seems like the guy either didn't play the games fully, heard about them from a third party, completely missed large chunks of story, or just decided to leave out as much information that he could that proved contrary to the point he was trying to make, and just tried to score some sensational press coverage from the christian community, who, unfortunately, end up taking up pretty much all the backlash from the gaming community because of this guy.
It's sad really. Most of the people who read this article or hear about it from others, will start saying negative things about christians, things that they don't really deserve, all because of this jerk. A lot of those people aren't gamers, who only know to buy their kids whatever they ask for, without often knowing much about the ESRB or anything like that, and all they really have to go on is what this guy says. So they'll listen to him, start believing what he says about games, they'll start disparaging against games, and that will rile gamers up against them, and this guy just gets a crap-ton of free press with little to no consequence.
Depressing.
