Oh man... the ending was a bit insane lol.
Well haven't posted in awhile because I've been busy, but I finally finished the game.
Now the gameplay was standard as always and not too different from the previous 2 games. Although this was set I believe before the previous 2, the controls were practically the same. Only difference is of course the power ups and the fact that Your own character has more of a personality. The enemies were a bit easier in this one and there was a lack of the random jump scare this time around compared to the last 2. I guess having a lot of actual non-disfigured or masked people running around helped, but I did miss the Little Sisters ;D. Strangely enough though the game did somewhat go back to its roots in the ending and provided some of the best battles as it should.
The music was wonderfully done and helped cue stuff such as battles and transitions into fight scenes and normal things. I loved it whenever the theme for the Lutece's popped up as it gave a sort of comic relief whenever they did.
The story was absolutely great. I loved the ending especially and how it was basically mindfuck all the way through. As you guessed I will spoil a lot so don't read unless you don't care. Basically everything was your own fault cause you are the enemy in the end. What I mean by that is. The whole game revolves around these parallel universes where everyone is connected and everyone made different choices and you with the help of your apparent daughter travel through tears and try and "fix" everything. Strange thing is this all happened because you had to make some sort of baptism choice in which you ran away, but another you did make the choice and stole your own child Anna, who was mentioned in the beginning or rather after you met Elizabeth. But as it turns out Elizabeth is in fact your daughter who was stolen by old you. Man I'm not even sure if I made sense in that, but to sum it up... This shit was good and worth a playthrough.
So overall I now understand why this game received such great reviews from all the professional magazines. Everything was done smoothly and what put it over the top was the mind breaking story in which the ending was pretty unexpected as well as all the basic story telling of Booker's life throughout the game as well as the varying issues of morality and politics in all the events you go through. Game was definitely
5/5.
A side note, the scene at the end with you visiting Rapture from the first two games was a nice touch.
