BioShock was never the easiest franchise to comprehend. With the Infinite it doesn’t become different. HUGE SPOILER ALERT! For those who don’t want to see how the game ends or what happens in the ending look away and read something else on gamespedition.
Since the people who don’t want to see spoiler have left, we will try to explain the ending(s) and elaborate on their meanings. The first complications we face is trying to understand that Booker Dewitt is Zachary Hale Comstock – Father Comstock. The main antagonist of the game. So the only way to prevent Colombia from being airborne and from its creation is to kill Booker while he hasn’t transformed. While it would be the obvious thing to do, Elizabeth has a vision. She has lots of visions, but this one saw Booker living as a man who builds a city, tries to create a utopia which fails miserably leading to its destruction or to it, destroying others. At the end of the game, Elizabeth brings Booker back to the lighthouse from which he came so he can for himself understand how things are and what he needs to do. Also an important thing to note is that after destroying the siphon Elizabeth now unlocks her full potential and abilities. But her vision prevents her from leaving with Booker to Paris. She wants to stop it and deny Comstock’s birth.
Elizabeth leads Booker throughout a number of lighthouses, one of which – Rapture’s lighthouse and touching on the subject of multiverse which really had our heads steaming because the developers want to share so much with us in such little amounts of time. Theoretically, there should be countless numbers of BioShock universes. In BioShock Infinite's case, Comstock came to be, and created Columbia, whereas in BioShock 1 and 2, Andrew Ryan came to life and created Rapture. Once Elizabeth brings Booker to Rapture there is another mystery added, that Comstock and Andrew Ryan could be the same exact person which is borderline impossible to comprehend. Now don’t get us wrong, it could be on a regular day, but this much information? Right now? You’ve got to be kidding me. A turning point in Booker’s universe is his baptism. He either accepts it or not. If he declines, he remains himself, has a daughter Anna, falls in debt and has to give up his daughter to pay the debt. He loses his daughter to Comstock. He lives with regret and denial and Colombia never came in to existence.
The second universe has Booker accept the baptism, become Comstock, create Columbia and see the future using Lutece’s tears.
Well… To put it frankly did you get it? Well neither did we. At first, but after watching the ending a couple of times and putting your mind to it – you’ll get it.
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