Elizabeth is the only one who shows any shock at a parade of Little Sisters standing in the street, Booker callously calls them “Adam Factories,” and the rest of the population is just so used to seeing this horrific atrocity it no longer even registers. Of course we also get to see the cause of their downfall: their utter indifference. Sally’s trail leads through prosperous and lively Rapture, where we get some genuinely interesting glimpses of Rapture’s societal structure and the benefits of Plasmids when used properly.
Hey, that sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Constants and Variables I spent most of the game trying to figure out why she seemed to hate me so much and what was so important about this girl Sally, whom Rapture Booker managed to lose while gambling. You don’t know what it is yet, but this Elizabeth hates you, and yet for some reason she’s trying to help you. DeWitt…” and it’s the way she says it that really clues you in that something is wrong. Dewitt, she responds “If it’s all the same to you, I’ll stay with Mr. Most telling of all is that when Booker DeWitt tells her to call him Booker instead of Mr. DeWitt” it has this venomous, almost sarcastic quality to it. Every attempt to befriend her fails and every time she says “Mr. Again this isn’t the Elizabeth we saved, as I pointed out in this review she disappears the moment the Siphon is destroyed, but even the Elizabeth at the end of Infinite wasn’t this hostile. That alone will probably tip you off that this is the Elizabeth that took Booker through time and drowned him at the end of the game.
One of the things you’ll immediately notice upon playing Burial at Sea is that Elizabeth is extremely cold and hostile. Enough about that though, I’m here to talk about the story and what there is of it is top notch. Honestly this whole chapter would have been better if it’d been an hour long, that would have been the perfect length for it, enough to fit in plenty of shooting and violence while allowing the story to maintain its pacing. Maybe it’s just me, but a lot of the combat and missions in Burial at Sea just felt like padding. With the original game there was a lot of dialogue between Elizabeth and Booker as they visited various locations, and every mission had a tangible effect on the story. I realize this is just how games work, looking back at Infinite most of the game consisted of the same thing, but here it just feels like a time sink and I think it’s because nothing you do has any real impact on the story. I completed it within about four hours I think and most of the time it just felt like busy work, half the time you’re just looking for a way to open a door or get across a chasm. The first thing I want to say is that I don’t think this DLC is worth the $15 they’re charging for it unless you really wanted to get back to Rapture. This time we get to see Rapture at its prime as we wake up as Booker DeWitt and begin a journey through Rapture on the eve of its utter destruction… Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea A Storyteller’s Review One of the things I liked about Infinite is that it showed Columbia might actually be a nice place to live (if your white, protestant and non-Irish anyway) whereas we only ever got to see Rapture as the dark, rotting corpse of a dead society.
It was kind of refreshing to return to Rapture after all these years and the DLC shows us something we never got to see in the original Bioshock: Rapture at its prime. Burial at Sea is the latest DLC for Bioshock Infinite and continues the story of Elizabeth, though how it connects with the main story isn’t revealed until the final moments of Part 1.
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