Bioshock Infinite

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Previously, on The Other Castle.

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And Ken has been extremely diplomatic when talking about Bioshock 2.

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He turned it down because he just didn't want to return to Rapture.

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And he felt that if the Bioshock series was going to continue, it would need to be more like the Final Fantasy series, in that the sequels are not connected to one another.

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So he decided he's going to go off and show them what he meant.

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But that's a story for another time.

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Which means there's going to be one coming out that partners with this episode.

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We're going to be doing the DLC to this game, which this week's episode is Bioshock Infinite.

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It's about damn time.

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Right.

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We're going to close out the series of Bioshock for now anyway.

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We've been debating when to do this.

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Yeah, right.

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Just you know what?

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Just figured we give it to you guys as a Christmas treat.

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I think that Bioshock Infinite was the last time we went to a midnight release of something.

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Yeah, I think so.

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And not even just a game, just in general.

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Right.

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I don't leave the house now.

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You know why?

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Everything's on fucking HBO Max.

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Yeah, it's pretty easy just to stay home now.

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Yeah.

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Also, I spend so much fucking money on like living somewhere.

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Why wouldn't I take advantage of my biggest expense every month?

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That's very true.

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I be hanging out in this house all day, find new places to sit.

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But no, I remember going to the Burbank Victory Center Game Stop with you at midnight, and I didn't know what Bioshock was at all.

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At all, no.

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And you're like, it's a video game where you're a man.

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And I was like, that's crazy.

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You hadn't moved to Rapture yet at that point.

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No, I was not a citizen of Rapture.

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I was still on my visa.

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But it was a lot of the same shape of person and like archetype of dude that was in line for Bioshock 3 and Burbank.

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Okay, yeah.

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You certainly fit in.

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I did.

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I was the accessory to the event, and it was cool.

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And I was really mad because the line was really long, and I said, would you kindly move it along?

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And nobody laughed.

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No one cared.

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Nobody cared.

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Do you think someone had done that five minutes before you got in line, like, to death, though?

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Oh, maybe.

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We might have gotten there late and everyone's like, oh, the 15th person already.

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Like, you could have gotten decked for that, to be real.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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Maybe I was just being annoying.

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Yeah.

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Who knows?

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Well, yeah, I'm really excited to, like, finish out the Bioshock series just because, you know, it's become such a staple on our show.

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Oh, totally.

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And in life.

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And in life.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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It has just it's such a big part, and it's probably part of gaming in general.

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Absolutely.

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I mean, there still isn't really a game like Bioshock or Bioshock Infinite that re-bottles that fucking lightning, you know?

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Not really.

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And yet there's so many games that have kind of copied the formula.

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Yeah.

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Or the aesthetic.

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Or the aesthetic.

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Yeah.

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Oh, God, is it Steamwork Revolution or Clockwork Revolution?

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It's something steampunky, and it deals with time and shit and has basically Columbia as the backdrop.

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It really looks very similar, right?

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Well, anyway, when we last left off Ken Levine.

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Last time on Ken Levine.

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Yeah.

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He had decided that he was not going to be doing Bioshock 2.

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And Ken Levine set out to make his vision for what a Bioshock sequel should look like.

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So they had concurrent sequel, quote unquote, projects from the Bioshock world moving.

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Yeah, they did.

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That's fascinating.

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And this is all under irrational games, right?

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Still under irrational games, yeah.

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It's interesting to have nearly competing teams working concurrently for the same boss, you know?

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Right?

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It's an interesting method to take.

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Yeah.

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And to be real, he even questioned whether or not he should even do another Bioshock game.

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Because like, what more do you have to say?

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Yeah, that's the reason he didn't want to do Bioshock 2.

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He felt he had said everything he wanted to say about Bioshock.

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Or at least Rapture.

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Or at least Rapture, yeah.

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You know, when we look at the core components that transfer from Bioshock to Infinite, and then just even what we've seen of Judas, his next coming project, it seems to be structured in the same framework, while the story and setting are very different.

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Yeah, and that's going to be a theme that's going to kind of resonate throughout this entire story.

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Oh, OK.

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Not to jump ahead.

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Right.

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So his closest confidence really did encourage him, though, to continue the franchise.

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Hell yeah.

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After the launch and success of the first game, Ken Levine found himself in the center of the spotlight, having delivered a groundbreaking and revolutionary experience.

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And he's part of this very specific class of this, like, mid to late aughts game directors who started becoming personalities of themselves.

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Yeah.

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It's interesting because, you know, obviously in the 80s with Tetris, people aren't following Alexey Pajanoff the way they're following Neil Druckmann because they love The Last of Us.

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Right, exactly.

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But this era of that, like, mid aughts to late aughts, maybe early teens years is when we start getting these personality game directors and like, you know, the Cliffy B's of the world.

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Yeah, definitely.

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So he returned to Irrational Games, ready to get started on his next project, and he saw that there were a few faces missing.

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Hmm.

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A handful of developers had decided to go make Bioshock 2 as it came with a nice promotion.

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Oh, naturally.

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Which, no biggie, as he was being given resources the first game never had anyway.

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Yeah, totally.

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Mainly, a significantly larger budget.

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Oh, doesn't that feel good?

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Oh yeah, money always feels good, right?

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It definitely does.

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So, Ken Levine set out to hire a new team of developers to make his next game.

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The first game capped out around 40 employees, with the majority of development being done by about 20 people.

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I think that's a fair size team.

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Yeah.

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And this new game quickly ballooned to 150 employees.

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Holy shit.

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However, one of the people they had lost was the Joey Drew to his Henry Stein.

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Oh no.

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On the first game, Ken was free to be the creative, and he didn't have to worry about the details.

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He just had to turn his work in.

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Yeah.

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With this new team, Ken was the only person at the top.

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And he looked around and went, oh no.

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Yeah, he had no experience running a team.

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As we learned with the first team, Ken Levine is a very collaborative creator.

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Yeah, he'd pitch a lot of stuff and they'd go, damn, that's crazy.

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And he'd go, really?

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I thought it was dumb.

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And then they'd put it in the game and it would be the would you kindly twist.

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Yeah, exactly, right?

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Yeah, he likes to spark an idea and then get the team talking and allows all the best ideas to rise to the top.

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That's cool.

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And that's what great leadership should do.

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When you're working with about five to 10 people at a time though, with a team of 150, the individual teams are closer to 20.

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And the development of the game quickly got away from him.

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Everyone was expecting the Ken Levine, genius behind Bioshock.

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And he's always been very humble.

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And from the very beginning has said, this has all been a team effort.

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They thought they were getting Andrew Ryan.

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Yeah, right?

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Well, you hear somebody say it was a team effort, you think, oh, you're just being humble and modest, right?

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Yeah.

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But Ken Levine was telling the truth.

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He said, no, for real, I need eight people to reign my ass in.

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Yeah.

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Obviously, we have the game today, and that's because the people who joined were passionate, and they did want to make a great game.

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And even though it had gotten chaotic, they did land on a few central ideas on the game they were going to make.

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Good.

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The first idea he had to get everyone on board about was the concept of going in a new direction.

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Literally?

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To the sky!

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Levine referred to the term Bioshock not as a specific location or setting, but a concept conjoined by two ideas.

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The exploration of a fantastical setting and the use of a large number of tools and abilities in creative manners to survive.

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He said, you guys know this is an anthology, right?

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Yeah, that's how he wanted it to go.

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So step one, figure out the location.

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Yeah.

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And not wanting to repeat styles and themes from the first game, Ken wanted to take the game a bit further back into the game.

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To the early 1900s, just as the Industrial Revolution was beginning and America was in a rebirth period.

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He landed on an era historians call American exceptionalism.

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I hate that already.

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Yeah, the name is the very healthy idea that America is the greatest country in the world and the leaders in all things technology and intelligence.

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Oh, it's giving, I don't even own a passport.

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Yeah, Ken Levine felt that that time period was filled with terrible people doing terrible things.

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Okay, cool.

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And he wanted to explore that.

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There we go.

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I got nervous for a half a second, but okay.

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There's a lot to be nervous about with this game.

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Yeah, as a mixed person, this isn't super fun, the first playthrough.

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Right, so we decided that if the first game was New Year's Eve, 1959, then this should be set around 4th of July, 1912.

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Merica.

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Yeah, very Americana.

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This gave his designers an era to research and explore.

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And the wildest thing people kept finding was the idea of flight being the biggest fantasy for people back then.

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Artwork depicting flying buildings, luxury blimps, and other soaring contraptions were like all over the place.

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I didn't know that was such a big part of the idealism of what the future would be.

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Yeah, being able to fly.

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Ken Levine loved the idea of going to the complete opposite of a city underwater.

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It's going to be dry as fuck up there.

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Yeah, he decided a city in the sky would be a great new location for the game.

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What I think is funny is that kind of the concept is falling into his lap.

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Like, he almost took a pin and like, or a dart and threw it at the wall and it hit a poster of 1912 fucking July 4th.

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And they were like, yeah, they love the sky.

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He's like, it's perfect.

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Yeah, OK, my idea just worked.

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Let's go with that, yeah.

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Well, the next part, which was the part everyone was most excited to explore, was the philosophy of the game.

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If the first game was libertarianism taken to its extreme, then what will this new game codenamed Project Icarus take on?

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Oh, I like that.

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As Ken Levine said in an interview, if you think about the founding principles of the United States, if you think about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, what's interesting to me is how two different people can look at the same set of documents by a single group of writers and come away with entirely different opinions about what those writings mean.

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So different that they're willing to kill each other over them.

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I would love to introduce him to the Bible.

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And the history of religion.

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I think he got a pretty decent crash course making this game.

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Okay, fair enough.

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And it's scary how hauntingly true that is still to this day.

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Oh, horrifyingly so.

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So he decided to create political ideologies and have them pitted against each other.

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And he chose a Christo-fascist state, which is a government controlled by a Christian church versus a group of freedom fighters.

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The key being, neither side can be shown as objectively right or wrong.

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Merica, fuck yeah.

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Well, that wasn't an easy task to set to a group of artists.

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And I would say they only do a mediocre job of hiding which side they think is wrong.

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It's hard to hide your bias and things like this.

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If we're gonna be 100, I'm probably gonna say some shit people won't agree with on this episode.

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I'm gonna put that out there right now.

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Yeah, so they got to work and started building a game within months of the first Bioshock's release.

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Wow, that's wild to go so quickly straight into it because you're creating, you're creating, you're creating.

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It finally gets moved over to the next stage.

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You're like, fuck yeah, it's shipping.

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And they're like, all right, here's the next pile of work.

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You're like, damn, I want to take a week off.

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Well, as the years went on, Ken Levine would change his mind constantly.

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And would need entirely new ideas and concepts on a whim.

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Oh, I don't like that, buddy.

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Well, it wasn't that he was getting eccentric.

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It was that he was maintaining that collaborative nature of his.

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And every other day, a team would have an amazing idea that just kind of reset the motion of the entire game.

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Ah, shit, so you'd be like, that's great, scrap the last shit without building on it necessarily.

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Yeah.

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It really became a problem that he just couldn't say no to a good idea.

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This led to nobody on the team knowing what the whole story of the game was actually supposed to be.

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It's pivoting too much.

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How are you supposed to follow the thread?

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Right.

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And Ken insisted that his reason for kind of keeping secrets between teams was because he wanted to be able to gauge reactions from the team as he revealed them.

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But it turns into a world of mistrust and misinformation.

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Yeah, because again, he's a creative.

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He's not a manager.

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He doesn't understand how annoying that is to a team that just wants an assignment with a clear direction.

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I'm a Scrum master.

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You've done some project management courses.

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Yeah.

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We probably could have helped.

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Yeah, definitely.

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They needed a project manager.

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At the two-year mark of development in 2010, they released the first trailer and gameplay footage of the new Bioshock Infinite.

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Oh, very cool.

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It was dark and haunting, showcasing new powers like the ability to shoot crows from your hands.

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That is my favorite plasmid of all time.

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I might have said this in previous Bioshock episodes, but Murder of Crows is the best fucking one.

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Why?

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You're a Disney princess, but for murder.

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You control birds.

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Yeah, that one's really good.

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So fucking good.

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It showcased the flying city of Columbia and its early 1900s America theming.

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And we saw fighting and flying, a building crashing into another.

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It was pretty fucking epic.

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That's great.

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And this game was going to be a perfect sister sequel to the original game.

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Back at home at Irrational Games, they continued plugging away and started developing the two lead characters, Booker and Elizabeth.

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For Booker, they wanted the opposite of Jack from the first game.

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They didn't want a silent protagonist who is just along for the ride.

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They wanted a talkative person and referenced Nathan Drake as an inspiration for the character.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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I'm triggered.

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I know.

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It's kind of ironic, isn't it?

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We'll get into why.

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But they especially wanted his interactions with Elizabeth.

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They wanted the same level of dialogue and conversations that the Uncharted series was able to accomplish.

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And kind of that way that Nathan and Elena, his love interests, have some banter, but also some mutual respect on the battlefield and things like that.

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Yeah, things like that.

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I fully see the thread.

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For Booker, they cast the legendary veteran video game voice actor, Troy Baker, who ended up in the Uncharted series eventually.

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As Nathan Drake's older brother.

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Right.

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Now, for Elizabeth, they cast Courtney Draper, who had like four credits to her professional career.

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Goodness.

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None of them in voiceover.

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Good for you, bitch.

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That must have been a killer fucking audition.

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Honestly, because she's fucking fantastic in this game.

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She is.

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She does a fan.

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Oh, she is wonderful as Elizabeth.

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And Booker was intended as the playable character and Elizabeth to be the sidekick.

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The inspiration for her being none other than Half-Life 2's Alex Vance.

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But again, Alex had to carry that whole game because 27-year-old Dr.

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Gordon Freeman is a silent hero.

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You know what?

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He's got a lot on his mind.

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Like you?

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Like me.

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Oh, I haven't thought about him in a while.

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I thought he might have ghosted me.

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Oh, I'm so sorry.

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I mean, he's not chatty, so who can ever tell if he's ghosting?

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And he did meet Alex Vance.

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I get it.

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I ain't shit compared to her.

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I fully respect that.

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I know my place.

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That's fine.

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Well, unlike Dr.

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Gordon Freeman, Booker talks a lot.

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He does.

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I like his performance a lot.

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And now that I'm thinking about it, aesthetically, his outfit does look a little Nathan Drake-y.

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A little bit, yeah.

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It's a very kind of of that turn of the century kind of Brendan Frazier in the mummy outfit.

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Like it's an adventurer outfit, certainly.

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Very much an adventurer outfit.

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Yeah, whereas Nathan Drake and his performer, Nolan North, inject a lot of kind of fun and humor and levity and silliness to it.

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Frazier has none of that.

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There is no silliness to this fucking portrayal at all.

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No, he's not a funny character.

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No.

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Well, they needed a character that could be even more interactive than Alex Vance because of the fact that Booker talks as well.

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Yeah, and he's throwing sass.

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So like, you've got to be there to catch it.

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After the trailer had dropped, the audience had a really warm reception to Elizabeth, and Ken Levine put pressure on the team to make her AI the best that's ever been seen in gaming.

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Not as good as Alex Vance.

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Better.

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They had to develop a team called The Liz Squad.

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Oh, she got her own fucking angels like she's Charlie?

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Yeah, she had an entire team dedicated just to her.

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So they could focus on inventing brand new technology just for this interactable character.

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There's something about Troy Baker Games in 2013-14, where he really acts as a pedestal for great female performances.

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Right?

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Of his sidekicks, who are brunettes.

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Fully.

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Not to make it too Last of Us heavy, but he really did something in this era where he was like, whatever woman I am cast against is gonna fucking shine.

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Right.

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But absolutely, when I think back to Infinite, I don't think of my relationship with Booker, I think of my relationship with Elizabeth.

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Right?

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Fully.

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So this even included adding interactable elements and moments through every single map of the game.

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That's cool.

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So things are very specific to where you are and where you're at in the story.

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Yeah.

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And she'll like call out something to talk to Booker about, you know.

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Honestly, the technology that gets invented for Elizabeth is outrageous.

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Yeah.

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And we'll actually get into more of it later in the episode.

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Internally, they had a release date of holiday 2011 for the game in mind, but with the Liz Squad and Ken Levine changing entire levels at the drop of a hat, including briefly considering cutting Elizabeth entirely due to the difficulty in programming her.

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Oh, shit.

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They realized that date wasn't happening, and they pushed it back and landed on October of 2012.

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The next trailer came out, and it showed all new footage of the game and announced the release date.

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The footage looked a lot different from the first trailer, but mostly the same elements, and by the final game standards does represent the final game at least, as the original trailer does not at all.

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But time kept creeping forward, and Ken Levine's inability to lead a team was becoming more and more apparent.

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Oh, buddy, the seams are starting to show.

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Yeah, there was no way they were going to hit that date, so they pushed it back again and hired a new boss.

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Now, they didn't fire Ken Levine.

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They just brought in a guy that is known in the industry as a man who can finish a game.

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Like Star Magic Johnson the Sequel Doctor?

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Yeah, exactly.

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His name is Rod Ferguson, and they poached him from Epic Games to come finish out Bioshock Infinite.

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His name is Rod?

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Yes, his name is Rod.

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Rod being old school, implemented immediate crunch and set a hard release date of February 26, 2013.

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This is coming out whether you motherfuckers are ready or not, so get to your goddamn keyboards.

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Yeah, which even with him holding the whip, they had to push back one more time to March 26, 2013.

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Damn.

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When it did ultimately release.

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The game rests at a 94 on Metacritic.

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Hell yeah.

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And is the third highest rated game of 2013, only being beaten by GTA V and The Last of Us Part I.

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It was a good year for Troy Baker.

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It was a great year for Troy Baker.

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All the women he worked with, fucking shining.

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With such stiff competition, it didn't win any major Game of the Year awards.

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Oh, everything was so split.

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And I mean, it's been 10 years, we're still playing all three of these games.

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But it was nominated and received high praise nonetheless.

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Some consider it as classic of a game as the original.

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Some think it's just another decent entry in the franchise.

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And some really didn't care for it at all.

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I go back and forth.

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Right?

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There are some things that I feel are unforgivable, and some things that really still feel better almost than the first one.

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At the end of the day, it has sold over 11 million copies.

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Hell yeah.

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And often finds itself landing in many must play lists over 10 years after its release.

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What the fuck was in the water in 2013?

00:22:37.084 --> 00:22:39.504
You know, same thing that was in the water in 2023.

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I'll tell you what, this has been an incredible year for gaming.

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I am so far behind.

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That's valid.

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I'm catching up to all my 2013 games.

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Yeah, right?

00:22:47.084 --> 00:22:47.464
Still.

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Well, let's close out the franchise at least for now, Goombas.

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Happy holidays.

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This is our gift to you.

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This is Bioshock Infinite.

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The game opens on a black screen.

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We hear the voice of a woman say, Booker, are you afraid of God?

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Bad first date question.

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The man, presumably Booker, says, No, but I'm afraid of you.

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Great first date answer.

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We next see a quote that reads, The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist.

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As quoted in the publication, Barriers to Transdimensional Travel by R.

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Lutece, 1889.

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Now, we are not in 1889, fortunately.

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The year is 1912, and our location is off the coast of Maine.

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The game begins and we find ourselves in a rowboat, out in the middle of the stormy and foggy ocean.

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You are Booker DeWitt.

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You are a passenger in this rowboat, as there is a man paddling the boat, and he is arguing with a woman who is also on the boat.

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They are both wearing yellow raincoats while you are just wearing your normal clothes, that adventurer clothes we were talking about, soaking wet in the middle of the sea.

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The two are arguing over whether or not some experiment succeeded, as the woman passes you a small wooden box.

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Inside the box, we see a gun, a picture of a golden angelic statue, some symbols, a big silver key, the coordinates for New York City, some loose change, and a picture of a young woman.

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You take the gun, then check out the picture of the woman.

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On the back of the picture is a note saying, Bring to New York unharmed.

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The two other people in the boat are saying some confusing things.

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For example, the woman asks the man, Why he didn't ask you for help rowing, seeing as this is your mission?

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The man says, Because he doesn't row.

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The woman says, What do you mean he doesn't row?

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The man responds, It's not that he doesn't row, it's that he doesn't row.

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And she responds with, Oh, okay, that makes sense.

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It's like dream speak, where you're like, I recognize these words, but they're not lining up.

00:25:08.424 --> 00:25:09.344
Yeah, right?

00:25:09.544 --> 00:25:10.884
It's AI written language.

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It's not.

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It's totally not.

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The AI was for Elizabeth's movement, not for any of the voices or anything like that.

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I actually know the guy who did the voice of the male character in this.

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I used to work with him in one of the restaurants back in Los Angeles.

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That's right.

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We saw a cosplayer of him at, I think, SDCC, and we sent a picture to him.

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Yeah, his name's Oliver Vekere.

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Great guy.

00:25:33.004 --> 00:25:35.044
I actually knew him in person for a little while.

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What's up, Oliver?

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The fog eventually clears, and you can just make out a dock connected to a small island.

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Here's where we'll take our first Bioshot, as this island also has a lighthouse on it.

00:25:47.004 --> 00:25:49.424
Do not take a fucking Bioshot.

00:25:49.444 --> 00:25:49.884
Are you serious?

00:25:50.084 --> 00:25:59.024
Okay, so our show accidentally developed a drinking game, where whenever a game is referential to Bioshock, we take a Bioshot.

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I have never played this.

00:26:00.984 --> 00:26:02.864
It seems horribly dangerous.

00:26:03.484 --> 00:26:08.484
Yeah, no, it's just every time that it's got just such a Bioshock moment, you take a Bioshot for it.

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You climb out of the boat and onto the dock, and the man and woman paddle away wishing you the best of luck.

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Do they?

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Yeah, kind of.

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You ask if someone is going to be meeting you here, and they say they certainly hope so.

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For your sake, fucko.

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But nobody is around, so you approach the lighthouse.

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The door is shut, and there's a bloodstained note pen to it saying, Do it, bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt.

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This is your last chance.

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You knock on the door saying you are expected, but nobody answers.

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So you go in.

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Immediately in front of you is a wash basin with some towels next to it and a sign that says, Of thy sins shall I wash thee.

00:26:53.784 --> 00:26:57.844
And this is here to let you know, this game is going to be tackling religion pretty heavily.

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Yeah, that's an aggressive first thing to interact with.

00:27:01.244 --> 00:27:06.264
Yeah, if you have issues with criticizing religion, this probably won't be the game for you.

00:27:06.604 --> 00:27:09.084
Well, it criticizes one specific religion.

00:27:09.104 --> 00:27:09.424
Yeah.

00:27:09.824 --> 00:27:12.244
They're pretty light on the Buddhism talk here.

00:27:12.644 --> 00:27:13.164
Not really.

00:27:13.184 --> 00:27:15.164
There's quite a bit of Buddhism talk actually in this game.

00:27:15.224 --> 00:27:16.784
Oh shit, that was a throwaway joke.

00:27:16.964 --> 00:27:19.184
I haven't played this in a couple of years.

00:27:20.184 --> 00:27:20.664
My bad.

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Well, you look around the lighthouse, and this is nothing like the lighthouse from the first Bioshock.

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In the first game, it was a tall, hollow building with a basement leading to a submersible bathysphere that took you to Rapture.

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Obviously.

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This lighthouse, however, is a normal one, with stairs going up to the top, and no basement to be found.

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Plus, this is 40 years prior to the events of the first game, so Andrew Ryan hadn't even built Rapture yet.

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He's still a baby, if at all.

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You explore a bit and find some quarters where someone is clearly living, but nobody is found.

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You can even find an old-timey phone, but when you pick it up, the line is dead.

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It's actually a new timey for this, considering.

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It was very modern at the time.

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On the next floor, you do find a person, but he's not moving.

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He's sitting in a chair and has a burlap sack over his head.

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Never a good thing.

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Even worse is a giant blood stain where his face should be behind the sack.

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I wouldn't open the sack.

00:28:19.984 --> 00:28:21.464
Yeah, you don't, fortunately.

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On his chest is a sign saying, Don't disappoint us.

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Jesus!

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So now that you've seen the fate of the lighthouse's only inhabitant, you continue your climb to the top of the lighthouse.

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At the top of the lighthouse is an outdoor deck that goes around the whole of the glass structure that contains the actual light of the lighthouse.

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But the door to get in is locked.

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There's some bells on the door with some symbols carved into them.

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They are the same symbols you saw on that box the woman gave you.

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You ring the bells in the order listed in the box.

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Suddenly, the stormy sky lights up a bright red coming from somewhere above the clouds.

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With the red lights comes the sounding of a loud trumpet, which is a reference to the book of Revelation in the Bible, where the sounding of the seven woe trumpets marks the beginning of the apocalypse.

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Woe trumpets!

00:29:18.944 --> 00:29:24.164
These horns also have seven different notes that play, and the sky lights up with each blow.

00:29:24.484 --> 00:29:29.744
Once they finish, the inside of the lighthouse burns bright red as well, as if responding to the trumpets.

00:29:30.924 --> 00:29:35.444
The trumpets respond to the lighthouse once more, and the door to the inside of the lighthouse opens.

00:29:36.704 --> 00:29:42.004
The light of the lighthouse sinks into the floor and is replaced with a red barbershop chair.

00:29:43.364 --> 00:29:47.644
You look at it and figure someone obviously wants you to take a seat, so you do.

00:29:48.624 --> 00:29:57.644
As soon as you're seated, your wrists become locked in by a cuff, and walls start popping up around you, looking like the elevator from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

00:29:59.244 --> 00:30:02.844
A robotic woman's voice says, Make yourself ready, pilgrim.

00:30:03.084 --> 00:30:03.864
Pilgrim!

00:30:04.344 --> 00:30:04.724
Right?

00:30:05.444 --> 00:30:06.424
Great choice of word.

00:30:07.504 --> 00:30:15.884
As the chair tilts forward, and you see what looks like rockets beneath you, firing up as if this lighthouse is actually a spaceship.

00:30:16.224 --> 00:30:16.884
Hell yeah.

00:30:17.344 --> 00:30:21.504
And while hanging there, the gun from your pocket falls out into the flame below.

00:30:21.644 --> 00:30:22.804
Oh, god damn it!

00:30:24.004 --> 00:30:30.464
You tilt back up, now completely surrounded by the walls of this makeshift rocket, and the voice counts down from five.

00:30:31.844 --> 00:30:41.324
You struggle to break free but to no avail as the countdown concludes, and instead of sinking to the bottom of the ocean, you blast off into the stormy night sky.

00:30:41.724 --> 00:30:42.344
Whee!

00:30:43.324 --> 00:30:51.704
The voice tells you your elevation as you soar higher and higher, 5,000 feet, 10,000 feet, 15,000 feet.

00:30:52.784 --> 00:30:58.284
Then you break through the storm clouds, and light blinds you through the single window in front of you as you do.

00:30:59.764 --> 00:31:04.144
As you regain your vision, the voice says, Hallelujah.

00:31:05.144 --> 00:31:10.864
And we get our next Bioshot, as this game's location, Columbia, is revealed to you for the first time.

00:31:11.364 --> 00:31:12.444
Oh, it's so fun.

00:31:13.224 --> 00:31:19.604
In the distance, we can see a full-scale city, high above the clouds with skyscrapers and suspension bridges.

00:31:20.724 --> 00:31:26.264
The giant whale moment of this game is taken on by a flying zeppelin moving between sections of the city.

00:31:28.024 --> 00:31:30.964
We can also see a giant, golden angelic statue.

00:31:32.264 --> 00:31:34.264
The one in the picture from the box we got earlier.

00:31:35.604 --> 00:31:37.664
Only now we can see the true scale of it.

00:31:38.224 --> 00:31:42.624
And it's bigger than any statue we have even today in our real world.

00:31:43.644 --> 00:31:46.164
Like, the Statue of Liberty ain't got shit on this girl.

00:31:47.484 --> 00:31:50.704
You are speechless, unable to comprehend what you're seeing.

00:31:51.904 --> 00:31:59.584
Some gentle piano music begins to play as the ship you're in begins to descend toward the city, and you hear a parachute open, floating you down.

00:32:00.064 --> 00:32:08.084
On the side of one of the buildings, we see a poster that takes up the whole side with a picture of an elderly white man with long white hair and a full white beard.

00:32:08.444 --> 00:32:09.044
Jesus?

00:32:09.404 --> 00:32:09.664
No.

00:32:10.164 --> 00:32:10.404
No.

00:32:10.424 --> 00:32:11.064
You said beard.

00:32:11.084 --> 00:32:11.444
Beard.

00:32:11.704 --> 00:32:12.284
Santa.

00:32:14.264 --> 00:32:15.624
Happy holidays, everyone.

00:32:16.284 --> 00:32:19.524
Also, that's the second time you've mistaken Santa Claus for a character on this show.

00:32:19.644 --> 00:32:20.344
What do you mean?

00:32:20.364 --> 00:32:21.004
In Hades.

00:32:21.464 --> 00:32:23.164
You thought Hades was Santa Claus.

00:32:23.184 --> 00:32:24.464
Was it not Santa?

00:32:24.484 --> 00:32:25.644
It was not Santa, no.

