Game Making: The Latest Chapter Begins With Healing the Player

Like Song Ren, there are many players who have some expectations for "BioShock: Elysium".

The story is dark and complex. In fact, many players are already mentally prepared by the time they are halfway through the game.

That is the possibility that the final ending of "BioShock: City of Elysium" will not make them feel so good.

Moreover, most of the protagonists in the games developed by Chen Xu have very sad endings.

But seeing Elizabeth lying in a pool of blood still made all the players' hearts tremble.

Especially before this, the player saw everything about this girl in Columbia, the Sky City.

They'd had adventures together, and the feeling of that emotional connection was nothing short of incredible.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that Chen Xu did not say that Elizabeth would survive.

It just means that she is no longer the protagonist, but will appear.

But such an appearance would be too cruel!

Previously, players could still imagine that Elizabeth did not disappear, and there was a blank ending.

Just like the story of "The Last of Us", if you keep going down, many players will have to admit that in that kind of crisis-ridden apocalypse, maybe one of Ellie or Joel will die sooner or later.

But the plot of the game ends abruptly after leaving Huoying. This blank ending is actually a kind of perfection.

But "BioShock: Elysium" is too complete.

It's so complete that the whole story reaches a perfect closed loop.

As Elizabeth's eyes slowly closed, the game screen returned to Jack's side again.

The game needs an ending, and the players also need an explanation.

So under the pursuit of Fontaine, who controlled the security of Paradise City, Jack escaped to Dr. Tynan's secret hideout.

With the help of the female doctor, Jack raced against time to get to the old site of Dr. Yi's laboratory, and drank the potion to relieve his mind control.

Next, Jack can finally deal with Fontaine, the old liar who has manipulated his life.

And this battle with Fang Dan made Song Ren feel a lot of pressure.

However, as the protagonist of the game, it is normal to have a fourth-dimensional pocket.

The legendary mobile arsenal, plus the Plasmic Archmage.

As strong as Fontaine, he finally fell into Jack's hands.

After successive battles, both Fontaine and Jack were exhausted.

And at this last moment, a group of little sisters rushed out from the dark corner.

He pricked Fontaine with needles and sucked out all the Adamic matter and life in his body.

The last little sister handed Jack the key to the control core of Paradise City from Fontan's body.

‘They dedicated this city to you. ’

‘You rejected the city. ’

This is Elizabeth's voice!

Seeing the scene of the little sister handing the key to Jack and the narration sound in the background, Song Ren was extremely sad.

Elizabeth's death, Andrew Lane's death, and Jack's arrival.

Just like the variables and quantification in the parallel world.

Elizabeth saw the future in this timeline, and she understood that only by following the route she saw would it not deviate. Only when Jack arrives in the end can the City of Paradise truly come to an end.

She saw this beauty, so she chose to go with the future she saw.

In the game, Jack takes the little sister's hand and leads them into the submersible and back to the world outside the sea.

'Then what? ’

'You saved them. ’

‘You found the stolen wealth from their hearts and gave it back to them. ’

‘That’s hope! ’

‘You watch them learn. ’

'You watch them get married. ’

'You watch them find hope in life. ’

‘And in the end, what did you get? ’

The outstretched hand of Jack, who was lying on the hospital bed and was dying, was trembling.

From different directions, five hands reached out and placed themselves on Jack's palm.

'You never mentioned it, but I think we both knew...'

‘It’s a family. ’

As the scene ended, Paris arrived, and Elizabeth's singing sounded, but Elizabeth was nowhere to be seen.

In this ending, the two parts of "BioShock" also officially came to an end.

………………

Watch the credits roll at the end of the game.

Elizabeth's singing still echoed in her ears.

Song Ren had too many feelings in his heart.

Maybe it was because of Elizabeth's sacrifice.

Maybe it's because of the huge and complex setting and amazing plot of "BioShock".

Maybe it's because of the relationship between Jack and his little sister, and the adventures of Booker and Elizabeth.

But one thing Song Ren can be sure of is that "BioShock" is definitely a masterpiece.

Especially with this lower part of ‘City of Elysium’.

It also completely completes the entire BioShock story, forming a perfect closed loop.

Even now, he has not completely come to his senses. The content in the game is really too shocking.

Apart from the big twist at the end in ‘Infinite’, the BOSS turned out to be my own flip which shocked him.

Secondly, the entire game content focuses on the tacit adventure between Booker and Elizabeth.

Throughout the early and middle stages of the game, basically all the fun is here.

The reason is naturally that there are too many pitfalls in the entire game.

It wasn't until the final meeting with the First Lady of Comstock that the confusing puzzle in the player's mind was revealed bit by bit.

Originally, Song Ren thought that the Paradise City in the second part of "BioShock" was just a different map.

It has nothing to do with Sky City Colombia.

But in fact she was completely wrong.

Columbia, the city in the sky, and Elysium, the deep-sea city, these two so-called utopian cities, can be said to be extremely closely connected.

It can even be said that without either party, the other city will not continue to develop.

Similarly, Elizabeth went to the City of Paradise and found Booker. This was just a trigger.

What’s more important is tying Elizabeth’s story to Jack’s.

Song Ren has to admit one thing, that is, "BioShock" is definitely the game that has the most mixed elements in history without making people feel obtrusive.

In terms of the ending, this is indeed a good ending.

As long as he does not choose to hurt the little sisters in the game, Jack will successfully rescue the five little sisters in the end, take them back to the ground, adopt them, and send them to school until they get married.

Then he finished his life peacefully.

Just like Ezio in Assassin's Creed.

But the key point is not Jack, but Elizabeth.

Compared to Jack in Paradise City and Booker in Sky City.

The most impressive thing about the entire "BioShock" is Elizabeth.

Yes, the protagonist does have a good ending this time.

But this is based on the sacrifice of a character who is more attractive than the protagonist.

This suddenly made countless players unable to hold their nerves.