If you’ve ever taken a critical th🏅inking course or studied mixed media in general, y𝐆ou’re likely familiar with the concept of allegories: the thinly veiled moral messaging behind the main story. Common allegories to appear across books, music, movies, and yes, even video games, reflect religious morality to various degrees of success.
Depending on how well-versed you are in religion, you can find a🍒rchetypes and allegories popping ꦺup in all video games, though some are much more blatant to the Everyman. It’s also less common to find a game that follows religious allegory throughout its entirety; often times it’s only a Christ-like character in an otherwise secular story.
8 💧 Phantasy Star Series
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At first thought, you’d think that science fiction and religion don’t mesh well, but they go together better than they appear. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Phantasy Star sees groups of people being ostracized and forced to flee their home worlds by the Dark Force (or Dark Falz) that comes every thousand years with an Armageddon-like veng﷽eance.
Each game features a Chosen One figure — someone w❀ho is powerful enough to face the Dark Force and ward off their attempts to destroy the planet. This person travels the world helping people survive and maintain their independence.
7 Blಞasphemous 🐓
A slightly more obvious nod to religion, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Blasphemous is loosely based on the Spanish Inquisition, which saw Catholic monarchs weaponizing religion to make their power more absolute against their peoplꦑe.
You play as the Penitent One fighting against a curse known as The Miracle, a strong reflection of the Catholic practice of eliminating Heretics. At the time, it was believed that the more one suffered in life, and the more one was compelled to repent, the more favorable their odds of seeing Heaven. In Blasphemous, the Penitent One suffers greatly and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:brutally attacks those who don’t.
6 🍌 Mortal Kombat Series
Throughout the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mortal Kombat series, there is 𝄹the storyline of two warring worlds that represent good versus evil, with the god Raiden often pulling in humans to help fight for good and achieve salvation for Earth. The humans are specially chosen to fight on behalf of all mankind (this is sometimes shown as being physically marked).
Although who falls on the side of good and who falls on the side of evil changes at times over the course of the games, the evil characters typically have demon-like appearances like Baraka and Mileena’s teeth or Shao Khan’s he🐽adgear, while the good guys have e💖lemental abilities like Raiden’s lightening or Sub-Zero’s control of ice.
5 🔥 Fallout Series
In Fallout you play as the Dweller who is sent on a quest by the Overseer to fight the Master. While most religions would scoff at calling their God’s adversa💜ry the Master, there is something to be said for the obvious tone of Good vs Evil and God vs Satan. As the Dweller, you’re playing as the Chosen One or Savior of the remaining population in this post-apocalyptic world.
For extra emphasis for the Christian players, the Dweller is called upon to complete this mission after leaving the Vault in a slight nod to⛎ the idea of Resurrection.
4 🍎 The Binding Of Isaac
Not only is the title of the game a direct reference to the story of Abraham that appears throughout Christianity and Judaism, the developer even cited his own upbringing in Catholicism as a basis 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:for the storyline.
Since it draws heavily from the story of Abraham, however, a lot of feedback 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Binding of Isaac received was that it𝐆 was ‘anti-religion’ 💜or glorifying the occult and demonic. How you take the game is entirely dependent on your sensitivities as well as your relationship with religion, but regardless of your personal take, it’s easy to spot the basic themes as Biblical.
3 ꦺ 🧸 Shin Megami Tensei Series
The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Shin Megami Tensei series is centered around the concept of Good vs Evil with literal Deꦜmons fighting against Angels with humanity caught in between. Multiple endings are a common occurrence in the series, and the choices you make throug🥃hout your playthrough affect your ending.
For example, in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Shin Megami Tensei 5 endings vary from correcting the path of humanity and the belief in Inhe𓆉rent Good to the absolute destruction of humanity and the belief in Inherent Evil. There’s even an ending that leaves you with an ambiguously neutral world that can reflect either Agnostic belief or a kind of Limbo/Purgatory.
2 🌠 The Legend Of Zelda Series 🐼
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Legend of Zelda series isn’t as obvious with the use of religious allegory, but there are themes th𝔉at will feel familiar if you’ve spent your share of time in a Bible Camp or Sunday School. The Triforc🐟e is similar to The Holy Trinity in religion, with Power, Wisdom, and Courage reflecting the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The🎃re&rsqu☂o;s also the use of Link as a representative of the Chosen One archetype, as he’s the only one who can save the world. He’s also an example of the ‘meek inherit the earth’ since he is truly humble and puts himself last game after game.
1 🥀 Halo Series ♎
Halo is both the most obvious and least obvious nod to religion in gaming. The title - Halo - is used in religion to indicate a Saint or otherwise Holy figure by way of the ring of pure ligh▨t above their head.
Then there’s Master Chief, whose name is John 117 in the games. He is a warrior fighting in a war that was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:started long before him, but he&rsquoꦍ;s clearly the hero deemed worthy to lead his followers to the rightful end. The co🦩nnection to Jesus isn’t wholly inferred, either, as John 1:17 in the Bible states that, while Moses brought the laws to the land, Jesus came along to show the Truth. Where those before Master Chief dictated right from wrong, he’s the one to create the path.