00:32:26.464 --> 00:32:28.244
We need to do more Santa games.

00:32:29.504 --> 00:32:33.704
The words on the poster read, Father Comstock, Our Prophet.

00:32:34.224 --> 00:32:35.204
Oh, I thought it was Nicholas.

00:32:35.224 --> 00:32:35.664
Damn it.

00:32:36.964 --> 00:32:42.484
When you touch down, you land in an elevator shaft and are slowly taken down inside a building.

00:32:43.804 --> 00:33:01.984
As you come to a stop, you see a huge stained glass window with Father Comstock pointing to a city in the sky, surrounded by desperate looking people with the words, and the Prophet shall lead the people to the New Eden, in reference to the Garden of Eden in the Bible's Origin of Life theory.

00:33:02.004 --> 00:33:03.504
I don't know, I heard there are snakes there.

00:33:03.844 --> 00:33:05.404
No, that was our apartment in North Hollywood.

00:33:05.424 --> 00:33:06.064
God damn it.

00:33:07.004 --> 00:33:09.104
We did live in a snake infested apartment.

00:33:09.124 --> 00:33:10.364
That was no Garden of Eden.

00:33:10.384 --> 00:33:11.924
No, it was no home.

00:33:12.484 --> 00:33:17.464
The door to your ship opens and your restraints retract, and you can get out and walk around.

00:33:18.424 --> 00:33:27.044
For some reason, the whole place is ankle deep in water, and there are angelic voices singing hymns through the stone building that is clearly a shrine to Father Comstock.

00:33:27.844 --> 00:33:33.264
You get another Bioshock moment as we come up to the giant stone bust of Father Comstock.

00:33:34.684 --> 00:33:42.464
Over him a sign says, The seat of the prophet shall sit the throne, and drown in flame the mountains of man.

00:33:44.004 --> 00:33:51.644
You find a man all in white robes and ask him where you are, and he says, heaven, or at least the closest we can get until the judgment.

00:33:51.784 --> 00:33:52.504
Oh my god.

00:33:53.184 --> 00:33:55.644
You're like, cool, so this is a religious place.

00:33:58.064 --> 00:34:06.244
There are some stairs heading down that you find, and when you descend them, you see a giant hall filled with floating candles in the ankle deep water.

00:34:06.404 --> 00:34:07.384
Oh, is it so pretty?

00:34:08.064 --> 00:34:12.624
You can see pairs of statues of angels holding their arms on an arc over the pathway you're on.

00:34:13.944 --> 00:34:26.184
Writer Drew Holmes says the act of walking through a candle-lined water trough in a Columbia church is visually similar to swimming through the flaming wreckage of the plane to reach the lighthouse in the first game.

00:34:26.604 --> 00:34:27.744
Oh, I like that.

00:34:28.704 --> 00:34:33.544
You can hear a preacher in the distance saying some preacher shit about sacrifice and baptism.

00:34:34.624 --> 00:34:44.884
He's talking about the prophet and how he defeated the heathens at Wounded Knee, discovered the mysteries of making a flying city, then delivered the people to it.

00:34:46.164 --> 00:34:47.884
Now, the next part is very offensive.

00:34:47.904 --> 00:34:54.564
I'm sorry, everyone, because the prophet next thankfully drove out the vipers of the Orient during the Boxer Rebellion.

00:34:58.584 --> 00:35:02.384
Then he lost his loving wife at the hands of the dreaded Vox Populi.

00:35:02.624 --> 00:35:03.024
Good.

00:35:03.124 --> 00:35:04.064
Honestly good.

00:35:04.084 --> 00:35:05.344
I already hate this guy.

00:35:05.964 --> 00:35:09.204
And Vox Populi is Latin for voice of the people.

00:35:09.364 --> 00:35:14.124
It's often used for like zines and things too, and underground movements still use that term.

00:35:14.304 --> 00:35:15.084
Yeah, definitely.

00:35:15.664 --> 00:35:18.384
You approach the preacher who is surrounded by worshipers.

00:35:19.584 --> 00:35:26.024
He asks if you came from the Sodom below, and if you are ready to be cleansed in the baptismal waters of Columbia.

00:35:26.184 --> 00:35:29.724
I like that Maine is Sodom.

00:35:30.224 --> 00:35:35.264
Once again, he came off the coast of Maine where there's just a bunch of sweet dudes and sweaters getting lobster.

00:35:35.284 --> 00:35:35.904
Yeah, right.

00:35:36.404 --> 00:35:38.104
You say you just want into the city.

00:35:38.804 --> 00:35:45.724
He tells you the only way in is through baptism, as this is the new Eden, and you can't enter without a clean soul.

00:35:45.744 --> 00:35:49.864
And you're like, whatever, just some water, and go along with the charade.

00:35:50.524 --> 00:35:56.424
Now, a normal baptism, at least in the Catholic Church, you say, I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

00:35:56.664 --> 00:36:02.164
I was baptized as a baby in a Presbyterian church, which I think was a water gun ceremony.

00:36:04.084 --> 00:36:04.924
They're real chill.

00:36:04.924 --> 00:36:07.444
It was a real laid back Presbyterian vibe.

00:36:07.464 --> 00:36:07.784
Nice.

00:36:09.044 --> 00:36:17.344
Well, this blasphemous bastard baptizes you in the name of the Prophet, the name of our founders, and then finally in the name of the Lord.

00:36:17.524 --> 00:36:18.524
In that order.

00:36:18.544 --> 00:36:21.164
That's such a fucking power move.

00:36:21.744 --> 00:36:24.084
He dunks you under the water and pulls you out.

00:36:25.024 --> 00:36:26.704
He says, I don't know.

00:36:27.224 --> 00:36:28.404
He doesn't look clean yet.

00:36:28.584 --> 00:36:29.284
Oh my God.

00:36:29.484 --> 00:36:34.644
Then he dunks you and holds you under until the screen goes black and you pass out.

00:36:35.144 --> 00:36:35.884
End of the game.

00:36:35.984 --> 00:36:38.824
It's amazing it showed up on so many Game of the Year lists.

00:36:40.224 --> 00:36:41.564
It's the Far Cry fake out.

00:36:41.584 --> 00:36:41.904
Right.

00:36:42.144 --> 00:36:45.004
Well, in the blackness, you hear the pounding of a door.

00:36:45.364 --> 00:36:47.164
You wake up in a black and white world.

00:36:48.364 --> 00:36:53.304
You're asleep at a desk, and there's racing forms with losing bets strewn across it.

00:36:53.884 --> 00:36:56.124
He lost all his money on the ponies?

00:36:56.144 --> 00:36:57.604
Yeah, literally on the ponies.

00:36:57.644 --> 00:36:58.924
Oh, that's embarrassing.

00:36:59.124 --> 00:37:01.644
And there's also a bunch of liquor bottles and a gun.

00:37:02.744 --> 00:37:04.544
Things aren't going great for you in life.

00:37:06.364 --> 00:37:09.544
The person pounding on the door continues to pound, yelling, We told you to it.

00:37:10.004 --> 00:37:12.584
Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt.

00:37:13.004 --> 00:37:14.064
From the ponies.

00:37:14.364 --> 00:37:15.364
These are bookies.

00:37:15.964 --> 00:37:17.064
They're horse bookies.

00:37:19.344 --> 00:37:22.104
The door to your place has a big frosted glass window.

00:37:22.644 --> 00:37:30.404
And while we can't see the person knocking, we can see that it says Booker to it, investigations into matters both public and private.

00:37:31.424 --> 00:37:34.304
So yeah, you're clearly a private eye with a gambling problem.

00:37:34.584 --> 00:37:38.424
And someone has hired slash blackmailed you to find some girl.

00:37:38.924 --> 00:37:40.824
Well, all the pony money.

00:37:43.684 --> 00:37:47.964
When you open the door, we don't see a hallway or a person on the other side.

00:37:48.824 --> 00:37:53.164
You see the city of New York at night, and it's completely under siege.

00:37:53.284 --> 00:37:53.764
Oh shit.

00:37:54.364 --> 00:38:02.244
There's explosions and smoke covering the city, and we can see zeppelins flying over it, raining fire down on the people below.

00:38:03.384 --> 00:38:08.644
High above, we can see the silhouette of the golden angel statue looming over New York.

00:38:09.304 --> 00:38:10.224
Like Godzilla.

00:38:10.284 --> 00:38:13.444
Yeah, upon a giant floating section of Columbia.

00:38:13.464 --> 00:38:21.564
A fireball shoots directly at you, and it causes you to wake up back in Columbia, laying in a puddle of water.

00:38:22.564 --> 00:38:24.484
He drowned you and left you there.

00:38:24.504 --> 00:38:24.864
Yeah.

00:38:27.124 --> 00:38:28.804
Three statues tower over you.

00:38:29.744 --> 00:38:34.124
One of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.

00:38:35.284 --> 00:38:39.224
When the preacher baptized you in the name of the founders, this is who he meant.

00:38:39.464 --> 00:38:40.604
The founding fathers?

00:38:40.624 --> 00:38:41.124
Yeah.

00:38:41.344 --> 00:38:42.884
They would have loved Hamilton.

00:38:43.624 --> 00:38:44.904
They would have hated Hamilton.

00:38:44.924 --> 00:38:45.564
Oh, you know what you're right.

00:38:45.584 --> 00:38:47.384
They would have hated Hamilton.

00:38:48.804 --> 00:38:53.844
Because the United States of America was not the first name chosen for this country.

00:38:54.784 --> 00:38:59.004
The actual real life name they wanted to give it was Columbia.

00:38:59.204 --> 00:39:01.104
Is that why DC is the district of Columbia?

00:39:01.124 --> 00:39:02.224
That's exactly why it is.

00:39:03.624 --> 00:39:16.424
So even though these men never lived to the 1900s, they are considered the founders of this Columbia, as Comstock created this community he believes they were intending to build with the original idea for Columbia.

00:39:16.684 --> 00:39:23.144
The same energy banks he took to Dismaland, saying this would have been Walt's eventual dream, right?

00:39:23.584 --> 00:39:28.744
While all three of these men are historically linked to the Freemasons, it weirdly never comes up in this game.

00:39:29.364 --> 00:39:29.924
Really?

00:39:30.044 --> 00:39:36.824
Yeah, and also if you want to dive into the Freemasons and that whole wild world, there are plenty of podcasts and YouTube videos that can explain it all to you.

00:39:36.844 --> 00:39:37.824
That's a whole ass thing.

00:39:39.104 --> 00:39:43.784
You push through to the actual city, and you open a door to another grand reveal moment.

00:39:44.704 --> 00:39:47.924
In the sky are moving buildings and flying ships.

00:39:48.644 --> 00:39:56.404
The platform you're on docks with another section of the city, and in the near distance, we see a large statue of Comstock himself.

00:39:57.584 --> 00:40:00.304
Columbia fucking loves statues.

00:40:02.564 --> 00:40:05.084
First order, get all the doctors up to Columbia.

00:40:05.104 --> 00:40:06.884
Second order, sculptors.

00:40:06.904 --> 00:40:08.604
Yeah, so many sculptors.

00:40:08.884 --> 00:40:10.404
They have so much work for them.

00:40:11.404 --> 00:40:16.944
From some brilliant environmental storytelling, which I guess deserves a Bioshot as it's a staple of the series.

00:40:17.044 --> 00:40:18.684
Right, and just gaming now.

00:40:18.764 --> 00:40:23.884
Yeah, we learned that Comstock had what everyone considered a miracle child.

00:40:24.684 --> 00:40:25.664
A rainbow baby.

00:40:25.744 --> 00:40:29.264
Yeah, as he was under the impression he couldn't have children with his wife.

00:40:29.584 --> 00:40:31.244
I assumed my dick didn't work.

00:40:32.664 --> 00:40:34.184
No, he assumed his wife didn't work.

00:40:34.304 --> 00:40:37.304
Oh yeah, there's going to be some misogyny up in this bitch.

00:40:37.324 --> 00:40:38.864
There's going to be a lot of it actually, yeah.

00:40:39.964 --> 00:40:44.364
He made a prophecy that his daughter would lead the Sodom below into righteousness.

00:40:44.944 --> 00:40:48.704
Which is that saying we read before about bringing fire down on the mountains of man.

00:40:48.724 --> 00:40:49.544
Oh God.

00:40:50.904 --> 00:40:54.624
You explore the area more and see some city folk just going about their day.

00:40:54.924 --> 00:40:58.244
Most of them talking about a raffle that will be taking place later that day.

00:40:58.264 --> 00:41:00.004
I love a raffle.

00:41:00.024 --> 00:41:01.304
I'm really good at raffles.

00:41:01.324 --> 00:41:02.164
You're weirdly good.

00:41:02.184 --> 00:41:03.924
You just won us David Blaine tickets recently.

00:41:03.944 --> 00:41:04.604
I did.

00:41:05.824 --> 00:41:06.484
Very good.

00:41:07.224 --> 00:41:14.504
They're all voiced and they all have stories to tell, usually just talking amongst themselves about Comstock or the latest news as you progress through the game.

00:41:14.544 --> 00:41:15.424
Just gossips.

00:41:16.464 --> 00:41:19.584
You eventually see the giant angel statue in the near distance.

00:41:21.004 --> 00:41:25.784
You hold up the picture from your box and figure that must be where they're keeping the girl you're here to retrieve.

00:41:26.704 --> 00:41:31.244
As you put the picture away, a young boy appears in front of you saying he has a telegram for you.

00:41:31.364 --> 00:41:33.524
Is it a young boy or is it a little gremlin man?

00:41:33.684 --> 00:41:37.704
It's kind of a little gremlin man, but it's supposed to be a little boy.

00:41:37.764 --> 00:41:42.764
Some of the kids got real fucked up animations, like Elizabeth is beautiful.

00:41:42.764 --> 00:41:43.164
Right.

00:41:43.804 --> 00:41:45.264
A lot of attention went into her.

00:41:45.284 --> 00:41:48.324
Yeah, some of these kids fucked up looking.

00:41:48.644 --> 00:41:50.884
Yeah, not as bad as the cyberpunk kids though.

00:41:51.744 --> 00:41:58.204
You take it and it says not to alert Comstock to your presence and not to pick number 77.

00:41:58.824 --> 00:42:00.864
Seems pretty fair for the rules of this world.

00:42:01.424 --> 00:42:03.544
Signed by a person named Lutess.

00:42:03.564 --> 00:42:05.164
You about to fuck this up so bad.

00:42:07.564 --> 00:42:14.884
As you head towards the statue, you go through a sort of World's Fair area with people showing off all sorts of new technology.

00:42:15.224 --> 00:42:16.644
Very like HH.

00:42:16.664 --> 00:42:19.944
Holmes going to the World's Fair and shit like that.

00:42:19.964 --> 00:42:22.524
Like the Disney like future world and shit.

00:42:22.544 --> 00:42:23.384
Fully, yeah.

00:42:23.404 --> 00:42:23.784
Cool.

00:42:24.084 --> 00:42:27.444
One of these things that they're showing off is a robot called a Handyman.

00:42:28.464 --> 00:42:36.924
It's about 10 feet tall, has long ass robot arms, big fucking feet, and a teeny tiny head looking like Mark Ruffalo in the Hulkbuster suit.

00:42:36.984 --> 00:42:38.064
Oh, I love that.

00:42:38.084 --> 00:42:46.024
It's amazing how there was this perceived reliance on robots when really we're just relying on like voice AI.

00:42:46.044 --> 00:42:53.904
It's just me yelling into the middle distance going, please turn the music off instead of like having my robot butler come in with a fucking feather duster.

00:42:53.924 --> 00:42:54.884
Yeah, fully, right?

00:42:54.904 --> 00:42:56.084
Our room was real flat.

00:42:56.924 --> 00:42:57.904
He's really small.

00:42:57.924 --> 00:42:58.384
Yeah.

00:42:58.904 --> 00:43:02.824
They overestimated the verticality of robots is all I'm getting at.

00:43:04.784 --> 00:43:09.484
Yeah, this thing was very much designed to be like your household, like butler kind of situation.

00:43:09.564 --> 00:43:10.004
Right.

00:43:10.584 --> 00:43:14.104
But it's also bigger than any doorway that would be in any kind of house.

00:43:14.564 --> 00:43:18.124
It's the one for the ceiling so you can get the fucking top corners.

00:43:19.804 --> 00:43:22.164
And it also keeps like shorting out while it's being presented.

00:43:22.524 --> 00:43:23.804
It's not a good robot.

00:43:24.104 --> 00:43:27.444
Yeah, it's kind of its big daddy replacement for this game.

00:43:27.464 --> 00:43:33.684
They have a few, to be honest, and none of them operate like the big daddy, so you can't even fairly call them the big daddy replacement.

00:43:33.704 --> 00:43:36.284
It's just big giant things that you got to fight.

00:43:36.644 --> 00:43:37.624
Honestly, good.

00:43:37.704 --> 00:43:39.904
I like the big daddy design as it is.

00:43:39.924 --> 00:43:41.324
I think they did a great job.

00:43:41.384 --> 00:43:46.104
I don't think they need to fucking regurgitate it in every skin of every world they go to.

00:43:46.124 --> 00:43:46.704
Hell yeah.

00:43:46.744 --> 00:43:47.324
I agree.

00:43:47.624 --> 00:43:51.064
There's also a booth here with a substance called Vigors.

00:43:51.424 --> 00:43:52.664
Absolutely drink all of it.

00:43:53.344 --> 00:43:57.484
Now take another Bioshock because these Vigors act as the plasmid for this game.

00:43:57.904 --> 00:44:10.024
I like that it's clear that there's some parallels between the world of Rapture and this world and the substances that were laying down for the inevitable rise of Rapture, but it's just a little different.

00:44:10.084 --> 00:44:11.044
Yeah, just tiny bits.

00:44:11.864 --> 00:44:14.784
Except here, you don't have to inject it into your bloodstream.

00:44:15.444 --> 00:44:16.164
You just drink it.

00:44:16.664 --> 00:44:17.004
Good.

00:44:17.024 --> 00:44:20.384
Honestly, that was so fucking gross in the first Bioshock.

00:44:20.824 --> 00:44:22.684
And Jack is just like, I'm here.

00:44:23.004 --> 00:44:23.484
Let's go.

00:44:23.504 --> 00:44:32.144
Yes, he's being hypnotized, but he does immediately stick a loose needle he found in a rotting underwater cavern into his body.

00:44:32.604 --> 00:44:33.084
Right.

00:44:33.344 --> 00:44:35.504
I cover my drink when I go to the bathroom.

00:44:35.724 --> 00:44:37.964
Like, this is a different world.

00:44:38.124 --> 00:44:38.604
Fully.

00:44:39.084 --> 00:44:41.064
Also, you don't use Eve to recharge it.

00:44:41.104 --> 00:44:42.724
Instead, you use vigor salts.

00:44:43.224 --> 00:44:44.184
There's no Adam and Eve.

00:44:44.204 --> 00:44:45.364
It's just salt.

00:44:45.864 --> 00:44:47.044
That's so American.

00:44:48.284 --> 00:44:49.204
Just add salt to it.

00:44:49.224 --> 00:44:49.984
We love salt.

00:44:50.604 --> 00:44:53.504
Yeah, and it's honestly all the exact same thing, just a different name.

00:44:53.784 --> 00:44:55.764
The first one you get is called Possession.

00:44:56.644 --> 00:44:57.744
I love this.

00:44:58.044 --> 00:45:01.564
Yeah, and it allows you to take control of machines like turrets and vending machines.

00:45:02.104 --> 00:45:07.384
And yes, I have another Bioshock because this game also uses vending machines as its shopkeepers.

00:45:07.764 --> 00:45:08.704
I love that.

00:45:08.904 --> 00:45:13.524
Yeah, they're different in this game, having an animatronic acting as the actual shopkeeper.

00:45:13.644 --> 00:45:15.464
Because they love vertical robots.

00:45:15.644 --> 00:45:17.244
And his name is Dollar Bill.

00:45:19.244 --> 00:45:20.244
I like that a lot.

00:45:20.264 --> 00:45:23.384
And he's once again being voiced by Ken Levine himself.

00:45:23.564 --> 00:45:25.584
I don't think I knew that this robot had a name.

00:45:25.584 --> 00:45:27.744
I appreciate that it's Dollar Bill.

00:45:27.884 --> 00:45:28.504
That's cute.

00:45:28.524 --> 00:45:29.724
That's enough of a pun for me.

00:45:29.744 --> 00:45:30.244
I'm happy.

00:45:31.684 --> 00:45:34.244
Well, there's a Dollar Bill vending machine nearby, so you use it.

00:45:34.704 --> 00:45:36.784
And he opens a door to the next section for you.

00:45:37.204 --> 00:45:38.144
The machine does?

00:45:38.224 --> 00:45:39.264
The machine does, yeah.

00:45:39.264 --> 00:45:40.164
What a gentleman.

00:45:40.704 --> 00:45:43.364
Beyond it is the man and woman from the robot earlier.

00:45:44.164 --> 00:45:45.904
Somehow, they're here in Columbia.

00:45:46.084 --> 00:45:46.904
They get around.

00:45:47.884 --> 00:45:54.564
The man is wearing a chalkboard on his chest, and it's divided into two sections, heads and tails.

00:45:55.724 --> 00:45:59.844
Heads has 12 tally marks underneath it, and tails has nothing.

00:46:01.304 --> 00:46:05.904
The man throws you a coin and asks, heads, and the woman asks, or tails.

00:46:06.604 --> 00:46:10.684
They do most of their talking like the Weasley twins often finishing each other's sandwiches.

00:46:12.004 --> 00:46:15.664
You tell them to shut up and move, but they insist and they make you flip the coin.

00:46:16.564 --> 00:46:20.664
You call heads as you don't get an actual choice here, and it lands heads.

00:46:21.884 --> 00:46:30.604
The woman puts another tally under heads, as the man bitches that even though he knew it would be heads, it's no longer satisfying to him knowing how things turn out.

00:46:30.784 --> 00:46:31.404
Oh, buddy.

00:46:31.744 --> 00:46:33.784
The woman tells him that there's always next time.

00:46:34.524 --> 00:46:47.464
They walk away, and as they do, we see the man is also wearing a chalkboard on his back, again split into heads and tails, and we see 110 more tally marks all on the head side.

00:46:47.604 --> 00:46:48.604
They filled it out.

00:46:48.864 --> 00:46:49.924
Yeah, they really did.

00:46:50.224 --> 00:46:51.504
None on the tail side still.

00:46:52.024 --> 00:46:54.604
I think this is the exact cosplay we saw, too.

00:46:54.644 --> 00:46:56.144
Yeah, we did see this cosplay, yeah.

00:46:57.244 --> 00:47:07.064
You continue on your journey to the Golden Angel, and eventually see a poster with a big black clawed hand with the letters AD on the back of it.

00:47:08.344 --> 00:47:13.904
Words surrounding the hand say, You shall know the false shepherd by his mark.

00:47:14.144 --> 00:47:15.824
Oh, I love some propaganda.

00:47:16.624 --> 00:47:19.104
You look at your right hand and say, What the?

00:47:19.624 --> 00:47:24.084
Because that's exactly what you have tattooed on the back of your own hand.

00:47:24.104 --> 00:47:24.804
That's okay.

00:47:24.824 --> 00:47:27.224
So at this time, that was called a job stopper.

00:47:28.024 --> 00:47:29.124
Right?

00:47:29.144 --> 00:47:33.624
You couldn't get tattoos on your neck or hand unless it really meant something fucked up happened to you.

00:47:33.644 --> 00:47:35.664
He was a private eye, like he employed himself.

00:47:36.024 --> 00:47:36.524
That's true.

00:47:38.004 --> 00:47:42.344
Still, it should have come up in the interview, but man, that's not a tattoo you can hide.

00:47:43.404 --> 00:47:48.584
He decided to push forward and eventually come upon that raffle you heard others talking about before.

00:47:49.004 --> 00:47:53.784
There's a hundred or so people, all surrounding an outdoor stage with red curtains.

00:47:54.784 --> 00:48:00.644
And a man in a top hat and sporting a penciled mustache saying that the 1912 raffle is finally here.

00:48:01.884 --> 00:48:04.044
The audience cheers and a woman calls out to you.

00:48:04.704 --> 00:48:08.584
She's carrying a basket of baseballs and tells you to pull one for the raffle.

00:48:09.104 --> 00:48:10.904
So you reach in and pull one out at random.

00:48:11.084 --> 00:48:13.384
Booker is not impervious to a raffle.

00:48:13.564 --> 00:48:15.144
He's like, you know what, I'm in debt.

00:48:15.164 --> 00:48:17.484
I could come up real big right now.

00:48:17.524 --> 00:48:18.644
He's a gambling man.

00:48:18.664 --> 00:48:19.064
Yeah.

00:48:19.964 --> 00:48:23.204
When you look at the number, it's number 77.

00:48:23.224 --> 00:48:25.384
Booker, you had two objectives.

00:48:27.424 --> 00:48:28.844
You fucked up half of them.

00:48:29.164 --> 00:48:31.044
And the woman says, wow, lucky number.

00:48:31.244 --> 00:48:32.104
I'll be rooting for you.

00:48:32.624 --> 00:48:33.544
Oh, she's trying to fuck.

00:48:34.164 --> 00:48:42.164
She walks off and the raffle begins with the prettiest white girl in all of Columbia bringing the man in a top hat a bowl full of raffle ticket numbers.

00:48:42.164 --> 00:48:43.264
Now, that's not my own words.

00:48:43.964 --> 00:48:48.324
That is the man in the top hat's words about her being the prettiest white girl in all of Columbia.

00:48:48.344 --> 00:48:51.604
It's like you're getting in some bad water that you're treading.

00:48:52.104 --> 00:48:53.024
What the fuck?

00:48:53.864 --> 00:48:55.644
He reaches in and pulls out.

00:48:56.284 --> 00:48:57.304
Surprise, surprise.

00:48:57.844 --> 00:48:59.244
Number 77.

00:48:59.324 --> 00:49:01.864
Booker, this is why it's specifically said in your note.

00:49:02.624 --> 00:49:03.844
Do not do this shit.

00:49:04.184 --> 00:49:06.964
He congratulates you and says, You won the big prize.

00:49:07.764 --> 00:49:09.584
You get the first throw.

00:49:10.284 --> 00:49:14.604
This is where I was immediately upset and was like, What the fuck am I playing?

00:49:15.004 --> 00:49:29.564
You look around, confused as the red curtains draw back, revealing a jungle scene, all in cardboard cutouts, and two people, a white man and a black woman, tied up to a couple poles.

00:49:29.964 --> 00:49:30.164
Ugh.

00:49:31.044 --> 00:49:37.804
Surrounding the two are a pair of very racially insensitive looking monkeys, dressed as if they are getting married.

00:49:38.484 --> 00:49:41.524
The tied up white man keeps yelling that it was him, all him.

00:49:41.924 --> 00:49:42.804
Leave her out of this.

00:49:44.164 --> 00:49:51.244
The man in the top hat looks at you and says, Well, are you going to throw it, or are you taking your coffee black these days?

00:49:51.264 --> 00:49:56.284
GASP Yeah, and then he bursts into a fit of laughter.

00:49:56.624 --> 00:49:57.764
Oh my god!

00:49:58.684 --> 00:50:03.644
Now here we're actually given a choice, and I'm shocked they chose this moment to have one.

00:50:04.704 --> 00:50:09.584
You can throw it at the tied up man and woman, or at the man in the top hat.

00:50:09.604 --> 00:50:13.284
Hell yeah, I don't think I've ever thrown it at the man and woman.

00:50:13.304 --> 00:50:22.164
Yeah, if any of you maliciously chose to throw it at the tied up people, I'd appreciate it if you just went ahead and turned off our show right now, because fuck you.

00:50:24.144 --> 00:50:32.944
But regardless of your choice, when you wind up to throw the ball, a cop catches your hand and points out the AD tattoo on the back of it.

00:50:33.044 --> 00:50:35.204
That's your throwing hand on top of it?

00:50:35.304 --> 00:50:35.704
No.

00:50:35.724 --> 00:50:36.344
Fucker!

00:50:37.484 --> 00:50:43.044
Everyone in the crowd turns their attention on you, as you are the false shepherd the prophet warned about.

00:50:43.064 --> 00:50:47.924
Hey, hey, hey, we're trying to have a wholesome anti-interracial event.

00:50:49.224 --> 00:50:51.924
And you're coming in with your tattoo showing?

00:50:53.884 --> 00:50:59.904
The man in the top hat tells the cop and his buddy to show you what Columbia has in store for the false shepherd.

00:50:59.924 --> 00:51:00.524
Oh my god.

00:51:01.444 --> 00:51:06.784
One of the cops holds you, while the other comes towards you with this gnarly looking device on his hand.

00:51:07.804 --> 00:51:14.404
It's an arm attachment, and it has three thick-ass metal hooks on it, connected in a circle.

00:51:15.624 --> 00:51:20.344
The circle begins spinning, turning the hooks into basically a saw blade.

00:51:21.864 --> 00:51:26.104
The scene slows down, and you throw the baseball straight up into the air.

00:51:26.984 --> 00:51:31.584
This causes the cop holding you to follow the ball into the air with his eyes, distracting him.

