Yeah, that’s a bit odd, but given that none of us really know what a time travel apparatus would look like, we have no basis to argue against its realism. After a brief training period, Morris and his trainer/mentor/partner Dexter are assigned missions by a sultry-voiced super computer and transported to and from different eras by means of a large, liquid sphere. Morris is essentially drafted into KronoteK after being rescued from a near certain demise during the Battle of Little Big Horn. Pursuant to the time travel discussion above, Darkest of Days inserts you, as a character named Alexander Morris, into a story revolving around an organization named KronoteK whose stated purpose is to prevent and repair damage to the timeline. For anyone concerned by the name of the development studio, rest assured that no chimpanzees or rhesus monkeys were harmed in the creation of this game, or so they say. Which, at long last, brings us to Darkest of Days, brought to you by the awesomely named 8monkey Labs. Oh, the horror! These poor, tortured souls envision something more akin to a law enforcement role for themselves, whereby they travel through time either preventing others from making changes in the first place, or repairing the delicate fabric of time after the fact.

To them, this presents an unacceptably high risk that someone will go back and change something that alters the course of time such that we are no longer able to purchase a Barack Obama Chia Pet in the year 2009. Those folks realize that if one person has the ability to travel through time, others are quite likely to have it as well. Some take a middle, more pragmatic approach.

Hey, even time travelers can make a few mistakes, right? Others take a more pecuniary route, planning a stock portfolio populated with thousands of shares of Microsoft, Google, and Enron stock.

Some would decide on an altruistic use, wondering what a world without Adolf Hitler or Al Gore would be like. We’ve all had them, haven’t we? At one time or another, we’ve all pondered the idea of time travel and what uses we would make of it.

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