Through the Darkest of Times

When I was a child, youth, and young lady (I was born 22 years after the end of WWII), we could still have neutral, intellectual conversations, like if the Jews were in so much danger, why didn't countries like the US and UK raise the immigration quotas? Answer, they hated the Jews, too, and didn't want them either. We could talk about the jobs that were created by Hitler, the vacation spots, one family homes, and how he cleaned Germany of the lack-of-morals that extreme liberalism brought - just like it has brought it again today. That everything goes. Everyone has only rights and no responsibilities. The mindless, black-and-white, anti-Hitler slant is disgusting for me. See, I learned from Goebbels propaganda, and recognize it in any form and THIS is it. In this game, you play a paranoid, irrational person in Germany starting around 1923. Nothing has really happened yet, and still you start a group to harass a political party. Once things start really kicking into high gear with the Jew-hate (anti-semitism would include Arabs, because they are also a semitic people), gypsy-hate, and so much more, which the bulk of the Germans wallowed in, you still basically do nothing in this game. Fast forward to the scenes in the game where you are asked if you want to court the Soviets or the Brits. I said I would have to think about it, but was never given the chance to court Soviet help. ??? The intro of the game would have you believe that soooo many Germans were against Hitler. I have lived here 22 years. I got the elderly people in the West back when to open up to me. They had nothing against Hitler, but were so afraid of the Americans, that they destroyed things that had nothing to do with the Nazis for fear of being branded a sympathizer, which they all were. If 1/10 of the people who claim to have fought against the Nazis had actually done so, we would not have seen this era. The world was never black and white. Not even under the National Socialist government.

Imagine if someone made a video game about The Titanic...but used it primarily to complain about some kind of contemporary political issue. This game is unsubtle to a ludicrous degree in using the context of Nazi Germany not to investigate history but to make yet another rant about the present. 'Goebbels Wants to Drain the Swamp' is an actual headline they use. Ha Ha. People actually fought and died in this time period for more than hurt feelings. Believe what you will using poe-faced history as a tool for what amounts to uncreative satire is the height of disrespect. Beyond this the game has a distractingly crude art style, repetitive music, plays one sound effect over and over, and amounts to little more than shifting around groups of numbers for a better change to accomplish interchangeable missions...which make other numbers go up and down. It's like a mobile game without any sense of progression and relying mostly on luck. You want historical depth you might find it here scattered around but a lot of the time it feels like a parody of the time or an animated Disney adaptation. I found it tedious and the fact that the 'story' was just more opportunities to make clever comparisons about 'children in cages' killed any of my remaining interest.