Picking up this game right after Old Blood was a bit jarring.  In all honesty, I was expecting badass Blazkowicz twins that were essentially mini BJs. Of course, that's the trouble with kids, isn't it? They are't neat little clones of their parents ;-) Once you get over that unrealistic expectation, and understand that the Blazkowicz sisters are teenagers in the game, you can really get grooving with this game! I actually appreciated the imaturity at times and them acting their age.  I think the game gets a lot of hate online for not being yet another "one of the same" game in the series, but I think that it stands great on its own, and deserves a trilogy of its own that brings the Wolfenstein universe into the 2000s!

Story from Wikipedia

Nineteen years after Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, the United States has been liberated from Nazi control and reestablished, while the members of the Kreisau Circle, including B.J. Blazkowicz, his wife Anya, and the late Caroline, are hailed as revolutionary heroes, with some holding positions in the new U.S. federal government. While efforts to liberate the rest of the world from the Nazis largely succeeded, infighting and differing priorities led to the global coalition dissolving, leaving Europe under Nazi control. Blazkowicz and Anya retire to raise their twin daughters Jessie and Zofia, teaching them how to defend themselves.

In 1980, Blazkowicz mysteriously disappears without a trace. Jessie, Zofia, and their friend Abby, daughter of FBI Director Grace Walker, discover a hidden room in the attic with a map indicating Blazkowicz traveled to Nazi-occupied Neu-Paris to meet the French Resistance. Believing American authorities will not follow him, the girls steal an FBI helicopter and a pair of powered armor suits and head for France.

In Neu-Paris, the girls meet Juju, the leader of the Resistance, who confirms that she had met Blazkowicz but has no knowledge of his current location. They learn he is trying to find a way into a secret Nazi installation called Lab X. In order to gain access, the girls decide to help the Resistance hack the main computers of the "Brothers", a trio of security towers that hold the keys to Lab X. Upon reviewing the data in the Brothers' computers, Abby realizes that Juju is a Nazi agent and her partner is General Lothar, the disgraced commander of the Nazi forces in Neu-Paris. The girls pretend to drink Juju's drugged wine, and Lothar gloats that with the Brothers under his control, he can commence his plans to start a Fourth Reich without interference from his superiors in Berlin. A struggle ensues, with Lothar and Juju managing to escape while Abby is stabbed in her eye, leaving the sisters to find Lab X without her.

Abby explains that the Nazi leadership attempted to kill Lothar for disobeying their orders, forcing him into hiding where he eventually infiltrated the French Resistance with Juju. Jessie and Zofia breach Lab X and proceed to its deepest level, where they find Blazkowicz. He tells them that after the Nazis started losing ground following the Second American Revolution, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of a weather control doomsday device to crush the rising global resistance movement. When BJ killed Hitler in the 1960s, a fail-safe planned by Hitler activated the doomsday device that will eventually render the Earth uninhabitable, as part of Hitler's "Nero Decree" to bring down the world with him. He traveled to Lab X to find a way to stop the doomsday device, where he learned about the existence of multiple alternate dimensions, and glimpsed one where the Nazis lost World War II. He then uses a Da'at Yichud artifact to upgrade Jessie and Zofia's powered armor suits and directs them to go after Lothar. Meanwhile, Lothar retakes his old headquarters and orders his allies in Berlin to stage a coup against the government. Jessie and Zofia confront Juju and Lothar and kill them both.

Afterward, Anya and Grace arrive. Realizing the threat the Fourth Reich poses, the Blazkowicz family, Grace, and the U.S. government call upon the rest of the world to fight the Fourth Reich and defeat the Nazis for good. Jessie, Zofia, and Abby decide to stay in Paris to defend it against the Fourth Reich's counterattack with the Apocalypse looming in the horizon.

Overall Thoughts

Overall the game was fun.  The game was not linear in that you can return back to previous locations (many, many, many times), and re-explore it as you level up your skills and gear.  Additionally, by returning back and playing the old areas lets you level up.  That said, eventually returning back to a previous location and grinding through it again...and again...and again gets old.

Near the end, before the final boss, you get a God Key for your armor. Getting the God Key abilities at the end is almost pointless. It's a gimmick I used in one part of the final boss, which is fine, but it would be great to use it in the broader world. I hope there's a sequel to this game, and if there is, that your previous game's abilities carry through to the next game. I would have more motivation to grind through and get all the abilities (and weapon masteries for that matter) if I knew they wouldn't go to waste.

I would love to play more games with these two as protagonists.  I would also love to be able to import my current character skills and level into a new game.  Being able to use what I have would make me more apt to grind out a character in this game.

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