While the PlayStation was home to several great 3D platformers like the Ape Escape, Ratchet and Clank, and Spyro series of games, there were also numerous failed attempts at launching a new franchise that should’ve succeeded but didn’t… I’m looking at YOU Bubsy, Gex, and Croc. While these characters and their games were most likely created with good intentions, their shallow attempts to simply copy and paste what other games possessed organically only resulted in the creation of a hollow mimic with no substance of its’ own. The style and gameplay mechanics at the heart of a great game can be imitated, but the experience can’t be duplicated; a painful lesson I learned the hard way each time I bought an inferior clone of a better game.

One of the things Christ warned us about the most was the danger of following blind guides who offer a counterfeit form of Christianity that lacks any actual substance or power to change lives. Our world is full of imitations, duplicates, and manufactured religious practices that are designed to mimic the authentic output of a follower of Christ, but they are a poor substitute for a true relationship with the Lord. Let’s inspect our own fruits as well as carefully examine the fruits of what we are consuming today… our real battles require real armor, not a plastic replica.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. Matthew 7:15-17

Holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these. 2 Timothy 3:5

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