BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 "A Can't Miss DLC"

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 is Irrational Games last time pulling the strings on the Bioshock series, and they went out with a bang.  I just have to say this is a can't miss DLC if you are a fan of the Bioshock series.  The DLC connects all the dots for all three Bioshock games and provides the answers to a lot of unsolved answers.

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 DLC is the second part of the story-driven downloadable content of BioShock Infinite, and will be available starting March 25th, 2014 for $15.00 USD on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Windows PC, and Mac. It is also part of the BioShock Infinite Season Pass.

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 takes two interesting approaches unique to the Bioshock series.  First, you get to play as a female character Elizabeth. Second, you get to use a stealth approach to problem solving and progressing through the game.

The game starts off showing Elizabeth is dead.  As a gift by fate, one Elizabeth dies but an alternate Elizabeth lives on with memories of the other Elizabeths without the power to open doors to other worlds. Elizabeth's final mission is to save the Little Sister Sally and wrap up unsolved answers to the Bioshock series.  I love how Irrational games invested heavily in demonstrating how much of Elizabeth's life and choices were controlled by others.

For instance, the DLC revisited the moment when Elizabeth killed Daisy during the rebellion.  Moments before the event happened, the Lutece twins gave Daisy a speech that can be summed up as "which is more important: the actor in the play or the play itself?"

Daisy was told to force Elizabeth to kill her in order to change Elizabeth into a murderer.  By changing one Elizabeth into a murder that had a butterfly effect on the other Elizabeths in alternate worlds.  Best quote from this part, "What separates a girl from a woman is blood".  I will rest on that part, and I will let you take a minute to comprehend what all that means.  I will not spoil the DLC for you.

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 has a lot of allusions to Bioshock 1, 2, and Infinite that you have to remember in order to get what is happening.  For instance,  In Bioshock 1, Dr. Suchong is already dead and you relive his final moments through audio logs, but in BioShock  Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 you have to complete a mission for Dr. Suchong.  The DLC breaks down how Dr.Suchong's ego and greed led to his death.

The biggest revelation of the DLC was glimpses of what cause the Atlas and Ryan war and the downfall of Rapture.  In Bioshock 1, you had empathy for Atlas until the end of the game.  In BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2, we saw Atlas was a sick power hungry thug that used everyone in his sight to climb to the top fast.  Atlas makes a lot of promises that he never keeps, he ends up using Elizabeth to reveal the "Ace in the Hole" which is the mystery behind what connects the little sisters to the Big Daddy.

In BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 you learn the Adam in the Little Sisters is what binds them to the Big Daddies and creates a symbiotic relationship.  They called it the "Lion and the thorn" which is a reference to a story of how a mouse pulled a thorn out a lion's paw resulting in the lion protecting the mouse later.  BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 also showed how Elizabeth did the same for that giant bird.  I'm not sure if that's a connection between Elizabeth and the Little Sister's being the same, but it explained how the Little Sisters and Big Daddies imprinted and bounded.

Overall, BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 connects all the Bioshock games together, and it gave you an opportunity to play as Elizabeth with new gadgets and plasmid abilities that give you a different feel from it's predecessor.  I can't spoil anymore of the game because it's as they writers say, "It's like letting Issac Newton die in a fire in order to save his dog".  I really didn't understand BioShock Infinite until the DLC's provided more clarity on the game.  BioShock Infinite is on the level of legends like Zelda Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy 7.  I give BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 a perfect score 10/10.