![]() ![]() Players might think that choosing to adorn Elizabeth’s necklace with the image of a free bird or a cage will have some sort of Fable-esque significance, but no, it’s just the Luteces messing with you. ![]() ![]() In an attempt to make fun of how linear games and choice are, rather than allow for branching narrative, BioShock Infinite has a single course of events - all you can do is impact trivial token moments that purely impact you on an emotional level. They’re the lynchpin that ties the entire story together, incredibly amusing, and like a giant neon sign screaming the problems of the plot. Jennifer Hale and Oliver Vaquer are fantastic as these pseudo- Doctor Who stand-ins who constantly talk in riddles while goofing around. The cherry on top of this incredibly messy narrative is the Lutece twins. I’m genuinely curious how much more off the rails the religious themes might have gone without that. That isn’t surprising when you learn that Ken Levine literally didn’t understand the point of Jesus until a developer almost quit the game very close to release. Yes, I’m seriously saying Infinite didn’t criticize my religion as hard or thoroughly as it could’ve. That’s not even getting into the way the game drops the ball with religion, because my speaking as a Christian, BioShock Infinite misses so many obvious points of critique that would’ve been far more meaningful than what we get. There’s also an industrialist in the middle of everything who interrupts the plot for an extremely unnecessary set of chapters that mostly just introduces massive plot holes. The Vox Populi and their leader Daisy Fitzroy are at first portrayed as downtrodden revolutionaries, but then Daisy’s ready to kill a child (DLC ineffectually tried to retcon this.) and the Vox are just rampaging barbarians blowing up literally everything. The Prophet and his flock are all jingoistic, racist, xenophobic, hate-spewing monsters who think slavery is great and that even early 20th century America is just too liberal for their tastes. ![]()
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