Was anybody's face kind of trans-morphed like mine when you beat BioShock: Infinite? I recently beat the game yesterday and I was kind of blown away by the game's ending. I know I'm about a year late but the plot twist was exciting to watching. And it was so messed up for Booker, the main character. He was so fixed on being done with the mission and saving Elizabeth that he didn't realize that it all started and ended with him. I know for a lot of you gamers the plot ending boggled the mind but not me. I got it right off the bat. It made total sense to me. Probably because I'm a uber geek like and maybe a bit a of a Stephen Hawking buff. If you don't know who he is look him up and you'll understand what I'm talking about.
Ken Levine and his crew at Irrational Games really put together a great game and story. The game could almost be setup as a movie if they wanted. The BioShock games kind of have that Final Fantasy essence with the far off unique lands/worlds and strange characters. You really get immersed in these games. They put you in the driver seat of the characters adventure.
The fact that Booker Dewitt was actually Zachary Comstock really put the game in perspective especially when they got into the whole constance an variable conversation. That whole scene where Booker was attempting to renew himself by having all his sins absolved at the baptism was the pivotal point of his story. It almost kind of reminded me of Dante's Inferno. Dante believed his sins would be absolved by the priest but it just was not the case thus losing the love of his life in the process. The same deal happened to Booker in a sense.
In his universe he opted out of the baptism keep him as himself, Booker Dewitt. In other universes he chose to follow through with the baptism making himself anew and changing into his alter ego, Zachary Comstock. I was kind of bummed when Booker had to die though for Comstock to truly die and there was nothing that could change that for him in any universe. It kind of sucks that the other Bookers did not opt out of that position like the original one had. They did not have to go through with the baptism but they did anyway. Then again they didn't know the events after would follow. And no one else could have known either... well except for Elizabeth anyways since she has the power to see all beginnings and endings.
I guess Ken Levine and crew could have saved Booker in the story by having him and Elizabeth find a way to stop him from ever giving Elizabeth up as a baby, as Anna. It was amazing to find out that the whole game that he was running around through Colombia with Elizabeth and not knowing that she was his daughter he had given up years ago. The story was something else. I'm gonna leave on that note because I could go on and on with this. If you still don't understand what fully happened in the game check out this video explanation here.
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