00:51:32.484 --> 00:51:37.524
You grab him and shove his face right into his partner's spinning hooks of death.

00:51:38.104 --> 00:51:42.984
That's some Jackie Chan shit too, just like an environmental fakeout so I can kick the shit out of you.

00:51:43.004 --> 00:51:43.364
Right?

00:51:44.284 --> 00:51:50.284
The cop with the hook device drops it in fear, and it's left stuck inside the face of his partner.

00:51:50.364 --> 00:51:51.584
That's so fucking cool.

00:51:51.864 --> 00:51:56.484
You put it onto your own arm and go to fucking town on these assholes.

00:51:57.624 --> 00:52:01.464
Which also gets you some guns as these are cops, so of course they're loaded to the teeth.

00:52:01.884 --> 00:52:13.664
I feel like the hook was more of the connection between Bioshock 2 being the Big Daddy and having the drill, which I actually like more than seeing the large mech outfits of the Big Daddy replacement in the wild.

00:52:13.684 --> 00:52:16.604
Like, having that kind of power feels really good.

00:52:16.644 --> 00:52:17.604
I agree entirely.

00:52:18.184 --> 00:52:25.964
Well, now that the false shepherd is loose on the streets of Columbia, the people clear out, and everywhere we go is now desolate.

00:52:26.484 --> 00:52:28.344
Oh shit, they said curfew.

00:52:28.464 --> 00:52:31.844
Yeah, including the interiors of buildings like restaurants and bars.

00:52:33.204 --> 00:52:38.564
You go inside one of these buildings as you run from the cops, and inside you find that man and woman again.

00:52:39.004 --> 00:52:42.764
The man is wiping down the bar, and the woman is holding an upgrade.

00:52:43.704 --> 00:52:49.544
If you bought the special edition of this game, or God forbid, pre-ordered, all of your bonuses are found in this room as well.

00:52:50.024 --> 00:52:55.984
You ask why they keep following you, and they're all, uh, we were already in here when you walked in.

00:52:56.224 --> 00:52:57.724
What do you mean following?

00:52:57.744 --> 00:52:58.824
You just got here.

00:52:59.104 --> 00:53:00.604
Why are you following us?

00:53:02.724 --> 00:53:06.104
As you stammer, the woman offers you the upgrade potion she's holding.

00:53:06.424 --> 00:53:08.164
You take it and upgrade your vigors.

00:53:08.844 --> 00:53:09.904
She says she's surprised.

00:53:10.504 --> 00:53:12.264
Her partner says, surprised that he took it.

00:53:12.484 --> 00:53:13.844
She says, surprised it didn't kill him.

00:53:14.224 --> 00:53:17.764
She said that was a real 50-50.

00:53:19.644 --> 00:53:21.384
You leave the bar and head back outside.

00:53:21.824 --> 00:53:25.744
You find a flying barge that is used to transport people between floating structures.

00:53:26.844 --> 00:53:32.364
But the barge to the statue is not in service at this time, and you are told to take the skyline in order to get there.

00:53:33.504 --> 00:53:38.444
You look up, and you can see these railings that extend up into the sky and out and all around the city.

00:53:38.864 --> 00:53:43.344
You probably noticed them a few times before now, as sometimes they'll be carrying a big shipping container.

00:53:43.444 --> 00:53:46.524
And they were featured very heavily in a lot of the lead-up marketing.

00:53:46.544 --> 00:53:47.964
All the trailers, yeah, had these.

00:53:49.264 --> 00:53:53.944
The device on your arm, which is called a skyhook, activates when you approach the skyline.

00:53:53.984 --> 00:53:55.084
Let's go, hooker!

00:53:55.104 --> 00:53:58.624
Hooker to wit, let's go.

00:53:59.024 --> 00:54:01.744
And you jump up and catch the railing with one of the hooks.

00:54:02.644 --> 00:54:06.884
This sends you tearing ass down the railing, like the scariest roller coaster in history.

00:54:07.904 --> 00:54:14.424
You realize there must be magnets in this thing, because you can leap off it and on to unsuspecting victims, and then jump right back on to it.

00:54:16.064 --> 00:54:20.884
There's some leaps that look impossible, but the skyhook pulls you to it whenever you're nearby.

00:54:20.904 --> 00:54:26.844
You eventually enter a building that has a big window, and outside of it, you see a projection of Father Comstock.

00:54:27.544 --> 00:54:31.384
Floating in the air on the side of a zeppelin, he says he's looked into your history.

00:54:32.284 --> 00:54:40.144
He knows about Wounded Knee, the Pinkertons, what happened with someone named Anna, the drinking, the gambling.

00:54:40.824 --> 00:54:44.024
And now you're here to take his daughter just to erase your debt?

00:54:44.784 --> 00:54:45.804
You're despicable.

00:54:46.584 --> 00:54:50.084
Okay, off the bat, he's not wrong.

00:54:50.084 --> 00:54:50.684
Yeah.

00:54:52.304 --> 00:54:53.344
God damn it, Booker.

00:54:54.144 --> 00:54:57.204
You deal in blood as he deals in prophecies.

00:54:58.084 --> 00:55:02.924
When it comes to you, everything ends in blood, just like you will.

00:55:03.064 --> 00:55:05.364
He kind of lost me at prophecies, but...

00:55:05.364 --> 00:55:08.784
Yeah, he gets you on his side and then just completely drops you, right?

00:55:08.804 --> 00:55:10.424
I mean, the first half, I'm not going to lie.

00:55:11.004 --> 00:55:14.024
You tell him to fuck off basically and continue to wear the statue.

00:55:14.364 --> 00:55:18.204
He tries to stop you by ramming his zeppelin into the building you're inside.

00:55:18.924 --> 00:55:25.744
And you use that moment to jump on board, intending to kill everyone there so you can steal it and take it to the statue, which you do.

00:55:25.984 --> 00:55:26.664
Yeah.

00:55:27.364 --> 00:55:31.784
When you make it to the control room, there's a nun inside who you can't really interact with.

00:55:32.084 --> 00:55:40.664
So you go to the controls when one of those small transport barges flies up in front of your window and Comstock is on it speaking into a microphone at you.

00:55:40.724 --> 00:55:41.604
Personally.

00:55:42.244 --> 00:55:47.464
He says that the Lord forgives everything, but he's a prophet, so he doesn't have to.

00:55:47.884 --> 00:55:48.884
But I don't give a fuck.

00:55:49.904 --> 00:55:57.224
To which you hear the nun behind you say, Oh, man, as she sets herself and the entire zeppelin on fire.

00:55:57.624 --> 00:56:00.624
Oh, my God, I do not remember this happening.

00:56:00.804 --> 00:56:01.964
Fucking zealots, right?

00:56:01.964 --> 00:56:02.664
Yeah.

00:56:03.164 --> 00:56:06.744
You run through the ship and finally leap out of it into the open air.

00:56:07.704 --> 00:56:16.304
Fortunately, the magnetic pull of your sky hook guides you towards a sky rail and you connect to it and make it to the monument island where the statue was located.

00:56:16.864 --> 00:56:21.664
As you enter the statue, you find a device called the Specimen Location Tracker.

00:56:21.984 --> 00:56:26.144
This is tracking what room inside the statue the girl is currently in.

00:56:26.344 --> 00:56:26.644
Hmm.

00:56:27.524 --> 00:56:30.444
She's in her dressing room, so you follow the signs.

00:56:31.604 --> 00:56:33.744
But the signs don't take you to her dressing room.

00:56:34.544 --> 00:56:37.724
They take you to a room with a big metal cover over a window.

00:56:39.604 --> 00:56:43.804
When you pull a lever, the cover moves and the window beyond is revealed.

00:56:45.144 --> 00:56:49.284
Through the glass, we are peering into the dressing room, and the girl in question is in there.

00:56:49.724 --> 00:56:50.764
She's fully clothed, though.

00:56:51.284 --> 00:56:54.304
The window is clearly one way, as she can't see you at all.

00:56:54.404 --> 00:56:56.084
I don't like the implications of this.

00:56:56.144 --> 00:56:57.344
At all, right?

00:56:57.444 --> 00:56:58.344
It's just gross.

00:56:58.384 --> 00:56:59.564
It's giving gross.

00:57:00.384 --> 00:57:07.344
She has long dark hair, is wearing a long blue skirt, a white blouse with a blue collar, and a blue ascot.

00:57:07.964 --> 00:57:12.744
She's looking at a postcard of the Eiffel Tower, and also has a big painting of it in her room as well.

00:57:13.784 --> 00:57:18.144
She's holding the postcard very lovingly, and she runs off into an adjacent room.

00:57:18.584 --> 00:57:22.864
From this behind-the-scenes observation area, you follow her into the next room.

00:57:23.344 --> 00:57:26.164
And this room is a painting of the Eiffel Tower on an easel.

00:57:27.104 --> 00:57:31.744
There's other art in the room as well, mostly of a big black figure with a glowing yellow eye.

00:57:32.624 --> 00:57:33.564
That's probably nothing.

00:57:33.644 --> 00:57:34.704
Yeah, it's probably not foreshadowing.

00:57:35.104 --> 00:57:40.644
She excitedly walks over to her painting and reaches at it, like she's trying to find the divide in a curtain.

00:57:41.824 --> 00:57:47.044
She finds this invisible divide and throws her arms wide, as if opening said curtain.

00:57:47.544 --> 00:57:50.724
But the curtain that opens is the curtain of reality.

00:57:51.004 --> 00:57:51.624
Oh, shit!

00:57:52.264 --> 00:57:59.764
A portal of some kind opens where her painting once stood, and we can see the actual Eiffel Tower in the background.

00:58:00.004 --> 00:58:00.904
Not the one in Vegas?

00:58:01.104 --> 00:58:01.904
No, not the one in Vegas.

00:58:01.924 --> 00:58:02.744
This is the Paris one.

00:58:03.904 --> 00:58:08.704
Along with a movie theater advertising a movie called La Revanche du Jedi.

00:58:08.924 --> 00:58:10.204
Oh, definitely not the Vegas one.

00:58:10.604 --> 00:58:15.464
Yeah, and that makes it Revenge of the Jedi, not Return of the Jedi.

00:58:16.464 --> 00:58:17.964
So it's not even our reality.

00:58:17.984 --> 00:58:20.224
It's a reality where the original name never got changed.

00:58:20.464 --> 00:58:24.024
And this is 60 years prior to it actually coming out in this reality.

00:58:24.044 --> 00:58:27.424
Yeah, that movie came out in 1977, not 1912.

00:58:28.064 --> 00:58:31.224
So this chick just opened a portal to another time and place.

00:58:33.224 --> 00:58:37.644
You hear a siren start blaring, and an ambulance comes hurdling directly at the portal.

00:58:38.604 --> 00:58:43.304
The girl closes her arms, and the portal closes just before the ambulance crashed into her.

00:58:45.084 --> 00:58:49.584
Now it's time for another Bioshot, as we find an audio log here in the observation area.

00:58:49.604 --> 00:58:50.544
Hell yeah.

00:58:50.844 --> 00:58:53.884
And it's one from that woman who keeps showing up with that man.

00:58:54.744 --> 00:58:56.884
Her name is Rosalind Lutes.

00:58:57.144 --> 00:58:58.504
I love that name, Rosalind.

00:58:58.544 --> 00:58:59.444
Yeah, it's a pretty name.

00:58:59.464 --> 00:59:00.244
I think it's so pretty.

00:59:00.524 --> 00:59:02.484
She was clearly the one observing the girl.

00:59:02.844 --> 00:59:08.624
She says that the girl's abilities have less to do with who she is and more to do with where she came from.

00:59:09.724 --> 00:59:15.764
There's a part of her that never left, and the universe is allowing her to create these portals, or tares, as they call them, as a result.

00:59:16.684 --> 00:59:19.644
The girl leaves the room again and enters a grand library.

00:59:20.144 --> 00:59:27.984
There's a huge window to the outside, and you decide that regardless of whatever power this girl has, you still need to get her out of here and back to New York.

00:59:28.464 --> 00:59:29.504
You gotta do your job.

00:59:30.084 --> 00:59:35.764
You go looking for a way into her section when the floor suddenly gives out, and you fall into the library.

00:59:35.784 --> 00:59:36.644
Whoopsies.

00:59:37.324 --> 00:59:39.744
From the ground, you look up and say, Hello.

00:59:40.684 --> 00:59:42.604
And she screams bloody fucking murder.

00:59:42.744 --> 00:59:44.684
Reasonable, she is not overreacting.

00:59:44.704 --> 00:59:45.024
Yeah.

00:59:46.324 --> 00:59:51.804
You try to calm her down as she starts throwing books at you, saying you're here to help her and that you're a friend.

00:59:52.504 --> 00:59:53.764
She's never met you.

00:59:54.124 --> 00:59:54.444
Right.

00:59:54.524 --> 00:59:57.484
You crashed through the architecture of her home.

00:59:58.864 --> 01:00:01.104
She is reasonable to strike.

01:00:01.404 --> 01:00:05.904
Well, she doesn't introduce herself, but with subtitles on, you can see that her name is Elizabeth.

01:00:05.924 --> 01:00:08.184
She doesn't really owe you a welcome.

01:00:08.484 --> 01:00:08.844
Right?

01:00:09.964 --> 01:00:17.824
As you try to explain that you're here to help her escape, a bronze statue of Comstock in the corner starts playing music like an old pipe organ.

01:00:18.124 --> 01:00:18.804
Oh, no.

01:00:19.324 --> 01:00:23.284
This terrifies Elizabeth, and she says that you need to hide.

01:00:23.304 --> 01:00:24.744
But he's coming.

01:00:25.264 --> 01:00:26.384
Dun, dun, dun.

01:00:26.404 --> 01:00:27.524
Pronoun game.

01:00:27.684 --> 01:00:29.764
Oh, we're going to play the pronoun game here for a little bit.

01:00:30.584 --> 01:00:38.204
You ask who he is, and we hear and feel a loud thump from above, and Elizabeth yells at whatever is making the noise.

01:00:38.964 --> 01:00:40.824
And she says, I'm getting dressed.

01:00:40.824 --> 01:00:41.724
Please be patient.

01:00:42.184 --> 01:00:46.564
Well, he starts screeching and making metallic, terrifying sounds.

01:00:47.584 --> 01:00:50.264
She tells you to hide, and you say, why don't we just escape?

01:00:50.644 --> 01:00:51.344
Oh, my God.

01:00:51.364 --> 01:00:52.104
Listen to her.

01:00:52.464 --> 01:00:54.244
She says she's been here her whole life.

01:00:54.644 --> 01:00:55.284
She's tried.

01:00:55.304 --> 01:00:56.224
There is no escape.

01:00:57.224 --> 01:01:03.584
You offer her the key you had in that box from the start of the game, and she immediately knows which door to try it on.

01:01:03.704 --> 01:01:04.324
Hell, yeah.

01:01:04.464 --> 01:01:05.164
And it works.

01:01:05.724 --> 01:01:09.904
So the two of you take off out of there with him screeching behind you as you do.

01:01:10.884 --> 01:01:17.764
You chase after her through the tunnels of the statue, and she explains that his job is to make sure she never leaves.

01:01:18.624 --> 01:01:20.904
He is just wrecking this statue.

01:01:21.284 --> 01:01:21.784
Oh, no.

01:01:21.864 --> 01:01:26.324
And you keep getting knocked to the ground by whatever force it's using to shake the entire structure.

01:01:27.444 --> 01:01:34.504
At one point, you fall and look up to see three giant claws tear through the pure metal wall.

01:01:35.004 --> 01:01:37.584
Just claws through a wall is so gnarly.

01:01:37.684 --> 01:01:39.964
Which makes you jump to your feet and continue running.

01:01:40.104 --> 01:01:40.464
Yeah.

01:01:41.104 --> 01:01:45.044
You tell her to hit the call button on an elevator up ahead, and she's like, What's an elevator?

01:01:46.424 --> 01:01:47.744
Oh, no, you sweet angel.

01:01:48.004 --> 01:01:51.124
Which, you know, in case of fire, use the stairs, but whatever.

01:01:51.364 --> 01:01:52.464
It's 1912.

01:01:52.484 --> 01:01:55.084
They're not really everywhere like they are now.

01:01:55.964 --> 01:02:00.744
As you wait for the elevator, Elizabeth sees one of the observation windows into her chambers.

01:02:01.724 --> 01:02:05.104
She had no idea people were watching her this whole time.

01:02:05.304 --> 01:02:08.124
She is having the most stressful 10 minutes of her life.

01:02:08.324 --> 01:02:08.844
Holy.

01:02:09.364 --> 01:02:12.184
And she starts freaking out going, Okay, what's going on?

01:02:12.924 --> 01:02:14.284
What's so special about her?

01:02:14.304 --> 01:02:16.144
And why have they kept her locked up here her entire life?

01:02:16.704 --> 01:02:17.444
How old is she?

01:02:17.464 --> 01:02:18.584
How long has this life been?

01:02:18.744 --> 01:02:19.524
19 years.

01:02:20.524 --> 01:02:23.564
You say that doesn't matter, because you're here to get her the fuck out.

01:02:23.664 --> 01:02:24.224
Hell yeah.

01:02:24.724 --> 01:02:28.324
We next see his claws tear open the elevator door.

01:02:29.304 --> 01:02:37.604
There's a giant black being on the other side with a huge glowing yellow eye, and it peers in at you while grasping at Elizabeth.

01:02:38.904 --> 01:02:45.764
Fortunately, the elevator finally arrives, and it crashes down on the creature's head, revealing the much safer stairs beyond.

01:02:45.924 --> 01:02:46.444
Hell yeah.

01:02:46.444 --> 01:02:46.884
Stairs.

01:02:47.464 --> 01:02:49.744
You climb them and come to a door to the outside.

01:02:50.504 --> 01:02:56.984
It's windy and cloudy, and you can hardly see anything, but you tell Elizabeth to keep climbing to the top of the statue.

01:02:57.644 --> 01:03:03.564
As you do, you see a gigantic black mass flying in and out of view out in the open air.

01:03:04.444 --> 01:03:09.484
At the top of the statue, you feel a crash, and you watch Elizabeth get tossed off.

01:03:10.644 --> 01:03:13.664
You die for her, grabbing her hand while you both free fall.

01:03:14.844 --> 01:03:19.324
Then your skyhook powers on, and you manage to land on a skyrail carrying you both to safety.

01:03:19.464 --> 01:03:20.544
That was a lucky break.

01:03:21.124 --> 01:03:22.284
Oh, so lucky, right?

01:03:23.564 --> 01:03:28.544
As you turn around, you watch the statue crumble into pieces and fall to the earth below.

01:03:29.044 --> 01:03:32.444
Her home for the last 19 years just imploded.

01:03:34.864 --> 01:03:36.824
Like 10 minutes after she met you.

01:03:37.964 --> 01:03:44.184
And like, could you imagine being on the ground and seeing this shit just start falling from the sky out of nowhere?

01:03:44.764 --> 01:03:46.544
You're just outside selling baguettes.

01:03:46.564 --> 01:03:48.464
And you look over and you're like, oh, no.

01:03:48.504 --> 01:03:49.284
Zut alors!

01:03:50.064 --> 01:03:59.944
You zip through the city on the skyrail, and the black mass can be seen flying around you, eventually crashing through the skyrail you're on, sending you and Elizabeth plummeting down.

01:04:01.044 --> 01:04:06.204
You spin out of control, no longer holding Elizabeth, and splash down into a pool of water.

01:04:07.464 --> 01:04:11.064
The black mass descends, and we can finally make it out.

01:04:12.344 --> 01:04:18.984
It's a gigantic robotic bird, as it has wings, but also two giant arms.

01:04:20.404 --> 01:04:25.084
It dives into the water after you, and once it's under, it starts to freak out.

01:04:25.944 --> 01:04:29.004
And we can see its glass, yellow eye start to crack.

01:04:29.964 --> 01:04:32.904
So it leaves the water, and you pass out once more.

01:04:33.964 --> 01:04:35.724
Which, you keep passing out in water.

01:04:35.744 --> 01:04:36.924
In like, still water.

01:04:36.944 --> 01:04:39.244
That's a terrible place to not be conscious.

01:04:39.264 --> 01:04:40.544
Worst place to pass out.

01:04:41.884 --> 01:04:47.444
You wake up in your office again, and the door pounding, and the voice telling you to bring us the girl to erase the debt.

01:04:48.704 --> 01:04:56.624
Elizabeth is in the room with you this time, and she is repeating, bring us the girl, and erase the debt to herself.

01:04:57.644 --> 01:05:01.804
You keep asking the voice on the other side of the door what they intend to do with Elizabeth.

01:05:02.504 --> 01:05:04.464
They tell you that's not part of the deal, Dewitt.

01:05:04.764 --> 01:05:05.944
Now open the door.

01:05:06.304 --> 01:05:08.344
It's just some casual human trafficking.

01:05:09.444 --> 01:05:11.164
Don't worry about what's on the other side of the door.

01:05:11.944 --> 01:05:13.384
Well, you start yelling, Anna?

01:05:14.364 --> 01:05:14.704
Anna?

01:05:14.724 --> 01:05:19.084
And then you open the door, which brings you back to reality.

01:05:19.464 --> 01:05:20.264
Oh, Anna?

01:05:20.944 --> 01:05:24.264
While you come to, you keep repeating the name Anna as your vision returns.

01:05:25.504 --> 01:05:29.704
But you see Elizabeth standing over you, saying, she's not Anna, she's Elizabeth.

01:05:30.524 --> 01:05:35.764
She rouses you back to your feet, and you can see that she's wearing a sewing thimble on her right pinky finger.

01:05:36.984 --> 01:05:38.004
Like as an accessory?

01:05:38.024 --> 01:05:39.224
As like an accessory, yeah.

01:05:40.024 --> 01:05:43.604
She says that she can hear music, and she takes off excitedly towards it.

01:05:44.104 --> 01:05:46.504
She has never been outside before.

01:05:46.624 --> 01:05:48.064
This is bubble boy.

01:05:51.244 --> 01:05:56.224
You get up and look around to find you're on a makeshift beach with water lapping in the sand.

01:05:56.624 --> 01:05:56.884
Oh.

01:05:57.164 --> 01:05:59.804
People are sunbathing in very modest attire.

01:05:59.884 --> 01:06:01.324
Like those strappy bathing suits.

01:06:01.344 --> 01:06:01.784
Yeah.

01:06:02.284 --> 01:06:03.744
I love that old-timey aesthetic.

01:06:04.744 --> 01:06:09.404
You can't find Elizabeth and keep asking people if they saw her saying, I'm looking for a young girl.

01:06:10.184 --> 01:06:12.184
Which is not a good icebreaker.

01:06:12.284 --> 01:06:18.044
Right, and like she's 19, which is young, but the way he's asking sounds really creepy.

01:06:18.044 --> 01:06:19.804
I'm looking for a young lady.

01:06:20.124 --> 01:06:21.284
No, Booker, no.

01:06:21.664 --> 01:06:25.084
Well, it's not as creepy as the guy who responds, who isn't, am I right?

01:06:26.164 --> 01:06:27.344
Ah, all men are men.

01:06:29.644 --> 01:06:33.504
As you look for her, you see an advertisement for a museum attraction.

01:06:34.624 --> 01:06:37.864
It's Comstock's personal airship called the First Lady.

01:06:38.384 --> 01:06:40.484
And when it's docked, people can tour it.

01:06:41.044 --> 01:06:44.264
It's a little creepy when people name planes and boats after women, right?

01:06:44.524 --> 01:06:46.464
I think they're all inherently female, actually.

01:06:47.084 --> 01:06:47.644
Why?

01:06:47.704 --> 01:06:51.324
Yeah, I don't know why that is, but yeah, I think all boats are inherently female.

01:06:51.344 --> 01:06:52.764
My car's name is Cowbear.

01:06:53.624 --> 01:06:55.884
They are a non-gendered entity.

01:06:56.904 --> 01:06:59.484
And there's a little crow that lives inside of it.

01:06:59.504 --> 01:07:00.604
This is 1912.

01:07:00.664 --> 01:07:03.424
Non-gendered entities weren't a popular thing yet.

01:07:03.904 --> 01:07:04.564
Oh, they weren't.

01:07:04.584 --> 01:07:09.324
Yeah, they weren't really in the zeitgeist, I suppose, at this floating city.

01:07:10.024 --> 01:07:11.484
In the Christo-fascist state.

01:07:11.504 --> 01:07:14.144
You're allowed to remind me this is a video game.

01:07:14.824 --> 01:07:16.024
If I get too spun up.

01:07:16.224 --> 01:07:18.164
Like, I don't do well with fantasy.

01:07:18.764 --> 01:07:19.324
No, you don't.

01:07:19.344 --> 01:07:21.564
No, like I see a dragon, my mind goes blank.

01:07:21.584 --> 01:07:22.364
I'm like, I'm out.

01:07:22.384 --> 01:07:27.324
You've been playing Baldur's Gate and like, we're not going to do it for the show because it's D&D.

01:07:27.344 --> 01:07:27.924
It's too much.

01:07:28.144 --> 01:07:28.824
It's too much.

01:07:28.844 --> 01:07:29.724
There's too many threads.

01:07:29.744 --> 01:07:33.724
But I walk by and I'm like, that don't make sense.

01:07:34.344 --> 01:07:38.504
I know it covers horror and other things, but they're usually rooted in like metaphor.

01:07:38.624 --> 01:07:40.104
What's the metaphor for dragon?

01:07:40.164 --> 01:07:41.104
Shit is difficult.

01:07:42.044 --> 01:07:42.564
I can't.

01:07:42.604 --> 01:07:43.084
I can't.

01:07:43.124 --> 01:07:45.524
So I need you to bring me down to reality sometimes.

01:07:45.664 --> 01:07:48.704
Remind me, we are literally discussing ridiculous fiction.

01:07:48.944 --> 01:07:50.344
So back in this flying city.

01:07:50.364 --> 01:07:51.204
Yeah, thank you.

01:07:52.444 --> 01:07:54.664
Need you to ground me by reminding me we're in the sky.

01:07:55.144 --> 01:07:59.724
You decide that the First Lady is going to be your ticket out of here once you find Elizabeth.

01:08:00.964 --> 01:08:04.724
Elizabeth's on a boardwalk, dancing to some music being played by a street band.

01:08:04.764 --> 01:08:06.344
She's just dancing by herself.

01:08:06.824 --> 01:08:07.704
She's spinning.

01:08:09.784 --> 01:08:13.184
She asks you to dance with her, and you tell her, not a chance in hell.

01:08:13.584 --> 01:08:19.904
If you've ever had to wrangle a drunk friend to get in the Uber, off the dance floor, this is exactly what the sequence is.

01:08:20.724 --> 01:08:23.064
You're literally like, now come on, let's go.

01:08:23.364 --> 01:08:25.924
And she's like, no, one more drink.

01:08:27.084 --> 01:08:28.904
Hold on, wait, five more minutes.

01:08:29.844 --> 01:08:32.984
I can make these jokes because I have fully been that friend.

01:08:34.684 --> 01:08:35.104
You have.

01:08:35.564 --> 01:08:41.024
I know the voice came a little too natural, but I've fully been like, yeah, let me just, I'm in a vibe.

01:08:41.044 --> 01:08:42.744
And my friends are like, it's 3 a.m.

01:08:42.984 --> 01:08:44.084
We're gonna kill you.

01:08:44.104 --> 01:08:46.584
Yeah, and Elizabeth doesn't want to go with you.

01:08:46.604 --> 01:08:47.624
She just wants to dance.

01:08:48.184 --> 01:08:50.024
When you're 19, I get it.

01:08:50.304 --> 01:08:54.484
But you see the First Lady airship flying by and see that it's about to dock.

01:08:54.884 --> 01:08:57.044
You ask Elizabeth if she wants to go to Paris.

01:08:57.964 --> 01:09:00.304
And she says very excitedly that of course she does.

01:09:00.844 --> 01:09:02.544
You've known me for 15 minutes.

01:09:02.644 --> 01:09:04.944
I like two things, dancing in Paris.

01:09:05.544 --> 01:09:08.564
You point at the First Lady and tell her that it's going to Paris on its next trip.

01:09:09.204 --> 01:09:10.584
So the two of you have a flight to catch.

01:09:10.924 --> 01:09:11.664
What's she going to do?

01:09:12.224 --> 01:09:13.284
Fucking fact check me?

01:09:13.744 --> 01:09:14.424
Exactly.

01:09:15.544 --> 01:09:31.044
Elizabeth is the very definition of born sexy yesterday, which is a critique in media for when a character is an attractive adult man or woman, who for one reason or another is brand new to the world and is therefore needing to be taught the most basic things in life.

01:09:32.024 --> 01:09:35.184
But anyway, now that you've lied to Elizabeth about the airship...

01:09:35.684 --> 01:09:37.364
Great way to start this relationship.

01:09:37.484 --> 01:09:40.544
The two of you run off to catch it and go to the museum where it's docked.

01:09:41.384 --> 01:09:46.904
On your way, Elizabeth looks at you and says, you don't look so great, and she'll look for some health packs for you.

01:09:47.504 --> 01:09:49.264
You look like shit, dude.

