LIGHT-BRINGER

This is a hard game to play- not because of the subject matter, but because it is actually nauseating. Light-bringer hardly constitutes as a video game and instead seeks to critique, what the author sees as, "American Christian Nationalism," using an excessive amount of cheap shock value imagery of flashing lights, irregular camera zooming, small field of view, Christian symbolism, and real world tragedies. There is a fine line regarding the amount of cheap shock tricks that can be used before that video game becomes physically repulsive, and Mared Jurphy crossed that line many miles ago. The argument of this game essentially boils down to, "American elite 'prophets' promising monetary success to their followers are ironically false prophets." At least I think, the second chapter isn't possible to beat. I have my own reservations on this argument which I find rhetorically repulsive, but that is the exact issue; Light-bringer is something that belongs in an essay, not a video game. To sit through a game where Lucifer is telling you that he is behind the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which is insinuating that Truman gave into the devil's vices, is an argument so ignorant and disgusting that it was shocking an American had said it. The bombings saved millions of lives by circumventing Kantaro Suzuki's Operation Ketsu-Go and forced Hirohito to surrender Japan before they could sacrifice their entire population for, "some ardent glory." I appreciate the idea of this "game," but its literally nauseating "game play" coupled with its fallacies & ignorance with its core argument detract from the point and only seek to pull you in with heart strings, and for that reason, I couldn't recommend this game to literally anyone. I give it a 3/10.