Your “influence” grows very slowly as you perform miracles and impress your followers by dumping food and raw materials on them eventually, you are able to interact with neighboring villages to win hearts and minds or destroy them utterly. While you take on the role of a god of a primitive people, you cannot act as a gentle shepherd in your divine role-to put it simply, your followers are brick-dumb and useless, and they cannot do or accomplish anything, even having kids, without the literal hand of God intervening.īlack & White's tutorial may be useful, but it is also quite lengthy-an indicator of the snail's pace at which the game moves. It was one of the most anticipated games of the genre and highly praised for its originality and concepts upon release, however many have re-evaluated Black & White since the glow of its initial hype faded and found it over-ambitious and highly flawed, likely to leave a mixed impression. Black & White is a “god” game in the tradition of Populous, one that hoped to revolutionize the genre through complex learning AI and an exploration of good and evil and how they relate to a divine being.