Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus in Close Critique [Full Spoilers]

This is a video critique and analysis of Wolfenstein 2, an ambitious, messy, and in the end quite unique shooter from MachineGames. The video looks how BJ Blaskowicz anchors together a wide array of divergent tonal moods and design ideas. It also covers the three 'Freedom Chronicles' DLCs. Spoilers throughout.
__TABLE OF CONTENTS__
Main Campaign--
Adventures of Gunslinger Joe--
Diary of the SIlent Death--
Deeds of Captain Wilkins--

[@nostahex]

Btw in the Hitler movie scene you also see a dude trying to cast for Hitler that is supposed to be Ronald Reagan

[@joenathan8059]

Lol I didn't even know that

[@lordvwphaeton5297]

the 'im from Arizona' dude?

[@TheFeetCrusader]

@@lordvwphaeton5297 Yeah. That’s Ronald

[@MrAsianPie]

Damn. Even in a biological sense that looks nothing like Reagan in the 60s. He was 50 at the time, and was very square with his outward appearance. "Reagan" from Wolfenstien looks like a 30 year old Leo DiCaprio dressed up as a hippy.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

Reagan would have THRIVED under the Nazis. Absolutely loved it.

[@wiisolid]

To everyone wondering how he was able to release all these videos one after the the other, he explained on twitter that he had them ready for months, he just didnt think they were good. He mentioned he had to deal with depression, and was doubting his own work. He's releasing all of these now, so he can soft reboot the channel, he mentioned he got consoles too, so he will also start making videos about console exclusives.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

OH SHIT HE'S FINALLY GONNA FINISH THE CALL OF DUTY SINGLE-PLAYER RETROSPECTIVE. I've been waiting for him to touch on the console-exclusive cods since seeing that first video he did.

[@pelgervampireduck]

maybe he should go on the road again

[@diegowushu]

What does "soft reboot the channel" actually mean?

[@Lazarus1095]

He must have been depressed, because I honestly can't think of any other reason why he would think that these weren't great. I love them.

[@Healermain15]

Sounds like he's having a rough time right now :/ And the video's are as good as ever.

[@Overcrox]

“What’s the point of walking a mile in a man’s shoes if you can’t feel them against your feet?” Man, that’s actually really insightful. Your knack for poignant phrases is one of my favorite things about your videos.

[@dungheap7995]

Yeah... pretty much every other sentence is incredibly well put... well, the ones that aren't just cuttingly venomous...

[@the_rugged]

Best writer/reviewer of the video game medium... and i would also wager that he is amongst the best critics of culture, broadly speaking, right now. I wish we could have his critiques in book form (with sources... i loved some of his book recommendations in Mafia 3’s video)

[@Overcrox]

​@Patrick Murray It's a very natural kind of formlessness, at least to me. Though I definitely understand not being a fan of it. In answer to your question (I can't see your other comment, so if you're not interested in my answer it's all good), I don't see it as advocating for not empathizing with your enemy. I actually think it's about how if we're gonna try to empathize with someone, it's worth a whole lot more if we're actually open to understanding, viscerally, what it's like to have that person's experience. Some of that is out of our control, I think, but that phrase made me realize that I don't actually go nearly as deep with my empathy as I could sometimes. And sometimes that means making the effort to really imagine what those shoes feel like, but other times it's accepting the fact that I honestly can't and should exercise humility. (And then there's the obvious context of the quote, which is BJ's recovery being made tangible to the player by tying it to the character's health pool.)

[@Overcrox]

But that's just my take on it. :)

[@iHuzza]

AM Journal I believe the natural sounding effect of the formlessness is intended, it’s in there for the same reason that you can hear him misspeak and repeat words - in the end, it all comes together to create a kind of conversational tone that (as far as I’m aware) isn’t found on any other YT analysis channels.

[@alexschalk5439]

"Man! I died in just one shot from mecha-hitler, just like in real life!"

[@WritingOnGames]

Oh boy, I am very, very excited for this.

[@Krypto137]

Love your videos!

[@ledjon]

Noah's the hidden gem of KZbin analysis videos. The ultimate in detailed literary breakdowns and a sort of "analyzer's analyzer" like how some comedians are "a comedian's comedian".

[@ashdoglsu]

@@ledjon Yea hes great at this stuff. I know i like and dislike games but cant put it into words many times. He points out things that i wouldve never thought of.

