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Dragon Quest and early Zelda games had the heroes explicitly praying at Christian churches. That got changed because (((some))) would find it offensive
Early Link even has a cross on his shield like a crusader.
And Castlevania 2 had churches with crosses where you went to get healed.
Makes me want to make a DEUS VULT game, just to draw fire from all the usual suspects crying and desperately trying to cancel it.
That would be Crusader Kings 2.
Thinking bigger than that, there's so many crusades to be had, many of which are not middle east centric anymore.
Honestly I don't want games that pander to anyone. I want games that are well designed and fun. I didn't like KCD1 because it 'pandered' to Christians. It didn't. It advertised itself as historically accurate and it was. And it was fun. That's why I liked it. KCD2 shat all over that and that's why I didn't even bother to pirate it and never will.
Games are best if the devs make a game that they're passionate about themselves. For example fanservice works best if the devs do it for themselves.
To be fair, 90s weren't exactly kind to abrahamic religions either. There's a reason jRPG have the "start as a peasant in medival village, kill god by the end" stereotype. Then again, Squaresoft was mostly throwing shades at gnosticism so...
There are fan patches of SNES games like Lufia that restore the Christian themes.
It was in the original Japanese version, but removed for the North America version.