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This game was my childhood, a god simulation where you use miracles to increase your followers and influence across the world. This game was the purest distillation of the god game genre, a genre which has been dead for decades.
when thinking about games I played as a kid, I always end up thinking about this game and its sequel. It had the charm and humour of Lionhead Studios and there hasn't been a game like it since. I would love to play the games again, and help my village and creature.
I was in grade school when this game came out originally, hard as heck for my little self back then to play without just being destroyed but just loved to take care of my little creature and be a god over the small beings. I don't know how many hours I spent on island 1 because it was the only peaceful island we had. My most memorable point was completion of the hide from this person and follow them mission on island 3. It just left a lasting image on my heart. This was also the last game I ever played with my dad who died in 2005 just before B&W2 dropped so its left me with this nastalgia that I have sought again for years now and no other game has fit the bill.
A phenomenal game far ahead of its time. Not without flaws to be sure, but highly innovative and full of memorable moments. The creature mechanic could be equal parts frustrating and awesome, depending on whether you managed to teach your creature the lesson you wanted him to learn, or accidentally taught him something quite different. I still remember one time I was trying to teach my creature to poop in the fields in order to fertilize them, and for some reason he got it into his head that I wanted him to poop on villagers, which he then did with gusto for the rest of the game. Poor villagers.
And then there's the song... That bloody song. I will carry that song with me until the day I finally shuffle off this mortal coil. "Ohhhhh we've got this notion that we'd quite like to sail the ocean..."
I played it with my kids when they where younger. There was a strong emotional attachment to caring for and guiding there creature threw the game. We have always eyed the many games sense, over the years. Never have found a game like it. I think the depth of the game was ahead of its time. Now , maybe someday soon.
i miss being able to build villages in it signature building system not seen anywhere else. all other base builders are so complex or are limited to grid. i grew up with this game and would love to be able to play it again. there is no other game like it.
I loved playing this as a kid. Managed to pick it up when Lionehead goofed on the price and had it bundled with Malice in Wonderland. It quickly became one of my favorite games. I had never really played a god game like it before and your freedom of choice around what kind of god you would be had so much depth. I still have the OG disc but, of course it wont run on the more modern system. T-T
I was hoping that it would get a reboot when LionHead was picked up by Microsoft and they had been releasing catalog games. Sadly it was not included.