[@celies88]

3 videos in two days?! What is going on? :O

[@Hulksterx]

Viktor Svensson there's a 4th coming too.

[@joshuagrahm3607]

Viktor Svensson his internet was messed up for a long time, posted on Twitter. Huge backlog of vids

[@TheAtlas247]

I feel spoilt.

[@joet7580]

He’s losing his mind!!!!

[@MrConredsX]

This must be some kind of gift for Valentine Day!

[@Corrupted]

This channel is like an expensive drink for gamers, and I love that hahaha I'm really happy I found these, keep it up!

[@yen5797]

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[@butHomeisNowhere___]

2021 here: Noah still has, by far, the best writing and analysis of any of his peers. Joseph Anderson is good, sure, but I truly feel that Noah is the titan in this creative space. If only the subscribers could reflect that. I have nothing but compliments for this content and its creator. There will come a time when a last video will be made, but I hope that day is far, far away, goddamnit. Thanks, Noah.

[@EmoScreamoForever]

Agreed, Joseph Anderson is good in a very analytical nit picky game review way, but what Gervais does transcends game review and becomes art imo. I know how pretentious and hyperbolic that sounds but I really feel that way.

[@SpoonyBard88]

Joseph Anderson went off a cliff and, at time of writing, has not released a video in 11 months.

[@TheLetterH111]

Im gonna be honest, joseph anderson is not a very good critic. He has a handful of good reviews but ultimately his critical style is just not particularly insightful. Games criticism to me is a coin- one side has the people who analyse games as texts, like NCG and Jacob Geller. The other side has the analytical critics who look more deeply into game design/mechanics, like Matthewmatosis. Imo JA leans more towards the latter description but his criticism is very lacking compared to his contemporaries

[@butHomeisNowhere___]

@@TheLetterH111 I actually 100% agree. Anderson is entertaining, but if you're looking for actual insight, then NCG/Geller are the best you can get on youtube (that I'm aware of)

[@JohnDoe-in9xc]

I'm a huge fan Noah. Your videos burst at the seams with genuine personality and the tremendous work you put into them. A heartfelt thank you from me to you.

[@legiongamerworkbruhben6058]

so honest ...this game should be called...captain America the new colossus

[@KarlosMorale]

Extremely well presented arguments that touch, delicately, on some sensitive issues. Goodness me, this channel is so good.

[@MillRunner]

The thing I hated about the dream sequence is, even though it's a dream sequence where BJ breaks from his restraints by pure force of masculinity and then kills several dozen armed men singlehandedly, your health and armor caps are unchanged from the sections where BJ is crippled in the suit. Not only does this make the section brutally difficult, suddenly giving the player a bunch of health would fit thematically with the dream sequence power revenge fantasy.

[@baker90338]

I’d also say it also acts as foreshadowing as to how it’s a dream.

[@JakenTheGreat]

Holy hell, that sequence pissed me off so bad. I was playing on a higher difficulty and just kept dying over and over. When I found out it was just a day dream, this was the very first thing that popped up in my head. Why couldn't i have an ass ton of health and armor? I seriously died more than 10+ times before I ended up cheesing by hiding in a corner

[@subatomicseal7789]

@@JakenTheGreat Even worse, if it was just a dream, why did it matter if you died? They could've given you both an assload of health and armor, *and* had it end the same way whether you died or lived.

[@zerodollarbird]

Because it's supposed to trick the player, too.

[@gabrielpadro5589]

Huh, that actually would have made that section less frustrating and would have made good foreshadowing. Good idea ManlyChicken.

[@kristianj.8798]

As a side-note: past the high quality of your writing (quite knowledgeable and provides thoughtful insights, which lead to several interesting - mostly cultural, I find - perspectives to the games you review), I think you have, with little competition, the best voice in the KZbin field of video critiques - it's very comfortable to listen to, which is arguably an important quality with the length of the majority of your videos. You're talented as a writer, as well as a speaker - that marks you as quite a gifted person. I really like your stuff.

[@mikejlr]

The battle in the courtroom was the nadir of the game. Everything wrong with the game's shooting design came to a head. I replayed it so many times, dying to enemies I never saw and never knew were shooting me because the damage indication systems were so weak and nonspecific they might as well not have been there.

