Japanese Release - 08/12/2009
Translated Rerelease - 02/27/2017
Japanese Placement - 19th
Translated Placement - 2nd
Length - Medium
Genre - Action
Peace and quiet no more!
Peace and quiet no more!
All over Earth, everything is peaceful - people all over the world give their love and appreciation for their lord and savior, God. Showering them with sermons, prayers of both thanks and aid, and the most simple things in life. All is well and the world is at peace.
God descends from the heavens amongst the crowd of a church, giving her appreciation for their constant prayers with retribution and a purge of their numbers. With no rest for the wicked and deprived of sleep, she travels the world at the speed of light to silence and hush the voices of prayers. Purging those that revere her, those that seek her aid, and those praying thanks for the simple things in life.
All because they prayed when she was about to play a video game in her home. Even divine supernatural beings want their free time to go without trouble.
As soon as her retribution goes on break like mass, Devil appears before her and offering a team up against humanity. Even with the voices of prayers silenced and hushed, the attention of the ultimate evil approaching her personally was a breaking point to God.
She goes to the local toy store and buys a video game. Extending a hand to Devil to play a game with her - but that soon ends abruptly when one of her angels suddenly wants their divine savior to go to Mars.
Of course, destroying their lord's gaming console for a chance to fight her.
Divine deliverance brings out the ultimate evil!
Divine deliverance brings out the ultimate evil!
You are in the sleep-deprived and overworked lord and savior of the world, God. Worn out from the constant work she has to deliver to the world, she descends from the heavens to deliver her grievances to her creations. Delivering retribution and blessings all over the world as she pleases.
Burning the flesh off her followers, turning up the heat, and culling the masses just so she can go back chilling out in space and sleep. But her rampage across the world has attracted the ultimate evil, Devil himself!
Have some good olde jolly misadventures with the ultimate evil, play games like Mario does with Bowser, and stop the Martians from invading Earth!
Go back to playing video games and bring peace to the world!
Features
Features
- A story of misadventures of God and Devil
- God bringing divine retribution and blessings to the masses
- Stopping the Martians
- Pilot a house-shaped spaceship
- Upgrade said house with points
- Generic RPG Mechanics
- Tohou Bullet Hell
Screenshots
The story
The story starts off with people attending mass in a church, praying to their lord and savior. God drops by and basically attacks them because she couldn't bear to hear so many voices at once. Whatever happened has snapped inside of God and she goes psycho, going all over the world to stop whatever is giving her the slightest annoyance.
As far as most of you know, every story that the Mad Genius of Kawagoe conjures up showcases a lead either going evil, rogue, or a straight up a Villain Protagonist from the word go. It's one of her hallmark tropes in storytelling to the point that almost no one is actually of good morality, not even Oscar, the American Shorthair escapes from this despite being one of my favorite characters in the series. The best usage of the trope usually falls to... as you guess it, the American characters - Godspeed, President Sanderson.
As we all know it, our beloved savior's rampage against her followers attracts the ultimate evil, Devil Instead of going through with whatever she had in mind, she decides that it is better to go play video games and enact a trope that doesn't happen to often, Go-Karting with Bowser. Because she obtained some relative peace after culling two masses and a desperate man and his dying love, and uhh.. raising the temperature as asked.
When she finally obtains what she wants, one of her angels comes up to her like "Yo, you gotta come up to Mars - let's duke it out!", destroying their lord's gaming console and issuing out a challenge. But like a divine being would do when messing with their creations, God blows up Mars instead.
Despite how insane her storytelling is, Kuniko Takahashi structures most of her stories with a Three-Act Structure. Ironically setting up future arcs and narratives within the same video sometimes.
In this case, the Martians do come to invade and God's action ends up causing a war between them. And of course, she beats the crap out of them in her spaceship house.
Typically in most endings of each video, An Aesop but generally ends up being a comedically Broken Aesop. Another trope and storytelling tool that ends up becoming a cliche but its got charm.
The characters
In this story, you've got a clear line of who is the main character, the secondary lead, and the antagonist. God of Love features a unique narrative structure that squarely fixates on one or two characters. In most stories, the lead is generally the Decoy Protagonist. They generally live up until the midway or the near end of the story. It's another trope and cliche she deploys quite a bit in some of her later entries.
Thankfully, our protagonist is God, so she doesn't really get to die like her fellow leads - probably because she is God that she doesn't die. She is basically as far as I've read, someone who does as she pleases and does incredibly petty things just so she can play some video games and sleep in peace. She has a consistent personality to work with, and is outright not a good person nor as divine as her name. That is pretty fine, most leads in this series are kind of selfish and downright crazy... but Oscar.
Then you've got our secondary lead or protagonist in this case - the ultimate evil, Devil. He basically comes up to God and asks her to team up to fight humanity together. But instead becomes her tagalong sidekick after she... convinces him otherwise. He subverts expectations pretty fast - instead of being evil, he's actually a pretty chill dude and stays that way for most of the story.
Then you've got your antagonists who only appear neat the end, the Martians. They get plenty of build up... the moment one of God's angels attempts to bring her to Mars for a fight. Of course, her choice to blow up Mars comes to bite her back in the butt.
Can't go any further than a planetary invasion.
Overall
If you like main characters of divine origins going around not doing their job, this is probably your jam. Then again, almost every entry features their leads and protagonists doing what God does. If you think about it, almost everyone is just nuts to the point it is a requirement in the setting that is Kuniko Takahashi's world.
The story is pretty much what'd you expect, it feels like a action-adventure comedy featuring God and Devil. They hang out and do some crazy things but end up saving the day - but call it more of n misadventure.