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Hey,
My sister really enjoys this video game called Undertale. She has watched others play it on YouTube and is very inspired by the artwork and the story it portrays. Unfortunately, the game has a trace of homosexuality in it. The game is fairly innocent besides this. My sister is also a Christian is aware homosexuality is wrong and disagrees with the creator's decision to include this. She is debating if she should buy the game or not and I don't really have an answer. Does anyone else?
Hey,
My sister really enjoys this video game called Undertale. She has watched others play it on YouTube and is very inspired by the artwork and the story it portrays. Unfortunately, the game has a trace of homosexuality in it. The game is fairly innocent besides this. My sister is also a Christian is aware homosexuality is wrong and disagrees with the creator's decision to include this. She is debating if she should buy the game or not and I don't really have an answer. Does anyone else?
She should totally buy that game it's sooo much fun! if I had to complain about it it's a bit easy and a bit short. but for it's price it's totally worth it.
That game is wonderful and I plan on playing it myself when I can. I don't like seeing people die yet I still play games because why not? Its a game and fiction vs reality.
Hey,
My sister really enjoys this video game called Undertale. She has watched others play it on YouTube and is very inspired by the artwork and the story it portrays. Unfortunately, the game has a trace of homosexuality in it. The game is fairly innocent besides this. My sister is also a Christian is aware homosexuality is wrong and disagrees with the creator's decision to include this. She is debating if she should buy the game or not and I don't really have an answer. Does anyone else?
Like many things in life it's a matter of conscience. Christianity does address the morality of certain things, but not everything is moralized. See, for example, St. Paul's treatment of food and drink. Movies, television, video games, hobbies, food, drink, many things in life are simply there, Christians aren't commanded or forbidden one way or the other on many--very many--things. And in many things it is simply a matter of personal conscience.
If playing a certain game bothers your conscience, well, then don't play it. Conversely, however, you have no right to judge the conscience of those who aren't bothered by the same game. We have the liberty of conscience to choose for ourselves what is acceptable and what isn't, not to tell others what is okay or not okay based on our personal subjective feelings.
Have a problem with eating meat because of inhumane practices against animals? Don't eat meat, but you don't get to tell others that eating meat is a sin (because it's not).
Have a problem playing a video game because a character in it is written with a sexual orientation you disagree with? Don't play it, but you don't get to tell others that playing it is a sin (because it's not).
Your sister has excellent taste. I feel the need to point out, as my avatar may very well imply, that Undertale is incredible. Like, if you have any interest in interactive narrative or videogame storytelling, or even just storytelling in general, get this game. It's kind of amazing how well interesting, three-dimensional, flawed characters can carry a game. Gameplay is none too shoddy either, and it's filled with neat little easter eggs that reward exploration. I have no shame in admitting that, even after the third or fourth playthrough, the ending makes me cry. It's that powerful.
But here's the kicker for its relation to Christianity, IMO: If I had to name the central underlying theme of the game, the one thing you should take away from it, it's compassion. Think before you act. React to violence with non-violence and kill them with kindness. Befriend your enemies. Turn the other cheek. That's... a pretty good message, honestly, and many Christians I know would claim that this is quintessentially Christian. It's also a message you almost never find in video games - especially not to this depth and carried through like this. So yeah, it's kind of all-around great.
That said, the game contains traces of LGBT themes. It's treated more or less like it is in real life: not that big of a deal. It doesn't matter in-game, particularly because we're talking about freakin' monsters; if what bothers you most about a game with skeletons, talking goat monsters, and terrifyingly adorable eldritch dogs is the fact that two ostensibly male or female monsters are romantically involved, you may have some slightly skewed priorities. Or, to put it another way:
If what bothers you the most about an anthropomorphic fish-monster and an anthropomorphic dinosaur-monster crushing on each other is that they both are ostensibly female, your priorities may be skewed somewhat.
And if you'd let the mere existence of LGBT relationships in a work of art taint your approval of or willingness to examine that work of art, then you're going to find increasingly few works of art that you can enjoy, because art is slowly catching up to the fact that LGBT people exist and probably aren't going away any time soon.
Oh yeah, and the only marriages in the game are explicitly heterosexual. So there's that.
I think the focus of the game is really not on promoting anything LGBT related. It has really good, valuable messages and I think the nature of the soul described in that game is actually pretty interesting for Christians as well, especially since it (SPOILERS) plays with ideas like reincarnation and afterlife.
Hey,
My sister really enjoys this video game called Undertale. She has watched others play it on YouTube and is very inspired by the artwork and the story it portrays. Unfortunately, the game has a trace of homosexuality in it. The game is fairly innocent besides this. My sister is also a Christian is aware homosexuality is wrong and disagrees with the creator's decision to include this. She is debating if she should buy the game or not and I don't really have an answer. Does anyone else?
You and her should buy and play it - purely out of scientific interest. You need to know your enemies.
As long as you make sure you don´t enjoy playing it, you are on the safe side.
The game has a genocide mode, but you're more worried that there is some LGBT stuff in it. I'll never understand it, but don't buy anything you find questionable.
The game has a genocide mode, but you're more worried that there is some LGBT stuff in it. I'll never understand it, but don't buy anything you find questionable.