[@bergonath8851]

@LeadFaun Shit, I had a momentary brain freeze and thought we were talking about *Namir* boss fight from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. My bad.

[@MrShoebox21]

I ALWAYS play that level on Easiest Difficulty and I'll tell you why. It's BJ's Fantasy. in it, he's an unstoppable badass and all the other baddies are saying "Can I play, Daddy?" ...I still died twice when i first started. Fucking nazis.

[@salokin3087]

3 Noah's? We're breaking some laws of physics!

[@kei_nishimaru]

Quick! Check if the emergency button’s broken!

[@Overcrox]

There'll be a fourth soon, according to his Patreon. ;)

[@TheDrudgenator]

Hyper light Drifter nice!

[@Imrixan]

You have a lot of insights about Wolfenstein's atmosphere and character moments, about things it has to say, but I feel like the flaws of the game lie more in the connective tissue between those moments. Things like how we spend so much of the game gathering up bands of resistence fighters, only to get almost no use out of them even in the final mission of storming the Ausmerzer, instead being accompanied by Anna for a climactic moment that feels like catharsis for a subplot we haven't had. It's weird. Watching this felt like gazing through a looking glass at a perspective that saw so much I hadn't, yet also overlooked so much that stuck out to me. Thank you for that.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

The Stilts are the most powerful module because once upgraded, they give you 200 health points.

[@paulmcintyre6857]

It's fucking scary how much better your game analysis is compared to your peers. I don't even know why they bother.

[@johncameron1935]

Because the alternative is to stop analyzing games at all, which would be a terrible state of things.

[@TheLetterH111]

NCG is the best for his particular style of criticism. He doesn't bring much to the table in terms of mechanical criticism though, others do that much better.

[@LordHengun]

Noah, it's fantastic to have you back. I thankfully have no personal experience of depression, but I have seen the effects it can have; it makes me really happy to hear that you are doing better and I really respect you for speaking about it - that can't be an easy thing to do. I'm proud of you! I hope that I speak for a lot of people when I say that I want you to take care of yourself first and foremost - I can wait for videos if it means that the man behind them is healthy. Regarding whether or not your back catalogue holds up - I put on some of your old stuff every once in a while just to have something to listen to, and while trying to sleep. Not in a super weird way, though. I'll dig into the Dead Space series right after I'm done with Overlord 2 so I can watch your retrospective! I only played 1 and 2 years ago. Take care, man, and here's to a great new year for you.

[@relnor7950]

I'm surprised you didn't mention anything about the wildly swinging tone compared to TNO. In TNC you go from scenes like Grace recounting the bombing, Catherine's death or even just BJ's monologues and behavior... to scenes like a topless pregnant woman covered in blood firing off two machine guns. Wolfenstein has always had some humor and obviously it never strived for realism, but TNO felt more grounded in a way, TNC was just REALLY WEIRD sometimes.

[@layers5255]

That'd be the politically correct writing you're referring to

[@danielclark653]

The humor in TNO never felt out of place though it. The gags and silly little things weren't part of the main story and were totally missable meaning you were rewarded with a funny little gag and piece of dialogue for exploring and talking to everyone.

[@layers5255]

@@danielclark653 Indeed

[@sheep3370]

@@layers5255 No

[@layers5255]

@@sheep3370 Pardon?

[@logancorsaut]

How you discussed this game at length without spoiling a particular scene I will never know. Great stuff. I love your channel.

[@cameronross8812]

Literally came to the comments to make sure I hadn't skipped a part of the video somehow

[@michaeltrant6113]

I remember watching ArchWarhamer playing this game... it flew over his head. He saw it as leftist propoganda.... I believed him to... God I hate how I use to be...

[@masterdeity3400]

Thank you!!! I have no idea where this idea of it being leftist propaganda came from.

