Your primary task is to keep morale up in your group. This runs like a current throughout the game and this grim determination underlines everything you do. Yet despite the fact that this chronicles one of the darkest periods of human history, hope and compassion can still win out. Certainly not something you’ll want to play over and over again. It’s to games what Aaronofsky’s film Requiem For A Dream is to cinema for example. Through the Darkest of Times is not a game you sit down and necessarily relax playing. If it all sounds very bleak and oppressive, it is. If your own character gets arrested too frequently you could even end up being sent to a concentration camp. As well as being arrested, there is every chance they could die in custody depending on what task they’ve been carrying out. Coupled with the fact that the more a sequence goes on, the more the suspicion builds.Įventually the heat on your members grows and grows to the extent that their very presence on a mission is enough to attract unwelcome attention, you’ll have to realistically consider whether sending them into hiding for a turn is preferable to them being arrested. The riskier the task, the higher chance you have of your cell members being spotted by the Gestapo or other malevolent eyes. They’re ranked in terms of risk by a simple traffic light system.
These tasks are across various Berlin neighbourhoods, some of which you might be familiar with as an outsider, moreso if you’ve ever visited the city. At this point you can then assign your co-conspirators to the tasks at hand. This can also involve any doubts your cell has about members who might be moles with prompts as to whether you confront them or come to a diplomatic solution. Next your resistance cell meets to discuss any pressing issues that affect their day to day lives. These get progressively bleaker the further you progress, with a brief respite in 1936 as the Olympics take place. First the newspaper headlines of the day (beginning in 1933 with Hitler being appointed Reichskanzler) set the historical context. As the grip of the regime takes hold of the country, your actions become ever bolder and potentially dangerous.Įach “turn” such as it is, can be broken down into four distinct phases. Story mode isn’t exactly a cakewalk though.īringing to mind the real-life actions of Otto and Elise Hampel and subsequently the book loosely based on them by Hans Fallada, Alone In Berlin your initial actions are limited to initially daubing slogans on walls decrying the regime or producing anti-regime leaflets. Or if you would prefer a far steeper challenge with every move, Resistance mode is for you. Penned as “a historical resistance strategy game”, you could focus on the story mode and get through to the end of World War 2 and hence, the fall of the regime. You are the leader of a small resistance cell of like-minded people rightly appalled by the actions of the Nazis. Initially set amongst the events of 1933 as the NSDAP rose to power, Through the Darkest of Times is very much a work of fiction within a very real historical context. The fact that it comes from Berlin-based indie dev Paintbucket Games makes it all the more notable. That being a videogame depiction of the Nazi regime from the viewpoint of anti-Nazi agitators. Through the Darkest of Times, to give it what should probably be its true title “Durch die dunkelste Zeit” is a rare thing.
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Augin PS4 / Reviews tagged anti-nazi / berlin / no pasaran! / Resistance / widerstand by Ian
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