I’ve always been torn about Hitler’s portrayal in this game. For one I appreciate he’s shown as a gross delusional doofus who pisses in front of people and has melted brain syndrome. He’s depicted as deeply unhappy and unwell even though the Nazis have won and conquered Earth, the moon, and Venus. The core of Nazi ideology is a very sick weird man who has no idea where he even is and lacks the capacity to enjoy his victory.
But at the same time it felt a little wasted. He only appears in one cutscene and is largely irrelevant to the plot. It’s one little funny haha scene where Hitler could have easily been any other Nazi. I can only assume this is so the game could get released in places like Germany where they scrub the Nazi references soemhow. Some kind of law about how video games aren’t considered artistic under German law and thus don’t have the right to depict swastikas, Hitler, etc. I believe he’s not Hitler in the German version, just some weird movie guy.
I mean if you show Hitler in a Wolfenstein game the player should get to kill him. It doesn’t even need to be a boss fight like in some of the older Wolfenstein games. Just let me throw a hatchet into him, come on. BJ has had a shitty life and he deserves to kill Hitler.
If you show Hitler in any video game, killing him or directly causing his death should be an option available to the player. Generally speaking, if I’m playing a game with Nazis in it, I’m doing that in order to kill Nazis, so yeah, let me kill Hitler in that context. It won’t actually solve the present rise of fascism, but it’ll damn sure make me feel better for a few hours.
If there’s a cat or a dog, you should be able to pet it, boop the snoot, and give it a belly rub. If there’s a bear, live or teddy, you should be able to hug it and scritch behind the ears.
And if there’s a Hitler, a Mussolini, or any other fascist figurehead, you should be able to kill it. Ideally in an extremely violent manner, or with multiple options open to you. Because dead fascists = good clean fun.
I do like that they at least give you the option to stomp his nazi ass out, even if his bodyguard mech kills you after. They knew players couldn’t pass up the chance
I haven’t played this one but that seems like a weird thing to have happen. I seem to remember BJ being the kind of action hero who can kill three mechs before breakfast and still consider it a slow day.
The “Zitadelle” mechs in wolf 2 are tough. You’re unarmed in that section so you can infiltrate the base - BJ is disguised as an actor for that bit so it makes sense. I’d definitely die if dropped into that section in gameplay - no armor or weapons, a 2 story explosive slinging mech standing a couple feet away…
Got the vague sense that they might’ve wanted to use Hitler as a plot element for a sequel so you couldn’t actually kill him there
I’ve always been torn about Hitler’s portrayal in this game. For one I appreciate he’s shown as a gross delusional doofus who pisses in front of people and has melted brain syndrome. He’s depicted as deeply unhappy and unwell even though the Nazis have won and conquered Earth, the moon, and Venus. The core of Nazi ideology is a very sick weird man who has no idea where he even is and lacks the capacity to enjoy his victory.
But at the same time it felt a little wasted. He only appears in one cutscene and is largely irrelevant to the plot. It’s one little funny haha scene where Hitler could have easily been any other Nazi. I can only assume this is so the game could get released in places like Germany where they scrub the Nazi references soemhow. Some kind of law about how video games aren’t considered artistic under German law and thus don’t have the right to depict swastikas, Hitler, etc. I believe he’s not Hitler in the German version, just some weird movie guy.
I mean if you show Hitler in a Wolfenstein game the player should get to kill him. It doesn’t even need to be a boss fight like in some of the older Wolfenstein games. Just let me throw a hatchet into him, come on. BJ has had a shitty life and he deserves to kill Hitler.
If you show Hitler in any video game, killing him or directly causing his death should be an option available to the player. Generally speaking, if I’m playing a game with Nazis in it, I’m doing that in order to kill Nazis, so yeah, let me kill Hitler in that context. It won’t actually solve the present rise of fascism, but it’ll damn sure make me feel better for a few hours.
If there’s a dog in a video game you should be able to pet it. If there’s a hitler in a video game you should be able to kill it.
That’s what I’m saying!
If there’s a cat or a dog, you should be able to pet it, boop the snoot, and give it a belly rub. If there’s a bear, live or teddy, you should be able to hug it and scritch behind the ears.
And if there’s a Hitler, a Mussolini, or any other fascist figurehead, you should be able to kill it. Ideally in an extremely violent manner, or with multiple options open to you. Because dead fascists = good clean fun.
I do like that they at least give you the option to stomp his nazi ass out, even if his bodyguard mech kills you after. They knew players couldn’t pass up the chance
Yeah at least there’s that
Also Ronald Reagan gets shot so that’s also something
my partner did that about a half dozen times before sighing with delight and finally going “ok now i’ll reload and actually finish this game”
I haven’t played this one but that seems like a weird thing to have happen. I seem to remember BJ being the kind of action hero who can kill three mechs before breakfast and still consider it a slow day.
The “Zitadelle” mechs in wolf 2 are tough. You’re unarmed in that section so you can infiltrate the base - BJ is disguised as an actor for that bit so it makes sense. I’d definitely die if dropped into that section in gameplay - no armor or weapons, a 2 story explosive slinging mech standing a couple feet away…
Got the vague sense that they might’ve wanted to use Hitler as a plot element for a sequel so you couldn’t actually kill him there
Ahhhh that makes sense.
probably gotta do mecha hitler again