[@amesnfire1098]

It's not like Horton or Grace were even heavy-handed in their 'political' actions(Less than a handful of a woman's perspective regarding the old America's patriarchal society and Horton's accusation of how the powers of old weren't that different from Nazi Germany) and in a lot of ways were shown to be something of hypocritical assholes. Grace treats her fellow resistance members as tools rather than friends, even to the point of being called out as acting like the very fascists she fights against. She has a strong personality that threatens to clash with other members of the resistance. Horton tries to immediately put you into some sort of alcoholic coma despite him needing your help to escape, with the suspicion that only the super body you have by then being the reason you don't die or remain knocked out. He also nearly refuses to join the 'Revolution' because he has (somewhat valid) fears that nothing will change even if B.J. is successful. All of this shows off how their individual perspectives are muddied by their personality flaws. It doesn't necessarily praise or condemn the things they say outside of comparison to said Nazi's, but that's probably why some doofballs got upset when the "Radical Communist Preacher" wasn't somehow proven wrong or something during a bombastic shooter game about killing a bunch of fascists.

[@timgimmy609]

Well, it is leftist propaganda in the literal sense that the game ends with a call to action against fascism. for a lot of gamers though it seems any time the status quo is changed you just have to cry “leftist propaganda! woke!”

[@dylanpreis4563]

3 videos in 2 days? Somebody wake me up because this is obviously some kind of simulation designed to keep me impossibly happy for some nefarious purpose. That or I'm dead and this is my personal paradise.

[@the5thbreaker]

If that's the case let me sleep. It's a pretty sweet deal.

[@patrickavelino4623]

I feel like Noah needs to teach video game composition at a university. These retrospectives are formatted like realy realy good lectures.

[@demilembias2527]

I'd say a writing class, more like. Noah is an incredible games analyst, but his genre of choice is obviously mostly story-driven western shooters and RPGs, and a lot of what he talks about is the story over the gameplay. That's great, and it's what I'm all about, but hes not gonna be able to teach anyone how to make the next Devil May Cry level gameplay experience.

[@FIDEL_CASHFLOW_]

@Vazazell I doubt very much that it's intentional. He makes the mistakes but doesn't bother to go back and fix them. I actually found out that I prefer things like that and the lack of polish that Noah's videos have. It just seems more genuine. The lack of 3D animated dubstep intros, flashy graphics, and super well engineered audio is a nice break from the countless channels that all do those things.

[@Foreignhedgehog]

@GiRayne It's definitely one of those though where you quickly realise it doesn't matter.

[@Foreignhedgehog]

@GiRayne That's nice.

[@christiancamarao1733]

possibly the greatest 2 day span of my life

[@ashdoglsu]

Nice to see an in depth video about this game that doesnt blindly dump on and finally understand the The Old Blood was. It was a throwback and tribute to Return To Castle Wolfenstein.

[@scumbagslacker]

Great video. My only note would be about your assertion that Japan surrendered in WWII because of the nuclear bombs. I'd recommend checking out Shaun's video on the subject. Its a lit more complicated than its generally assumed.

[@halfpintrr]

See, Noah, I’m glad you’re doing relatively okay. But yes, I love Cap because of what a good writer can do with him. He fights because he wants to help others. He wants to rest but can’t. He is kind and compassionate. This questioning happens with Cap too, which is interesting. He fights for the America that could be. Him and BJ would be good friends I think.

[@lucaballarati9694]

I think you would love to give A Thorough Look at Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, and A House of Many Doors. They're all Indie titles within the genre of "Text Adventures separated by an Open World", but each takes different steps in how to approach progression, tone, gameplay loops, and death.

[@benl2140]

I second this motion.

[@mbfun9298]

This game took be by such surprise that I haven't felt in a long long while I felt so connected to the characters and their bantering, BJ's monologues that it took an already decent shooter experience to another heights entirely. I genuinely cared about the characters so much so that it even kind of leaned trough the game/irl barrier which, after playing so many games didn't really happen since I was a kid. I don't know whether that is because I didn't expect it or what ever but it was an experience. It is maybe why I love games and media in general, you never truly know how a title might affect you it is a risk and a journey and none two are alike, for both two people and two games.

[@Sporkmo]

2:58 I think I'm in love with BJ Blaskowitz

[@brianschraner]

I'm happy that I just found this channel, your insight is both profound and witty. Thank God that Noah is doing what he's doing

[@dannymeyers7738]

It's been years since New Order and I still haven't seen a single video expressing how well utilized the leaning is in this game. I would imagine it has everything to do with the fact that Mouse+Keyboards can't give you the same amount of control over it as a gamepad of some kind. The way you can cut holes in metal barriers or shoot out completely prone under a desk or peak just your head out through that damage to the concrete pillar you're hiding behind and so on, all while unleashing two fully-automatic weapons at bloodbag targets creates the most Hype shooting experience yet created in my humble imho. Leaning itself isn't new, but I haven't ever seen a leaning system that gives you such complete control.

