While some go out of their way to remove references to the despicable regime that started the 20th Century's bloodiest killathon, others, Paintbucket Games for example, work hard to ensure Nazism appears on our screens unedited and unvarnished. The gameplay was very fun and I was instantly hooked into the story.Happily, Kalypso's squeamish attitude to WW2 isn't shared by everyone in the games industry. Overall I really enjoyed my time playing Through the Darkest of Times, the time period was a good setting and it really made me think and appreciate how hard this time was. These moments of consequence are what really stands out to me and are what made playing this title so fun. Perhaps your right hand man has lost his job because he’s Jewish, if you can’t pitch in and give him money, he will die and you will lose a companion that could have helped you later in the game. At the beginning of each week you will be greeted by a cutscene, detailing different scenarios and choices you can make. You won’t have the same friends as you did in the previous game and maybe these characters are better suited for different missions, so the game does play differently in this aspect. You can play the story as a different character each time, each with different stats. The story in Through the Darkest of Times isn’t very long, it took around four to five hours for me to complete the story, however, it does emphasise replayability. There aren’t a huge amount of variety of missions, and you’ll mostly be doing the same missions over and over again, but it does make sense that most of your time is spent adding people to the resistance, as you need as many people as you can to join and fight. There are items that you can bring to these missions to make your chance of failure lower.
When selecting missions you will get two bars underneath the mission selection screen, which indicates danger and chance of success. So what will you be doing in this game? Well you will play as the leader of the resistance, who has been assigned the task of recruiting more people to the resistance and allocating tasks. I did find that a combination of the greys from the artstyle and the story does make the overall game feel a bit depressing, which does make sense considering the time period the game is set in. Simply put, visually this game does well to pull you in and keeps you immersed for the whole game length. The paper art style in this title really fits well with the atmosphere, and really does look like it belongs in that era, from everything being black and white to the characters looking the part. When you complete these actions they will have consequences for your group and can lead to your members being arrested or even sentenced to death.
You must complete tasks to influence civilians to fight back, these range from holding massive protests to standing up for a local Jewish business. As you watch Germany elect the Nazi party, you work with a small number of resistance members to try to put an end to the Nazi control. TTDOT has you playing as a randomly-generated character. TTDOT was developed by Paintbucket Games and was published by HandyGames. Through the Darkest of Times is a game which takes you back in time to 1930s Germany, it also involves a lot of planning, convincing and espionage to complete your plans and make Germany safe again.
Reviews // 20th Apr 2020 - 2 years ago // By Blake Hawthorn Through the Darkest of Times Review
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