Huh. where'd everybody go?
MIND BULLETS
This review's gone through quite a lot of edits...
If you wanna PM me, send it to my mrsunshinesprinkles account; this one is blorked.
Edits nothing; I had the entire thing scrapped and rebuilt.
MIND BULLETS
That happens a lot around here.
Well, I'm not gonna flame you for disliking a game I liked (that last review comment section was just atrocious). Most of the things you point out as bad, there's really no arguing with. I did like the story more than you did though, and even though I'd more or less pieced together the big twist I still received it well. The foreshadowing was done very nicely. And I can't even consider comparing Bioshock Infinite to ME 3, for me that's like comparing apples and...poop.
Different strokes for different folks. I did pick up on a lot of interesting little things while watching my friend play the game after I'd completed it. So I wouldn't necessarily say that it's only worth a single playthrough...maybe true, but it's probably a good idea to at least go back and watch some of it again, if only to appreciate some of the details that might have been missed on the first go-round. Especially if those details are the hidden songs, because those are just too cool.
The only song I really got was Fortunate Son. That was real WTF moment for me.
MIND BULLETS
I got the Beach Boys near the beginning and Fortunate Son. Some of them are very well hidden by their transposition into era-appropriate music.
Got knows how many popped monocles and dropped teeth would occur if they got a hold of Dio or Slayer.
MIND BULLETS
This is a much better review.
"general feeling of this being a game that's gone through too many revisions"
Considering all the delays and the stuff written under What Could Have Been, I'm sure that's most definitely the case.
"confusing, pretentious, wholly unsatisfying ending that creates more questions than it answers"
Thank god I'm not the only one who felt this way.
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Squanders Good Things
I have mixed feeling about the Bioshock series; I want to like them, but they seem to go out of their way to make me dislike them enough to never play them again, but not enough to out and out hate them. Bioshock uno's instant death recovery defanged all the horrors, Bioshock dos's duel wielding awesomeness even more so.
Before anyone jumps down my throat, let me get me a few good thing out of the way first; It's extremely pretty, managing to pull off a wonderful Crapsaccharine World and fills it with fun, interesting characters. The relationship between Booker and Elizabeth is one of the best I've seen, and they become one of the most compelling game duos since Jak And Daxter. Finally, the skyrails are all kinds of fun. Stupid, illogically twisty, but fun.
And now for my favorite part- the bad. The game squanders the good things I've listed above; Skyrails are annoyingly infrequent, so most battles take place inside (beautiful) boring arenas. The combat is weak, mechanically encouraging you to stick with one set of Vigors and powers; Mine was Bucking Bronco+Shotgun, because BB levitates enemies, has huge range, a massive damage multiplier, is extremely energy efficient, on top of an idiot proof area of effect. Heavy Hitters are woefully underutilized, with the inventive and creepy Boys of Silence appearing for all of one level. Story wise, there's a Luke You Are My Father moment that made me feel dirty after it came up (and not the good kind of dirty either), there's a shit ton of padding in the middle act that goes nowhere, and the focus gets taken away from Colombia a third of the way through, and the game ends on a confusing, pretentious, wholly unsatisfying ending that creates more questions than it answers. An ending that it seems all third installments must have by law.
I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that I had some fun with Bioshock Infinite. It's just that the tedious combat, inadvisable story turns, and general feeling of this being a game that's gone through too many revisions damped my enjoyment. I recommend renting it and playing it though once. Don't worry, once is all you need.