01:09:49.584 --> 01:09:55.164
Well, this begins her real use to you in the game and the inspiration for so many games to come.

01:09:55.864 --> 01:09:57.324
So many Troy Baker games.

01:09:57.344 --> 01:09:58.144
Yeah, right?

01:09:58.404 --> 01:10:01.164
Yeah, she's your teen sidekick who helps you in battle.

01:10:01.964 --> 01:10:06.564
Prior to this, I know we talked about Bioshock 2, more or less, starting this trend with Alpha and Eleanor.

01:10:07.244 --> 01:10:11.784
But we wouldn't have the Joel and Ellie or Kratos and Boy without Booker and Elizabeth.

01:10:12.024 --> 01:10:16.284
I appreciate that you're looping Kratos and Boy into this.

01:10:16.384 --> 01:10:20.404
He fully has a name, but the only name we will recognize is what Kratos calls him.

01:10:20.424 --> 01:10:22.044
Right, his name is Boy.

01:10:22.684 --> 01:10:29.184
And yeah, we talked about earlier how they had to invent new technology for Elizabeth, and it was a major reason for some of these delays that the game faced.

01:10:30.184 --> 01:10:33.924
Because if Elizabeth didn't work as a sidekick, this game didn't work at all.

01:10:34.084 --> 01:10:36.124
Because she's part of your resource management.

01:10:36.244 --> 01:10:36.664
Yeah.

01:10:37.464 --> 01:10:41.064
And Elizabeth isn't a fighting sidekick like we see in these future games.

01:10:41.884 --> 01:10:47.684
She's here to lend an assist when the going gets tough, as she'll throw you ammo, health, and salts when you're running low.

01:10:48.344 --> 01:10:51.044
And many times she'll save your ass just at the right time.

01:10:51.424 --> 01:10:53.264
She is the equivalent of a barback.

01:10:53.304 --> 01:10:59.084
She's like, I'm here to help keep your shit up to par of what you need to do your job.

01:10:59.204 --> 01:10:59.644
Yeah.

01:11:00.244 --> 01:11:03.884
And if you die in battle, she'll drag your body to a safe location and revive you.

01:11:04.264 --> 01:11:06.564
And this replaces the Vita Chambers from the first two games.

01:11:07.864 --> 01:11:14.384
Also, the sidekick technology is not the only advancement that was made as a result of Elizabeth.

01:11:14.844 --> 01:11:17.364
Now, I think these are done in the Unreal Engine, right?

01:11:17.384 --> 01:11:20.124
So they didn't build an engine ground up for these.

01:11:20.144 --> 01:11:23.164
They just kind of modded things to be specific to the gameplay.

01:11:23.464 --> 01:11:28.244
They used Unreal Engine 3, and they did add their own mods to it, yeah.

01:11:28.304 --> 01:11:35.484
Okay, so they had to do a lot of precision, but it's not like they had to take the undertaking of building a fucking entire engine ground up.

01:11:35.764 --> 01:11:36.744
They didn't have to.

01:11:36.764 --> 01:11:39.284
I'm not saying nobody did.

01:11:39.484 --> 01:11:43.004
Okay, because Rockstar uses the Rage Engine.

01:11:43.424 --> 01:11:46.984
The Rockstar Action Games Engine, I think, is what the acronym is.

01:11:47.184 --> 01:11:53.344
And that's why Grand Theft Auto takes 10 years to build, because they are literally tweaking the foundation of everything going along.

01:11:54.044 --> 01:12:01.924
Relatively, in comparison, the Bioshock Games are coming out pretty quickly back to back, with the exception of the alleged four, obviously.

01:12:02.724 --> 01:12:10.904
So that's also why it's so impressive, is that they're taking kind of a stock build and customizing it to create these very specific use cases in game.

01:12:11.504 --> 01:12:12.744
Yeah, absolutely, they did.

01:12:12.864 --> 01:12:17.184
And Elizabeth forced another company entirely to kind of do the same thing.

01:12:17.264 --> 01:12:18.004
Whoa, what?

01:12:18.584 --> 01:12:22.184
A company that had nothing to do with this game whatsoever.

01:12:22.344 --> 01:12:24.164
Was still majorly impacted by it?

01:12:24.584 --> 01:12:30.084
So Elizabeth became such a popular character, people fantasize about having sex with her.

01:12:30.544 --> 01:12:32.024
I don't love where this is going.

01:12:32.124 --> 01:12:36.804
Well, the demand for pornography featuring Elizabeth skyrocketed.

01:12:38.004 --> 01:12:47.324
And outside Pixar and DreamWorks, nobody was making 3D animation with any realism, so the porn industry didn't have anything to offer other than like cosplay.

01:12:48.444 --> 01:12:51.664
Now, throughout history, horniness has made people do crazy things.

01:12:52.524 --> 01:13:00.444
And a company that was literally weeks away from declaring bankruptcy decided to pull one last Hail Mary to save the company.

01:13:00.844 --> 01:13:05.424
I am so taken aback by the tone that this episode has taken.

01:13:05.424 --> 01:13:08.864
It takes a wild turn, but we're getting there, and it's pretty fascinating.

01:13:09.804 --> 01:13:15.164
They pushed through some upgrades to their freeware animation program called Blender.

01:13:15.964 --> 01:13:17.344
Oh my god, this is Blender?

01:13:17.684 --> 01:13:24.184
And it made it possible for people to make high quality pornography of 3D animated characters.

01:13:24.244 --> 01:13:26.884
And specifically because of The Rise of Elizabeth?

01:13:27.004 --> 01:13:28.184
Because of Elizabeth.

01:13:28.924 --> 01:13:41.244
Today, video game character pornography is so insanely common, and Blender is considered one of the absolute best 3D rendering programs available across all mediums, not just porn.

01:13:42.264 --> 01:13:43.264
All thanks to Elizabeth.

01:13:43.964 --> 01:13:48.664
The look on your face is so, like, stink face, like, why?

01:13:48.684 --> 01:13:49.624
I'm upset.

01:13:51.004 --> 01:13:51.744
I'm upset.

01:13:52.184 --> 01:13:56.044
But yeah, Blender was about to go out of business.

01:13:56.564 --> 01:14:05.184
And then Elizabeth's pussy revitalized this company, which I'm recognizing as, like, this shows up on people's resumes of, like, I'm a creator.

01:14:05.204 --> 01:14:05.964
This is something.

01:14:06.484 --> 01:14:08.344
It's like knowing fucking Python.

01:14:08.384 --> 01:14:09.184
Yeah.

01:14:09.424 --> 01:14:10.464
What the fuck?

01:14:11.544 --> 01:14:13.084
Why did we take this turn here?

01:14:13.324 --> 01:14:14.124
I don't know.

01:14:14.144 --> 01:14:23.624
It's just so wild that just, like, just the existence of Elizabeth has just done so much for technology, weirdly, in so many different avenues.

01:14:23.644 --> 01:14:26.164
The reliance on Hentai up until this point.

01:14:27.884 --> 01:14:35.704
And then bringing in Blender to, you know, I guess, diversify the content of cartoon porn we're doing.

01:14:35.824 --> 01:14:37.444
I'm not King Shaming, you know what?

01:14:38.584 --> 01:14:39.964
I look at adult websites.

01:14:40.764 --> 01:14:42.124
I've got some bookmarks.

01:14:42.124 --> 01:14:53.444
But like the fact that the horniness of a Bioshock game is what revitalized a company, which is a leader in animation services and suites today.

01:14:53.884 --> 01:14:59.744
Like if Adobe came around because people wanted to like jerk off on a waifu pillow, that's fucking crazy.

01:15:00.764 --> 01:15:06.124
You want to hear what's the craziest is, who would you say is the number one top search for a video game character now?

01:15:06.184 --> 01:15:07.144
D.Va from Overwatch.

01:15:07.164 --> 01:15:08.224
It's not actually.

01:15:08.304 --> 01:15:08.804
Really?

01:15:08.844 --> 01:15:10.044
I feel like I've seen so much.

01:15:10.184 --> 01:15:12.524
I don't want to reveal too much about myself.

01:15:14.244 --> 01:15:16.144
I don't look at Overwatch more.

01:15:18.044 --> 01:15:21.644
I just feel like I see the ads on the side of the web.

01:15:21.664 --> 01:15:22.804
I feel vulnerable.

01:15:22.824 --> 01:15:23.604
Okay, I'm sorry.

01:15:23.624 --> 01:15:26.044
I'm not trying to put you on the place or anything like that.

01:15:27.804 --> 01:15:29.164
Not putting you on the spot, but no.

01:15:29.524 --> 01:15:31.084
Actually, D.Va is like number three or four.

01:15:31.544 --> 01:15:37.524
Number one is Chun Li, not from Street Fighter, from Fortnite.

01:15:39.864 --> 01:15:40.964
Is she hotter in Fortnite?

01:15:40.984 --> 01:15:41.544
I guess.

01:15:41.544 --> 01:15:43.364
I don't know, but I think it's just that it's more...

01:15:43.384 --> 01:15:44.584
Pull up the side by side.

01:15:44.804 --> 01:15:50.544
I think it's more relevant when people search for Chun Li from Fortnite more than they search for Chun Li from Street Fighter.

01:15:51.084 --> 01:15:54.244
The kids aren't our already.

01:15:54.264 --> 01:15:56.384
Just as an older gamer, like that's upsetting.

01:15:58.424 --> 01:16:03.804
Wait, I do need to see if she's like Pac and Puss better than...

01:16:03.864 --> 01:16:05.164
You can do that off air.

01:16:06.224 --> 01:16:07.784
You want me to say Pac and Puss off air?

01:16:07.804 --> 01:16:08.004
Yeah.

01:16:09.344 --> 01:16:10.244
I didn't like that.

01:16:10.264 --> 01:16:11.124
I took a turn.

01:16:11.224 --> 01:16:13.684
I am bewildered by this.

01:16:13.884 --> 01:16:22.544
The fact that the cultural impact of Bioshock revitalized an entire genre of animation within a suite of services and didn't get like Game of the Year.

01:16:23.624 --> 01:16:27.424
It's still not the most impactful game of 2013.

01:16:27.444 --> 01:16:28.124
Yeah, right?

01:16:29.284 --> 01:16:30.784
That's fucking crazy.

01:16:31.364 --> 01:16:39.004
Well, anyway, back in Columbia, the two of you are heading to the museum, and you run into Rosalind Lutes and the man that's always with her.

01:16:39.984 --> 01:16:47.064
They're each holding a red pillow, and on each pillow is a necklace, one with a bird and one with a cage.

01:16:48.104 --> 01:16:51.524
You choose one, and Elizabeth wears it around her neck for the rest of the game.

01:16:51.844 --> 01:16:55.464
I thought this would be crazy impactful, and I genuinely sweated on this.

01:16:56.884 --> 01:16:58.324
Which is the right choice, isn't it?

01:16:58.344 --> 01:17:00.184
I was like, well, there's symbolism in both.

01:17:00.864 --> 01:17:04.384
There is absolutely one's freedom and one is being held captive.

01:17:04.924 --> 01:17:06.424
It symbolizes so much.

01:17:06.444 --> 01:17:08.144
It's the captor, it's the cage.

01:17:09.324 --> 01:17:09.924
I really sat there.

01:17:09.944 --> 01:17:10.884
What does it all mean?

01:17:10.904 --> 01:17:12.124
Yeah, what does it all mean?

01:17:12.744 --> 01:17:14.504
I stared at that for a minute being like, fuck.

01:17:15.384 --> 01:17:20.084
You enter a penny arcade, and there's people playing games and watching those little flip movies.

01:17:20.824 --> 01:17:23.484
Kind of like the museum mechanic in San Francisco.

01:17:24.864 --> 01:17:27.464
There's also marionette dolls that will tell a little story.

01:17:28.384 --> 01:17:31.704
Elizabeth runs up to one of the machines and goes, oh, the latest in the series.

01:17:32.024 --> 01:17:34.624
I heard it got delayed three times before they could release it.

01:17:37.164 --> 01:17:40.624
I didn't know they had a meta moment in there.

01:17:42.524 --> 01:17:43.764
And that motherfucker's name?

01:17:43.924 --> 01:17:44.404
Rod.

01:17:45.424 --> 01:17:46.144
Fucking Rod.

01:17:46.164 --> 01:17:46.924
Fucking Rod.

01:17:48.724 --> 01:17:52.124
You finally get to the ticket counter and ask for two tickets to see the First Lady.

01:17:53.024 --> 01:17:55.864
The guy behind the counter is on the phone talking in low tones.

01:17:56.544 --> 01:18:02.564
And when you ask him to hurry up, he jams a knife into your hand, straight through to the countertop.

01:18:02.624 --> 01:18:05.124
That's some Sadie Adler shit.

01:18:05.404 --> 01:18:05.784
Right?

01:18:08.064 --> 01:18:15.464
The whole hall is suddenly filled with cops, and you realize that the word is officially out about you and Elizabeth being free in Columbia.

01:18:15.604 --> 01:18:22.424
Okay, so you're 0 for 2 on your two objectives, which was don't pick 77 and don't let Comstock know you're there.

01:18:22.684 --> 01:18:24.624
And you immediately did both.

01:18:24.644 --> 01:18:25.824
Yeah, you failed.

01:18:26.904 --> 01:18:27.384
All right.

01:18:27.744 --> 01:18:30.844
You pull out your gun and kill the cops and save Elizabeth from harm.

01:18:31.344 --> 01:18:32.644
But she doesn't see it that way.

01:18:33.464 --> 01:18:35.884
She's terrified of you and runs off.

01:18:35.944 --> 01:18:38.464
This murderer broke my house.

01:18:39.424 --> 01:18:39.764
Right?

01:18:39.964 --> 01:18:41.204
And won't let me dance.

01:18:41.224 --> 01:18:42.464
I just want to dance.

01:18:42.484 --> 01:18:43.804
And then killed a bunch of cops.

01:18:44.944 --> 01:18:47.164
Yeah, she has every right to not feel safe.

01:18:47.644 --> 01:18:51.004
When you catch up to her, she's on a tram that will take you to the airship.

01:18:51.444 --> 01:18:54.484
She yells at you, calling you a monster for killing those cops.

01:18:55.224 --> 01:18:59.844
You explain that she was locked in a tower made of pure gold.

01:19:00.564 --> 01:19:05.444
The people who did that have the resources to go to literally any length to get her back.

01:19:06.324 --> 01:19:09.704
If she's going to escape Colombia, people are going to die.

01:19:10.784 --> 01:19:16.864
Which she's not stoked about, but she realizes the two of you are almost out of here, so she probably won't have to deal with the death much longer.

01:19:18.544 --> 01:19:22.004
She's making some very quick decisions and pivots.

01:19:22.764 --> 01:19:25.984
She doesn't have a lot of real world experience yet, to her credit.

01:19:26.004 --> 01:19:29.644
She doesn't, but she's very adaptive, which I can appreciate in a sidekick.

01:19:30.064 --> 01:19:33.804
The tram you're on docks at the airship exhibit, and the tube you get off.

01:19:34.804 --> 01:19:39.284
There's a door blocking your way, and you need to find a vigor called Shock Jockey to open it.

01:19:40.164 --> 01:19:45.204
And this is your electricity power that absolutely deserves a Bioshot, as it's such a classic power.

01:19:45.324 --> 01:19:47.264
Oh, yeah, it's the first one you get in the first game.

01:19:47.284 --> 01:19:47.924
It is, yeah.

01:19:48.144 --> 01:19:49.984
It feels natural to have.

01:19:50.024 --> 01:19:50.444
Yeah.

01:19:51.644 --> 01:19:57.864
In order to get Shock Jockey, you need to go to an exhibit called the Hall of Heroes, where free samples are available.

01:19:58.724 --> 01:20:00.884
The exhibit is closed so the two of you break in.

01:20:01.364 --> 01:20:07.524
You take an elevator down to the exhibit, and inside the elevator is a big poster that takes up most of the wall.

01:20:08.244 --> 01:20:11.004
And it depicts the giant black bird from before.

01:20:12.404 --> 01:20:18.584
It's in silhouette with rays of light behind it and the one glowing yellow eye piercing the black body of the winged creature.

01:20:19.744 --> 01:20:26.204
Around the picture it says, Sing praise to the songbird, for he is the protector of the lamb.

01:20:27.484 --> 01:20:30.304
As you descend, the elevator jerks to a halt.

01:20:31.384 --> 01:20:34.004
You go to mess with the circuits in order to try to get it going again.

01:20:34.804 --> 01:20:40.384
While you're doing that, you hear a buzzing sound, and Elizabeth says, There's a bee in the elevator with you.

01:20:41.464 --> 01:20:44.484
You tell her to kill it, and she says, Well, she has a better idea.

01:20:45.064 --> 01:20:51.544
She does that thing with her hands again, where she opens a curtain in the fabric of reality, right where the songbird poster is.

01:20:52.784 --> 01:20:57.784
The tear opens, and you're looking at a kitchen window with a little flower box on the outside of it.

01:20:58.224 --> 01:21:00.804
Elizabeth says she learned she could do this in her tower.

01:21:01.324 --> 01:21:06.824
Most of the time, it's the same as the place she's already in, but a slight difference, like the color of the room is different.

01:21:07.704 --> 01:21:10.544
Other times, it's something incredible that she's not expecting.

01:21:11.264 --> 01:21:14.484
As she's saying this, she sees something beyond the window.

01:21:15.304 --> 01:21:16.144
It's Songbird.

01:21:16.264 --> 01:21:17.044
Through the window.

01:21:17.184 --> 01:21:18.024
Through the window.

01:21:19.004 --> 01:21:20.204
And he sees Elizabeth.

01:21:21.404 --> 01:21:27.024
The two of you start freaking out, and Songbird flies straight at the window, screeching as it does.

01:21:28.044 --> 01:21:33.324
You tell Elizabeth to close the tear, and she does so just as Songbird fills the window.

01:21:33.484 --> 01:21:35.144
She should have just killed the goddamn bee.

01:21:35.444 --> 01:21:38.564
And is replaced by the giant poster of Songbird instead.

01:21:39.564 --> 01:21:41.584
Oh, that visual is incredible.

01:21:42.684 --> 01:21:47.324
As the chaos ends, the door to the elevator opens, and the two of you get out.

01:21:47.704 --> 01:21:55.904
From here out, Elizabeth can open small tears when you're in battle, sometimes revealing ammo and health crates, sometimes revealing turrets and other things to help you in battle.

01:21:57.424 --> 01:22:01.564
You make it to the Hall of Heroes, and you see immediately why it's closed.

01:22:02.624 --> 01:22:04.064
Someone has vandalized this place.

01:22:05.064 --> 01:22:13.584
Instead of saying Hall of Heroes, someone has painted a big red W and rearranged the letters to say Hall of Whores.

01:22:15.784 --> 01:22:22.324
A man named Captain Cornelius Slate has taken over the Hall of Whores, and he doesn't want anyone inside.

01:22:23.384 --> 01:22:26.264
You tell Elizabeth that you actually knew this guy down below.

01:22:26.284 --> 01:22:27.184
Oh shit?

01:22:27.204 --> 01:22:28.384
You fought in the war together.

01:22:28.684 --> 01:22:29.684
Oh shit!

01:22:29.744 --> 01:22:31.564
He was an asshole back then too.

01:22:31.604 --> 01:22:32.944
Clearly not much has changed.

01:22:34.664 --> 01:22:41.224
You go inside, and you find a giant monument to Comstock, declaring him the commander of the Seventh Cavalry.

01:22:42.164 --> 01:22:43.584
And you say that's bullshit.

01:22:44.284 --> 01:22:47.804
You were in the Seventh Cavalry, and you never heard of this guy until you got here.

01:22:48.844 --> 01:22:53.204
Comstock clearly has lied to the people of Columbia about his military service.

01:22:54.704 --> 01:23:01.764
Slate yells at you over a PA system, saying he remembers you, and you were always a good little soldier who did what he was told.

01:23:02.584 --> 01:23:05.784
And clearly, you've been sent by Comstock to stop him.

01:23:06.844 --> 01:23:08.144
You assure him that's not the case.

01:23:08.304 --> 01:23:10.064
You're just here for the shock jockey.

01:23:10.464 --> 01:23:12.964
He doesn't believe you and sends his boys in after you.

01:23:13.424 --> 01:23:16.244
When you kill them, Slate says, See, you killed my men.

01:23:16.864 --> 01:23:18.244
You're still the same soldier.

01:23:18.744 --> 01:23:20.524
Here to do the man's bidding.

01:23:22.144 --> 01:23:23.024
What a bitch.

01:23:24.064 --> 01:23:26.744
Like, also, that is what a soldier is supposed to do.

01:23:26.744 --> 01:23:28.404
Like, that's their job.

01:23:28.624 --> 01:23:30.404
So you're admitting you're bad at the job?

01:23:30.424 --> 01:23:31.844
Right.

01:23:32.664 --> 01:23:37.644
He tells you to meet him in Wounded Knee and Pay King, which are exhibits here in the Hall of Whores.

01:23:38.864 --> 01:23:41.864
You can do them in any order, but we're going with Wounded Knee first.

01:23:43.044 --> 01:23:55.164
It's a walkthrough exhibit, kind of like a live-action pop-up book with plywood cutouts of Native Americans jumping out and attacking as you traverse through it, making very insensitively racially stereotyped sounds as they do.

01:23:56.564 --> 01:23:58.484
Slate comes over the PA to talk to Elizabeth.

01:23:59.424 --> 01:24:03.864
Slate asks if she wants to learn about the real person she's traveling with right now.

01:24:05.004 --> 01:24:08.764
She asks what he means, and you tell her she doesn't want to know.

01:24:10.224 --> 01:24:15.184
You come upon a big George Washington animatronic, and there's a lever in front of it.

01:24:16.164 --> 01:24:20.744
You pull it, and it says a little poem to describe the events of Wounded Knee.

01:24:21.404 --> 01:24:26.324
With hue and cry, with hatchet red, they danced amongst our noble dead.

01:24:27.244 --> 01:24:32.024
But when our soldiers took the field, the savage horde could only yield.

01:24:33.684 --> 01:24:41.184
The final section of the walkthrough is a room bathed in red with Native American statues looming over the scene and gross caricatures.

01:24:41.904 --> 01:24:47.064
In the center stands a statue of Comstock, holding the head of one of the natives high in the air.

01:24:48.104 --> 01:24:50.464
Elizabeth says she can tell by the look on your face.

01:24:51.544 --> 01:24:52.744
You were there that day, weren't you?

01:24:52.904 --> 01:24:53.564
Oh, God.

01:24:54.504 --> 01:24:56.584
Slate says he can still hear the screams.

01:24:57.244 --> 01:24:57.664
Can you?

01:24:58.704 --> 01:25:00.644
And then he sends in his goons to fight you.

01:25:01.084 --> 01:25:03.364
This is why we need therapy for PTSD.

01:25:03.864 --> 01:25:04.484
Right?

01:25:04.504 --> 01:25:05.864
Holy shit.

01:25:06.784 --> 01:25:11.424
When you defeat them, you yell at the PA to please give you the shock jockey so you can leave.

01:25:12.344 --> 01:25:16.244
Slate says, do you see how Comstock is trying to steal our glory, though?

01:25:16.904 --> 01:25:18.924
Do you see how he's rewriting history?

01:25:20.164 --> 01:25:26.084
He says to come to the Boxer Rebellion exhibit if you want to meet up, which is a battle that happened in Peking, China.

01:25:26.784 --> 01:25:33.204
And both the battle at Wounded Knee and the Boxer Rebellion are real events in history this game has co-opted.

01:25:33.404 --> 01:25:34.444
Oh, shit, I didn't know that.

01:25:34.504 --> 01:25:34.844
Yeah.

01:25:34.924 --> 01:25:39.404
Well, if Comstock can write his own fucking version of it, so can we.

01:25:40.644 --> 01:25:45.604
When you get there, it's the same kind of exhibit, racist depictions of Chinese people.

01:25:46.484 --> 01:25:52.184
Slate says that he was the one who set the first torch that eventually leveled the city in fire.

01:25:53.064 --> 01:25:58.884
But again, Comstock is here taking all the glory for himself when he wasn't even fucking there.

01:25:59.384 --> 01:26:02.964
Comstock's like, it was Comstock the whole time.

01:26:04.624 --> 01:26:08.284
Again, you find a Washington animatronic with another poem.

01:26:09.104 --> 01:26:12.204
Honestly, this one's way more racist, and I apologize in advance.

01:26:12.404 --> 01:26:12.964
Oh, no.

01:26:13.904 --> 01:26:16.704
Twas yellow skin and slanted eyes I'm out.

01:26:16.884 --> 01:26:24.424
that did betray us with their lies until they crossed the righteous path of our prophet's holy wrath.

01:26:25.884 --> 01:26:29.204
The end of the exhibit is very similar to the last one with a battle scene.

01:26:30.164 --> 01:26:33.464
Elizabeth says she remembers reading about this battle in one of her books.

01:26:34.544 --> 01:26:40.244
Comstock led his forces to, but Slate screams out Comstock wasn't there.

01:26:41.124 --> 01:26:43.964
Slate lost an eye and 30 friends that day.

01:26:44.664 --> 01:26:47.964
But nowhere in this fucking memorial do they even mention he was there.

01:26:48.384 --> 01:26:49.604
It's all about Comstock.

01:26:49.744 --> 01:26:50.704
Holy shit.

01:26:50.804 --> 01:26:55.344
Comstock is stealing Slate's life story and claiming it as his own.

01:26:56.704 --> 01:27:01.464
Slate says to come to Lady Comstock's memorial, and there he'll give you the shock jockey.

01:27:01.564 --> 01:27:07.644
If you think it's wild how much Comstock has altered Slate's history, wait till you see how he's altered his own.

01:27:07.904 --> 01:27:08.304
Uh oh.

01:27:09.524 --> 01:27:14.604
You get to the memorial exhibit, and there's statues of her holding a baby in her arms.

01:27:15.844 --> 01:27:21.644
A plaque says that she had a miracle pregnancy and found herself pregnant only a single week.

01:27:22.324 --> 01:27:25.804
She gave birth to a very sick child and prayed for her life.

01:27:26.504 --> 01:27:35.164
Elizabeth says that in all the books she's ever read about Lady Comstock, this is the first she's ever heard about her having a child.

01:27:35.604 --> 01:27:35.824
Oh.

01:27:36.384 --> 01:27:38.244
And you tell her that can't be a mistake.

01:27:39.964 --> 01:27:46.764
The next room has a statue of Comstock walking the baby towards a giant golden winged statue.

01:27:48.244 --> 01:27:54.444
A recording of Comstock's voice rings out, saying that someone named Daisy Fitzroy has murdered his wife.

01:27:55.324 --> 01:28:00.184
And now he has to protect their only child and hide her away from Fitzroy and her mob.

01:28:01.604 --> 01:28:03.444
He then repeats something we heard earlier.

01:28:04.444 --> 01:28:10.484
The seed of the prophet shall sit the throne and drown in flame the mountains of man.

01:28:12.024 --> 01:28:17.624
Elizabeth starts panicking as she realizes, Oh, no, that's me.

01:28:17.804 --> 01:28:20.324
She's Comstock's fucking daughter.

01:28:20.544 --> 01:28:21.904
She didn't know that prior?

01:28:22.024 --> 01:28:23.464
She had no fucking clue.

01:28:25.004 --> 01:28:26.604
She gets angry and refuses to believe it.

01:28:27.144 --> 01:28:29.964
But you're like, yeah, this is definitely your origin story.

01:28:30.524 --> 01:28:35.444
He's like, there wouldn't be a reason you're in a tower that's not related to this.

01:28:37.504 --> 01:28:45.024
Comstock wants Elizabeth to follow in his footsteps one day and rule over Columbia and eventually the world below.

01:28:45.704 --> 01:28:48.824
Elizabeth says, well, I want a puppy, but it doesn't mean I'm going to get one.

01:28:50.644 --> 01:28:57.024
The next room shows the mysterious Daisy Fitzroy in statue form, holding a red rope peering around a curtain.

01:28:57.764 --> 01:29:00.484
As a statue of Lady Comstock kneels down praying.

01:29:01.664 --> 01:29:09.524
The next room shows Comstock chasing after Daisy Fitzroy and her gang of followers, saying that he pursues them to this day.

01:29:10.404 --> 01:29:16.924
After some battles with goons, you find Slate, wounded and defeated, laying on the ground with a bottle of Shock Jockey next to him.

01:29:18.184 --> 01:29:23.404
You approach him and he asks you to finish the job, and you have the choice of killing him or sparing him.

01:29:24.844 --> 01:29:29.984
But now you have the Shock Jockey, and you head back to the airship exhibit so you can hijack it and fly out of here.

01:29:30.644 --> 01:29:38.684
Comstock tries to turn Elizabeth against you over the public PA system, saying that a killer like DeWitt will abandon her the moment he gets paid.

01:29:39.644 --> 01:29:40.804
That's the job.

01:29:41.624 --> 01:29:46.504
So she wants to get to know you a little better, and through the game, the two of you exchange some life stories.

