You’ll learn plenty about our boy Atlas in the lead up to the original game, witness a ham-fisted (but appreciated) clarification for Daisy Fitzroy’s actions in Infinite, and finally meet the shadowy Suchong, portrayed in an oddly racist way compared to his BioShock 1 persona.Īll of this sutures the worlds of Rapture and Columbia together in ways that were honestly entirely unnecessary. Her actions are entirely in service of this new motivation, to find this little girl she has essentially no connection with, and through that you get the stories of BioShock’s other important characters. She’s given a patently absurd motivation brought over from the last DLC, which scribbles all over her characterization from Infinite proper.

Along the way she’ll uncover the secrets strung between the two cities, the keys to their similar advancements and monsters, and insinuate herself into the most fateful dealings of Rapture.įor all the talk about seeing the world through Elizabeth’s eyes, this story isn’t even really about her. Their dealings will send her back to Rapture, into the company of its most infamous figures, and even see her return to Columbia for a remarkably silly fetch quest.

Without her powers she’s trapped in Fontaine’s sunken department store, desperately negotiating with the notoriously untrustworthy Atlas for the lost girl. Our dear Elizabeth has given up her day job as a dimensional deity to save the Little Sister (no relation) that she was so keen on frying in Burial at Sea 1. What you get in the end is a big, sticky mess of plot mashed together in the service of tragedy and loss, instead of any kind of proper send-off for the series. This, the second Burial at Sea, does far more work to tie the BioShocks together but still does so in forced, needless ways. The first Burial at Sea began to weave together the strands between Rapture and Columbia in a painfully inept way, one that added nothing to either story and essentially deleted a key figure without even so much as a goodbye. We’ve seen the rise and fall of two impossible cities, and the toppling of two megalomaniacs at the hands of men they helped create. So here we are, at the grand finale of the entire BioShock franchise.

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