triadachallenge.blogg.se - Through the darkest of times video

Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: The "Hard" difficulty in the game is called With Chest Hair.You have noticeably very little interaction with any Kronotek personnel from the "present", most likely to conceal the fact that in the future the White/European race has essentially gone the way of the Native Americans. Humans Are White: The few Kronotek personnel you interact with are mostly white however, they're recruits from the "past" like you who are displaced in time.That ends about as well as you would expect. Hopeless Boss Fight: The first level starts you off as a soldier in Custer's cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn.Although the ending does call this into question, without providing an entirely clear answer, by revealing how truly shitty history really is.

It's stated multiple times that no-one should change history because things might change for the worse, no matter the intention. Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: You never see Hitler, though you do lead a concentration camp breakout.Groin Attack: At the end of the first level, your character gets pinned to the ground by an arrow through the gonads.Rather than digging out a tunnel, using any sort of ruse or staging a mass revolt, it involves a truly epic confrontation with guards once you have a chance to seize one of the guns. Great Escape: Breaking out of the concentration camp.The Opposition, whom you've spent the entire game battling, actually want to change history to prevent this global disaster, and the game ends with you and Dexter seemingly joining them to " finish the fight". The twist at the end of the game is that the historic event you spend the entire game preserving is the global extermination of 99% of the White/European race (including Dexter's family) by a racial-selection virus engineered by Middle Eastern terrorists, and the resulting collapse of Western civilization, occurring some years after the September 11 World Trade Center attacks. Gray-and-Grey Morality: There is constant debate about whether it should be acceptable to use time travel to alter history for the better, or if history should rather be preserved to prevent unforeseen, potentially disastrous alterations to the timeline.It takes several dozen future assault rifle rounds to kill one. Giant Mook: Opposition Heavies, who start showing up in the last few levels, are heavily armed super troopers wearing armored spacesuits and equipped with powerful energy shields.

Although the real reason is mostly likely to obscure The Reveal regarding the ethnic makeup of the citizens of the future. That, or the studio didn't want to lip-sync. Apparently, she thinks webcams are designed to be used about three inches from one's face.

The Faceless: Mother, the leader of KronoTek, is only ever seen as a pair of vaguely creepy eyes on a giant viewscreen.

In one mission he even has you save and then immediately execute a "blue-aura" soldier (historically important individuals who you're supposed to spend the game saving) in order to attract the attention of Opposition Agents so you can capture one. He has no qualms about taking risky, potentially history-altering actions to achieve your objectives, and is rather carefree about handing you 22nd-century super weapons to help you out of particularly sticky 19th and 20th century firefights.

Cowboy Cop: Your partner Dexter's approach to KronoTek missions.

As X-Play's Adam Sessler said, he "never met a swear word or cliche he didn't love."

BFG: Anything from 200 years in the future counts - especially when everyone else is using muskets.

Army of the Ages: KronoteK primarily seems to recruit from people in wars or other events who would have died without their intervention the player character is a US cavalryman who fought and would have died in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and Dexter was a firefighter who is implied (though never outright stated) to have been responding to the September 11th attacks.

Artificial Stupidity: Like said above: "supposedly".