Burial at Sea<\/p>\n
Spoiler Free Review<\/p>\n
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DLC is hard to rate, in the end.\u00a0 To what extent do you consider it on its own and let it sink or swim on artistic merit?\u00a0 To what extent do you consider how it expands and builds on the story of the original game?\u00a0 Perhaps the only way you can consider it then is whether the DLC is fun, and whether it\u2019s worth the money you paid for it.<\/p>\n
To answer these questions for Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea in short form, if you\u2019re the lazy sort, then the answer is this: Yes, and maybe.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a big fan of Bioshock.\u00a0 I loved Bioshock 1, although it took me years to finish it\u2014I bought it with my first Xbox 360 but never finished it because some Halo 3 came in to my life.\u00a0 I have never played 2 on a moral objection, since it seems to me they took the parts I didn\u2019t like about Bioshock 1 and made it the whole point of the game.\u00a0 Hint: It was the annoying as all get-out escort section.<\/p>\n
Even though I skipped 2, I was incredibly excited for Infinite.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t buy a lot of games on release day at the time, but I had Infinite right when it came out and immediately bought the season pass.\u00a0 I binged on the game and beat it, spent almost as much time talking about what it meant with people, and then put it up on the shelf.\u00a0 I figured I would play it again someday, and I knew that there would be DLC coming out that would get my interest.<\/p>\n
That DLC was Burial at Sea.\u00a0 The first DLC was just fighting, while this is story.\u00a0 Not an independent story either; if you haven\u2019t played Infinite to the end then hold off.\u00a0 Burial at Sea will spoil Infinite all to hell if you play it first, even though it will do so confusingly.<\/p>\n
In Burial at Sea we play (again) Booker DeWitt, but instead of a disgraced alcoholic former Pinkerton turned detective in New York\u2026he is a disgraced alcoholic detective in Rapture.\u00a0 A startling change for our gruff hero.\u00a0 And this time instead of trying to save Elizabeth, arguably the actual protagonist of Bioshock Infinite, now he is in her employ to find another lost girl.\u00a0 Which is where things go off the rails.<\/p>\n
Is it fun?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Bioshock Infinite, despite its flaws, has a tremendously solid combat system.\u00a0 Even without much preparation I fell back into old habits very quickly.\u00a0 It felt like putting on an old, familiar clothing simile.\u00a0 The story is well executed.\u00a0 The ending left me gob smacked with what I called a \u201cSerious what the **** just happened\u201d moment that I\u2019m still considering.\u00a0 Sure it, like the ending to Infinite, has some holes that hit you when you get to the refrigerator (http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/FridgeLogic<\/a> .\u00a0 Note: Do not click this unless you want to waste hours of your time and ruin your vocabulary in exciting ways).\u00a0 But the story was interesting and I kept wanting to find out why we were here, and that\u2019s good enough to keep me happy for the few hours that the game takes.<\/p>\n Is it worth the money?\u00a0 Well\u2026kind of.\u00a0 It was fun, it was exciting, and Part 2 should be fascinating.\u00a0 But Part 1 is $14.99 and that is more than a bit painful for a 2-3 hour DLC.\u00a0 If you have that money to spend I\u2019d advise you to just buy the Season Pass; you get extras for the game, the four dollar Clash in the Clouds, the $14.99 Burial at Sea Part One, and Part Two for however much it costs.\u00a0 A much better deal, and a lot easier to feel good about the cost when it\u2019s distributed like that.<\/p>\n In the end, it got me.\u00a0 It made me want more, and maybe that was the point: Give me enough to keep going but not enough to be fully satisfied.\u00a0 Whether they\u2019re comfortable being in the same category as drug dealers peddling free first hits is up to them, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Burial at Sea Spoiler Free Review DLC is hard to rate, in the end.\u00a0 To what extent do you consider it on its own and let it sink or swim on artistic merit?\u00a0 To what extent do you consider how it expands and builds on the story of the original game?\u00a0 Perhaps the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12,13,14,37],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bioshock-infinite","tag-dlc","tag-just-like-crack-isnt-it","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishonoronyourcow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}