I Am Jesus Christ

An unfortunately flawed retelling of the gospel accounts. Despite taking a synthetic view of the gospels and mixing and matching them as desired, the game leaves out a lot of iconic stories with their associated teachings. "Was man made for the Sabbath or Sabbath made for man?" "I believe, help my unbelief!" "It is easier for you to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to come into heaven." "He who is without sin, cast the first stone" are all utterances you will look for in vain. The Pharisee and the Publicant? The Parable of the Lost Sheep? Not here. Most baffling, the Sermon on the Mount has been written out of the story. Parts of Matthew 7 make appearances in disconnected "preaching" sidequests but Matthew 5 is almost entirely absent. "You have heard it said: Do not commit adultery. But I tell you if somebody looks at a woman to desire her, he has already committed adultery in his heart." is also something you will not find. Fundamentally the game underplays the "The Kingdom of God is nigh" aspect of Jesus' ministry. What takes the place of "The Kingdom of God is nigh" is "God's grace will also come to the gentiles." - Jesus' ministry at the Nazareth Synagogue in Luke 4 is placed fairly late in the narrative ingame and this is where the accusation of "blasphemy" is first uttered. The game essentially depicts a story of how the Israelites killed Jesus for daring to say that nice things are coming to the gentiles. The political implications of the Messianic hopes of his age, the apocalyptic tenor of "The Kingdom of God is nigh" and the theological implications of the "Son of God" title kind of fall to the wayside. Overall what results is a gospel account that is missing many of the most iconic stories and gives a very skewed account of why Jesus was rejected by his countrymen and died on the cross. At different points the game also offers explanations in the voice over or in the NPC dialogue that I wish they had left out so that the gospel account could just speak for itself. Similarly, Satan plays a much more active role - especially during the passion - that I don't know how to feel about it. It just comes off as ... goofy. Speaking of goofy: Where in the gospels Jesus has debates with the Pharisees on fundamental questions of theology like "what does it mean to keep the Sabbath holy?" - my summary of that debate anyway - in the game the Pharisees have been reduced to asking you questions of Bible trivia and acting impressed that you can remember that it was Noah who built the arc in Genesis. The debate with the Sadducees about Levirate Marriage and Resurrection is completely absent. On the gameplay side I do want to say that the game fails at its goal of giving you the opportunity to play the events of Jesus' life through his eyes. Many pivotal moments have the game switching away from the first-person view and instead get told to us in narration. More fundamentally: the lack of day/night cycle, the overall brevity due to missing content and overall non-linear overworld prevent you from ever really gaining a sense that you are on a journey. There is no real feeling of a passage of time. You are running around a timeless void of Galilee and Jerusalem and accepting quests which will show you some disjointed scene from the gospels. The "Follower" counter in the top right stays just a number. You never get the feeling that you are a wandering prophet drawing crowds from far and wide that follow you as your journey to Jerusalem. I think a bit more linearity could have served the game well in that regard. TLDR: As a game it fails to make me feel like I'm Jesus on my journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem. As a gospel retelling it leaves out too much, takes too many liberties elsewhere and - to me - changes the overall tone of Jesus' ministry away from being the good news of the coming kingdom of God and thus you never really understand why anybody would have rejected him except "The Israelites didn't like foreigners" and "Satan did it" which is a poor way of summarizing the central conflict of Jesus' ministry. I would recommend the game to theology students and bible buffs as a fun way to spend a few hours. Picking away at the game's shortcomings and thinking about what they would have done different and why they find certain choices disagreeable. I could not recommend this game as somebody's first introduction to the gospels as I think it leaves out too many of the most interesting and thought-provoking discourses and leaves a lot to be desired in the things it does depict. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Nos textos bíblicos, existem passagens de anjos apenas servindo ou consolando a Jesus, e não instruindo. Foi engraçado ver um anjo instruindo a Jesus, como se o Cristo interno ou Jesus não soubesse para que veio kkkk. Na visão divina de Jesus ao ativá-la, meteram o olho de Hórus, ficou enigmático. Joguinho legal!

Não importa quão distante você esteja, Cristo sempre sabe onde encontrar você.

Este jogo me fez virar o "Pônei Bendito".

Jesus is awesome

I was excited for this and I do enjoy walking simulators but this game is a little lazy. They could've at least given the AI voices consistent accents, let alone believeable Middle-Eastern ones. Some people are American, some British and I even met an Aussie at the Nazarene market. The option to fast travel and quest markers ruin the immersion. It's Unchallenging, unemotional and most of the storytelling is done through dialogue, not through any clever game design. Satan's attempt at enticing Jesus is laughable. It's not all bad, The music is nice, the graphics are decent and it's interesting to learn about the history and scripture through the codex. It has potential and is a great idea but the world building needs more work. I won't refund because I want to support games like this.

как будто в библии поучаствовал, было довольно интересненько

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Hello! I think this is a great way for people to learn the truth of Jesus Christ and his resurrection. I hope that this development team continues to work on similar titles, and maybe even go over the path of the 12 Apostles and early start of the church. I would however hope that they remove the “Fantasy” tag.

Praise his holy name