I'm not sure what I really expected from a game called Priest Simulator. Maybe you'd listen to someone's confession and choose from a drop down list of penances to assign to the sinner? Or you'd officiate a wedding via a minigame where you have to pick the right verses and get the bride and groom's names right? Maybe rotating a thumbstick to swing that… that brass thing, whatever it is, on a chain, the thing that… like, smoke or steam or incense comes out of it?
Sorry, I was not raised with religion, haven't pursued it as an adult, and the last time I was inside a church it was with Father Grigori in Half-Life 2. But even as uninformed as I am, when I imagine a simulation game you play as a priest, it's not anything like what I see in the trailer for Priest Simulator. It begins with a scary voice loudly declaring «Hell is my playground!» before the priest, in first-person, begins wildly punching the air and sending fireballs into some sort of giant spider perched atop the ruins of a city.
More highlights: A bus is picked up and thrown through the roof of a building, though I am not certain if the priest is responsible or just a witness. There's more punching, this time of either a demon or someone just wearing a demon mascot head. Metal music blasts throughout.
Then, at least, we see a confession. At last! Real priest stuff. «I don't see any point in my family,» a wide-eyed (perhaps eyelidless) woman is saying, no doubt echoing a thought most of us have had at one time or another. «Honor thy father and thy mother,» the priest selects from various options, before receiving what appears to be a total of 7 Priest Points (?) for making the right choice.
When we next see the priest he has a blade strapped to the back of one
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