Indiana Jones and The Great Circle Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Junior once again against his greatest enemies, fascist Nazi regime of the 1930s and the fascist Nazi rule of the ’40s once again. And in classic machine congestion fashion, it seems incredible to curse your head in using, okay, just anything that I can find. I am not surprised to handle the war against the Nazis of the Machine Gams – they have been in the business of letting the players kill the Nazis since the modern Wolfanstein Games. As far as my question is, he completed almost a more immersion-sim, which took the Nazis to the Great Circle. One thing that surprised me, however, was a side quest about a explorer named Annika.
This “field work” mission, which is the stand-in of the game for a side quest, is that you can pick up at the end of the trip to Indie. For example, here your official spiiler warns that if you have not defeated the game yet, it is not released.
Spiiler for Indiana Jones and Great Circle below
After making your way for the drying of Thailand, you will eventually receive a field work mission called “A Study in Fear”. Local leader Palen asks you for helping find a mysterious stone in Wat Mahaath, you reach the site so that the Nazis blown the architecture to find the entrance of an underground temple. Once you make your way, you need to help another archaeologist named Annika to move forward in the site. Since the temple needs more than just one person, Indi and Annika team.
Both do not take a long time to start chatting, and we learn that Annika is actually working for the voss, the main Nazi anti -Nazi of the game. Next to that point, Indy dug into it with Annika, questioning whether she knows that Vaus is an Nazi, if she understands what it means in the broad world of archeology, and if she also knows the grander plan of the vaus in the Great Circle (which I will not spoil here). She plays to some extent, such as she does not know about the intentions of the vaus and her fascist loyalty. Indie, is not ready to take her out in the way he runs another Nazi, because both of them need Annika to escape from the temple, try to convince her what her working coalition with Waons means.
The machine gams are less than saying that having dinner with Nazi makes you Nazi, or I think to put it in the context of the game, becoming an archaeologist for Nazi makes you Nazi. But, as two, Indie is trying to understand why she is working with the Voss, explaining how the Nazis did not understand the practice of archeology, we learn that Annika was an alumnus of Indi and asked her to write a reference for an occasion. Its reference became one of many people who could not complete the Indy (he could be busy in the temple of Qayamat), and Annika does not forget it, taking it as a personal attack.
Annika’s citrus grapes bring her into the bottom of the Nazis, because I think if a professor does not like you, it does not refer you what you want, the next step is to embrace fascism. At another point in my life, I am likely to laugh at this leap of logic. But in 2025, it is not incredible – this is reality. In any field, these games, movies, politics, or other places, there are many examples of people that they do not want, or canceled (see: the facial results for their tasks), and quickly become grifters. They feel that one is pushed out of a place (again, being held accountable), and rather than being its owner, apologizing, and taking steps to become a better person, they quickly switch into opposition once and somehow make a quick deer. This act is hoarse, and it is fine what Annika does.
She does not get what she wants from Indie and jumps ship to join her hated enemies. Sure, Annika Does What does she want from this fascist rule – the opportunity to become an archaeologist professionally – but she is doing literal Nazis. She indicates this throughout this mission, but eventually after finding the pair leaves the Act what they are looking at. Instead of helping Indy escape, she cheats on her, tells her what she is and what her plans are, and that she has no problem in having a share before Kicking Indie into a pit for her death.
Fortunately, Indy survives, but not before finding out that Annika became arrogant and careless, and lost a hand in the process (was crushed by a door and separated from her body). Indie carelessly commented that she found what she was entitled, and it is a great moment. At any point, Indi did not justify Annika’s actions or expressed sympathy – he immediately pushes back, calling her out what he is because there is no sympathy or humanization of Nazi. She is very greedy and tamasic, who leaves morality and humanity in the name of revenge, to listen to any warning of Indi. This is 1937, so he is not able to start a podcast or YouTube channel in 2025, but he has been embraced by the Nazis.
I like how Machine Games handled this story Vignet with Annika. I think I love immediately, indie “Wait, what, why will you work for them on earth? It’s wild and unforgivable. Stop it.” I also like that Machinagams shows no kindness or humanity for Annika, eventually she knows her real role and she is morally fine with it. And in the end, the developer determines that Annika gets what she deserves as a smoked arm, which will make her future archaeological exploits more difficult. It is not quite a shovel. The head or hammer saves countless other Nazis in the great circle for Indie for the skull, but it is satisfying everyone.
I appreciate the machinemen using a side quest, the way Nazis’ work methods, their careless relationship for history and humanity in chase for power and their punishment for doing so. In a game filled with opportunities to silence the Nazis immediately, before they can receive a word (usually the appropriate way to deal with them), it is also good that we call all the stupid items that we expect to come out of their mouths before putting them in their place. This is the message of Annika’s story: The Crift will eventually cut you into the donkey. While The Great Circle is a bit more different how it happens here – in this example, nature handed over her arrival to Annika – it is still satisfactory to a developer to fully detect this cycle.
