Bioshock Infinite
I beat Bioshock Infinite! You know what that means!
So, when we last left off, we were just about to storm the Comstock House, only to find that the door locked, obviously. Elizabeth is having none of it and so she is ready to dig up her mother's corpse to get past the fingerprint lock, because why not? We get to the graveyard, only for Comstock to do Something that causes Lady Comstock to be turned into a ghost. Who is annoying as shit to fight. And of course I have to fight her three goddamn times.
There is a lot of running around and looking at tears and whatever, getting more details that in restrospect aren't that helpful, and then Elizabeth makes up with Ghost Mom and we get into Comstock House. Then Songbird shows up again, steals the girl away, and Booker books it to try and save her, only to get pulled into the some horrible dystopian future in which Elizabeth becomes a bad guy, and it is creepy as fuck. Turns out they have brainwashed everyone and are also firebombing New York City, and it's also 1984. Weird! So Old Elizabeth gives you a card to give to present day Elizabeth, and then you're back in the present. You save Elizabeth from some creepy scientists, who she murders with a tornado, and then you go to Comstock's air blimp to end this.
Now this game starts getting really hard, and I started to get really frustrated. You fight your way through many decks (why these decks aren't connected by stairs, I have no idea), and finally meet Comstock and VIOLENTLY MURDER HIM! It was kinda messed up. So, after that, it's just a matter of destroying this weird siphon thing in the statue, which we enlist Songbird's help for. Yeah, we figure out how to gain his trust. It involves playing a song.
But first you have to get to the statue, and the Vox Populi are trying to blow up the airship you're on. So...you have to protect this central pillar, and it's hard and terrible. I actually knocked the game down to easy because I can tell this is almost over and I just want to see the end. So on the third try we finally get past this forced tower defense level, and we blow up the statue, and then things get fucking weird.
We've lost control of Songbird and he's coming back to kill us, but Elizabeth opens up a tear to goddamn Rapture, which ends up drowning Songbird somehow. Elizabeth suddenly now knows everything, so we take a bathosphere to the surface and go into this weird between-worlds area that is full of lighthouses. All the worlds, connecting by lighthouses. Very heady. Then we start getting some real answers, named who Elizabeth and Booker really are.
So, turns out Elizabeth is actually Booker's daughter, who he sold to Comstock in a moment of weakness. Comstock had to buy Elizabeth because his prophecy required him to have a daughter, but the magic alternate universe machine made him sterile. When Elizabeth was being pulled through, however, part of her pinky was stuck in Booker's universe, which gave her magic reality-tearing powers. The Luteces, after been killed/displaced in reality, decide to exact revenge of Comstock by enlisting Booker to take down Columbia, and seeing as they can be wherever they want to be, they provide him with a lot of help along the way. There is a lot of talking, but you decide that to prevent whatever happened, we need to kill Comstock for real, like erase him from the timeline, and it turns out that Comstock is actually Booker Dewitt from another timeline, so we need to drown Booker in a river.
It is confusing, and I keep thinking about it and I can't come up with a clear answer on what really happened. But I liked it! Good game, everyone!
I beat Bioshock Infinite! You know what that means!
So, when we last left off, we were just about to storm the Comstock House, only to find that the door locked, obviously. Elizabeth is having none of it and so she is ready to dig up her mother's corpse to get past the fingerprint lock, because why not? We get to the graveyard, only for Comstock to do Something that causes Lady Comstock to be turned into a ghost. Who is annoying as shit to fight. And of course I have to fight her three goddamn times.
There is a lot of running around and looking at tears and whatever, getting more details that in restrospect aren't that helpful, and then Elizabeth makes up with Ghost Mom and we get into Comstock House. Then Songbird shows up again, steals the girl away, and Booker books it to try and save her, only to get pulled into the some horrible dystopian future in which Elizabeth becomes a bad guy, and it is creepy as fuck. Turns out they have brainwashed everyone and are also firebombing New York City, and it's also 1984. Weird! So Old Elizabeth gives you a card to give to present day Elizabeth, and then you're back in the present. You save Elizabeth from some creepy scientists, who she murders with a tornado, and then you go to Comstock's air blimp to end this.
Now this game starts getting really hard, and I started to get really frustrated. You fight your way through many decks (why these decks aren't connected by stairs, I have no idea), and finally meet Comstock and VIOLENTLY MURDER HIM! It was kinda messed up. So, after that, it's just a matter of destroying this weird siphon thing in the statue, which we enlist Songbird's help for. Yeah, we figure out how to gain his trust. It involves playing a song.
But first you have to get to the statue, and the Vox Populi are trying to blow up the airship you're on. So...you have to protect this central pillar, and it's hard and terrible. I actually knocked the game down to easy because I can tell this is almost over and I just want to see the end. So on the third try we finally get past this forced tower defense level, and we blow up the statue, and then things get fucking weird.
We've lost control of Songbird and he's coming back to kill us, but Elizabeth opens up a tear to goddamn Rapture, which ends up drowning Songbird somehow. Elizabeth suddenly now knows everything, so we take a bathosphere to the surface and go into this weird between-worlds area that is full of lighthouses. All the worlds, connecting by lighthouses. Very heady. Then we start getting some real answers, named who Elizabeth and Booker really are.
So, turns out Elizabeth is actually Booker's daughter, who he sold to Comstock in a moment of weakness. Comstock had to buy Elizabeth because his prophecy required him to have a daughter, but the magic alternate universe machine made him sterile. When Elizabeth was being pulled through, however, part of her pinky was stuck in Booker's universe, which gave her magic reality-tearing powers. The Luteces, after been killed/displaced in reality, decide to exact revenge of Comstock by enlisting Booker to take down Columbia, and seeing as they can be wherever they want to be, they provide him with a lot of help along the way. There is a lot of talking, but you decide that to prevent whatever happened, we need to kill Comstock for real, like erase him from the timeline, and it turns out that Comstock is actually Booker Dewitt from another timeline, so we need to drown Booker in a river.
It is confusing, and I keep thinking about it and I can't come up with a clear answer on what really happened. But I liked it! Good game, everyone!
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