01:29:47.444 --> 01:29:55.144
You tell her that you're a gambling drunk, and the people who hired you were willing to pay off a huge debt you owed from being a gambling drunk.

01:29:55.304 --> 01:29:56.804
I appreciate that he's honest.

01:29:58.364 --> 01:30:05.864
You're not here out of the kindness of your own heart, but you will make sure she gets off Columbia alive, because otherwise, you won't get paid.

01:30:07.464 --> 01:30:10.744
This is monetary, and Elizabeth's like, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

01:30:12.284 --> 01:30:18.124
So Comstock's telling me the truth, all right, but you seem nice, kind of.

01:30:19.004 --> 01:30:21.764
He at least has invested in me not dying.

01:30:21.964 --> 01:30:23.344
Yeah, he did get me out of that tower.

01:30:23.504 --> 01:30:24.364
That's the very least.

01:30:24.504 --> 01:30:28.804
It's the baseline for companionship, is wanting them to not die.

01:30:30.804 --> 01:30:36.564
Elizabeth wonders how Comstock knew you would come here, because those signs with your hand on it, that's pretty fucking weird.

01:30:37.024 --> 01:30:38.964
Right, like a specific tattoo.

01:30:38.984 --> 01:30:41.364
I think it's weird when I see my tattoos on other people.

01:30:42.124 --> 01:30:44.664
But I'm like, oh, we both have this weird matching thing.

01:30:44.684 --> 01:30:45.484
That's crazy.

01:30:45.864 --> 01:30:47.364
To see propaganda?

01:30:47.524 --> 01:30:48.244
Yeah, right.

01:30:48.264 --> 01:30:48.704
Horrifying.

01:30:49.264 --> 01:30:57.344
You joke that he is a prophet after all, but the likely reason is that whoever hired you also tipped Comstock off for some fucking reason.

01:30:57.584 --> 01:31:02.084
Yeah, and like we said, Booker is not that funny, so it's not a charming moment.

01:31:02.104 --> 01:31:04.164
He's just like, oh, that's crazy.

01:31:05.084 --> 01:31:09.264
Well, finally, the two of you make it to the First Lady airship and you enter the cockpit.

01:31:10.084 --> 01:31:14.664
It's completely empty and ready to fly, so you take to the controls and start entering coordinates.

01:31:15.724 --> 01:31:18.484
Elizabeth is giddy, super excited to go to Paris.

01:31:19.644 --> 01:31:22.584
But her excitement vanishes when she sees the coordinates.

01:31:23.104 --> 01:31:25.664
She says, 40 North, 74 West?

01:31:26.264 --> 01:31:27.764
That's not Paris, that's New York.

01:31:27.984 --> 01:31:29.384
This bitch knows coordinates.

01:31:29.404 --> 01:31:30.924
You go, how the fuck did you know that?

01:31:30.924 --> 01:31:33.564
Yeah, valid question.

01:31:33.724 --> 01:31:39.124
And she reminds you she's a Paris super fan who had nothing but books and time on her hands.

01:31:39.864 --> 01:31:42.744
She learned the coordinates of all major cities just for fun.

01:31:42.764 --> 01:31:43.664
Oh, God.

01:31:44.864 --> 01:31:48.844
She begins crying, realizing she should never have trusted you.

01:31:49.124 --> 01:31:52.204
Yeah, don't trust the guy that falls into your house and then breaks it.

01:31:52.724 --> 01:31:58.944
You go to comfort her, and she whips around and knocks you out with a pipe wrench she found nearby.

01:31:58.964 --> 01:32:00.124
Hell, yeah.

01:32:00.144 --> 01:32:02.664
Would you kindly pick that up and defend yourself?

01:32:03.264 --> 01:32:04.484
That's my girl.

01:32:04.504 --> 01:32:06.204
Yeah, go ahead and take a Bioshock for that one.

01:32:06.244 --> 01:32:07.324
That one's well deserved.

01:32:08.004 --> 01:32:12.484
You come in and out of consciousness, and you see her resetting the coordinates for Paris.

01:32:12.784 --> 01:32:13.164
Good.

01:32:13.204 --> 01:32:15.424
She waited until you were concussed to hit that.

01:32:16.264 --> 01:32:20.584
You start hearing a chanting song and others zeppelins flying outside the window.

01:32:21.624 --> 01:32:25.684
Elizabeth looks scared, and you watch her leave the cockpit, leaving you behind.

01:32:25.884 --> 01:32:26.624
She bails!

01:32:27.344 --> 01:32:32.604
The chanting song gets louder, and it's reminiscent of like a sea shanty, but more depressing.

01:32:32.904 --> 01:32:33.424
Oh, no.

01:32:33.624 --> 01:32:36.004
The people don't sound happy singing this song.

01:32:36.584 --> 01:32:41.124
We next see a group of people enter the ship, wearing ratty clothing and looking beat up.

01:32:42.164 --> 01:32:49.164
You come to flying over a group of prisoners hacking away at big-ass boulders, being watched over by a flexing handyman robot.

01:32:50.264 --> 01:32:59.464
The prisoners are the ones singing, as it's a chain gang song, reminiscent of old slave songs, as slavery had only ended about 50 years earlier.

01:32:59.724 --> 01:33:05.184
And of course, every one of the prisoners here is black, guilty of being black on a Friday night.

01:33:06.304 --> 01:33:10.904
You finally wake up only to be knocked out again by one of the people who had just boarded your stolen ship.

01:33:11.864 --> 01:33:16.264
You wake up again in an infirmary, and Daisy Fitzroy is standing nearby.

01:33:17.324 --> 01:33:20.564
Saying, you must be the false shepherd everyone's talking about.

01:33:21.744 --> 01:33:27.364
You tell her to get the hell off your ship, and she makes you realize you're vastly outnumbered right now.

01:33:28.464 --> 01:33:33.644
You tell her you have no issue with the Vox Populi or her cause, you just want to leave.

01:33:34.204 --> 01:33:37.164
She says you can have your ship if you help the Vox first.

01:33:38.264 --> 01:33:42.924
Unless you cheer for the rich white men that will never give a shit about you and will keep you down as long as they can.

01:33:43.584 --> 01:33:45.604
They really couldn't hide bias on this.

01:33:45.784 --> 01:33:46.084
Yeah.

01:33:47.984 --> 01:33:51.124
I know you said that there was an effort made.

01:33:51.404 --> 01:33:51.804
Right.

01:33:51.864 --> 01:33:52.504
No, there wasn't.

01:33:53.084 --> 01:33:57.724
Well, you have no political opinion on the matter, but agree to help her so you can get your ship back.

01:33:59.004 --> 01:34:05.444
She tells you there's a gunsmith in town, and she wants you to go get her a bunch of weapons so the Vox can take down Comstock for good.

01:34:05.524 --> 01:34:06.084
Hell yeah.

01:34:06.444 --> 01:34:09.604
You agree and she says good, and then pushes you out of the airship.

01:34:09.724 --> 01:34:10.804
Just pushes you.

01:34:11.084 --> 01:34:11.624
Yeah.

01:34:11.744 --> 01:34:13.544
But you fall a whopping eight feet.

01:34:13.684 --> 01:34:15.184
Oh, okay.

01:34:15.204 --> 01:34:21.604
You are in the sky, so a surprise push can be real dangerous.

01:34:21.624 --> 01:34:24.784
I think she wanted to scare the shit out of you, but also not put you in any real danger.

01:34:25.024 --> 01:34:25.564
She's fun.

01:34:25.584 --> 01:34:26.104
I like her.

01:34:27.764 --> 01:34:30.984
So you head off to find this weapon maker who is named Chen Lin.

01:34:32.384 --> 01:34:35.484
But you don't have Elizabeth, and you have no idea where she went.

01:34:36.104 --> 01:34:40.364
So you decide your best course of action is to find her first, because without her, escape is pointless.

01:34:40.744 --> 01:34:42.064
Yeah, she's the point of the thing.

01:34:42.984 --> 01:34:47.004
You find her as she's being thrown off a transport bar she tried to stow away onto.

01:34:47.224 --> 01:34:49.264
Just actively getting kicked out of something.

01:34:49.584 --> 01:34:50.544
That's great.

01:34:50.564 --> 01:34:54.904
When you're coming down the street, you see your friend getting kicked out of the bar, and you're like, god damn it.

01:34:56.504 --> 01:34:58.704
As soon as she sees you, though, she runs.

01:34:59.644 --> 01:35:07.144
As you chase her, she keeps opening tares to try to get in your way, using things like a parade and a train going by to block your path.

01:35:07.824 --> 01:35:12.724
And when she reaches a dead end, she opens a tear through the wall to the other side.

01:35:12.744 --> 01:35:13.604
That's so cool.

01:35:14.844 --> 01:35:22.624
You continue chasing, but get ambushed by a handyman who picks you up and yeets you off the platform into the open air.

01:35:22.804 --> 01:35:24.264
That's not very handyman.

01:35:24.504 --> 01:35:27.244
No, and there are no sky rails beneath you to be seen.

01:35:27.324 --> 01:35:33.564
Oh shit, so he, like, where fucking Vox Populi baby girl just pushed you a little bit, he's like, I'm coming for blood.

01:35:33.604 --> 01:35:40.724
Yeah, out of nowhere, a tear opens and you land on top of a zeppelin's balloon.

01:35:41.864 --> 01:35:46.364
It floats you to where Elizabeth is standing and you tell her that you can get the First Lady back.

01:35:46.684 --> 01:35:48.144
Also, what luck.

01:35:49.204 --> 01:35:50.424
No, she did that on purpose.

01:35:50.484 --> 01:35:50.924
Okay.

01:35:51.644 --> 01:35:55.284
All you have to do is arm an insurrection to help them overthrow the government.

01:35:55.344 --> 01:35:56.064
That's it.

01:35:56.324 --> 01:35:58.104
We just have to help January 6th.

01:35:58.284 --> 01:35:58.864
Oh God.

01:36:00.664 --> 01:36:01.364
But different.

01:36:02.044 --> 01:36:10.964
Elizabeth says that while she doesn't love the idea of teaming up with you again, you're literally the only person she knows that didn't keep her trapped in a cage her whole life.

01:36:11.484 --> 01:36:15.104
She doesn't have great options, is what she wants to communicate to you.

01:36:15.124 --> 01:36:17.644
She's like, I'm doing this, but I'm not happy about it.

01:36:17.804 --> 01:36:22.264
So she agrees to go with you, but she turns the attitude around on you.

01:36:22.824 --> 01:36:23.044
Oh.

01:36:23.384 --> 01:36:26.804
Now she tells you that she's using you for her needs.

01:36:27.024 --> 01:36:28.364
I'm in control.

01:36:28.644 --> 01:36:30.704
Yeah, it's not the other way around anymore.

01:36:31.024 --> 01:36:31.744
You know what?

01:36:31.764 --> 01:36:33.044
Whatever helps you.

01:36:33.264 --> 01:36:35.044
She's navigating a lot right now.

01:36:36.184 --> 01:36:37.364
There's a lot to unpack.

01:36:38.164 --> 01:36:42.024
The gunsmith is located in a section of Columbia called Finkton.

01:36:43.124 --> 01:36:48.164
It's owned and run by a man named Jeremiah Fink, who owns Fink Manufacturing.

01:36:48.484 --> 01:36:50.184
He is exactly what you'd...

01:36:50.724 --> 01:36:52.224
He's like a PFT character.

01:36:52.244 --> 01:36:57.484
Yeah, he dresses like an old timey snake oil salesman with a thin mustache and black top hat.

01:36:57.524 --> 01:36:59.344
He's the strange man from Red Dead.

01:36:59.364 --> 01:37:00.824
Yeah, he is.

01:37:01.344 --> 01:37:03.544
And he talks like Andrea's Joey Drew impression.

01:37:03.604 --> 01:37:04.324
What do you mean?

01:37:07.384 --> 01:37:10.224
And it's actually the man who was running the raffle earlier in the game.

01:37:10.544 --> 01:37:12.184
I put propellers on my refrigerator.

01:37:12.204 --> 01:37:13.204
Now I can eat on the go.

01:37:14.144 --> 01:37:14.964
Shit like that.

01:37:14.984 --> 01:37:16.124
Yeah, that's how he talks.

01:37:17.184 --> 01:37:21.984
As you take an elevator into Finkton proper, you get some propaganda fed directly to you.

01:37:23.104 --> 01:37:25.044
Fink says that he admires the bumblebee.

01:37:25.784 --> 01:37:28.864
You never see a bee take a vacation or a sick day.

01:37:29.224 --> 01:37:30.164
All they do is work.

01:37:31.024 --> 01:37:33.944
So bee the bee is what he always says.

01:37:34.644 --> 01:37:35.484
Bee the bee.

01:37:36.304 --> 01:37:41.404
He also talks about why his employees make Fink bucks instead of the currency of Columbia.

01:37:41.444 --> 01:37:42.824
Oh, he's evil evil.

01:37:43.084 --> 01:37:46.664
He says he doesn't want his employees being ripped off at the shops in town.

01:37:47.204 --> 01:37:50.844
And by offering company stores, he can keep prices low.

01:37:50.964 --> 01:37:53.404
And his employees don't have to go far to make their purchases.

01:37:54.064 --> 01:37:55.144
Oh, it's so evil.

01:37:55.284 --> 01:37:56.124
Everyone wins.

01:37:57.564 --> 01:37:59.124
Then a phone inside the elevator rings.

01:38:00.004 --> 01:38:01.904
On the other end is Fink himself.

01:38:03.004 --> 01:38:06.424
He says that he's been keeping an eye on you while you've been going around Columbia.

01:38:06.624 --> 01:38:08.104
I'll keep my opticals on you, boy.

01:38:08.124 --> 01:38:10.484
And he thinks you'd be a perfect candidate.

01:38:11.044 --> 01:38:12.864
My say, would you like to partner up with me?

01:38:12.884 --> 01:38:14.644
I'm gonna translate for you.

01:38:14.664 --> 01:38:15.104
Thank you.

01:38:17.124 --> 01:38:21.804
You have no idea what he's talking about, but you're going in anyway, so you go along with it.

01:38:22.844 --> 01:38:26.644
Once inside Finkton, you find Lynn's shop pretty quickly and go in.

01:38:27.804 --> 01:38:33.804
Exploring the shop, you see a little Buddha worship shrine and say that Comstock probably isn't a fan of that one bit.

01:38:34.024 --> 01:38:34.344
Yeah.

01:38:35.344 --> 01:38:41.664
But Elizabeth goes on to tell you about a book she read all about Buddha and how he sat outside of a tree for a long time until he became Buddha.

01:38:41.904 --> 01:38:42.224
Yeah.

01:38:42.664 --> 01:38:43.504
It's called Siddhartha.

01:38:43.524 --> 01:38:44.164
You should probably read it.

01:38:44.324 --> 01:38:45.304
It's like 15 minutes.

01:38:45.344 --> 01:38:46.404
We did in high school.

01:38:46.424 --> 01:38:46.604
Yeah.

01:38:46.824 --> 01:38:50.744
Did you guys read shit like that in high school, or was your religion class just like the one religion?

01:38:50.764 --> 01:38:51.784
No, I didn't read that till college.

01:38:54.144 --> 01:38:56.724
You search and search the shop, but it's been ransacked.

01:38:57.244 --> 01:38:59.164
No weapons, no ammo, nothing.

01:39:00.284 --> 01:39:02.104
Elizabeth hears crying and heads toward it.

01:39:03.004 --> 01:39:05.584
At the Buddha shrine, you find a woman weeping.

01:39:06.604 --> 01:39:07.404
It's Lynn's wife.

01:39:07.924 --> 01:39:08.144
Oh.

01:39:08.464 --> 01:39:12.444
And she says that people came and took her husband to a place called the Good Time Club.

01:39:13.184 --> 01:39:15.904
That doesn't sound like a good time if you go against your will.

01:39:15.944 --> 01:39:16.284
Yeah.

01:39:18.044 --> 01:39:21.384
Fortunately, the Good Time Club is a grueling hundred yards away.

01:39:22.924 --> 01:39:27.844
You get inside and Fink comes over the PA saying that you are doing great with this interview so far.

01:39:28.624 --> 01:39:31.204
By say, Charlie, you're really impressing me with your chaps.

01:39:32.404 --> 01:39:40.844
You ask what the fuck he means, and he says that he's been having issues with his employees wanting silly little things like workers' rights and shit like that.

01:39:40.864 --> 01:39:42.524
It's hard being a dictator these days.

01:39:43.644 --> 01:39:45.184
But a former Pinkerton like yourself?

01:39:46.224 --> 01:39:48.624
One, he has watched Kill His Way Across Columbia?

01:39:49.324 --> 01:39:52.384
Well, he could use a brute like that to put his people back in line.

01:39:52.924 --> 01:39:54.964
I want to be a billionaire, and I love cops.

01:39:55.064 --> 01:39:56.824
Yeah, this is just immediately...

01:39:57.804 --> 01:40:01.664
The veil's real thin on what the allegories are here.

01:40:02.264 --> 01:40:07.004
Well, real quick, we've talked about the Pinkertons before on the show in our Red Dead Redemption 2 episode.

01:40:07.824 --> 01:40:13.984
In those times, the Pinkertons were a kind of privatized army rich people could hire to force their bullshit through on people.

01:40:14.004 --> 01:40:16.724
Yeah, through the Pinkerton Detective Agency, right?

01:40:16.744 --> 01:40:17.924
That was the official title?

01:40:19.124 --> 01:40:23.644
Well, in this era, Pinkertons were known as Union Busters.

01:40:24.784 --> 01:40:26.744
Oh, fuck you!

01:40:26.884 --> 01:40:35.704
When workers would try to unionize, Pinkertons would come in and beat them back down into submission and threaten people's families and homes and stuff like that.

01:40:36.164 --> 01:40:38.304
Ugh, just the worst person.

01:40:38.324 --> 01:40:39.904
Yeah, real mafia shit.

01:40:40.004 --> 01:40:42.184
Yeah, corporate mafia shit.

01:40:42.204 --> 01:40:49.544
Yeah, it's literally just to keep the rich richer, keep people from uprising and asking for, I don't know, children to not work in mines and shit.

01:40:51.644 --> 01:40:56.644
Elizabeth just keeps learning more and more about you, and she's liking you less and less as she does.

01:40:56.964 --> 01:40:58.084
Reasonably so.

01:40:58.184 --> 01:41:00.484
Booker's not super fun to hang out with.

01:41:00.504 --> 01:41:03.304
Yeah, it's hard not to side with her on some of these points.

01:41:04.304 --> 01:41:06.844
Booker is not a good person based on what we've learned.

01:41:07.004 --> 01:41:11.584
No, he's a drunk gambler who lost it all on the ponies and loves murder.

01:41:12.284 --> 01:41:16.704
Well, you as Booker have fortunately come to terms with most of your past at this point in your life.

01:41:17.124 --> 01:41:18.604
You're like, babe, it's whatever.

01:41:18.624 --> 01:41:24.544
You even say the world needs people like Daisy Fitzroy to save it from people like yourself.

01:41:25.324 --> 01:41:31.284
Fink continues to test you, sending different groups to fight you so you can prove you're the right man for the union busting job.

01:41:32.424 --> 01:41:36.704
You go along with it as a ruse to continue deeper into the Good Time Club in order to find Lin.

01:41:37.204 --> 01:41:42.884
Fink says he knows what you're doing and that his deal is far greater than anything Daisy Fitzroy could offer.

01:41:43.924 --> 01:41:46.784
Besides, you didn't think it was going to be that easy, did you?

01:41:48.104 --> 01:41:54.344
You find where they're keeping Lin, and when the room he's in lights up, you can see that you're already too late.

01:41:55.864 --> 01:41:57.424
Lin has been beaten to death.

01:41:59.444 --> 01:42:03.744
His face is just a swollen mess of red, black and purple.

01:42:03.824 --> 01:42:04.664
That's so sad.

01:42:04.684 --> 01:42:07.604
And there's a swimming pool's worth of blood on the ground beneath him.

01:42:07.924 --> 01:42:12.964
They're like, we were so gory in the first Bioshock, we have to give him a little bit.

01:42:13.444 --> 01:42:17.824
And your only reaction is, well, shit, now where will we get the weapons?

01:42:17.944 --> 01:42:20.684
How can I manipulate the situation if he's dead?

01:42:22.044 --> 01:42:23.944
Elizabeth says there has to be another way.

01:42:24.564 --> 01:42:25.904
There has to be something you can do.

01:42:26.704 --> 01:42:29.304
And you look at her and say, dead is dead, Elizabeth.

01:42:30.024 --> 01:42:33.204
As you say this, a light in the distance turns on.

01:42:33.924 --> 01:42:37.564
And underneath it is Rosalind Lutes and her male counterpart.

01:42:37.664 --> 01:42:39.184
Oh no, they're going to say some crazy shit.

01:42:39.764 --> 01:42:44.124
The man holds up a coin lengthwise at Rosalind and asks, what do you see?

01:42:44.524 --> 01:42:46.544
Rosalind responds, she sees heads.

01:42:47.504 --> 01:42:49.424
He says he sees tails.

01:42:50.484 --> 01:42:52.464
Same coin, different perspective.

01:42:53.624 --> 01:42:57.624
Heads, dead, tails, alive.

01:42:59.124 --> 01:43:05.444
Elizabeth says she can see a tear here, and she opens it to reveal another Columbia in another universe.

01:43:06.344 --> 01:43:08.284
And Lin's body isn't there.

01:43:09.304 --> 01:43:15.544
The cell is just a storage room, which means maybe Lin is still alive in that Columbia.

01:43:16.284 --> 01:43:22.544
What's really cool is Rosalind and the man are standing in the same spot in both universes still, repeating heads dead, tails alive.

01:43:22.564 --> 01:43:23.464
Change the perspective.

01:43:23.584 --> 01:43:24.424
Oh, that's cool.

01:43:24.984 --> 01:43:32.584
Elizabeth says she thinks she can take you both through the tear and enter that universe, but she's not sure she can get you both back.

01:43:34.024 --> 01:43:36.364
You say, whatever, only one way to find out.

01:43:37.324 --> 01:43:39.104
You went, this day can't get any weirder.

01:43:39.124 --> 01:43:42.064
We might as well, you know, open the multiverse.

01:43:42.844 --> 01:43:48.104
And she opens that tear so wide, it overtakes your world and you enter a new one.

01:43:48.324 --> 01:43:49.064
Oh, cool.

01:43:49.924 --> 01:43:54.364
From here, you see this storage room filled with pro-Vox populi propaganda.

01:43:55.064 --> 01:43:56.564
And you can hear a commotion outside.

01:43:57.664 --> 01:44:02.244
You realize that maybe a little more than just Lin being alive will be different in this universe.

01:44:02.824 --> 01:44:07.544
As you go back out through the Good Time Club, you see some men that you had killed in your universe.

01:44:08.244 --> 01:44:11.864
They're freaking out, grabbing their heads and fading in and out of existence.

01:44:13.104 --> 01:44:14.784
You ask Elizabeth what's wrong with them.

01:44:15.664 --> 01:44:21.504
And she says that by opening that tear, she made them remember being dead in your universe.

01:44:22.764 --> 01:44:24.304
That's so dark.

01:44:24.604 --> 01:44:27.624
Yeah, it was not something she knew what happened or expected.

01:44:27.824 --> 01:44:30.384
But she innately knows exactly what happened.

01:44:30.404 --> 01:44:30.644
Yeah.

01:44:32.024 --> 01:44:34.964
You head back to Lynn's shop from here, and it seems deserted.

01:44:35.884 --> 01:44:39.724
When you head upstairs, the Buddha Shrine is now a Comstock Shrine.

01:44:39.904 --> 01:44:41.004
Oh, God damn it.

01:44:41.724 --> 01:44:46.744
You find Lynn at the top of the shop, and he's having the same problem those other guys were having.

01:44:47.764 --> 01:44:52.924
He seems to be talking to someone, though, and warning them about all the machinery everywhere and how dangerous it is.

01:44:54.104 --> 01:44:55.764
But there's nothing in this room except him.

01:44:56.184 --> 01:44:57.484
It's just a big empty space.

01:44:58.744 --> 01:45:02.804
You go back down to the shrine, and find a white woman praying to Comstock.

01:45:03.904 --> 01:45:05.344
You ask if she's seen Mrs.

01:45:05.364 --> 01:45:07.744
Lynn, and she says that I'm Mrs.

01:45:07.764 --> 01:45:08.024
Lynn.

01:45:09.244 --> 01:45:11.244
Oh, there's interracial marriage here.

01:45:11.564 --> 01:45:16.524
The police came and took all her husband's tools, and without his tools, he's a broken man.

01:45:17.584 --> 01:45:22.044
So she asks you to go to Finkton's Shantytown, where the police keep confiscated items.

01:45:23.464 --> 01:45:34.724
On your way, Elizabeth says she's noticed you looking at the thimble on her pinky, which if you look a little closer, you'll notice that it's also a lot shorter than a pinky finger should be.

01:45:36.124 --> 01:45:39.704
She says she doesn't know what happened to it, but the thimble keeps it hidden.

01:45:40.544 --> 01:45:43.184
Plus, she read that women in Paris wear them as a fashion item.

01:45:43.304 --> 01:45:43.924
No, they don't.

01:45:45.604 --> 01:45:50.084
Someone was trying to make her feel a little better, and they went, Oh, God, what's that shit?

01:45:50.104 --> 01:45:51.424
It's all the rage in Paris.

01:45:51.444 --> 01:45:57.104
Yeah, they went a little Truman show, and they're like, Let's just put a magazine out there that says this is cool, so she feels less dumb about it.

01:45:57.124 --> 01:45:58.244
They Truman showed her.

01:46:00.544 --> 01:46:04.484
Shantytown is where the workers of Fink Manufacturing live.

01:46:05.244 --> 01:46:08.224
Company stores and broken people living on top of one another.

01:46:09.284 --> 01:46:13.804
You make your way to the police lockup, and fight your way in until you find Lynn's tools.

01:46:14.304 --> 01:46:23.844
Lynn's tools turned out not to be a couple hammers and wrenches, but rather an entire workshop of heavy machinery, designed to make weapons from scratch.

01:46:24.604 --> 01:46:28.004
You're like, Well, how the fuck do we get this back to Lynn's shop?

01:46:28.944 --> 01:46:34.824
Elizabeth says she can sense a tear here, and she opens it to reveal another Columbia universe.

01:46:35.884 --> 01:46:42.604
This one doesn't have the tools in the police lockup, which means they would be back at Lynn's shop in that universe.

01:46:43.764 --> 01:46:51.504
Which also, they're just assuming Lynn is alive too in that universe, but fuck it, we've already come this far, and Elizabeth tears you into this third universe.

01:46:52.724 --> 01:46:53.284
Why not?

01:46:54.064 --> 01:47:00.024
Here, the Vox Populi have already begun their revolution and have taken back Shantytown.

01:47:00.444 --> 01:47:06.004
You run into a Vox soldier, and he goes, oh my god, you're Booker DeWitt, the hero of the Vox.

01:47:06.284 --> 01:47:06.964
Oh no.

01:47:07.124 --> 01:47:08.524
And then he runs off cheering.

01:47:08.964 --> 01:47:10.924
Just is like, that's great.

01:47:13.964 --> 01:47:19.224
Like if I ran up to Pedro Pascal and said, you're Pedro Pascal, and then just went, ah!

01:47:21.404 --> 01:47:22.264
Same energy.

01:47:23.384 --> 01:47:25.224
Elizabeth points to a poster on a wall.

01:47:25.924 --> 01:47:26.624
It's of you.

01:47:27.504 --> 01:47:30.524
And it's calling you the martyr of the revolution.

01:47:30.944 --> 01:47:31.884
Oh, no.

01:47:32.744 --> 01:47:34.244
You say you are starting to remember.

01:47:34.944 --> 01:47:37.864
You burn down the Hall of Heroes along with Slate.

01:47:38.824 --> 01:47:42.764
Then your vision goes blurry and your nose starts to bleed, because of course it does.

01:47:42.784 --> 01:47:46.184
I appreciate that he did go on the stolen Valor tear.

01:47:46.464 --> 01:47:49.024
Honestly, Slate, hell yeah, we were fucking there.

01:47:49.044 --> 01:47:50.064
Fuck this guy.

01:47:51.124 --> 01:47:56.864
You tell Elizabeth, you're starting to feel like those guys you saw earlier who could remember being dead in another universe.

01:47:57.784 --> 01:48:02.964
Except in this world Booker DeWitt already died, and you're starting to remember it happening.

01:48:03.104 --> 01:48:04.044
Oh, that's creepy.

01:48:04.804 --> 01:48:10.684
The two of you figure that by coming through to this Columbia, it means you did your job for Daisy Fitzroy.

01:48:11.324 --> 01:48:14.564
So she should give you the airship now, right?

01:48:15.144 --> 01:48:16.964
We seem to be cool in this universe.

01:48:17.484 --> 01:48:20.284
Elizabeth wonders if that deal was even made in this universe.

01:48:21.144 --> 01:48:24.744
Then she looks around at the revolution taking place and says, This is good.

01:48:25.644 --> 01:48:27.124
The people here deserve their freedom.

01:48:27.344 --> 01:48:27.764
Yeah.