[@amysteriousviewer3772]

You are so underrated, my friend. I really appreciate all the work and effort you put into these videos. It's always a joy to watch them.

[@tpchec]

Your other video got me interested in going through the whole wolfenstein series last year. I'm glad you came back to look at New Colossus!

[@TheJols]

Pretty much the only thing I have left to live for! 3 vids in such a short time! I wish I had him as a friend in real life. It'd be cool to have someone else to play games with that isn't just online.

[@liamstyleschang362]

CHRISTMAS CAME AGAIN! Thanks Noah, you're videos are literally the best thing on the internet.

[@MatthewCampbell765]

@4:25 One thing worth noting is also that the first Wolfenstein games-the ones made before Id Software-were actually stealth games, and in fact were some of the first stealth games ever made.

[@evanbennett7300]

Noah these videos keep getting better and better please never doubt your work I’m always going to tune in

[@LindoroRossini]

Another video in just a few days! Thank you for the superb commentary. You are my primary reference for video game criticism on KZbin. From Russia with the utmost respect!

[@mihkelnoot8465]

Noah once again unleashing a tsunami of juicy content. You're the best, honestly!

[@NAGxxOUT]

This channel is so underrated. Some of the best game analysis on the site.

[@MrLlurati]

Keep up the great work, Noah. Your channel is a treasure. I admire your hard work and dedication.

[@dominicmurphy8986]

Haha, I just finished watching your whole series retrospective, what good timing!

[@anhpham5530]

I guess sleeping is not an option when Noah uploads a new vid. Thank you for the great content, man! Such an inspiration.

[@Minish23]

These are so excellent. The sort of analysis video games deserve these days. I dearly hope there will be more in the future

[@seanstone3232]

I have to say Noah, you've really outdone yourself with the quality content that you've put out over the last couple of days. Thank you.

[@Apathyfaucet]

I liked this game a lot. I thought it was a shame that the discourse seemed to just focus around the things the first remake did and not seemingly what it was about. I liked all the characters (yes Grace too) and thought that most of the people reviewing it didn't have the time to navigate the sub in-between missions like I thought you were *supposed* to do due to time restraints on getting a review of a game out as soon as possible. Of course they'd have to bypass some of the subtle (or not too subtle) things like realizing Max Hauss of all people is a wonderful artist, good at chess, and figures out a bunch of things no one on the rest of the ship seems capable of without his help and he's only able to say his own name (and yet everyone gets something out of it regardless). I always thought this game got a rough time and even with the cringey cover of Twisted Sister and some of the repetitive nature of the side missions all being in burnt out NY, the odd cover-based gunplay that comes out on a lot of it and for that matter most of the space stuff but they had one hell of a narrative glue sticking all of it together. It's been nice to see someone give it the time and look arounds I think they actually planned out for. The DLC seemed a bit off and odd so I didn't really mess with it, but spare the last one, maybe I'll give 'em a shot. Always good to see your stuff, and with 3 in just a few days thank you.

[@levihenze9297]

Just discovered your channel, and I have to say: Wow, you are really good! The connections you draw are really enlightening and matter far outside the video game sphere. Thanks for doing this!

[@autismobinch135]

Love how much effort you put into these videos.

[@lilitbeglarian7942]

me for the past week; "Honey it's time for your daily 4-5 hours of Noah Video game analysis" "yes dear..." I adore this channel. I have literally binged almost everything in the span of ONE week.

[@KingsCountyLightHaus]

You've been killing it with the uploads, Noah. Loving it.

[@robertmoorhead2406]

Amazing amazing amazing. Once again, you make my work day easier to get through, Noah

[@stripedsweater4003]

Noahhhhh, you are the best. Thank you for the great content and all the hard work!

[@CaptainFram]

As always, your observations are wonderfully framed and argued. Thanks so much for your work; I have now boarded the patreon train. Choo choo

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

OH BABY A TRIPLE I've been wondering what you been working on for the past month or so.

[@jackapplebaum5678]

Jesus Christ, Noah. Hitting us with videos like bursts from a Maschinengewehr. You're awesome, man!

