By Dustin Cabeal

The Rook: Desperate Times is inoffensive time travel. It’s a bit like all time traveling stories following a lone man saving time in that it’s entertaining, but lacking anything new. I’m going to paraphrase a quote from the creators of South Park when they were talking about The Simpsons at one point, and they said, “The Simpsons have done everything, so of course anything we do is going to be a bit like The Simpsons.” The idea is that when something compared to something that’s been around longer that there’s going to be some overlap. There’s only so many stories to tell after all. I say that because of course, this feels a lot like Doctor Who and even a large dash of Quantum Leap. That doesn’t necessarily make The Rook bad, but yes it’s a far cry from an original concept.