Posted on: December 23, 2012
brother-eros
Verified ownerGames: 1863 Reviews: 3
Incredibly Offensive
I want to preface this saying that I am a huge believer in games as a form of cultural expression, nor do I have any interest in censorship, and oppose it wherever I can. Inquisition is pure propoganda. Pagans are evil, their magic can only be mastered by evil alignments, and your role is a sadistic member of one of the most historically vile and reprehensible groups the planet has seen. Remember that many, many innocent victims died to this racial and religious oppression. There are plenty of games where you can kill others without uplifting the ideal of genocide and torture a moral path. I love fantasy, and would that the developers could have moved away from real-world religious politics, or at least attempted to distance themselves, this game could have been a different story, but they didn't, so replace 'Pagans' or 'Heretics' with Homosexuals, Women, Muslims, and Jews, innocent of any charge, because that's what this game is about. Everyone has to draw the line somewhere. The only difference between this and one where you take on the role of a Hitler Youth who begins a quest of training to operate gas chambers to save the world from impurity is the span of a few hundred years. I don't see that difference as a meaningful one. I don't like saying these things. I want games to be supported in society, not condemned, but this bothered me deeply.
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