[@AStarCalledWormwood]

This was an excellent critique, and I believe I will be able to appreciate this game because of your content. Thank you.

[@zed1991el]

Of the three videos released, I think this one was easily my favorite. Thanks for the videos! =)

[@soptop1641]

You have no idea how much your videos mean to me noah. Please keep making more

[@zacharyantle7940]

We all know after all these videos so close together we probably won’t get another one for a couple years now 😂

[@robnickerson7819]

Oh god knock on wood 😂

[@pacman5698]

Representative from the year 2020 here. This game has aged like fine wine.

[@connorc1635]

You sir, are an artist with words.

[@c.jarmstrong3111]

It's been a happy couple of days, thanks you Noah!

[@Turok1134]

Yeah, I don't remember much optimism from BJ or much of anyone else in The New Order. The game was pretty dour throughout, and talking to characters either had them feeling like they were fighting a losing fight, or just having given up completely. Hell, BJ himself just sounded exhausted. He didn't seem to want to fight, but knew he had to. >"Sigrun never had it as hard as the others on the crew." She had to live under the cruel roof of the game's main antagonist. She was forced by her own mother to cut someone's head off. She didn't go through with it ultimately, but the game makes it pretty apparent that she's known nothing but suffering from her mother.

[@raoulduke2924]

I STILL NEED TO FINISH THE DEAD SPACE ONE TAKE 'ER EASY THERE SPORT

[@Tagis672]

Truly great video Noah. Always love how you're not afraid to absolutely shit on fascism too

[@mrszisz1]

This much videos at once? You're the best.

[@zacharybutler5944]

This might be a weird thing to say in a comment, but I've been binging your videos and I absolutely love how you keep in all your little vocal missteps, stammers, and repetition. It honestly feels like I'm listening to someone in a classroom giving a lecture. I unironically love it.

[@Nuvizzle]

The hardest working man on KZbin continues to one-up himself.

[@lilgiantrobot6169]

A year after this went up I finally got to play the game and come enjoy your video!

[@joni1405]

"A man like BJ could have done very well under the Nazis had he simply collaborated" Um...isn't BJ's mother a Jew? Under Nazi racial laws, BJ would be a Jew too and would therefore probably not do that well under the Reich. BJ is a Jewish guy born in 1911. I realize America was never as hostile to Jewish people as Europe, but you kind of downplay the extent to which his Jewishness would have mattered in the 1930s. Under Nazi occupation, his heritage would be a death sentence.

[@AbbreviatedReviews]

I looked back at my old review to remember why I didn't recommend Wolfenstein 2 and you certainly nailed a lot of my views and expanded on them in an amazing way. I really admired the character building and story weaving, but felt like the game couldn't find its identity in the gameplay. Trying to build a game that allows a player to take both a stealth and frontal assault and have equal effectiveness usually, as it does here, causes both to be weaker. Further expanding that with the trio of 'powers' you get toward the end makes the level design suffer even more by forcing the level designers to create something that works regardless of what you choose. It's a game I completed because I found the story compelling, probably due mostly because of how outlandish it was, not because of the constantly faltering gameplay. The biggest difference I had from your discussion was that, when I played it nearer to launch, it was riddled with bugs, glitches, and crashes. These became the deciding factor for me to not recommend it with the caveat that, if they were fixed, it would be worth playing. I still believe if the game embraced a more Doom-like design and limited stealth as much or more than it did in The New Order, the franchise would benefit greatly. The copious amount of crouch walking while holding two of the largest guns that could be rendered on screen just looks and feels like the game was started by one developer and finished by another.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

Return to Castle Wolfenstein managed to balance both stealth and action gameplay. MachineGames just went too far in the "Action" direction without really getting the good balance from TOB right.

[@DAVVEZ396]

@Robert Cowan Transposition of Nazi's onto the current *Nazis in politics.

[@DAVVEZ396]

@Robert Cowan All right. So you take a news story from some game developer being a pedophile, that has nothing to do with MachineGames or nazis or political affiliation. And it's not nazis fault that they exist, because someone else created them? I know who the Nazis were. I think everyone does. We had a whole war about it.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

@@DAVVEZ396 The USSR had a war with them. The US had a minor scuffle with them. This doesnt mean you know who the nazis were though.

