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Yet another article about "Jeanne d'Arc", a twenty-something -year-old game that distorts history beyond recognition, and not just in terms of the monsters. This review says that it depicts Joan of Arc receiving "powers from the gods" (plural), whereas she repeatedly said she received a mission from the Christian God; and it also shows her personally fighting in combat whereas both she and the numerous eyewitness accounts described her as a non-combatant who carried her banner rather than using weapons.

Re: "Jeanne d'Arc': even aside from the inclusion of monsters etc, the mundane elements are also erroneous on many points (Joan of Arc didn't personally fight in combat, the maps are all wrong, the basic outline of her battles is wrong, etc).

Re: "Jeanne d'Arc': even aside from the inclusion of monsters etc, the mundane elements are also erroneous on many points (Joan of Arc didn't personally fight in combat, the maps are all wrong, the basic outline of her battles is wrong, etc).

Re::"Jeanne d'Arc": even aside from the monsters included in the game, the mundane elements are also erroneous on many points (Joan of Arc didn't personally fight in combat, the maps are all wrong, the basic outline of her battles is wrong, etc). 

Re: "Jeanne d'Arc": even aside from the inclusion of monsters in the game; the mundane elements are erroneous on many points as well since Joan of Arc didn't personally fight in combat, the maps are all wrong, the basic outline of her battles are wrong, etc.

 One of the games this article recommends as a "living history book" is "Bladestorm: Nightmare" which has dragons and goblins. The article mentions Joan of Arc, but the game's version of her bears little resemblance to the historical person.

One problem with "Jeanne d'Arc" is that some of the fantasy is too subtle for most people to realize: e.g. The game makes Joan of Arc into a "Xena, Warrior Princess" type who personally fights, which Joan of Arc denied doing (during the fourth session of her trial): she carried her banner in battle rather than fighting, confirmed by numerous eyewitness accounts.

Re: the game "Jeanne d'Arc": both this review and the game itself claim that Joan of Arc fought in combat, whereas in fact she denied fighting and said she carried her banner in battle instead, confirmed by numerous eyewitness accounts. Many other mundane parts of the game were also fictionalized, such as the battles, map, and so on, to say nothing of the fantasy elements.

Re: the Joan of Arc narrative in "Age of Empires 2": if you compare the storyline to the actual history you'll find that it deviates from history on a lot of points. Joan of Arc said bluntly (during the fourth session of her trial) that she didn't fight in combat (she carried her banner instead) and she denied calling herself a commander since there was always a nobleman in direct command She was a religious visionary. The battles and sieges in the game are not accurate either, and as I recall the game also dredges up the misconception that Charles VII refused to help her when she was captured, which was debunked long ago by a number of historians.

This article contains some errors about Joan of Arc. She wasn't "persecuted for being a witch" since she wasn't a witch - even the tribunal dropped the witchcraft charges before the final 12 accusations were drawn up near the end of the trial, and eyewitness accounts make it clear that she opposed witchcraft and was a devout Catholic..She also wasn't a "knight" in any sense of the term: she said (during the fourth session of her trial) that she never fought but instead carried her banner in battle, confirmed by numerous eyewitness accounts. She wasn't knighted either.

re: the game "Jeanne d'Arc": Even the mundane parts of this game are not remotely based on the life of Joan of Arc. For example. She said bluntly (during the fourth session of her trial) that she didn’t fight in combat but instead carried her banner in battle, confirmed by numerous eyewitness accounts; but the game shows her fighting.

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