The New Colossus holds a mythical, unkillable love at its core. Once again, it takes the masculinity of action and applies it directly to protection and advocacy and love for people that deserve to be stood up for, especially in times where natural-born privilege means that your voice is a tool to pave paths and lift up those around you who have needs that aren't being heard. B.J. is a modern golem, a point driven further with plot beats throughout this game, he is the embodiment of uncompromising love and justice and the strength that comes from that emotional unity.
This is a ridiculously strong duology, even more successful I'd say than Doom 2016 and Eternal. I don't always love Machinegames' sense of humor, harmless as it is, and Eternal is the peak of it ruining the vibe for me, but Wolfenstein never fails to hit its emotional beats when it needs to and so the balance of comedy and drama works just fine. The characters really shine here, down to NPCs you get a line or two out of in passing. The way they're handled shows a real depth of care from the developers and parallels Metro Exodus' train segments fantastically in making the hub feel like a lived in space full of real people fighting for a cause. The gunplay, again much like Metro, feels weighty in all the right ways and makes the stunts you pull off feel even more legendary before one-upping them with fantastic setpieces one after the other. The design doesn't get old, either, and I never found myself wearing down while going through the extra content. I still haven't played the SAS extras, and I don't know if I will, but everything provided through B.J.'s campaign is just about perfect to me