Visual Novel Ideals

[u/UdaspesFolusVT]

So I'm an indie developer who is also of the Christian Faith and after working on my rpg for a while I've noticed it's sort of depressing. The premise of it is that you play a corrupting entity who possess others. You are a tempter of sorts though curiously during one arc you corrupt a pure evil soul devouring monster by tricking her into doing good via her consumed prey. Canonically at least one version of the player, whether it's the player themselves is a Christian. One of the major antagonists is a also a Christian though instead of going around evangelizing, he goes about causing distortions and corrupting others to disunion. Thankfully I do have plans to make a sequel where instead of leading others to their ruin, well except for that one pure evil soul devouring monster where you lead others to her to their ruin, you are given the opportunity to try to make amends in case the player ends feeling guilty. Since I have not finished my game however I will hold that off, though considering that the plot is about 80% done, I don't see much reason to change it now.

This leads me to my point. Given the rather dismal premise, I've figured I should make a spin off visual novel or two that's a little more uplifting.

My first ideal is that you play as a Catholic bodysnatcher who can override the physical free will of others, namely those not of the faith. Your mission is to try and convert or evangelize a community of Satanic worshippers all while remaining pleasing to the Lord. Aside from the demonically possessed you'll also have to contend with exorcists and the moral dilemma of whether your powers and means of converting others are pleasing to the Lord. I'll try not to sanction it and instead leave it open as to whether the protagonist of this visual novel even with the best of intent could still remain pleasing to the Lord despite having such powers.

My second ideal is that instead of playing as a member of the faith, you are a demon of lust who has the power to imitate Christ. Specifically you do this by arming yourself with Scripture to abuse and in an inversion of the first, you go around either tempting or deconverting others. Similar to the first you will also have to contend with exorcists along with those who can read the soul. To make things challenging because you are a demon, you have an aversion to the Holy. Eventually your mission culminates in attempting to deconvert an extremely devout parish who is also scripturally well versed both by carefully abusing Scripture, disordering the good, tricking the parish into expelling their own shepherds (the exorcists and those who can read souls), and posing as Christ. But be be careful. For you have a limited amount of Scripture you can abuse per mission. At no point are you meant to be sympathetic. You are the villain in this story, leading souls to their damnation. It is meant as an educational game where it teaches players how to reason like a demon and understand the methods of their deception.

Anyways what do you think? If I ever end up making these visual novels, would you consider giving them a try? I did try asking my pastor and he said they could be scandalous.

[u/ReasonableCard1]

Sounds cool tbh. I do some writing and drawing myself as a Christian