[@DAVVEZ396]

@@CharcharoExplorer How are we having this discussion 2019? How can you say "a minor" scuffle when the US had a major offensive in Europe? And, obviously, the Allied forces were several more countries than US and USSR. And what do you people mean when you say that we don't know who the nazis were?

[@jamesli9380]

I've been playing and reading about video games for 32 years and I've never seen anyone look so deeply into the themes, characters and issues as Noah does in all his videos. Sometimes I even wonder if the developers even meant some of the insights that Noah spots but maybe. After so many recent additions to his channel it may seem churlish to make a request or two, but if it's ever possible in the future I'd love to see a Deus Ex and/or a Divinity: Original Sin 2 'thorough look' and I know many would also love that. Thank you so much for this great video.

[@dead_fox]

Amazing video, very well done! At first I was a bit disappointed with his game, I liked it and all (I finished it yesterday) but you helped me see it differently, like another perspective. I think I should re play it sometime in the future, I still want to play on the highest difficulty

[@zae5159]

Your analysis of, and subsequent refutation of, the MC's father's viewpoints and inner life was incredibly good. I think there were some really good observations about people like him, of which more and more seem to exist every day especially in the US, as our culture becomes more and more fear driven, and less and less about a common, shared humanity and optimism. I don't even particularly care about Wolfenstein (never happened upon the original at the time), but your videos manage to still be gripping regardless.

[@MrRollingcabbage]

Woah! Noah, pumping out the quality content! Thanks :)

[@DracoRulezU]

Noah, you're surpassing your limits man. Great 3 videos.

[@nikibest23]

Noah, I don't know if you read comments at all, but if you read this, is there any chance of a GTA rertospective? I would love to hear it even if it takes years.

[@christracey5813]

My take on those clan members talking to that German Soldier about language was literalization of an old turn of phase. We were seeing a literal grammar Nazi here! And part of the joke was he's nicer about it than most "grammer Nazis" in real life

[@zevorothrappaleano58]

Old Blood already did that joke though, and way better at that

[@dimitriosdrossidis9633]

@@zevorothrappaleano58 maybe it's a running Gag?

[@beefkilla]

My friend, your analysis is pretty much what i would describe as the Video Gaming equivalent of Sir David Attenborough! bravo sir 👏👏👏

[@HorustheElder]

Boi you are on a roll right now, why have you blessed us so?

[@jkagkajsdftubes]

I love you Noah. You deserve a vacation, 3.5 hours of videos in two days?! Go take two weeks off!!

[@Carcosahead]

jkagkajsdftubes more like two years.

[@Volgrus]

Always on top of your uploads

[@andersdenkend]

Good god, you crank‘em out recently! I cannot keep up!

[@cyborgcayouche7041]

Keep it up Noah, I enjoy all your videos!

[@insertnamehere3363]

How did we get 2 videos in not even a week. Never stop Noah you make KZbin interesting

[@BenTheITGuy]

Woa dude your cranking these out

[@stephenwiddison]

watched the whole thing and enjoyed it thank you

[@wingnoot338]

N-Noah. This is too much, you're spoiling us!

[@JoshDoVids]

I've been waiting for this one too!

[@UponDemise666]

Ugh... that damn Courtroom sequence... very achievable, but a bitch to do so!

[@paranoid1713]

Some of the best video essays on the net

[@whynaut1]

How did you find the time to make all these videos? What god did I please?

[@Aggrofool]

He cloned himself using the Black Marker

[@DefinitelyNotSade]

Read his latest Patreon post. He's had them done for a while.

[@84jesterx]

he doesn't' have kids or a tradition 9-5 job I'm assuming. The new American dream if you ask me :p

[@tee_es_bee]

Excellent work, sir! 🧡💛🧡

[@misterkefir]

Awesome stuff, thanks ;) will there be any 100K subscribers special? like 3h Q&A session or something? That would be absolutely amazing.

[@radioactivepubicslaughter]

I feel so lucky with all these videos!

[@SmilingJack100]

Holy shit, I am aghast there you said there were bunch of posts talking about how they hate grace. She's a fantastic character, but I shouldn't be surprised.

[@Juutas1988]

You've been busy... excellent~

[@JS-tl7jp]

Fantastic work!

[@panoptykot]

I missed your voice, Noah! It's so good to hear from you again ♥