01:48:28.464 --> 01:48:31.124
You tell her that they're just trading one tyrant for another.

01:48:31.884 --> 01:48:35.424
The only difference between Comstock and Fitzroy is how they spell their name.

01:48:36.644 --> 01:48:39.484
OK, he said, you know politics is puppetry, right?

01:48:39.504 --> 01:48:39.964
Yeah.

01:48:40.684 --> 01:48:46.304
But yeah, you can see that attempt at making nobody necessarily the bad guy with this one line.

01:48:48.144 --> 01:48:49.484
It's still valid.

01:48:50.104 --> 01:48:52.224
Yeah, but it's also very poorly.

01:48:52.804 --> 01:48:53.924
Yeah, I feel you.

01:48:53.964 --> 01:48:54.944
An attempt was made.

01:48:55.424 --> 01:48:57.024
Yeah, an attempt was made, definitely.

01:48:57.044 --> 01:48:59.744
Technically to cross it off the fucking checklist.

01:48:59.764 --> 01:49:00.604
But yeah, I get you.

01:49:01.444 --> 01:49:05.444
You may get back to Lin's shop, but he and his wife are both dead.

01:49:06.004 --> 01:49:06.904
Oh, God damn it.

01:49:07.424 --> 01:49:12.704
Elizabeth starts freaking out because now she's wondering, did she bring you two to another world?

01:49:13.704 --> 01:49:15.284
Or did she create this one entirely?

01:49:15.904 --> 01:49:16.324
Uh oh.

01:49:16.604 --> 01:49:24.404
She insists that when she was opening this reality, she was concentrating hard on making sure it was a universe with Lin alive.

01:49:25.224 --> 01:49:27.104
Well, she fucked that up.

01:49:28.044 --> 01:49:29.764
You assure her this isn't her fault.

01:49:30.344 --> 01:49:33.144
The only thing the two of you have done in this universe is step through into it.

01:49:33.984 --> 01:49:36.404
Anything happening here has nothing to do with the two of you.

01:49:37.704 --> 01:49:40.904
Because here it doesn't matter if Lin's alive or dead, the revolution's happening.

01:49:41.684 --> 01:49:42.744
Daisy has her weapons.

01:49:43.864 --> 01:49:46.744
So let's go to her, get our shit back, and get the fuck out of here.

01:49:48.124 --> 01:49:52.004
And it's not as easy as all that, because you're now a freedom fighter in this revolution.

01:49:52.084 --> 01:49:56.344
Yeah, you're also in the middle of everything everywhere all at once on top of this.

01:49:58.104 --> 01:50:05.124
People are seeing that the famously dead Booker DeWitt has risen to help the Vox populi overtake Finkton and then Columbia.

01:50:05.304 --> 01:50:08.804
Yeah, we're confirming in this world that ghosts exist now.

01:50:09.824 --> 01:50:11.304
There's just ghosts in here.

01:50:11.924 --> 01:50:16.244
The Vox all chant your name, and you eventually help them fight their way to Fink's office.

01:50:16.324 --> 01:50:17.924
They're having a Jesus moment.

01:50:17.944 --> 01:50:18.924
Yeah, they really are.

01:50:18.944 --> 01:50:23.584
They're like, the martyr is back after days of being dead for our sins and shit.

01:50:23.604 --> 01:50:28.424
Like, this is actually going to turn them into the Christian fascists in a couple generations.

01:50:30.464 --> 01:50:32.324
Oh no, it's a cycle.

01:50:33.244 --> 01:50:37.304
You're under the impression that Fink is going to have the means to take you to the First Lady airship.

01:50:38.004 --> 01:50:41.624
You get in an elevator to his office, and the phone inside rings.

01:50:42.584 --> 01:50:44.364
You pick it up and ask, Fink?

01:50:45.424 --> 01:50:46.284
But it's not Fink.

01:50:46.984 --> 01:50:48.204
It's Daisy Fitzroy.

01:50:49.464 --> 01:50:52.064
She says, there's no way you're Booker DeWitt.

01:50:52.964 --> 01:50:54.144
She watched him die.

01:50:55.224 --> 01:50:58.564
So, you're either an imposter or a ghost.

01:50:59.584 --> 01:51:02.604
Neither of which makes explaining you being here any easier.

01:51:02.704 --> 01:51:03.924
But it's probably a ghost.

01:51:04.644 --> 01:51:09.824
So, she'd be better off with you gone, as you've proven very useful as a martyr to the cause.

01:51:11.364 --> 01:51:14.344
You continue up the elevator and eventually find Fink's office.

01:51:15.524 --> 01:51:24.404
You can see him up against a glass window, his back facing you, and he's begging for his life when his brains blow out the back of his skull.

01:51:26.004 --> 01:51:28.604
Daisy is standing there, covered in blood.

01:51:29.564 --> 01:51:34.204
She takes her blood-covered hand and swipes it down her face like a fucking badass.

01:51:34.584 --> 01:51:36.344
Oh, that's so fucking cool.

01:51:36.704 --> 01:51:40.684
Then she says, kill the imposters and bury their bodies.

01:51:41.864 --> 01:51:46.824
You look around, and the Vox soldiers you've been helping turn on you and attack.

01:51:47.324 --> 01:51:53.544
In her defense, this is a world where they make animatronic fucking George Washington shit.

01:51:53.664 --> 01:52:04.504
So she's like, Comstock stepped his shit up, and he's trying to send in an infiltrator martyr to, like, push out the wrong message or convert my fucking soldiers and shit.

01:52:04.604 --> 01:52:07.144
She has every right to not trust this situation.

01:52:07.164 --> 01:52:08.524
Literally the plot of The Terminator.

01:52:09.244 --> 01:52:09.644
Yes.

01:52:10.924 --> 01:52:12.604
She thinks it's The Terminator.

01:52:12.644 --> 01:52:13.644
Yeah, entirely.

01:52:13.664 --> 01:52:14.244
I feel you.

01:52:15.324 --> 01:52:17.764
After killing her men, you hunt down Daisy again.

01:52:18.324 --> 01:52:23.204
You find her in a small room, holding Fink's nine-year-old son hostage at Knife Point.

01:52:23.544 --> 01:52:23.744
Oh.

01:52:24.444 --> 01:52:29.384
Elizabeth asks you to boost her up to a vent so she can drop in and open the door for you to get in.

01:52:30.084 --> 01:52:32.264
She just needs you to keep Daisy distracted at the window.

01:52:33.364 --> 01:52:36.564
So you boost her up and get to the window and call Daisy out on this plan.

01:52:37.384 --> 01:52:40.964
She's holding a kid hostage, but the kid's dad is already dead.

01:52:41.824 --> 01:52:42.584
What's the plan?

01:52:42.944 --> 01:52:43.144
Oh.

01:52:43.964 --> 01:52:46.144
She says it's the only way this ends.

01:52:47.264 --> 01:52:48.584
And then her face tenses up.

01:52:49.504 --> 01:52:53.004
She drops the knife and kid and falls down to the ground.

01:52:54.144 --> 01:53:02.704
As we see Elizabeth standing behind her with a massive pair of sewing scissors, covered in blood, having just stabbed Daisy in the back.

01:53:03.824 --> 01:53:04.004
Ugh.

01:53:04.804 --> 01:53:07.504
Daisy tries to get up, but falls down dead.

01:53:09.064 --> 01:53:14.464
Elizabeth is fucking shook and starts panicking saying, I guess this runs in the family?

01:53:17.344 --> 01:53:20.084
I appreciate that she did not plan this out.

01:53:20.104 --> 01:53:21.644
This just happened at her.

01:53:21.664 --> 01:53:22.664
And she's like, what did I do?

01:53:22.684 --> 01:53:23.944
And you're like, you fucking did it.

01:53:25.604 --> 01:53:29.024
She takes off running, sad and scared, and you chase after her.

01:53:29.944 --> 01:53:35.444
Fortunately, she runs straight to the First Lady and boards it, but locks herself in one of its staterooms.

01:53:36.804 --> 01:53:39.864
You decide to leave her be, and you go to set new coordinates.

01:53:40.964 --> 01:53:43.844
78 North, 364 East.

01:53:44.704 --> 01:53:46.744
Which is neither Paris nor New York.

01:53:47.224 --> 01:53:49.444
Well, you're in a different world, who knows where you're going.

01:53:49.564 --> 01:53:52.024
It's actually a remote spot in Northern Finland.

01:53:52.764 --> 01:53:52.984
Oh!

01:53:53.184 --> 01:53:56.884
And many people have speculated, why Booker chose that location.

01:53:57.184 --> 01:53:57.544
Huh.

01:53:57.864 --> 01:53:58.544
Here's the thing.

01:53:59.304 --> 01:54:00.164
I don't think he did.

01:54:01.144 --> 01:54:03.444
I think that's Columbia's current location.

01:54:04.784 --> 01:54:06.084
And I think that for a couple reasons.

01:54:06.644 --> 01:54:16.444
One, as this scene plays out and the ship is moving, you'll see the coordinates again, and they change slightly, which leads me to believe it's the current location the ship is tracking.

01:54:16.464 --> 01:54:17.364
It's a lifetime.

01:54:17.384 --> 01:54:17.824
Got it.

01:54:17.844 --> 01:54:18.384
Yeah.

01:54:18.404 --> 01:54:19.004
That's cool.

01:54:19.224 --> 01:54:30.664
Two, if Columbia is in Finland, then it puts it almost 1,500 miles directly due east of the coordinates in Bioshock 1 for where Rapture is located.

01:54:31.084 --> 01:54:31.964
Oh, interesting.

01:54:31.984 --> 01:54:33.644
Which is right between Iceland and Greenland.

01:54:33.864 --> 01:54:34.104
Mmm.

01:54:35.444 --> 01:54:40.704
Anyway, Elizabeth finally comes out of the stateroom in a different set of clothes and a fresh haircut.

01:54:41.104 --> 01:54:44.064
She said, this is the time for my makeover.

01:54:44.164 --> 01:54:44.684
New me.

01:54:46.444 --> 01:54:47.804
Actually, she has your haircut, Andrea.

01:54:48.424 --> 01:54:49.764
She's got a fuck-ass bob?

01:54:49.784 --> 01:54:49.924
Yeah.

01:54:51.604 --> 01:54:52.504
Hell yeah.

01:54:53.244 --> 01:54:58.644
The outfit is a white corset top with a blue overcoat and another long blue skirt.

01:54:59.404 --> 01:55:02.844
And this game could have really benefited from a single woman in the writer's room.

01:55:04.404 --> 01:55:09.044
You know what I love to do when I'm running for my life?

01:55:09.404 --> 01:55:10.684
Struggle to breathe in...

01:55:11.424 --> 01:55:12.324
Wear a corset...

01:55:12.324 --> 01:55:17.164
.
the most confusing and difficult to just put on outfit.

01:55:17.364 --> 01:55:20.204
When I got married, I had like a corset top on my wedding dress.

01:55:20.364 --> 01:55:22.684
Two bitches had to help me get in that shit.

01:55:24.224 --> 01:55:26.304
Maybe there was a robot in there that tied it up for her.

01:55:26.324 --> 01:55:28.364
They have a steampunk corset robot.

01:55:30.384 --> 01:55:34.004
Well, she asks you, which will it be, New York or Paris?

01:55:35.224 --> 01:55:39.544
Before you can answer, you hear a familiar set of pipe organs begin to play.

01:55:39.664 --> 01:55:40.504
Son of a bitch.

01:55:40.524 --> 01:55:44.764
And Elizabeth is terrified because that means Songbird has found you.

01:55:46.124 --> 01:55:51.324
Songbird comes flying in out of nowhere and crashes right into the front of the airship.

01:55:52.344 --> 01:55:56.384
He pops the balloon and throws the ship back down onto Columbia soil.

01:55:56.544 --> 01:55:58.644
I love how clumsy he is.

01:55:58.664 --> 01:55:59.364
Yeah, right?

01:55:59.384 --> 01:56:03.924
He's like the Cloverfield monster, just running and ramming.

01:56:03.944 --> 01:56:07.024
Like, there's no grace to Songbird at all.

01:56:07.044 --> 01:56:08.144
None at all.

01:56:08.264 --> 01:56:12.364
Which is kind of against what you think of when you think of like traditional bird imagery.

01:56:12.384 --> 01:56:14.784
They're like gentle and graceful.

01:56:14.804 --> 01:56:16.984
This bird's like, fuck this shit, I'm a bowling ball.

01:56:17.744 --> 01:56:18.584
A wrecking ball.

01:56:18.684 --> 01:56:19.304
Yeah.

01:56:20.584 --> 01:56:25.684
You wake up in the crash ship, and you can hear Rosalind and her dude arguing over how to play a song on the piano.

01:56:26.724 --> 01:56:29.084
Elizabeth tells you to hurry up and help her get out of the ship.

01:56:29.624 --> 01:56:31.924
The two of you need to stop them from finishing that song.

01:56:33.464 --> 01:56:36.164
As the song they're playing is the one that calls Songbird.

01:56:36.404 --> 01:56:38.504
God damn it, do anything else.

01:56:38.684 --> 01:56:41.204
Piano man, fucking sweet Caroline.

01:56:41.424 --> 01:56:42.344
Let's do something.

01:56:42.924 --> 01:56:46.124
Well, when they finish the song, Songbird doesn't come.

01:56:47.404 --> 01:56:50.704
They say that the song is correct, but the instrument is not.

01:56:51.404 --> 01:56:54.264
Until you have both, the bird will not come.

01:56:55.524 --> 01:56:57.764
You ask, is there a song to keep the bird away?

01:56:58.624 --> 01:57:00.004
That seems more prevalent.

01:57:00.304 --> 01:57:02.724
And they say you should ask Comstock that question yourself.

01:57:03.624 --> 01:57:04.424
Then they vanish.

01:57:04.924 --> 01:57:05.604
Son of a bitch.

01:57:06.324 --> 01:57:11.744
Elizabeth says that the two of you should go to Comstock's house so you can make him tell you how to keep Songbird from attacking you.

01:57:12.584 --> 01:57:22.404
She goes on to explain how that song used to fill her with joy as a child, as Songbird was her best friend, bringing her books and toys and food.

01:57:23.304 --> 01:57:30.544
When she got older, she tried to escape and discovered Songbird's true purpose, to keep her locked up.

01:57:31.644 --> 01:57:32.784
She's sheltered.

01:57:32.944 --> 01:57:37.624
Just another one of Comstock's pets, and she has hated Songbird ever since.

01:57:39.464 --> 01:57:43.804
Elizabeth wonders if prophecies are real, if Comstock really can see the future.

01:57:44.884 --> 01:57:52.964
You tell her about the vision you had of New York City, but a much larger New York than you know in your time and that it was being destroyed by Columbia.

01:57:53.544 --> 01:57:56.804
She hopes even more so now that prophecies aren't real.

01:57:58.564 --> 01:58:07.384
The two of you find a transport gondola to Comstock House, and as it climbs, you see Rosalind and her friend playing baseball across the path of the gondola.

01:58:07.464 --> 01:58:08.304
Just the two of them?

01:58:08.304 --> 01:58:08.724
Yeah.

01:58:09.964 --> 01:58:12.784
Elizabeth says she finally realizes who Rosalind is.

01:58:13.864 --> 01:58:16.384
She's the woman who designed Columbia, basically.

01:58:16.724 --> 01:58:17.664
Oh, shit.

01:58:18.024 --> 01:58:20.444
She figured out how to make a city fly.

01:58:21.144 --> 01:58:25.544
They use quantum particles suspended in space-time at a fixed height.

01:58:25.724 --> 01:58:29.124
They said some science shit to justify it.

01:58:29.264 --> 01:58:36.364
Mid-air science magic, it doesn't have to make sense, but it's not all balloons and dirgeables keeping the place floating.

01:58:36.424 --> 01:58:38.424
Okay, there's science behind it somehow.

01:58:39.084 --> 01:58:43.724
End of the day, Rosalind Lutess is the smartest person alive.

01:58:44.764 --> 01:58:45.904
Women in STEM.

01:58:48.064 --> 01:58:53.864
As you continue up, you keep seeing the two on different platforms, constantly arguing with one another.

01:58:54.564 --> 01:58:56.104
Him saying, I told you they'd come.

01:58:56.444 --> 01:58:57.544
Her saying, no, you didn't.

01:58:58.164 --> 01:59:01.244
And him saying, well, I was going to tell you they were going to come.

01:59:01.844 --> 01:59:03.484
And she says, yes, but you didn't.

01:59:03.684 --> 01:59:05.324
Their bickering is very cute.

01:59:05.344 --> 01:59:06.624
I will give you that.

01:59:06.744 --> 01:59:07.684
It's so delightful.

01:59:07.704 --> 01:59:19.384
Throughout the game, they are such a little ray of joy and levity, and also some ominous shit occasionally, but you know they're up to shit, and they're very fun.

01:59:19.964 --> 01:59:26.224
At one point, you see them dancing together, and Rosalind asks, is it weird that we finish each other's, and he says, sentences?

01:59:26.244 --> 01:59:28.244
I think it would be weirder if we didn't.

01:59:29.144 --> 01:59:31.644
No, it's definitely weirder if you do.

01:59:33.664 --> 01:59:36.784
Elizabeth and you both agree, they're not right in the head.

01:59:36.904 --> 01:59:39.224
And they're not romantic too, I want to point that out.

01:59:39.244 --> 01:59:40.684
No, it's not romantic dancing.

01:59:41.464 --> 01:59:45.664
Plus, they're just too confusing to figure out, so we might as well just keep going.

01:59:47.024 --> 01:59:50.744
Booker's still trying to wrap his head around the whole particle floating thing anyway.

01:59:51.324 --> 01:59:52.664
He's not a book smart man.

01:59:52.704 --> 01:59:54.924
No, he thought it was giant balloons the whole time himself.

01:59:54.944 --> 01:59:58.044
It's like balloons float, city floats.

01:59:58.064 --> 01:59:59.484
Big balloons for city, got it.

02:00:00.444 --> 02:00:05.884
As you're looking for a key into the next location, you hear a pipe organ start playing Songbird's old tune.

02:00:05.884 --> 02:00:06.824
God damn it.

02:00:07.124 --> 02:00:09.804
And Elizabeth makes you duck behind a giant desk.

02:00:10.864 --> 02:00:13.204
Songbird comes flying in, breaking the window.

02:00:14.284 --> 02:00:20.684
And this part is like in that first Lord of the Rings movie where the hobbits are hiding from the Nazgul under the tree, and he just like inches from them.

02:00:20.704 --> 02:00:23.124
And even if you haven't seen the movie, you've probably seen the meme of it all.

02:00:23.144 --> 02:00:25.344
I don't know what the fuck you just said.

02:00:25.664 --> 02:00:26.564
But sure, I get you.

02:00:26.584 --> 02:00:27.784
I played Bioshock Infinite.

02:00:28.384 --> 02:00:32.104
Songbird's eyes cast a light beam around the room as it looks for you.

02:00:32.184 --> 02:00:33.784
Oh, those horrible yellow eyes.

02:00:34.044 --> 02:00:35.984
But you successfully hide, and it takes off.

02:00:37.584 --> 02:00:40.024
Elizabeth says she needs you to make a promise to her.

02:00:42.064 --> 02:00:45.284
You tell her you promised to stop both Comstock and Songbird.

02:00:45.904 --> 02:00:48.444
And she says, no, you can't make that promise.

02:00:49.504 --> 02:00:52.084
She takes your hand and puts it to her throat.

02:00:53.304 --> 02:00:58.724
She says she needs you to promise, you won't let him take her back, no matter what it takes.

02:00:59.344 --> 02:00:59.624
Oh.

02:00:59.944 --> 02:01:01.044
Even if it means killing her.

02:01:03.184 --> 02:01:04.984
And you just say, it won't come to that.

02:01:06.924 --> 02:01:09.464
Plan B, but we're going to focus on Plan A.

02:01:11.224 --> 02:01:12.264
Let's not jump to that.

02:01:13.504 --> 02:01:16.704
You get attacked by some vox trying to take down Comstock's house.

02:01:17.484 --> 02:01:24.664
And you have to fight your way through some of them, and you eventually make it to a section of the property that has been designated as a memorial.

02:01:25.464 --> 02:01:27.744
But there's a path from here into the house itself.

02:01:29.044 --> 02:01:34.604
You approach the gate and a robot voice says, Lady Comstock, so good to see you up and about.

02:01:35.404 --> 02:01:36.244
Oh, no.

02:01:36.264 --> 02:01:38.184
Especially after your death 19 years ago.

02:01:40.624 --> 02:01:41.724
Ah, ghosts are real.

02:01:42.044 --> 02:01:43.644
Well, Elizabeth says it must be the dress.

02:01:43.804 --> 02:01:45.084
It was her mother's after all.

02:01:45.264 --> 02:01:46.624
Oh, because she was in the stateroom.

02:01:48.024 --> 02:01:48.664
That's funny.

02:01:49.144 --> 02:01:54.224
The voice asks her to put her hand on a scanner and says that her fingerprints don't appear to be her own today.

02:01:54.644 --> 02:01:55.344
Is she sick?

02:01:55.604 --> 02:01:57.884
They don't appear to be your own today.

02:01:57.904 --> 02:01:58.384
That's funny.

02:01:58.524 --> 02:01:59.584
That's a real thing, though.

02:01:59.604 --> 02:02:04.284
When I got my fingertips tattooed, I had to re-scan them into my phone to unlock my phone.

02:02:04.964 --> 02:02:07.424
Because it actually messed up my fingerprints.

02:02:08.464 --> 02:02:10.704
Elizabeth says her mom is in a tomb nearby.

02:02:11.104 --> 02:02:12.024
Let's go get her hand.

02:02:13.344 --> 02:02:15.964
So, you head to the graveyard to find Lady Comstock's tomb.

02:02:15.984 --> 02:02:17.124
This is so morbid.

02:02:17.144 --> 02:02:21.404
And begin everyone who has ever played this game's least favorite part.

02:02:21.804 --> 02:02:29.024
In her tomb, her body has been preserved, and she looks like Snow White in her glass coffin, looking exactly as she did the day she died.

02:02:30.124 --> 02:02:35.244
Comstock's voice comes over a PA, and he yells at Elizabeth for following this false shepherd.

02:02:36.144 --> 02:02:38.464
He tried to warn her, but she just wouldn't listen.

02:02:39.524 --> 02:02:44.644
The lights shut off, and Elizabeth starts freaking out as waves of energy are pulled out of her.

02:02:45.144 --> 02:02:46.324
Waves of energy?

02:02:46.844 --> 02:02:53.444
Comstock says that a parent hates to see their child in pain, but spare the rod, spoil the child.

02:02:54.404 --> 02:02:57.544
If you won't listen to Dad, maybe you'll listen to Mom.

02:02:59.124 --> 02:03:06.344
Then Lady Comstock's spirit rises up out of her body, and she flies out of the tomb and into the graveyard beyond.

02:03:06.584 --> 02:03:08.044
I fucking hate this mission.

02:03:08.084 --> 02:03:08.844
Here's why.

02:03:09.724 --> 02:03:12.344
The assault goes on for very long.

02:03:12.764 --> 02:03:13.204
So long.

02:03:13.224 --> 02:03:14.744
This is a grueling assault.

02:03:14.764 --> 02:03:18.324
They could have cut genuinely two rounds out, and it would still be challenging.

02:03:18.704 --> 02:03:19.804
Two lore reasons.

02:03:20.504 --> 02:03:22.244
There's a fucking ghost here now.

02:03:22.264 --> 02:03:27.824
I was joking about Booker coming back as the martyr ghost, and Daisy's like, well, this is clearly not him.

02:03:27.844 --> 02:03:30.224
That's definitely a fucking steampunk fucking robot.

02:03:30.244 --> 02:03:30.964
Like, let's be real.

02:03:30.984 --> 02:03:31.704
Ghosts aren't real.

02:03:32.004 --> 02:03:32.824
I wish, Daisy.

02:03:32.944 --> 02:03:35.084
I fucking wish, because now ghosts are real.

02:03:35.244 --> 02:03:35.904
And you know what?

02:03:36.084 --> 02:03:37.244
They work for billionaires.

02:03:39.404 --> 02:03:40.524
This is a bad thing.

02:03:41.044 --> 02:03:44.004
Well, you look at Elizabeth and go, why is your mom a ghost?

02:03:44.164 --> 02:03:45.664
Yeah, great place to start.

02:03:45.864 --> 02:03:47.084
And she says she's not.

02:03:47.764 --> 02:03:52.064
Comstock did something and forced her to use her powers to open a tear to another universe.

02:03:52.444 --> 02:03:53.244
Oh no.

02:03:53.704 --> 02:03:55.964
One where her mom was evil, I guess.

02:03:56.144 --> 02:03:56.764
And floating?

02:03:56.864 --> 02:03:57.644
And angry.

02:03:57.944 --> 02:04:01.844
And when she came here, she remained in a limbo state between alive and dead.

02:04:02.684 --> 02:04:03.944
Oh God.

02:04:04.224 --> 02:04:08.524
It's such a long-winded way of saying it's a ghost, but it's totally not a ghost.

02:04:09.444 --> 02:04:14.404
I think I might have skipped that part, cause in my head it is truly burned as it is.

02:04:14.424 --> 02:04:16.204
And then you fight a fucking ghost.

02:04:16.224 --> 02:04:17.464
And that's when I was like, you know what?

02:04:17.464 --> 02:04:19.384
I don't like the reality of this one.

02:04:19.684 --> 02:04:24.264
No, it's such a bullshit way of trying to be like, it's totally not a ghost.

02:04:24.284 --> 02:04:25.544
It's totally a fucking ghost.

02:04:25.564 --> 02:04:30.244
Even though the first game kind of had ghosts with like the atom that got left over in the space.

02:04:30.264 --> 02:04:34.344
Like they explained all the science behind it and you can't interact with them.

02:04:34.364 --> 02:04:40.584
Yeah, it's just Spicer energy that's like in the world so you can put things together to be like Batmanning and shit.

02:04:40.644 --> 02:04:41.064
Yeah.

02:04:41.084 --> 02:04:42.384
Nah, this shit just ghost.

02:04:42.564 --> 02:04:43.944
It's just a ghost that fights you.

02:04:43.984 --> 02:04:45.984
This shit just ghost.

02:04:46.024 --> 02:04:48.484
Yeah, fuck Lady Comstock and her stupid ghost ass.

02:04:48.504 --> 02:04:49.504
Fuck you ghost bitch.

02:04:50.404 --> 02:04:56.164
Even when you defeat her, she's not gone and you need her hand still to open Comstock House.

02:04:56.264 --> 02:04:57.604
Which is also so dark.

02:04:59.124 --> 02:05:09.584
By now, you've also come to realize that with all this universe hopping, Rosalind Lutes and the man that's always with her are actually the same person from different universes.

02:05:10.944 --> 02:05:14.704
And from here out, we see his name is Robert Lutes.

02:05:15.224 --> 02:05:17.744
They are in a graveyard doing mysterious shit like usual.

02:05:19.324 --> 02:05:21.804
And they point you in the direction Lady Comstock's ghost went.

02:05:22.964 --> 02:05:27.884
The ghost that's totally not a ghost, as they keep reminding us, has some unfinished business here.

02:05:28.804 --> 02:05:30.284
You know, like a ghost.

02:05:30.304 --> 02:05:32.144
That's ghost activity shit.

02:05:32.784 --> 02:05:37.984
Either you tie up your loose ends or you haunt billionaires into caring about people.

02:05:38.064 --> 02:05:38.984
What the fuck, bitch?

02:05:39.004 --> 02:05:41.424
You should have taken the Muppet Christmas Carol route.

02:05:42.004 --> 02:05:45.424
Well, you chase after her as she leaves ghostly footprints behind.

02:05:45.724 --> 02:05:46.324
Footprints.

02:05:46.904 --> 02:05:48.484
Elizabeth says, this is too weird.

02:05:48.884 --> 02:05:51.364
This Lady Comstock can't be the real one.

02:05:51.784 --> 02:05:54.724
Nobody else has reacted to crossing universes like this.

02:05:56.024 --> 02:06:02.484
Eventually, you follow her to a laboratory, one with a big metal platform surrounded by wires and machinery.

02:06:03.364 --> 02:06:08.664
In the center of the platform is a small tear, and Elizabeth opens it wider to see the other side of it.

02:06:09.664 --> 02:06:12.924
She hears Lady Comstock yelling at Rosalind, calling her a whore.

02:06:13.744 --> 02:06:16.984
But Rosalind says she has no attraction to the Prophet whatsoever.

02:06:17.744 --> 02:06:19.264
Plus, he's completely sterile.

02:06:20.244 --> 02:06:24.064
I don't want your man and his dick doesn't work, girls, sit down.

02:06:24.704 --> 02:06:29.264
Lady Comstock asks, then where the hell did this baby come from?

02:06:30.524 --> 02:06:32.084
Get it out of my house.

02:06:34.084 --> 02:06:38.544
And Elizabeth realizes, her mom was the one who sent her away to live in that tower.

02:06:40.204 --> 02:06:42.024
Ghost feet lead you to another tear.

