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I still can’t decide if it worked for this long-running book series, which had the advantage of transforming into metafiction at the two-thirds point - if you went along with that, then the ending makes perfect sense, and if you didn’t, then you probably stopped reading anyways. It almost worked for this other long-running TV series, which was a weird quantum narrative about characters who were also archetypes, and which seemed to be sailing just fine right up until the flashforward non sequitur Jimi Hendrix robot montage.

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It didn’t work for this long-running TV series, but only because that series was about characters and the ending was about archetypes, which is why many of the most interesting characters had nothing to do for the last two seasons. Elizabeth a is a fictional character in Irrational Games BioShock Infinite, the third title in the BioShock series.

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It didn’t work for this movie trilogy, unless you’re a Slovenian philosopher, in which case nobody will ever agree with you anyways. Long-running fantasy series s poiler speed-round: It worked for this videogame trilogy, because the series was actually about choices and the ending was about the biggest choice of all. Auteurist analogy: If BioShock was The Godfather, then BioShock Infinite is Apocalypse Now. When BioShock came out, it felt like the future - proof that the booming videogame industry could combine mass-market entertainment with whatever it is we mean by “art.” Infinite arrives with the industry in an existential moment, struggling through technological advances it used to define and conservatively doubling down on the franchise audience. And since the whole notion of massive-length megasized-world, AAA-blockbuster, single-player videogames might be going out the window pretty soon, Infinite feels like an important end-of-empire representation of everything that has been great and weird and introverted and flawed about the great games of the last decade or so. BioShock Infinite is without a doubt one of the most interesting videogame experiences in this dying videogame generation.

Or anyhow, the opinions it represents are as true as opinions can be. Finally, and perhaps most obvious to the discussion of counterparts, we have. ADDENDUM: Every word of that review is true. character in BioShock Infinite to exist in different possible worlds, though.

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