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gtotheunit91 said:

shikamaru317 said:

I didn't mind them much either, they were a bit cringey at times, but were mostly likeable. With some maturing from a likely time skip of a few years between Youngblood and 3, their immaturity should be gone and they should be much more likeable, I wouldn't have minded playing as them again in Wolfenstein 3 personally, at least in a few levels, with BJ playable in most levels. But it seemed like the majority absolutely hated the twins, I saw so many hate comments about them on videos and such and even many of the critics said they didn't like them. 

Damn! I didn’t know it was that bad. I was over here asking questions like, why are there numbers popping off enemies? Why are the enemies acting bullet spongy now? When did gold go from being a collectible to premium currency?

Definitely cringy at times, but like you said, they could have continue to matured and been very memorable characters in their next game. Oh well. 

Yeah, the game just had alot of issues sadly. The integration of RPG mechanics turned enemies into bullet sponges and made stealth less fun since there were some enemies you couldn't one-shot with a silenced pistol headshot, so shooting them at all would alert them and end stealth. Then you had the GaaS stuff with the skins you could buy for guns and the power armor and such.

But people definitely hated the twins too. For instance, here is one of the top comments from the Youtube video "The Tragedy of Wolfenstein Youngblood", this comment has over 600 likes: "The game would have been awful even without the two protagonists but my god, I never hated fictional characters more than those two." And here is one of the top comments from another Youtube video titled "Wolfenstein Youngblood is INSUILTING", this comment has 2.6k likes: "Remember when New Colossus came out and people said that having a pregnant woman in front line combat would cause the kids to be born with permanent brain damage? I guess that's canon now."

I was honestly a bit surprised by just how much people hated the twins, I found them to be a weird mix of endearing and cringey personally, felt they were just kind of so-so, but that they could be redeemed through good character development in subsequent entries, just like how Ahsoka was cringey when she was first introduced in Star Wars: Clone Wars, but through good development turned into one of the best Star Wars characters, or like how people hated Steve Harrington's guts in the first season of Stranger Things, but how he evolved to become many peoples' favorite character over the subsequent seasons. But I guess Jessie and Zofia will never get that chance to grow into better characters through good character development now, if Wolfenstein 3 is truly dead.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 24 September 2023