02:06:42.564 --> 02:06:46.424
In this one, we hear Fink being asked to help get two people killed.

02:06:47.344 --> 02:06:50.584
When he asks why, he's told it has to do with that child.

02:06:52.164 --> 02:06:57.224
At a third tear, we hear the man who hired Fink being confronted by the Luteces.

02:06:58.284 --> 02:07:00.204
He says, you're supposed to be dead.

02:07:01.004 --> 02:07:03.624
And they say they are, but also not.

02:07:05.664 --> 02:07:10.264
You realize that Comstock was taking out anyone who knew about Elizabeth.

02:07:11.224 --> 02:07:15.324
Anyone who knew she wasn't really his daughter, even his own wife.

02:07:16.984 --> 02:07:22.104
The ghost flies into a statue of Lady Comstock, and Elizabeth has a heart to heart with it.

02:07:23.424 --> 02:07:26.304
Elizabeth hated Lady Comstock for never being a mother to her.

02:07:27.544 --> 02:07:31.264
Lady Comstock hated Elizabeth because she thought her husband cheated on her.

02:07:32.384 --> 02:07:41.324
But now she knows the truth, that Elizabeth couldn't possibly be his, and that she's a victim just like everyone else that has come into contact with Comstock.

02:07:41.564 --> 02:07:52.964
Lady Comstock wants to know why she's here in this form, and Elizabeth explains that she must be from a universe where she and Comstock never met, or maybe she saved him, who knows really.

02:07:54.264 --> 02:07:59.604
She could also just be a manifestation of Elizabeth's regret and resentment taking the form of her mother.

02:08:00.004 --> 02:08:01.184
What if you're a metaphor?

02:08:01.284 --> 02:08:02.964
Yeah, she really has no idea.

02:08:04.404 --> 02:08:10.944
With Lady Comstock's last bit of strength, she blows open the doors to Comstock House, and you and Elizabeth enter.

02:08:12.724 --> 02:08:19.264
Just on the other side, you run into Songbird, and he picks you up and tosses you into a wall.

02:08:19.324 --> 02:08:20.264
Son of a bitch.

02:08:20.424 --> 02:08:22.664
And you fall down unconscious once again.

02:08:22.744 --> 02:08:23.404
Bad bird.

02:08:24.224 --> 02:08:35.344
You wake up in your office, with Elizabeth standing in a corner, and Luteces standing in front of your office door, saying, bring us the girl and wipe away the debt.

02:08:36.844 --> 02:08:43.284
You can't get to your office door to escape the concussion, but there's another door in the office that if you had tried earlier, wouldn't open.

02:08:43.844 --> 02:08:44.804
This time it does.

02:08:45.724 --> 02:08:51.044
And when you go through, you wake back up, having just been thrown through a building wall by Songbird.

02:08:52.504 --> 02:08:56.904
Songbird tears the roof off the building and lands down on top of you.

02:08:58.124 --> 02:09:06.084
Elizabeth gets between you two, demanding he stops, but Songbird pushes her aside and raises its massive fist ready to strike you.

02:09:07.384 --> 02:09:10.544
It swings and Elizabeth screens out, I'm sorry.

02:09:10.984 --> 02:09:13.704
This stops Songbird's fist inches from your face.

02:09:13.824 --> 02:09:14.244
Oof.

02:09:15.184 --> 02:09:16.684
She says she's sorry she left.

02:09:17.244 --> 02:09:21.104
She shouldn't have done that and asks Songbird to take her back.

02:09:21.724 --> 02:09:22.844
Oh, dummy.

02:09:23.044 --> 02:09:23.724
Take her home.

02:09:25.384 --> 02:09:34.904
Songbird suddenly only has eyes for Elizabeth and he takes hold of her and flies off as she reaches back to you helplessly in slow motion.

02:09:36.884 --> 02:09:41.384
On foot, you chase after Songbird, heading toward the Columbia Prison.

02:09:41.564 --> 02:09:43.604
Just hauling ass behind a bird.

02:09:43.624 --> 02:09:43.964
Yeah.

02:09:45.824 --> 02:09:50.364
As you chase, she opens small tears near you so you can hear what she's saying to Songbird.

02:09:51.184 --> 02:09:54.504
He's not taking her to her tower and she doesn't understand why.

02:09:55.644 --> 02:10:00.644
You finally get inside the prison and in the foyer, you see something you don't expect.

02:10:02.244 --> 02:10:05.944
A monument to Elizabeth, the Savior.

02:10:08.204 --> 02:10:09.984
Her voice is speaking over a recording.

02:10:11.024 --> 02:10:13.664
She is the lamb that Comstock was raising.

02:10:14.804 --> 02:10:18.984
The Elizabeth in this universe is the daughter Comstock wanted.

02:10:19.484 --> 02:10:19.704
Oh!

02:10:21.084 --> 02:10:25.604
Your Elizabeth can be heard in a room nearby screaming out, not understanding what's going on.

02:10:26.304 --> 02:10:27.424
But she's not in the next room.

02:10:27.824 --> 02:10:28.624
It's another tear.

02:10:29.964 --> 02:10:34.264
Comstock is telling her he's going to cleanse her spirit because she's broken.

02:10:35.364 --> 02:10:38.584
You start to realize Elizabeth isn't really here.

02:10:39.484 --> 02:10:43.264
They have her in another time or another dimension or something.

02:10:43.444 --> 02:10:44.044
Oh shit.

02:10:44.084 --> 02:10:48.544
Because the doctor tells her DeWitt abandoned her six months ago.

02:10:48.984 --> 02:10:49.964
Oh shit.

02:10:50.164 --> 02:10:52.424
And you're like, I saw her ten minutes ago.

02:10:53.264 --> 02:10:54.584
What the hell is going on here?

02:10:55.824 --> 02:10:59.204
You eventually find an audio log, and it's from Elizabeth.

02:11:00.624 --> 02:11:04.024
In it, she says that her only hope is gone.

02:11:04.964 --> 02:11:08.524
But if she can bring him here, maybe he can save everyone.

02:11:09.244 --> 02:11:11.464
Maybe he can stop all this from ever happening.

02:11:12.084 --> 02:11:13.944
You see another tear, and head toward it.

02:11:14.944 --> 02:11:17.264
The tear disappears, leaving the Luteses behind.

02:11:18.204 --> 02:11:21.864
You ask what the tears are, and they say you're asking the wrong question.

02:11:22.644 --> 02:11:24.884
It's not what, but when.

02:11:25.844 --> 02:11:28.284
Lives, lived, will live.

02:11:29.164 --> 02:11:31.864
Dies, died, will die.

02:11:33.044 --> 02:11:33.944
And then they vanish.

02:11:35.564 --> 02:11:38.544
You finally see Elizabeth, standing alone nearby.

02:11:40.064 --> 02:11:41.944
She's in silhouette, and she calls out to you.

02:11:42.544 --> 02:11:45.324
She says she's completely lost control of the people here.

02:11:45.904 --> 02:11:47.064
They won't listen to her anymore.

02:11:48.124 --> 02:11:53.164
It took everything she had just to bring you here, and she offers you her hand.

02:11:54.464 --> 02:11:57.644
As you take it, you see that she's no longer 19.

02:11:58.804 --> 02:12:01.604
She's actually the inverse now, at 91.

02:12:01.884 --> 02:12:02.084
Oh.

02:12:03.784 --> 02:12:09.324
She pulls you closer, and you are taken back to that vision of a future New York being destroyed by Columbia.

02:12:10.404 --> 02:12:12.624
But this time, it's really happening.

02:12:13.864 --> 02:12:17.604
In the background, you can see a car advertisement saying the year is 1984.

02:12:17.624 --> 02:12:25.664
She says that she's responsible for all of this, that she became the lamb to rain down fire on the world below.

02:12:27.044 --> 02:12:29.584
Turns out, Comstock really was a prophet, after all.

02:12:30.744 --> 02:12:33.504
And the only thing that really broke her was time.

02:12:34.664 --> 02:12:39.904
In time, she gave in and submitted to Comstock's wants and became the lamb of the prophet.

02:12:40.464 --> 02:12:42.564
Honestly, she looks great at 91.

02:12:42.584 --> 02:12:43.444
She does, right?

02:12:44.964 --> 02:12:48.904
You tell her that you never abandoned her, that you were coming to rescue her.

02:12:49.964 --> 02:12:51.184
She says you always try.

02:12:51.964 --> 02:12:53.364
And Songbird always stops you.

02:12:53.924 --> 02:12:54.664
It's no use.

02:12:56.004 --> 02:12:57.544
Which is why she pulled you from that time.

02:12:57.984 --> 02:12:59.304
You were never going to rescue her.

02:13:00.184 --> 02:13:01.124
Because you never do.

02:13:01.784 --> 02:13:02.804
In any of your attempts.

02:13:03.224 --> 02:13:04.364
In any of the universes.

02:13:06.164 --> 02:13:10.004
She says that the reason she brought you here is to give you the one thing you never had.

02:13:10.904 --> 02:13:11.464
A chance.

02:13:13.124 --> 02:13:15.204
She hands you a card and says to give it to Elizabeth.

02:13:16.024 --> 02:13:16.904
She'll know what it means.

02:13:18.424 --> 02:13:19.324
She waves her arms.

02:13:20.044 --> 02:13:21.944
And you find yourself back in 1912.

02:13:22.524 --> 02:13:23.544
In Comstock's house.

02:13:24.744 --> 02:13:26.024
You hear Elizabeth scream.

02:13:26.644 --> 02:13:27.384
And realize.

02:13:27.944 --> 02:13:29.124
You have a chance to save her.

02:13:30.564 --> 02:13:33.304
You burst into a room where two scientists are standing over her.

02:13:33.984 --> 02:13:37.564
And Comstock is watching from a platform above as she struggles to break free.

02:13:38.784 --> 02:13:41.584
They're trying to take control of her powers using the machinery in the room.

02:13:41.824 --> 02:13:43.384
So Comstock can use it himself.

02:13:43.944 --> 02:13:45.084
Then he won't need the lamb.

02:13:47.504 --> 02:13:49.744
So you set out to destroy the machine first and foremost.

02:13:50.184 --> 02:13:52.824
As all these people are behind bulletproof glass anyway.

02:13:53.744 --> 02:13:55.744
Comstock runs and hides while you do this.

02:13:56.404 --> 02:14:00.764
And when you finally destroy the machine, Elizabeth's powers are hers again.

02:14:00.784 --> 02:14:01.524
Hell yeah.

02:14:02.444 --> 02:14:05.464
She opens a tear to a farm right out of Kansas.

02:14:06.284 --> 02:14:08.964
As a tornado is tearing through this little farm.

02:14:10.364 --> 02:14:11.984
You're about to get Wizard of Oz.

02:14:12.264 --> 02:14:18.264
She opens the portal wide, and the tornado tears the room apart, killing the two scientists holding her down.

02:14:18.404 --> 02:14:21.024
Sending them to the fucking Emerald City.

02:14:23.384 --> 02:14:29.524
You go to her, and as she sits up, you see she has a gigantic syringe sticking out of her back.

02:14:30.984 --> 02:14:35.504
You yank it out, and she convulses and screams, but eventually calms down.

02:14:37.024 --> 02:14:39.664
You hand her the card given to you by the older Elizabeth.

02:14:40.564 --> 02:14:45.464
It has some writing as well as a picture of a cage on it, but she doesn't know what the cage is supposed to mean.

02:14:46.664 --> 02:14:51.584
She reads the word portion and says it tells her that she becomes the lamb and destroys New York.

02:14:52.584 --> 02:14:55.224
Booker's dream was real, and it's all her fault.

02:14:57.764 --> 02:14:59.604
She says there's only one way to end this.

02:15:00.444 --> 02:15:01.704
She has to kill Comstock.

02:15:01.884 --> 02:15:02.684
Hell yeah.

02:15:02.824 --> 02:15:04.884
No escaping to Paris, not even New York.

02:15:05.744 --> 02:15:10.204
He's the one that turns her into that monster, so she needs to kill him before he can.

02:15:10.224 --> 02:15:10.944
Let's go.

02:15:10.964 --> 02:15:14.184
You tell her she doesn't need to.

02:15:14.204 --> 02:15:16.624
You guys can run and hide down below.

02:15:16.644 --> 02:15:22.024
And she looks you dead in the eye and says, what are you going to do to stop me?

02:15:23.664 --> 02:15:26.104
I can access the multiverse, bitch.

02:15:26.124 --> 02:15:27.024
What are you going to do?

02:15:27.384 --> 02:15:32.304
She opens a tear back up to the tornado, and you see it heading straight towards you.

02:15:33.424 --> 02:15:35.624
You say you're not going to do a damn thing to stop her.

02:15:35.864 --> 02:15:36.424
There you go.

02:15:36.504 --> 02:15:37.904
Because you're going to do it for her.

02:15:38.164 --> 02:15:39.004
Good job, Booker.

02:15:39.644 --> 02:15:43.104
Elizabeth closes the tear, and the two of you partner up once again.

02:15:43.364 --> 02:15:43.724
Good.

02:15:45.124 --> 02:15:49.224
She says Comstock's new airship is parked outside, called the Hand of the Prophet.

02:15:49.604 --> 02:15:49.904
Ew.

02:15:50.524 --> 02:15:57.624
Hearing this, you realize it's probably been a long time since she last saw you, seeing as he built a new airship in that time.

02:15:57.704 --> 02:15:58.384
Yeah.

02:15:59.044 --> 02:16:03.484
She doesn't want to talk about how long it's been, but it's been a really long time.

02:16:03.584 --> 02:16:04.364
That sucks.

02:16:05.424 --> 02:16:08.104
You find a barge that will take you to the airship and board it.

02:16:09.024 --> 02:16:14.504
While on board, Elizabeth asks how it's possible to be redeemed for all the damage the two of you have done.

02:16:15.484 --> 02:16:19.664
And then she asks, Booker, are you afraid of God?

02:16:20.964 --> 02:16:24.424
And you respond, No, but I'm afraid of you.

02:16:25.144 --> 02:16:25.344
Ugh.

02:16:26.984 --> 02:16:33.404
The barge docks with the Hand of the Prophet, and it's 20 times the size of the largest airship you've seen so far.

02:16:34.384 --> 02:16:37.144
It's a flying mega yacht in the sky.

02:16:38.144 --> 02:16:48.004
It has multiple decks and security galore, which you have to fight deck by deck, clearing them out as you go, because of course Comstock is at the top deck, and you entered at the bottom.

02:16:48.044 --> 02:16:50.464
Big deck energy, I get it.

02:16:51.584 --> 02:16:53.484
You make it to the top and enter its quarters.

02:16:54.364 --> 02:17:00.944
Upon entering, you see a mini replica of the golden statue, but it's showing the insides of the statue.

02:17:02.304 --> 02:17:05.664
Underneath Elizabeth's living quarters is a big machine.

02:17:06.864 --> 02:17:12.064
She says she saw a very similar looking machine in the graveyard, as well as in that lab you helped her escape.

02:17:13.104 --> 02:17:15.724
It's been draining her powers all this time.

02:17:15.804 --> 02:17:16.424
Oh shit.

02:17:17.304 --> 02:17:20.844
She says it explains why her powers have gotten weaker with age.

02:17:21.924 --> 02:17:27.604
You ask what she means, and she says that she used to be able to open tears to anywhere her mind could imagine, instantly.

02:17:28.444 --> 02:17:33.184
But it's gotten progressively weaker with time, and now she can only open tears when she sees one is nearby.

02:17:34.584 --> 02:17:39.104
Before going to confront Comstock, you tell her to let you go in and do it alone.

02:17:39.764 --> 02:17:43.024
But she insists this is between her and him.

02:17:44.364 --> 02:17:47.604
You open a door, and his room in the airship is like the Hall of Horrors.

02:17:48.924 --> 02:17:54.884
It has a stained glass depiction of Elizabeth, standing tall with people surrounding her, worshiping her.

02:17:54.984 --> 02:17:56.744
Oh my god, he's like obsessed with her.

02:17:56.804 --> 02:18:03.164
And there's a little waterfall and river in here, with a little grassy patch in the center, all inside this fucking airship.

02:18:04.844 --> 02:18:11.404
Comstock is there, in the flesh, standing at its stone plinth with a large stone bowl like a birdbath.

02:18:12.484 --> 02:18:14.864
Christians will recognize it as a baptismal pool.

02:18:16.984 --> 02:18:21.864
He invites Elizabeth in, saying he won't bite, and that he's impressed by how much she's grown.

02:18:23.024 --> 02:18:27.004
He takes her by the hand and uses a sponge in the stone bowl to cleanse her skin.

02:18:27.704 --> 02:18:32.464
He says that he has been trying to protect her all this time, ever since the prophecy was revealed to him.

02:18:33.444 --> 02:18:39.584
The seed of the prophet shall sit the throne, and drown in flame the mountains of man.

02:18:40.924 --> 02:18:42.224
But there was more to the prophecy.

02:18:43.304 --> 02:18:53.224
The archangel that gave it to him said to beware the false shepherd, Booker Dewitt, for he will stand between her and her destiny.

02:18:54.424 --> 02:18:55.424
So he attacked Booker.

02:18:55.904 --> 02:19:02.484
He went after him with everything he had, when all he needed to do was tell Elizabeth the truth.

02:19:04.244 --> 02:19:07.624
He grabs Elizabeth and says, Ask him, child.

02:19:08.684 --> 02:19:09.864
Ask him about your finger.

02:19:10.904 --> 02:19:12.164
Ask the false shepherd.

02:19:13.444 --> 02:19:18.324
You grab Comstock by the throat and say, You abandoned your daughter in a tower.

02:19:19.364 --> 02:19:28.864
You keep asking him if it was worth it, and you slam his head down over and over into the side of the stone bowl, blood splattering everywhere.

02:19:30.204 --> 02:19:32.884
Coughing up blood, Comstock says, It's too late.

02:19:33.504 --> 02:19:34.204
It's finished.

02:19:35.364 --> 02:19:43.564
You flip him around and shove his face into the water, holding him down, saying, You cut off her finger and now you're trying to blame it on me?

02:19:45.144 --> 02:19:49.324
You hold him down until he stops moving, and Elizabeth says he's dead.

02:19:51.124 --> 02:19:52.264
She asks about the finger.

02:19:53.264 --> 02:19:54.604
Why did he say that about her finger?

02:19:54.844 --> 02:19:55.504
What do you know?

02:19:56.664 --> 02:19:57.824
You say you don't know anything at all.

02:19:58.504 --> 02:19:59.804
You assumed she was born with it.

02:20:01.044 --> 02:20:03.724
She looks at you and says, Your nose is bleeding.

02:20:05.304 --> 02:20:06.324
It's not that you don't know.

02:20:06.344 --> 02:20:08.164
It's that you don't remember.

02:20:08.984 --> 02:20:12.344
You've jumped so many universes, your memories are a mess.

02:20:14.184 --> 02:20:19.744
Doesn't matter, as the Vox have arrived and they start boarding the ship, thinking Comstock is on it, and you're working with him.

02:20:21.064 --> 02:20:25.524
Elizabeth finally realizes what the picture of the cage means on the note from her future self.

02:20:26.804 --> 02:20:27.764
It's not a word.

02:20:28.644 --> 02:20:29.444
It's a song.

02:20:30.584 --> 02:20:32.504
C-A-G-E.

02:20:33.744 --> 02:20:35.284
It's how you control Songbird.

02:20:35.564 --> 02:20:36.224
It's the notes.

02:20:36.524 --> 02:20:37.764
From the pipe organ, yeah.

02:20:38.764 --> 02:20:41.504
So you find the pipe organ Comstock uses to control Songbird.

02:20:41.964 --> 02:20:42.784
And play the notes.

02:20:43.864 --> 02:20:46.924
Songbird swoops in, shattering the window to the outside.

02:20:46.944 --> 02:20:49.004
Just clumsiest fuck every time.

02:20:49.664 --> 02:20:52.504
There is not a time this guy has landed well.

02:20:53.544 --> 02:20:55.004
Elizabeth asks it to help her.

02:20:55.324 --> 02:20:56.444
This one last time.

02:20:57.024 --> 02:20:57.784
And it agrees.

02:20:58.924 --> 02:21:03.064
You fight off the Vox, using Songbird to fly in and take out their support ships.

02:21:03.724 --> 02:21:06.064
It's really fucking cool in an epically long battle.

02:21:07.044 --> 02:21:10.524
After you win, you take the ship to what remains of the Golden Statue.

02:21:11.544 --> 02:21:14.204
Only the top section was destroyed when you rescued Elizabeth.

02:21:14.424 --> 02:21:17.264
The bottom section still houses the machine that absorbs her power.

02:21:18.544 --> 02:21:22.284
She says if you use Songbird to destroy the machine, it will release her powers.

02:21:22.884 --> 02:21:32.924
And then she'll be able to open any tear she wants, including to the one that can restore your memory to find out what happened to her finger and what Comstock was talking about.

02:21:33.064 --> 02:21:33.504
Yeah.

02:21:34.564 --> 02:21:39.024
You use a little pipe flute to call in Songbird, and it destroys the rest of the statue.

02:21:40.064 --> 02:21:43.784
An explosion of power comes from it, and you can see Elizabeth glowing.

02:21:44.964 --> 02:21:51.404
But the energy breaks your flute, and you lose control of Songbird, and it comes flying directly at you.

02:21:52.584 --> 02:21:57.524
You cry out that Songbird's coming, and Elizabeth calmly says, No, he's not.

02:21:58.844 --> 02:22:03.144
She waves her hand, and the three of you are no longer on the hand of the prophets.

02:22:04.204 --> 02:22:09.444
You're looking through a large window, and beyond that window is water like in an aquarium.

02:22:10.844 --> 02:22:14.464
Songbird is on the outside of the window, and you two are on the inside.

02:22:16.004 --> 02:22:19.504
Songbird swims up to the window and grasps at its chest.

02:22:20.684 --> 02:22:24.444
Elizabeth says, shh, it's all right, just let go.

02:22:26.024 --> 02:22:34.004
And you watch as Songbird's eyes shatter, and it twitches and convulses and dies, finally floating into the depths below.

02:22:34.024 --> 02:22:34.844
Fuck yeah.

02:22:36.164 --> 02:22:50.604
As Songbird drifts away, we can see an underwater city behind him, ha ha ha ha with tunnels connecting buildings, and the song Somewhere Beyond the Sea starts playing from an old record player.

02:22:53.304 --> 02:22:58.384
You look around, and anyone who's familiar with the series knows we're now in Rapture.

02:22:58.564 --> 02:23:00.544
We're in Rapture now.

02:23:01.224 --> 02:23:15.104
This is such a good feeling moment, because they were like, we are not underwater, we are taking to the sky, we are with the birds, the big emphasis was that this isn't your mama's Bioshock kind of shit.

02:23:15.164 --> 02:23:21.724
And for them to come back and also be bewildered.

02:23:21.744 --> 02:23:22.364
It's so good.

02:23:22.384 --> 02:23:28.904
It's one of the things Ken Levine said about this game, it's not Bioshock, but it'd be disingenuous not to call it Bioshock.

02:23:31.584 --> 02:23:34.744
It feels so good to be back in Rapture.

02:23:35.604 --> 02:23:38.524
It's the same room where you got your first plasmid in the first game.

02:23:38.864 --> 02:23:41.844
It has that neon sign pointing towards a gatherer's garden.

02:23:42.824 --> 02:23:47.024
Elizabeth says, this is just a doorway, one of many, and to follow her.

02:23:48.164 --> 02:23:50.564
You ask, is this where she lost her finger or something?

02:23:51.824 --> 02:23:56.424
She keeps leading you, and she takes you to the bathysphere that brought you to Rapture in the first game.

02:23:56.444 --> 02:23:57.624
Oh, it brought Jack there.

02:23:59.064 --> 02:24:02.904
The two of you board it, and flip the switch, activating the bathysphere.

02:24:03.684 --> 02:24:05.604
You go into the water and head out of the building you're in.

02:24:06.824 --> 02:24:11.664
You even hear the classic Bioshock theme music that introduced you to Rapture the first time you start playing.

02:24:11.844 --> 02:24:13.004
Oh, it's so good.

02:24:13.124 --> 02:24:18.564
You get the epic, grand reveal of Rapture, and go, the city at the bottom of the ocean?

02:24:19.064 --> 02:24:19.924
That's ridiculous.

02:24:21.784 --> 02:24:24.604
Just completely unfazed by everything you're seeing.

02:24:24.624 --> 02:24:26.684
I love that.

02:24:27.964 --> 02:24:32.684
The bathysphere rises up, and the two of you leave Rapture behind, at least for now.

02:24:33.304 --> 02:24:37.624
Check out our Patreon episode that covers the DLC if you want to return to Rapture with Booker and Elizabeth.

02:24:39.324 --> 02:24:42.984
The bathysphere pops up out of the water, at the base of a giant lighthouse.

02:24:44.164 --> 02:24:52.444
Elizabeth looks up in the sky and says that the lights in the sky aren't stars, but millions of doors, all opening at once, just for her.

02:24:53.884 --> 02:24:57.304
You get out at the base of the lighthouse, and go to the door, which is locked.

02:24:58.604 --> 02:25:01.444
Suddenly, a key appears in Elizabeth's hand.

02:25:02.844 --> 02:25:04.464
She says that it was always there.

02:25:04.964 --> 02:25:06.244
She just didn't see it until now.

02:25:07.564 --> 02:25:15.384
The door opens, and as you walk through, it's like you're exiting another lighthouse, because you're still outdoors in the middle of the ocean.

02:25:17.004 --> 02:25:20.344
This time, though, there are a bunch of other lighthouses nearby.

02:25:21.504 --> 02:25:24.004
She says these are the doorways of choices.

02:25:25.184 --> 02:25:30.304
They lead to every different universe, all of them different and yet all of them similar.

02:25:31.584 --> 02:25:34.364
Infinite choices, creating infinite universes.

02:25:35.684 --> 02:25:39.464
Now all you have to do is choose which door to enter.

02:25:40.844 --> 02:25:45.044
But even among those differences, there's some constants that never change.

02:25:46.184 --> 02:25:47.524
There's always a lighthouse.

02:25:48.444 --> 02:25:49.524
There's always a man.

02:25:50.504 --> 02:25:51.744
There's always a city.

02:25:53.024 --> 02:25:55.664
The rest are just variations on those constants.

02:25:57.484 --> 02:26:06.044
There's water between each of these lighthouses, but as you head toward them, ground lifts up out of the water and you can run along this path to the different lighthouses.

02:26:07.964 --> 02:26:12.584
You go through one, and when you come out, you're in a new ocean of lighthouses.

02:26:13.624 --> 02:26:15.624
And these are all designed very differently.

02:26:16.184 --> 02:26:20.884
They're shorter, made of different material, and their docks aren't made of stone, they're made of wood.

02:26:22.664 --> 02:26:27.964
Through one, across the way, you can see yourselves coming out of another lighthouse.

02:26:29.464 --> 02:26:32.324
Infinite choices, infinite possibilities.

02:26:33.344 --> 02:26:38.544
The versions of yourselves you see across the way just picked a different lighthouse to go through.

02:26:40.264 --> 02:26:43.744
But again, there are constants, choices you will always make.

02:26:44.824 --> 02:26:47.144
They happen because they always happen.

02:26:47.484 --> 02:26:48.664
It's just the way of the universe.

02:26:49.244 --> 02:26:51.404
In Spider-Verse, this is called a canon event.

02:26:51.424 --> 02:26:51.984
Yeah.

02:26:53.004 --> 02:26:55.184
Here, choices don't matter.

02:26:56.244 --> 02:26:59.344
Every choice you make takes you to the same point in time.

02:27:00.324 --> 02:27:01.244
This point in time.

02:27:02.764 --> 02:27:05.364
Choices don't matter.

02:27:06.804 --> 02:27:07.924
Like the choices you made earlier.

02:27:08.504 --> 02:27:09.564
The bird or the cage.

02:27:10.524 --> 02:27:11.444
Heads or tails.

02:27:12.244 --> 02:27:13.564
Throw the ball or don't.

02:27:14.224 --> 02:27:15.684
Kill Slate or spare him.

02:27:16.944 --> 02:27:17.864
None of it matters.

02:27:18.704 --> 02:27:23.604
Regardless of what you choose, you will always end up here, one way or another.

02:27:25.004 --> 02:27:32.764
And this is another perfect Bioshock moment, because once again, they're questioning the role of the gamer and their part in all of this.

02:27:33.644 --> 02:27:39.664
We're constantly given the illusion of choice in games, but at the end of the day, you will always get to the same conclusion.

02:27:39.724 --> 02:27:44.204
I'll play the game differently from the way you'll play the game, but we'll all get the same ending.

02:27:45.784 --> 02:27:48.784
Maybe a slight variation on that ending, but for the most part, it's the same.

02:27:49.444 --> 02:27:54.904
And because at least at that time, it was very rare to have games that go in wildly different directions, like a Baldur's Gate 3.

02:27:56.324 --> 02:28:01.884
But it also might be a bit of a commentary, too, on the influence the first Bioshock had on the video game industry as a whole.

02:28:02.904 --> 02:28:12.084
So many games had the same constants as Bioshock, and copy-pasted the formula to great success of their own, which led to us creating the Bioshot even more.

