History YMMV / WolfensteinIITheNewColossus

** [[spoiler:After witnessing how horribly he treated B.J. as a child, and learning that he sold his own wife and B.J.'s mother out to the Nazis in exchange for a generous handout, B.J. killing his father more than counts for this.]]

* BaseBreakingCharacter: [[spoiler:The AdolfHitlarious treatment of well, Adolf Hitler, has been divise. Many players love this portrayal of the Führer as a pathetic bumbling maniac for being cathartic and [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]]. However, many have pointed out that considering how the science used by the Nazi in this universe is capable of slowing aging and creating cyborgs, Hitler should be the first one to have access to it. Not to mention that ''Wolfenstein 3D'''s most notable fight was against [[StupidJetpackHitler Mecha-Hitler]] whom many longtime fans were eager to see into a modern title but got robbed of it in favor of a comedic portrayal that would feel more at home in a Creator/MelBrooks movie]].

* DracoInLeatherPants: '''''Rip Blazkowicz''''' of all people is getting this treatment. Several comments on Youtube and Reddit say that [[MisaimedFandom he was actually a good father who meant well and his abuse was just "tough love"]], judging from the scene where he gives B.J. a rifle and helps him confront his nightmares in the basement (which was clearly ''not'' out of altruism as Rip outright admitted that he was tired of his son waking him up every night with noise and giving him a beating didn't work before). [[SarcasmMode Yeah, nothing says "I love my family and want what's best for them" like]] [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon forcing his child to kill his own dog or selling out his own wife...]]]]

** [[ArchnemesisDad Rip Blazkowicz]], [[Characters/WolfensteinBJBlazkowicz B.J.]]'s greedy, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] father, married B.J.'s wealthy mother for money, then [[DomesticAbuse abused her and B.J.]] out of anger at his own poor business decisions ruining his enterprise. Attacking B.J. for playing with a black girl, Rip knocks his wife out for trying to defend their son,then tries to make B.J. shoot his dog. When America is conquered by the Nazis, Rip betrays his Jewish neighbors and wife by [[LesCollaborateurs selling them out]], leading to their internment and death in [[PoWCamp concentration camps]]. Attempting to kill B.J. when they meet again, Rip also wiretaps their phone conversation in an attempt to have B.J. captured and executed by the Nazis.

** [[ArchnemesisDad Rip Blazkowicz]], [[Characters/WolfensteinBJBlazkowicz B.J.]]'s greedy, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] father, married B.J.'s wealthy mother for money, then [[DomesticAbuse abused her and B.J.]] out of anger at his own poor business decisions ruining his enterprise. Attacking B.J. for playing with a black girl, Rip knocks his wife out for trying to defend their son,then tries to make B.J. shoot his dog. When America is conquered by the Nazis, B.J. betrays his Jewish neighbors and wife by [[LesCollaborateurs selling them out]], leading to their internment and death in [[PoWCamp concentration camps]]. Attempting to kill B.J. when they meet again, Rip also wiretaps their phone conversation in an attempt to have B.J. captured and executed by the Nazis.

* MemeticMutation: Its hatred from real life Neo-Nazis has become an endless source of mockery, with joke reviews for similar media involving killing Nazis such as ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' and ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' parodying their reactions.

* AssPull: [[spoiler:B.J. surviving a beheading by having his severed head artificially stitched to a new body. While it is foreshadowed by Set showcasing his ability to do that with his pet cat Shoshanna, many finds it to be an out of place science fiction plot and an example of PlotArmor pushed too far to the point of being ridiculous.]].

* ItsShortSoItSucks: While about the same length of general gameplay as ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' if you pursue side-content, the consensus seems to be that ''The New Colossus'' just sort of 'ends' a little early and anticlimactically ([[spoiler:with the death of Frau Engel [[CutsceneBoss being mostly cinematic]] and the FinalBoss being a pair of souped-up [[EliteMooks Ubersoldats]]]]). From there it's just revisiting old areas for collectibles, side missions you didn't complete, and [[spoiler:taking on the Oberkommandant Enigma assassination missions that often recycle areas from the main campaign.]] It's entirely impossible to literally play through the game's normal levels again with one's perks unlocked.

** [[ArchnemesisDad Rip Blazkowicz]], [[Characters/WolfensteinBJBlazkowicz B.J.]]'s greedy, racist father, married B.J.'s wealthy mother for money, then [[DomesticAbuse abused her and B.J.]] out of anger at his own poor business decisions ruining his enterprise. Attacking B.J. for playing with a black girl, Rip knocks his wife out for trying to defend their son,then tries to make B.J. shoot his dog. When America is conquered by the Nazis, B.J. betrays his Jewish neighbors and wife by [[LesCollaborateurs selling them out]], leading to their internment and death in [[PoWCamp concentration camps]]. Attempting to kill B.J. when they meet again, Rip also wiretaps their phone conversation in an attempt to have B.J. captured and executed by the Nazis.

