My Games narrative:
In a fictional world where the Nazis won and my protagonist a Jewish young man works as a trauma cleaner for the Nazi police. The vacuum cleaner is called ‘Lazy’ after the type of work my protagonist is known to do the ‘lazy work’. The protagonist managed to hide his Jewish through fake ID and being a child of a non-Jewish father. The game starts with a simple tutorial where the protagonist has to clean the bodies of the deceased, before clearing the last corpse a Nazi soldier talks to the cleaner and tells him they were Jews who had a funny last name of ‘Hamburg’ and says ‘it’s like my morning breakfast a hamburger!’, the protagonist’s real last name before creating his fake identity, realising they are distant relatives of his mother. The protagonist is troubled by it and in the next scene driving intoxicated and parking by his house screaming “I love Jews, because I am one” during the ride before going to sleep Nazis in the area overhear and he goes to his boss’s department and dismissed with a slight warning followed by laughter, after leaving he gets an anonymous phone call by a distorted low voice asking him ‘would you consider yourself a saviour’. The next morning while walking to work the protagonist sees protestors being shot and fascist posters hanged all around the city with some sprayed painted over with yellow text written murderers. Before getting into his van he is stopped by three man with black long coats and an uncared for messy hairs. The man in the middle holds out a glowing orb the shape of a cricket ball, the colours are of neo red and white. The man speaks and explains he is part of the Mafia (Mafia members are powerful families who largely oppose the government members and fight against the Nazi ideology and dictatorship), the mysterious man tasks him with infiltrating the Nazi’s base and vacuum the bodies of the dead, he goes on to explain how the orb would grow more and more in size and power which eventually would be able to end the Nazi regime. The protagonist having a mutual trust with the men and is influenced from a low mysterious voice telling him the only way is to KILL everyone to be free. The Activation Orb is the name of the orb in the protagonist’s vacuum cleaner.
The companions
The protagonist would begin to get episodes as the game continues and imaginary beings would present themselves from his past to assist or sabotage depending on who you provide more attention to. The blood thirsty ‘Aryan’ who would give you attack boosts or the passive but annoying ‘Untermensch’ who is weak at the start but the more you upgrade him the more useful he will become. They both follow the protagonist but later in the game the player would have to choose one. In the game the companions would give you missions to perform the ‘Aryan’s missions would be more murderous, e.g. kill a hundred enemies, while the ‘Untermensch’s would be more passive chat with the rioters which would improve your relationship with one over the other.
The Aryan:
The Untermensch:
Lazy The Vacuum cleaner
Unlike the story and characters in serial cleaner for me the weapon would play a crucial role in the narrative of the game which could also be seen in the visual aspects of my weapon changing.
NPC’s
The three Mafia members
Enemy NPC’s
Endings
Ending scenarios, multi choice options, the player would be given 2 options to choose from once the ending began a choice between choosing to fire the Activation Orb or deactivating Lazy. The options can be decided by the player once completing the all the levels. In the 2 endings there are different epilogues that are decided according to the choices the player made before depending on which companion they chose to keep and side with. These variations to each ending are shown by the []:
1.Choosing to fire the Activation Orb
The protagonist shoots the Activation Orb up to the Fuhrer’s tower where everyone in it is brutally killed by the explosion woman children and even rioters, after it is done the protagonist is approached by the three mysterious ‘Mafia’ figures and depending if you sided with which companion you chose to side with earlier in the game, whether it is ‘Untermensch’ or the ‘Aryan’ change the epilogue:
[]Untermensch ending for the firing the Activation Orb, the three mafia member approach the protagonist and remove their coats and are revealed to be the protagonist’s parents and his little brother hugging him and apologising for leaving him stranded calling him John which the name was hidden throughout the game. The protagonist smiles with his eyes shut while his skin turning grey and slowly stops moving and the screen fades to black.
[]The Aryan ending for the firing the Activation Orb, the three mafia members approach the protagonist and remove their coats to be Nazis who explain they want to re-establish the patriotism and beliefs the old Nazi Germany had and thank the protagonist for helping them reveal they knew his identity all along and his real name ‘John Hamburg’, which is followed by the protagonist swinging and coughing while his skin turns grey and the game fades to black.
2.Choosing to deactivate ‘Lazy’
The protagonist turns ‘Lazy’ off before throwing it off a cliff facing the Fuhrer’s tower after it is done the prologue changes depending if on which companion you chose to side with earlier in the game, whether it is ‘Untermensch’ or the ‘Aryan’ would change the prologue:
[]Untermensch: A flash to the future is seen as the protestors and rebels are being hunter and killed by the Nazis one of whom manages to escape being the protagonist who is seen older by his messy beard he picks up a yellow Star Of David and clutches it and the shot is zoomed out to see the background, showing people running away through a cut down fence, which is hinted to be a concentration camp.
[]Aryan: The protagonist manages to kill the Fuhrer and a new parliament is formed, the new power rules with an iron fist and from a tyranny to tyranny with the only difference is a different symbol and name however arrests are shown for people of colour and protests number increasing and an actual democracy seems impossible.