02:28:12.104 --> 02:28:14.964
Yeah, I mean, we're complicit in this regardless.

02:28:15.204 --> 02:28:17.164
Yeah, but you say no.

02:28:18.044 --> 02:28:19.384
Nothing is predetermined.

02:28:19.784 --> 02:28:21.544
You're in control of your own destiny.

02:28:22.364 --> 02:28:25.404
Elizabeth says to look around, you don't control shit.

02:28:26.424 --> 02:28:30.404
You've already done this, and you will continue to do this every time.

02:28:31.064 --> 02:28:32.204
It's one of the constants.

02:28:33.444 --> 02:28:37.664
You run along to another lighthouse, and you can choose any lighthouse you want.

02:28:38.384 --> 02:28:40.524
But ultimately, it doesn't matter.

02:28:41.684 --> 02:28:42.704
None of your choices do.

02:28:43.944 --> 02:28:46.444
You enter the lighthouse, and you come out to a beautiful scene.

02:28:47.684 --> 02:28:50.164
There's people standing in shin-deep water in a clearing.

02:28:51.424 --> 02:28:53.244
It's a very welcoming nature scene.

02:28:53.264 --> 02:28:58.784
There's angelic voices singing a hymn, and a preacher quietly praying in the center of a group of people.

02:28:59.904 --> 02:29:01.084
You say you know this place.

02:29:02.404 --> 02:29:05.944
You were here right after the Battle of Wounded Knee about 20 years ago.

02:29:06.064 --> 02:29:06.604
Oh, shit.

02:29:07.344 --> 02:29:09.884
Elizabeth asks you, what happened here?

02:29:10.964 --> 02:29:17.864
The preacher suddenly starts speaking, and he offers you the chance at a new life, at a clean soul, through baptism.

02:29:19.264 --> 02:29:24.264
You refuse the offer, and Elizabeth says, but you didn't actually say no, did you?

02:29:25.464 --> 02:29:32.224
You go to accept the baptism, and just before he dunks you, you freak out and say, no, stop, I can't do this.

02:29:33.624 --> 02:29:38.184
Everyone except you and Elizabeth vanishes, and she says you couldn't go through with it.

02:29:38.744 --> 02:29:39.204
Why not?

02:29:40.444 --> 02:29:44.264
You tell her that a dunk in the water isn't going to forgive the things that you've done.

02:29:44.964 --> 02:29:46.644
It's not going to bring all those lives back.

02:29:48.024 --> 02:29:52.844
You demand she opens a tear to Paris, anywhere, just leave all this behind, run away.

02:29:53.904 --> 02:29:56.804
But she says, no, we need to find Comstock.

02:29:57.284 --> 02:29:58.844
He was here on that same day, too.

02:30:00.204 --> 02:30:03.804
There's a door nearby and you go through it and you enter your private eye office.

02:30:04.864 --> 02:30:09.164
Robert Lutece is there, saying, bring us the girl and wipe away the debt.

02:30:10.704 --> 02:30:12.984
But this time, it's the real memory.

02:30:14.064 --> 02:30:16.964
Robert Lutece was the person who hired you to find Elizabeth.

02:30:18.304 --> 02:30:20.424
She asks, are you sure about that?

02:30:21.444 --> 02:30:24.704
And you can hear music coming from the other door in the office, the one that's usually locked.

02:30:26.404 --> 02:30:29.104
You open it, and there's a bassinet in the room.

02:30:30.364 --> 02:30:31.784
You go to it and see a baby.

02:30:32.604 --> 02:30:36.144
You say, no, there's never a baby in this transaction.

02:30:36.164 --> 02:30:36.824
What's going on?

02:30:36.884 --> 02:30:38.444
Why do I have a fucking baby?

02:30:39.124 --> 02:30:45.024
You turn around, and Lutece is right behind you, stopping you from being able to leave the nursery.

02:30:46.384 --> 02:30:47.524
Elizabeth says to hurry it up.

02:30:48.104 --> 02:30:49.964
You can't leave this room until you give him the baby.

02:30:50.764 --> 02:30:51.744
Or take your time.

02:30:52.164 --> 02:30:52.804
It doesn't matter.

02:30:53.484 --> 02:30:55.944
Eventually, you're going to give the baby to Robert.

02:30:56.564 --> 02:30:57.604
It's one of the constants.

02:30:59.424 --> 02:31:04.844
You hand the baby over to Robert Lutece, and he says that the debt is now paid, and Mr.

02:31:04.864 --> 02:31:07.284
Comstock washes away all of your sins.

02:31:08.524 --> 02:31:12.564
He turns around and closes the door behind him, leaving you in the nursery with Elizabeth.

02:31:13.564 --> 02:31:17.384
When you open the door, you find yourself back in the rowboat from the start of the game.

02:31:17.984 --> 02:31:20.144
Only this time, Elizabeth is with you.

02:31:21.604 --> 02:31:23.464
You tell her, there was no baby.

02:31:24.204 --> 02:31:28.604
The whole bring us the girl wipe away the debt thing was about Elizabeth, not some baby.

02:31:29.404 --> 02:31:32.384
Elizabeth goes, Booker, your nose is bleeding.

02:31:33.604 --> 02:31:35.704
You dock at the same spot as before and get out.

02:31:36.704 --> 02:31:38.324
You ask Elizabeth, what does it matter?

02:31:38.524 --> 02:31:39.504
Comstock is dead.

02:31:40.304 --> 02:31:45.684
She says he's only dead in one universe, but he's alive in millions upon millions of others.

02:31:46.964 --> 02:31:53.024
The only way to stop this is to make sure Comstock never even lived in the first place.

02:31:54.384 --> 02:31:56.084
You climb the steps of the lighthouse once again.

02:31:56.784 --> 02:31:59.804
You open the door and find yourself in an alley.

02:32:01.024 --> 02:32:03.744
Down a ways, you see Comstock holding the baby.

02:32:04.364 --> 02:32:08.244
Robert Lutes is there with him, and they're looking through a glowing hole in the wall.

02:32:09.464 --> 02:32:12.784
Elizabeth is there too, standing behind them just watching the scene play out.

02:32:14.284 --> 02:32:18.144
You see them all, and shout out that the deal is off, and to give the girl back.

02:32:19.344 --> 02:32:21.044
They see you coming and begin to panic.

02:32:21.904 --> 02:32:25.904
The hole in the wall is a portal, and Rosalind can be seen on the other side.

02:32:26.904 --> 02:32:30.564
She says the portal's stable, but won't be much longer, and tells them to come through.

02:32:31.584 --> 02:32:33.864
Robert goes in, and then Comstock.

02:32:34.924 --> 02:32:38.984
You grab at the baby as he steps through, and the two of you play tug of war with her body.

02:32:40.504 --> 02:32:48.064
Comstock shouts out to shut down the machine, and you watch the portal close in slow motion as the baby reaches out for you.

02:32:49.484 --> 02:32:57.264
The portal closes around the baby's pinky finger, leaving only it behind, and it falls to the ground, spraying blood as it does.

02:32:58.764 --> 02:33:00.364
You cry out, Anna, no!

02:33:01.004 --> 02:33:02.244
I'm so sorry, Anna.

02:33:04.164 --> 02:33:06.884
You're back in your office, and you run to her room.

02:33:08.024 --> 02:33:09.424
But Elizabeth says it's over.

02:33:10.224 --> 02:33:10.844
She's gone.

02:33:12.304 --> 02:33:18.964
You put your hand on the door and see the letters A-D on the back of your hand for Anna Dewitt.

02:33:19.484 --> 02:33:19.724
Oh!

02:33:21.044 --> 02:33:22.864
Fuck you!

02:33:23.004 --> 02:33:24.124
That's so good.

02:33:24.564 --> 02:33:35.204
You spent the next 20 years pissing your life away until one day a portal opened in your office, and Robert Lutes was there, offering you a way out.

02:33:36.404 --> 02:33:40.484
You stepped through, and your memories started to blend and bleed.

02:33:41.404 --> 02:33:49.284
You created a story in your own mind where you were hired to find Elizabeth, taking that initial deal and turning it into a new one.

02:33:50.424 --> 02:33:53.124
Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt.

02:33:54.464 --> 02:33:57.344
Lutes has brought you here because that's one of the constants.

02:33:58.184 --> 02:34:02.344
They always bring you here to start this whole process of trying to set the universe straight.

02:34:03.424 --> 02:34:08.924
They never forgave Comstock for trying to kill them and have been fighting against him ever since.

02:34:09.084 --> 02:34:09.484
Good.

02:34:10.924 --> 02:34:18.444
You go through the nursery door and you come out to the rowboat back at the start of the game once again with Elizabeth along for the ride.

02:34:19.744 --> 02:34:24.044
You say that you're a terrible person because you sold Elizabeth to Comstock.

02:34:25.264 --> 02:34:28.524
Rosalind pipes up going, To your credit, you did try to weasel out of the deal.

02:34:32.004 --> 02:34:35.004
She really popped her head up and was like, well, you were a bitch about it.

02:34:37.124 --> 02:34:40.284
You say that you have to go back and kill Comstock before all this happened.

02:34:41.364 --> 02:34:42.504
When he was a baby.

02:34:42.524 --> 02:34:44.864
But Robert says, that doesn't work.

02:34:45.444 --> 02:34:46.684
There's too many moving parts.

02:34:46.824 --> 02:34:49.584
You have no way of knowing how far back you'd have to go.

02:34:50.624 --> 02:34:56.064
So you say, fine, you'll have to go back to the day Comstock was born and smother the son of a bitch.

02:34:56.364 --> 02:34:58.104
Yeah, kill the baby.

02:34:58.844 --> 02:35:03.464
You go to the lighthouse door, and Elizabeth asks, are you sure that's how you want to do this?

02:35:04.564 --> 02:35:06.724
You tell her yes, it's the only way.

02:35:08.584 --> 02:35:14.144
You open the door, and you're back with the preacher in that nature area, standing in shin deep water.

02:35:15.124 --> 02:35:17.844
He again asks, if you're ready to be baptized.

02:35:19.264 --> 02:35:21.164
You turn to Elizabeth and ask, what the hell?

02:35:21.564 --> 02:35:23.904
She was supposed to take you back to the day Comstock was born.

02:35:24.004 --> 02:35:25.784
Where's the fucking baby I want to kill?

02:35:25.824 --> 02:35:27.144
Instead, she brought you back here.

02:35:28.644 --> 02:35:31.424
She says, it's not the same place, this is different.

02:35:32.344 --> 02:35:34.884
Then you say, wait, you're not my Elizabeth.

02:35:36.264 --> 02:35:38.624
And then another Elizabeth enters the scene.

02:35:39.664 --> 02:35:41.544
And another, and another.

02:35:42.404 --> 02:35:48.044
Each one wearing a different outfit or with different hair, one covered in blood, one a little bit older.

02:35:49.364 --> 02:35:51.984
They say, this is the moment where everything splits.

02:35:53.124 --> 02:35:54.904
A choice was made here.

02:35:56.124 --> 02:35:58.764
In one, you refused to be baptized.

02:35:59.884 --> 02:36:01.804
In the other, you accepted it.

02:36:03.344 --> 02:36:09.044
By accepting the baptism, you were reborn a new man with a new name.

02:36:10.404 --> 02:36:13.184
The name of Zachary Comstock.

02:36:14.784 --> 02:36:17.104
You were Comstock the whole time.

02:36:17.124 --> 02:36:18.824
You were Comstock the whole time!

02:36:20.044 --> 02:36:22.684
This is the day Comstock was born.

02:36:23.704 --> 02:36:26.724
The day he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

02:36:27.864 --> 02:36:32.444
If you want to smother him in his crib, then you need to do it here and now.

02:36:33.764 --> 02:36:40.044
Taking out Booker and Comstock is the only way to prevent any of it from happening.

02:36:41.904 --> 02:36:46.364
One Elizabeth grabs your right arm and says, He's Zachary Comstock.

02:36:47.944 --> 02:36:51.884
Another grabs your other arm and says, He's Booker DeWitt.

02:36:53.604 --> 02:36:56.644
And you say, No, I'm both.

02:36:57.424 --> 02:36:59.324
Ugh, a man with multitudes.

02:36:59.944 --> 02:37:03.244
Then three of the Elizabeths push you back and down into the water.

02:37:03.404 --> 02:37:04.284
He's a Gemini.

02:37:04.724 --> 02:37:11.744
You struggle and watch bubbles leave your mouth as the world around you fades to black and a piano begins to play you out.

02:37:13.404 --> 02:37:16.904
The camera goes into a third person view, watching the scene from above.

02:37:18.084 --> 02:37:25.864
We see each of the Elizabeths fade away with a stroke of the piano key, as they were never born in the first place, thanks to your sacrifice here today.

02:37:27.184 --> 02:37:32.964
Protecting the world from the violence and destruction of both Zachary Comstock and his lamb, Elizabeth.

02:37:34.964 --> 02:37:39.444
You come back to, in your office, and you can hear music coming from the nursery.

02:37:40.404 --> 02:37:42.304
You say, Anna, is that you?

02:37:43.624 --> 02:37:46.044
And the screen cuts to black before you ever find out.

02:37:47.564 --> 02:37:48.084
The end.

02:37:50.324 --> 02:37:52.484
And that was Bioshock Infinite.

02:37:52.504 --> 02:37:55.484
It was Comstock the whole time.

02:37:55.504 --> 02:37:57.784
Oh, you were Comstock the whole time.

02:37:57.804 --> 02:37:59.424
I think I yelled that at you a lot.

02:37:59.744 --> 02:38:03.824
When I beat that game, you just started screaming it was Comstock the whole time.

02:38:03.844 --> 02:38:06.444
Just spoiling Bioshock Infinite haphazardly.

02:38:08.404 --> 02:38:12.824
Yeah, so, oh my goodness, that ending is so fucking wild.

02:38:13.044 --> 02:38:21.944
There are so many people I know that played this thinking that Booker and Elizabeth were going to fuck at some point, and now it turned into Oldboy.

02:38:21.964 --> 02:38:23.544
Yeah, definitely does.

02:38:23.564 --> 02:38:24.624
You know, you know.

02:38:26.084 --> 02:38:28.424
No, to their credit, they do not have them flirt.

02:38:28.784 --> 02:38:29.404
That's true.

02:38:29.424 --> 02:38:30.424
There is no tension.

02:38:30.444 --> 02:38:37.824
All the tension is fully made up in players' minds, but so many people have the universal experience of they're going to kiss, right?

02:38:37.844 --> 02:38:41.864
But maybe it's just heteronormative media being like, man, woman, kiss.

02:38:41.924 --> 02:38:42.724
Yeah, right.

02:38:42.744 --> 02:38:44.744
They are attractive and they're on an adventure.

02:38:44.764 --> 02:38:49.324
At one point, they will make out, but man, it gets real Oldboy really fast.

02:38:49.344 --> 02:38:50.384
Real fucking fast, doesn't it?

02:38:53.284 --> 02:38:53.744
Yeah.

02:38:53.804 --> 02:38:54.504
Oh, my goodness.

02:38:54.524 --> 02:38:56.904
I mean, how did you feel about the game playing through it?

02:38:56.924 --> 02:38:58.104
You said you go back and forth on it.

02:38:58.184 --> 02:39:00.524
First time I played it, I was like, this is the greatest game I've ever played.

02:39:01.564 --> 02:39:02.884
I've picked it up a couple.

02:39:02.904 --> 02:39:05.004
I've played it maybe four to six times.

02:39:05.024 --> 02:39:05.864
Let's call it five times.

02:39:06.564 --> 02:39:09.344
The next time I played it, I was like, why the fuck am I fighting a ghost?

02:39:09.404 --> 02:39:11.944
And that took me out of it in fucking tired.

02:39:12.164 --> 02:39:13.444
I was like ghost part.

02:39:13.984 --> 02:39:16.284
I was like shooting birds out of my hand.

02:39:16.304 --> 02:39:17.484
A hundred percent.

02:39:19.004 --> 02:39:19.944
Finding a ghost.

02:39:20.804 --> 02:39:21.284
Too much.

02:39:21.424 --> 02:39:21.904
Can't do.

02:39:21.924 --> 02:39:22.804
I can't do it.

02:39:22.804 --> 02:39:23.584
I can't.

02:39:24.504 --> 02:39:27.944
I just can't cross sci fi and paranormal.

02:39:27.964 --> 02:39:28.424
It's not.

02:39:28.624 --> 02:39:30.644
They don't work together unless it's like Ghostbusters.

02:39:32.824 --> 02:39:36.564
And that's a very specific structure that does not have all this added thing.

02:39:36.824 --> 02:39:38.084
I love the storytelling.

02:39:38.124 --> 02:39:39.524
I love the atmosphere.

02:39:39.544 --> 02:39:41.024
I love the art direction.

02:39:41.044 --> 02:39:41.984
I love the music.

02:39:42.124 --> 02:39:44.904
This is a great game on all accounts.

02:39:45.324 --> 02:39:47.024
It's not a perfect game.

02:39:47.104 --> 02:39:47.444
No.

02:39:47.484 --> 02:39:49.284
Because at one point you fight a fucking ghost.

02:39:49.544 --> 02:39:50.484
That truly is.

02:39:50.544 --> 02:39:51.684
That is my biggest issue.

02:39:51.744 --> 02:39:52.344
I also.

02:39:53.304 --> 02:39:58.784
It feels abrupt in terms of the ending of the aggressive gameplay.

02:39:59.444 --> 02:40:02.084
It like you're you're really ramping up, you're ramping up, you're ramping up.

02:40:02.104 --> 02:40:05.964
You have this long, huge ending fight on that big ship.

02:40:05.964 --> 02:40:10.924
And there's like the fucking George Washington robots trying to kill you and all this shit.

02:40:11.164 --> 02:40:20.144
And it kind of goes from 60 to zero really quickly in terms of like your gameplay and like how involved you are in the narrative progressing.

02:40:20.164 --> 02:40:20.684
Very true.

02:40:21.064 --> 02:40:24.644
And it feels short to a certain extent with there.

02:40:24.664 --> 02:40:29.744
But I guess kind of the first Bioshock did for me as well of like, Frank Vaude, Frank Vaude, oh, it's just over.

02:40:29.764 --> 02:40:30.464
We're just done.

02:40:30.544 --> 02:40:31.644
We're in the bathysphere.

02:40:31.664 --> 02:40:31.944
OK.

02:40:32.884 --> 02:40:36.124
Even Bioshock 2 and Minerva's Den do the same kind of thing.

02:40:36.144 --> 02:40:39.004
Like the end of Minerva's Den is just a walking simulator at the end.

02:40:39.064 --> 02:40:40.024
It's so sad.

02:40:41.244 --> 02:40:44.064
Real bummer, real violent bummer there.

02:40:44.444 --> 02:40:46.964
But I do love the performances as well.

02:40:46.984 --> 02:40:49.084
I think the performances are absolutely fantastic.

02:40:49.404 --> 02:40:50.144
Wonderful, yeah.

02:40:50.544 --> 02:40:51.264
It's so good.

02:40:51.284 --> 02:40:53.304
And I don't believe it's a mocap situation.

02:40:53.324 --> 02:40:55.224
I think it's mostly just voiceover.

02:40:56.044 --> 02:41:01.224
Versus like Troy Baker had to like clock in at Naughty Dog and put on his fucking ball suit and shit.

02:41:01.304 --> 02:41:03.644
Now they did voiceover work together in the booth.

02:41:03.984 --> 02:41:04.604
I love that.

02:41:04.644 --> 02:41:07.604
Yeah, it wasn't like he recorded all his lines, she recorded all her lines.

02:41:07.624 --> 02:41:08.764
They were in the booth together.

02:41:08.804 --> 02:41:11.804
There's a lot of games that are even skipping that to this point.

02:41:12.784 --> 02:41:15.664
But their chemistry is fantastic.

02:41:16.284 --> 02:41:19.504
It's probably also why people were like, there's a vibe here.

02:41:20.184 --> 02:41:22.364
Yeah, he knows how to have good chemistry with people though.

02:41:22.964 --> 02:41:27.364
You know, he has learned very well, because a lot of times, like I said, he isn't playing against another person.

02:41:27.724 --> 02:41:28.084
Yeah.

02:41:28.104 --> 02:41:31.064
Sometimes he is just reading his lines, he has to kind of create that for himself.

02:41:31.064 --> 02:41:33.064
So I'm sure that makes it a lot easier for him.

02:41:33.344 --> 02:41:35.564
Fully, fully, no, but I love this.

02:41:35.584 --> 02:41:40.084
I mean, I go back and forth where like, I'll play it, I'll play it again and go, what the fuck was that?

02:41:40.104 --> 02:41:41.904
And then be like, oh, but that's so much fun, we play it again.

02:41:42.084 --> 02:41:42.344
Yeah.

02:41:42.784 --> 02:41:46.104
I love, love, love the mechanic of the Skyhook.

02:41:46.104 --> 02:41:51.044
I think that's so much fucking fun and such a great way to explore different parts of the world.

02:41:51.064 --> 02:41:52.264
It's not an open world game.

02:41:52.284 --> 02:41:53.264
It's very linear.

02:41:53.284 --> 02:41:53.644
Yeah.

02:41:53.644 --> 02:42:03.984
But particularly when you're in combat and there's different levels to combat, being able to explore that and explore your different angles and how to get like when you're sniping and shit, it's really, really great.

02:42:04.224 --> 02:42:05.724
I think that's so inventive.

02:42:05.744 --> 02:42:10.164
And I haven't seen anything too similar to that combat effect.

02:42:10.184 --> 02:42:11.384
No, not really.

02:42:11.404 --> 02:42:11.764
Since.

02:42:11.884 --> 02:42:13.984
I would say maybe ratchet and clank a little bit.

02:42:14.004 --> 02:42:18.944
They've got some rail surfing and stuff like that, but nothing compared to the Skyhook.

02:42:19.044 --> 02:42:22.504
Yeah, there hasn't been anything like it in the last 10 years.

02:42:22.784 --> 02:42:25.084
I think because it would just be too much of a copy.

02:42:26.524 --> 02:42:27.984
This is too iconic.

02:42:28.004 --> 02:42:29.004
You can't touch it.

02:42:29.024 --> 02:42:30.604
I love that Elizabeth hit some of the wrench.

02:42:31.444 --> 02:42:32.144
I know, right?

02:42:32.424 --> 02:42:33.144
Such a good moment.

02:42:33.224 --> 02:42:36.164
You know, maybe part of the concussion is feeding into the luteces.

02:42:36.904 --> 02:42:42.764
You know, there's a lot of brain damage this boy goes through, and we really don't talk about CTE in video game characters enough.

02:42:42.944 --> 02:42:46.604
No, and honestly, after going through this, I was like, man, Booker's kind of dumb.

02:42:46.964 --> 02:42:47.984
Yeah.

02:42:48.004 --> 02:42:50.784
Like I said, he's not a book smart man.

02:42:50.804 --> 02:42:51.664
No, he's not.

02:42:51.684 --> 02:42:52.784
He's a great shot.

02:42:52.784 --> 02:42:55.984
He has so many other things he brings to the table.

02:42:56.024 --> 02:42:59.884
Bad father, but a good helper.

02:43:00.044 --> 02:43:04.704
Yeah, and like every time they're trying to explain the science behind everything, he's just like, I don't understand any of it.

02:43:04.724 --> 02:43:07.664
He's like, I'm good for you, man.

02:43:07.684 --> 02:43:08.664
Let's just keep going.

02:43:08.804 --> 02:43:10.104
You're a science guy.

02:43:10.124 --> 02:43:11.004
That's cool.

02:43:11.144 --> 02:43:13.044
I'd like to shoot a bird out of my hand.

02:43:13.204 --> 02:43:21.464
I would say my biggest like nitpick with it is just that one section where we're jumping through universes with the Vox populi and the weapons and stuff.

02:43:21.484 --> 02:43:26.744
That part gets very confusing because like by the end, we're in a third universe that had nothing to do with the first one we were in.

02:43:27.044 --> 02:43:32.204
Yeah, and it's not necessarily a multiverse situation of hopping through a door.

02:43:32.224 --> 02:43:44.884
It almost feels more like an inception situation of like I'm tearing into inside of this and like unraveling the onion in a way, which kind of you have to really think about it, kind of plot it out in your head.

02:43:45.604 --> 02:43:51.904
Definitely, and you can see kind of those threads of Ken Levine kind of being like, ah, but this is a really good idea, so we should do it.

02:43:53.144 --> 02:43:55.304
Did Troy Baker voice Comstock and Booker?

02:43:55.444 --> 02:43:56.504
He did not.

02:43:56.924 --> 02:43:57.084
Oh.

02:43:57.104 --> 02:43:59.504
Which I thought was very missed opportunity.

02:43:59.704 --> 02:44:01.564
That's a good red herring though.

02:44:01.664 --> 02:44:08.924
Yeah, especially because actually, if you had seen like the credits and stuff ahead of time, you might have pieced the whole thing together.

02:44:09.764 --> 02:44:11.784
Yeah, like it could have been spoiled on IMDB.

02:44:11.804 --> 02:44:12.764
Yeah, very easily.

02:44:12.824 --> 02:44:18.524
But I can appreciate that they were like, these are different characters, but they do come from the same truth.

02:44:18.984 --> 02:44:21.404
Yeah, and Comstock sounds like Jeff Bridges.

02:44:22.164 --> 02:44:22.404
Oh.

02:44:22.624 --> 02:44:24.964
Yeah, he's got a very Jeff Bridges like dictation.

02:44:25.784 --> 02:44:26.084
Yeah.

02:44:27.944 --> 02:44:30.144
Jeff Bridges would have actually been great for Comstock.

02:44:31.844 --> 02:44:34.684
This bird really ties the room together.

02:44:34.704 --> 02:44:36.944
Yeah.

02:44:36.964 --> 02:44:41.864
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02:44:42.284 --> 02:44:42.944
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I will be starting us off with a fun horror cult classic.

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Yes, you will be.

02:44:51.584 --> 02:44:57.204
That I cannot stop talking about to the point where Tom is going to make me put a dollar in a jar every time I bring it up.

02:44:57.684 --> 02:45:02.424
Oh my goodness, it has been nonstop this for months at this point for us.

02:45:02.584 --> 02:45:03.604
It's been great.

02:45:03.824 --> 02:45:05.024
And that's just one of the games.

02:45:05.124 --> 02:45:10.364
I actually think I revealed it secretly on our Patreon in a blog, which is not behind a paywall.

02:45:10.384 --> 02:45:14.424
So if you feel like going on a scavenger hunt, maybe you're bored and it's Christmas break, go for it.

02:45:14.604 --> 02:45:17.564
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02:45:17.584 --> 02:45:19.244
That's the othercastlepodcast.com.

02:45:19.264 --> 02:45:20.624
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02:45:20.644 --> 02:45:21.564
Again, $2 a month.

02:45:21.584 --> 02:45:22.864
There's a free trial on there.

02:45:22.884 --> 02:45:26.124
And there are some posts that are not behind a paywall if you just want to hang out with us.

02:45:26.144 --> 02:45:27.704
Sometimes I'm like, hey, what's up, guys?

02:45:27.744 --> 02:45:29.064
Yeah, we do plenty of stuff for free.

02:45:29.324 --> 02:45:29.624
Yeah.

02:45:30.344 --> 02:45:32.304
I'll do a lot for free, honey.

02:45:33.124 --> 02:45:37.744
Speaking of Patreons, we just want to say thank you to the Patreons that make this show possible.

02:45:37.764 --> 02:45:45.024
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02:45:45.304 --> 02:45:46.404
Thank you so much.

02:45:46.424 --> 02:45:47.304
Yes, thank you.

02:45:47.324 --> 02:45:49.424
I hope you had a wonderful, happy holidays.

02:45:49.464 --> 02:45:52.164
And we will see you back in February with new main episodes.

02:45:52.184 --> 02:45:58.904
But again, there will be some Patreon ones as well, including the DLC for Bioshock Infinite, which should be going up very soon.

02:45:59.604 --> 02:46:00.504
Very soon, indeed.

02:46:00.524 --> 02:46:03.104
Yes, we're going to be doing the Berrylet's Sea DLC.

02:46:03.204 --> 02:46:07.824
And something else fun in January, but just to tie you over until then.

02:46:07.984 --> 02:46:09.264
Yes, thank you so much.

02:46:09.684 --> 02:46:11.524
Come join us on our Discord as well.

02:46:11.544 --> 02:46:13.904
We are doing conversations on there all the time.

02:46:14.584 --> 02:46:18.204
It's also a meme dump, so like it's been very fun.

02:46:18.224 --> 02:46:19.684
But otherwise, thank you very much.

02:46:19.704 --> 02:46:28.464
I hope you had a wonderful time with this surprise episode as we went up in the clouds to Columbia and stayed nice and high for that.

02:46:31.204 --> 02:46:34.924
All right, Goombas, until next time, this is Tom and Andrea reminding you.

02:46:35.224 --> 02:46:38.104
Don't trust a man who falls through your fucking ceiling.

02:46:40.344 --> 02:46:42.064
And don't skip the cutscenes.

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Bye!