Egann said:
I mean, two examples of even barely edgy content. Dark Souls is really dark, violent, more than a bit nihilistic, and if you take all your character's clothes, all he or she is wearing is a basic loin cloth (and a chest wrap for the ladies). I hesitate to call this sexual content as the player character spends more than half the game as a mummified corpse and most of the nudity in the game is intended to disturb rather than arouse. And yet, at the end of the day, Dark Souls offers players a temptation--you can murder NPCs or invade other player's worlds to acquire souls and humanity. And the major reason that's tempting for most players to begin with is that Dark Souls is a hard game. So on the one hand you have a nihilistic universe challenging the Christian worldview because no character--not even your own--gets a good ending, and on the other being able to deal with temptation parallels the Christian worldview nicely. One challenges your views, the other reaffirms them, and if your faith is genuine both will strengthen it. But if you are a stickler for clean content it doesn't qualify because Quelaag is gorgeous if you ignore something VERY OBVIOUS about her character design. Quelaag is actually a toned down version of Sin from Milton's Paradise Lost. I could say the same thing about Ghost Trick. Ghosts really don't have much of a place in the Christian Worldview, but Ghost Trick tells an incredible story about the value of human life with them. I'm not going to burn that bridge just to be a purist. All this is just to say I'm not zealous about drawing lines on what a Christian should or shouldn't play. If your faith is genuine anything will (in the long run) strengthen it, whether it is a challenge, temptation, or an alternative. Faith is not a valid reason to avoid something. Saying your faith precludes you from doing something also implies anyone else who doesn't agree and can't share the same faith. Saying your personal taste means you don't like it is perfectly valid, however. |
I've never played Dark Souls and I don't really know anything about it so I can't really offer a valid thought on that game, sorry. I will say, in response to the comment toward the end, that Christ HIMSELF says HE is the one path to salvation and God. There are not many paths. Our calling is to follow Christ. Any actions we do that do not reflect us following God through our ultimate example, Christ Jesus, are sins. To sin is to do something contradictory to God, ultimately.