* UnfortunateImplications: The German version of the game, in the interest of confirming to Germany's NoSwastikas rules, has been rather heavily edited, to remove all references to the Nazi regime. Some German game critics [[https://translate.google.dk/translate?hl=da&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamereactor.de%2FArtikel%2F468303%2F%3Frs%3Drss have noted]] that the localisation team has perhaps been overzealous in this job, as the nature of the crimes the Nazis committed has also been heavily obscured, by way of removing any references to Judaism -- most notably, "traitor" is frequently used as a stand-in for "Jew" -- as as well as any overt mentions of extermination camps, which ironically results in making the whole thing come uncomfortably close to sounding like outright Holocaust denial.

* ScrappyMechanic: Annoying in that it's actually a vital part of shooter gameplay: ''player damage feedback.'' While the [[VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder previous game]] wasn't the most consistent or efficient with it either, in ''The New Colossus'' there's barely any indication that you've been taking damage beyond the blurring and some darkening of the screen edges. The result is that there could be an enemy behind you plugging you with a shotgun and you may not have a single idea he's doing that until you notice you're taking damage while no one in front is shooting. Considering the NintendoHard nature of the game - especially when you only have 50 health at maximum - it's entirely possible and even extremely ''likely'' that you'll keel over dead and not have any idea what just killed you because two soldiers chewed through your health and armor out of view in seconds.

* ShockingMoments: An appearance by ''Adolf Hitler'' himself, in the flesh and [[UpToEleven even more deranged]] than you could ever have anticipated.

* FakeDifficulty:
** The game has been frequently described as more difficult than ''The New Order.'' Not coincidentally, the first part is played with BJ's maximum health at ''half'' the unupgraded maximum health of ''The New Order.''
** The UI is also less indicative of where hits are coming from, meaning that a random mook will often do lethal or near-lethal damage if he spawns behind you.
** Stealth overall is nerfed like crazy in this game; there is no longer a perk upgrade that helps you find officers on the map, and even so, finding officers is much more difficult than in ''The New Order''. Enemies in general tend to be a bit more clairvoyant and heavily armored, rendering them resistant to the usual amount of silenced shots.

** B.J.'s greedy, racist father, [[ArchnemesisDad Rip Blazkowicz]], married B.J.'s wealthy mother for money, then abused [[DomesticAbuse her]] and [[AbusiveParents B.J.]] out of anger at his own poor business decisions ruining his enterprise. Attacking B.J. for playing with a black girl, Rip knocks his wife, Zofia, out for trying to defend their son, then tries to make B.J. shoot his dog, Bessie. When America is conquered by the Nazis, Rip betrays his Jewish, black, and/or homosexual neighbors, ''and'' Zofia by [[LesCollaborateurs selling them out]], leading to their internment and death in [[PoWCamp concentration camps]] in New Mexico. Attempting to kill B.J. when they meet again, Rip also wiretaps their phone conversation in an attempt to have B.J. captured and executed by the Nazis.

* FoeYay: In ''spades'' between BJ and Frau Engel - though it's largely one-sided, and she might just be doing it to goad him [[spoiler:after finding the wedding ring he'd wanted to give Anya]].

** Stealth overall is nerfed like crazy in this game; there is no longer a perk upgrade that helps you find officers on the map, and even so, finding officers is much difficult than in ''The New Order''. Enemies in general tend to be a bit more clairvoyant and heavily armored, rendering them resistant to the usual amount of silenced shots.

** Remember back in ''[[VideoGame/Wolfenstein2009 Wolfenstein (2009)]]'' Deathshead told B.J. that "he wouldn't live to see the swastika flying proudly over Washington D.C."? After the events of ''The New Order'', Deathshead is dead, and this game shows the swastika draped over the Capitol.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Make it as gruesome as you want, Creator/MachineGames, you're not gonna convince us you'd let [[spoiler:BJ stay dead]]. Doesn't help that [[SpoilerCover they didn't do a very good job of hiding]] [[spoiler:his survival]], with many players correctly predicting the outcome months before the game came out.

* {{Narm}}: For some, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRQ4fyw5zzM credits theme]] -- a {{screamo|Music}} cover of Music/TwistedSister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" -- is this.

* BrokenBase: The story's treatment of [[spoiler: Rip, BJ's father]], has been the subject of debate. [[spoiler: Mainly, Rip's horrible racism and selling of BJ's mother into a concentration camp seems wildly different from his characterization as a stern but caring father in BJ's monologues in ''The New Order''. Whether or not it qualifies as a {{Retcon}} is up for debate, but the main point of contention many have with the twist is not so much the content, but the fact that he's such a unrepentantly evil and abusive person that it's incredibly unlikely BJ would ever look up to him. This makes many of BJ's monologues in the first game about the lessons he learned from his parents seem nonsensical.]] Even more confusing is how in [[RealLife real life]], [[CriticalResearchFailure Slavs were reviled by the Nazis]]; ''especially'' Poles; making his collaboration very unlikely.