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You’re constantly struggling to keep supporters and party members onside, you’re almost always short of funds, and it doesn’t take long for the Gestapo to get their sights on your group, meaning that you have to pick and choose your battles carefully.
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The headlines and events highlighted within Through the Darkest of Times are only the tip of iceberg when it comes to the oppressive and depressive atmosphere within the game, however. It’s an interesting feeling, as not only are you reminded that these things actually happened to real people, but it highlights the slow creep of totalitarianism, and how a seemingly innocuous headline when viewed in isolation can have larger, far darker repercussions down the line.
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The gradual erosion of individual rights is highlighted on the front pages of newspapers, and each week you are given an update as to what is happening in Germany. While you’re taking care of all this, you’re given brief news snippets as to what is going on in Germany at any particular time, and you’re also given the chance to experience some well-known events, such as the burning of the Reichstag, the opening of the Dachau concentration camp, and the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. It’s up to you to decide who does what, and to balance the strengths of your teams against the needs of the group as a whole. Each member of your team has their own strengths and weaknesses, and each mission has requirements for which type of person will perform best in them. If you’ve played This is the Police, or even the management parts of some of the Assassin’s Creed games, you’ll have an idea of what to expect. Through the Darkest of Times plays like a mixture of genres, part management-sim, part point-and-click and part choose-your-own-adventure, you play as the leader of this particular group of partisans, recruiting new members, organizing strategies and sending people on missions to spread your message, raise funds, or strike out against the Nazi Party. With definite modern-day political parallels, Through the Darkest of Times tells the story of a small band of resistance members struggling against the rise of the Nazi Party in 1930’s Germany, and how they balance their personal lives and the safety of themselves and those they love against the desire to do what’s right for their country, and to protect targeted minorities against the terrors of state-controlled oppression. It’s pleasing to think that we’re in an era where videogames feel as if they can say something.