On its first play, Through the Darkest of Times does not attempt to rewrite history. Do I place myself in danger by intervening, or do I walk on by? If I am captured, I can try to sweet-talk the Nazis into letting me go, though this becomes much more difficult if I’m jailed for a second or third time. In one scene, Nazis are beating an old Jewish man. I must also navigate dialogue and action-trees, deciding the best way forward. It’s a permadeath game, in which I send my best people to undertake a job, aiding them with stat-boosting items that I collect. I recruit a small group of volunteers.Īs the game progresses, I take on various missions, such as daubing graffiti, infiltrating universities, helping political prisoners escape, or sabotaging Nazi events. I have various statistical abilities, such as an ability to spread propaganda, or to evade the Gestapo, or to keep my cool during a crisis. In Through the Darkest of Times, I take on the role of a person who is unhappy about the Nazis. It’s a streamlined strategy game, with heavy narrative elements and a sharp, minimalist art style. This is not the kind of game in which Nazis make for easy enemies, just waiting to be mown down in a hail of righteous gunfire. German censors made the allowance because the game takes a historically realistic, serious approach to Nazism, from the appointment of Adolf Hitler as German Chancellor in 1933, to the end of World War II.
But Through the Darkest of Times from Berlin-based Paintbucket Games is the first game in Germany that will be allowed to show the swastika.
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Although the Nazi symbol is permitted in books, movies, and TV documentaries, it is banned from use in-person, and on toys and games.
For many years, the German government has banned the use of swastikas in video games.
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