Overall it was pretty amazingly executed. All the details, the tells, the visuals....most of it without spoiling anything. I guess the only plot hole you might find is that Booker Dewitt/Comstock are two utterly different people. Did he have a stroke during that baptism or what?
I liked the ending I suppose but knowing time and alternate realities were in play before I even started the game, I was taking everything with a grain of salt because I knew the ending was going to delve into issues like this.
I was kind of tickled though when Elizabeth said "There's always a man. There's always a city." I said the exact same thing before playing the game.
Just like the previous Bioshock games, the main character is a hapless pawn to fate, and I guess this is that theme dialed up to a 12.
The whole thing, especially the moment in Rapture, makes me wonder if this is the last Bioshock title. Upending the series canon and doing multiple realities is pretty hard to top...let alone set another story in. Yeah, you could make the argument that multiple realities is an excuse for another game....but I dunno. This had the feel of a magnum opus, and the ending kinda felt like a goodbye to the series. I could totally be wrong, but if they do another Bioshock, I'll have a really hard time not looking at any plot it has cock-eyed. When you go that fourth wall on the player as the creator of the series, can you really step back from it? Oh wait. NM. I live in a world where Kojima is still making Metal Gear Solids
One niggling thing though: Comstock was a terrible villain. Compare Comstock to Andrew Ryan. Andrew Ryan had believable motivations, and character. Comstock was 100% slogans. Booker survives Wounded Knee, gets reborn and goes on to....make more war? Then hate the government? When/why did he become a racist? Why does Booker turn into
a worse person after his baptism? Because ultimately Comstock was second to the story, an archetype transplanted from a previous game to fit the model. Don't get me wrong. Comstock sufficed for the story to keep you blaming/hating someone, but all the religious bluster is a cover for the fact he has pretty shallow motivations. I feel like all the logical, negative social consequences that made up Bioshock 1 and to a lesser extent 2, are kind of tacked on in Infinite. Because the racism, the xenophobia, the turn of the century industrialization, even the religious zealotry....it all basically has zero to do with the actual story.
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