This is not just foreshadowing an epic moment by building up your greatest achievement. Because when they say you can't beat Songbird, they mean it. Because there is no version of this story in which Booker fights Songbird and does not die. You're told this over and over and over again, and every player who hears that goes, "Yep, I'm going to be the epic badass taking down Songbird at the end." But you're not. Like many things in Infinite, it's a deconstruction of player expectations. "When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. ![]() ![]() I mean I was REALLY hoping for the chance to fight that giant metal bird. The only thing that left me a little disappointed was the conflict with Songbird, or lack thereof, and the absence of Saltonstall and Charles from the trailer (unless there was a really long side mission I missed).Īnyway, I figured that the game was going to focus on the conflict between Booker and Songbird, but that got shot down the moment that Songbird reappeared and Elizabeth told Booker that she'd rather die then go back into a cage. Bye-bye metaphor.ĭid the Luteces ever pick up on how 'loopy' they were after the incident?Īnyway, I finished my first playthrough of Bioshock Infinite. By the end, it's implied that the cycle is broken, so starting over as another Dewitt doesn't make sense. And the metaphor doesn't really work since the game's ending involves Booker being erased, so all of those "other" lighthouses can't really happen, at least not at that time. But that can't be right, because Booker, supposedly, doesn't "make it" to the Sea of Doors the other 122 times. I assumed this was a metaphor for when the player started the game over again, and that Booker and Dewitt would be "destined" to go along this same path, over and over, kind of like Journey. ![]() Another had the design of the pre-release version of Elizabeth.Īt the Sea of Doors, we saw another Booker and Elizabeth walking by. So why did all of the alternate Elizabeths showed up at the tail end? What did this represent? Why did they gather? One Elizabeth recognized Booker as Comstock, and the other didn't, and the main Elizabeth just looked bored one Elizabeth was covered in blood.
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