My thoughts on the game. And I have to say, this is the toughest one to decide what I think about it. I at same time didnt like it much, as well as liked it. I have very mixed feeling about this.
First of all, graphics are really good and I like how all the people were detailed and when you got close to those tracts you could read them etc.
Also the town makes sense and feels like real neighborhood. To some extent I also liked the barricades idea. You could have made the game to just end on some edge or not being able to walk any further, but those barricades made the world seem more real and bigger, that you could see there was bigger world there, although you couldnt reach them. Of course we can always question what are those barricades doing there in the first place, that why are people trapped inside there, but that aside, I quite liked the way you restricted the access to only certain area. I have bit unliked the idea that either character stops walking after certain point or you see simply a blue wall or something, this was much nicer approach and made it seem so much better, despite the question of why them barricades.
Good thing about town was that it wasnt very big. Especially with the walking speed of the character, it was essential that neighborhood couldnt be big, since it took ages to walk around. This walking speed was one of the things i had mixed feeling about. On one hand i would have preferred there having been an option to actually run, since while realism many times makes games better, realism of walking slow from one edge of map to other edge of map is simply boring and no fun at all.
However, that gets me to next thing. I dont think this should be aimed as a game. It doesnt work very well as a game. But what I think this would be excellent, would be to be gospel spreading simulation. I bit of enjoyed walking slowly on street and sharing the good news to people in this game. I liked that aspect, although I am pretty sure non believers wouldnt like it. But as believer myself, it is nice imagining going to streets and preaching, and this game lets me do just that without any risk. And that is exactly why i have mixed feeling about this one. As a game it wasnt very good, but as street preacher simulator, I liked it somewhat much. If this would be more geared towards simulation, i could imagine even playing this through some other time too. Now I dont think I will touch this again.
What comes to the game part, there however was somewhat brilliant idea in that black shade being there darker at beginning, and more light you shead through gospel, brighter the world came to be. That was very good idea, although from that simulation point of view i might have preferred it to simply be bright, since if the point would be to be simulation, then game element like that is out of place.
You also confused a bit when you mentioned this is puzzle adventure. I didnt quite get the puzzle elements at all. I thought it was obvious from your description that you were supposed to spread those tracts to people. Only after had i done that i was wondering what now? But then figured maybe back to church, especially since i had already checked every place i could get to since i was looking for those puzzle elements from somewhere and was wondering where they are. But never thought preaching and giving final sermon were the puzzle elements, i thought them as goals rather than puzzles to be cracked.
What comes to conversations, I would have very much liked to be able to skip each speech bubble by mouse button or something, for sometimes when the sentence was short, it was annoying to wait for the next one, and actually one time it happened that sentence was long enough that i didnt get to read it at all.
Music also worked fine, giving the right atmosphere for the game.
It was also very nice touch that when those people were at church in the end, they all had a new posture, that they were actually sitting there, instead of just putting them to stand in a row or something, as could have been done as well. It made it seem more worth it when you were awarded with them actually sitting there waiting to listen to you.
All in all, I did like the game, but not as a game so much, but as a simulation about street preaching. It was very satisfying experience thinking it as a simulator that you slowly go around and preach gospel to the people and then in the end see them all in church, giving you feeling that it works and makes you even think perhaps i should go and do the same. And although there were some good game ideas in it too, like the black shade, it in the end hindered the gameproduct as i liked it more as a simulation than as a game and as good as the idea was, it didnt work on simulation.