Besides some ill-fitting RPG elements (for real, the damage-type mechanic made me tear my hair out), Youngblood is ultimately a entertaining small-scale addition to the Wolfenstein canon. That's partly due to the dorky-ass protagonists Soph and Jess, who prove a breath of fresh air from the gruff BJ of previous games. But the FPS also benefits from an enhanced sense of non-linear traversal, likely thanks to Dishonored dev Arkane's contributions. In all, I had a totally tubular time.
I am still so fucking depressed at how abhorrently this game turned out. All of the dark, emotionally driven mastery of TOB and TNO, and the wacky zaniness of TNC are gone. They straight up Star Wars Sequelified Wolfenstein.
I should note, I don't hate the Blaskowicz twins because they're women (TheQuartering and all the other incel gamers can kindly piss off) I hate them because they are cringe 80s stereotypes with no chemistry and awful writing. But they aren't even the worst characters in this game's story... to myth utter shock, that award of shit went to their old man. Character assassination doesn't even begin to describe it, he has been DECIMATED by this game, and turned into a sniveling coward who no longer cares about the world he set out to save. The villain is also plainly fucking embarrassing too, go figure.
Oh and this is without even getting into the grindy, repetitive, unfinished, microtransaction-filled pissfest that is the rest of the game, but I honestly can't. Thinking about this game pisses me off so fucking badly. Fuck you MachineGames, I have utterly zero faith Wolfenstein III will be any good now, my hope in this new saga is fucking dead and gone.
I should note, I don't hate the Blaskowicz twins because they're women (TheQuartering and all the other incel gamers can kindly piss off) I hate them because they are cringe 80s stereotypes with no chemistry and awful writing. But they aren't even the worst characters in this game's story... to myth utter shock, that award of shit went to their old man. Character assassination doesn't even begin to describe it, he has been DECIMATED by this game, and turned into a sniveling coward who no longer cares about the world he set out to save. The villain is also plainly fucking embarrassing too, go figure.
Oh and this is without even getting into the grindy, repetitive, unfinished, microtransaction-filled pissfest that is the rest of the game, but I honestly can't. Thinking about this game pisses me off so fucking badly. Fuck you MachineGames, I have utterly zero faith Wolfenstein III will be any good now, my hope in this new saga is fucking dead and gone.