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Bible Buffet

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First off, although I'm Jewish, I can simply say that this is NOTHING like the Bible at all. Or at least I know the Bible isn't as insane as how this game depicts the world to be. Bible Buffet is really a Zelda-Candy Land hybrid with a major food theme. Delicious.

You all start out on a really familiar-looking Candy Land-style game board, and then you spin the wheel to see what number (1-6) of spaces you can travel by. Actually, there are a few other things that occur using the wheel. You can receive a key, an extra heart container, a pop quiz (I'll talk about that in a sec), an unfortunate decision of having to go back a few spaces, or some random bonus.

The Pop Quizzes are actually a series of questions relating to the Bible (So I've heard..), but the questions themselves aren't even displayed on the screen! They are actually in the original NES release's manual. They are somewhat pointless, since there's no stopping you from getting a bonus or having your turn pass. The pop quizzes is the only real downside to this game.

Board game and quiz gameplay aside, let's now talk about what happens when landing on a space. When landing on a regular space, you are taken to an actual level! Nope. No Mario Party-style minigames. You get to play actual levels! It plays like a very simplified Zelda, as said before, since your two attacks are throwing...spoons (Or whatever they are) and put down EXPLODING PANCAKES (Barrels?) a la Bomberman. All you really have to do is reach the exit of the level, and then the game will go on to the other player's turn.

When the game ends, it counts up not one, but three winners. It congratulates whoever scored the most points, answered the most questions right, and whoever reached the end first.

Considering how it's all put together, you would think that it would make for an excellent game. Well, it still is good, but there ARE better games, like Mario Party. However, it's worth it for its uniqueness of its mixture of Zelda and Candy Land.

Actually, it's free! Well, if you want to buy a NES cartridge, go ahead, but the game is actually free on the Wisdom Tree website! So rather than actually buying the game, why not save up tons of cash and copy and paste on this link to the address bar? (Just delete the spaces in the url)[...]

The game is interesting from what I've seen of the Angry Video Game Nerd's review. Basically, you play candy land with very little reference to the bible with the exception of a couple of verses.

One thing that makes this game unique is that the game has a pretty clear voice instead of a distorted mess of a word. Doesn't seem bad.

Watch the AVGN video he does for this to see what it's like.

Why would you, or anyone, want to buy this game? It's horrible, choppy, an is made by Wisdom Tree, a Christian gaming company that illegaly made NES games without Nintendo's permission. But I still can't get over how it's a religious game though. If you want to support your religion, then throw your @$$ in church. The gameplay seems wrong. You play some kind of board game, similar to Candy Land. You land on a space, that tells you what land to go to, that are based on different foods. The gameplay in the lands isn't too bad though, it's just an overhead view like Zelda. But the best part is, you need the manual to play the game. I'm not making this up. In the middle of the game, you get quizes on your knowledge of the bible, which I'm sure ndoesn't sound like fun. On screen, it says only true and false, no questions. The questions are in the manual, although maybe you can find them online, not that anyone has them. I could go on for hours, but just get in your mind not to buy it.