DanielMMX6

I couldn’t resist 😂

The sketchbook

A friend send me a fancomic of this and i died, i needed to redraw it but in color

Are we out of the walls yet? 

Inspiration from “Out of the Woods” by Taylor Swift @aruanishipper

Because it’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen 

I’ve always felt that there was something missing about Elizabeth that made her feel… boring or basic. It’s almost as if they started with an amazing and complicated character who they had to water down and simplify in order to fit her within the confines of a video game. I’m sure that’s partly true, but I believe that the majority of Elizabeth’s character flaws originate from the fact that they had no goddamn idea what they were doing when they made the third bioshock game.

Just the sheer amount of concept art shows that the production team was just throwing spaghetti at the wall and keeping what they liked. Don’t get me wrong, that’s an incredibly important part of character design! Some characters are drawn two or three times and then they’re done, while others get drawn and redesigned millions of times, usually because the creator isn’t quite sure what they want out of the character. My problem with Bioshock Infinite is that they do this with literally every aspect of the game, resulting in the jumbled up, incoherent mess that the finished game ended up being.

Consistently throughout pre-production Elizabeth is characterized as a compassionate, innocent girl who hides a terrible power. She is passionate, she is altruistic, she is powerful, she is dangerous, and that is interesting. She’s been lied to and manipulated her entire life, and is experiencing the entire world for the first time, while trying to do good in a society that she doesn’t completely understand. That is fascinating and creates a character that I want to interact with and one that I can relate to and care about, especially as a young girl myself.

In the early trailers we see Elizabeth use these catastrophic powers to take out whole groups of men, resurrect a horse, and even take out songbird, because she is motivated by her emotions, her thirst for justice, and her feelings for Booker. I cannot comprehend why they cut these amazing powers from the game. It works well with the player, it’s an interesting mechanic, it makes elizabeth more vital to the gameplay, and reveals Elizabeth’s motivations. So Why did this extremely powerful and strong female character get replaced with a companion who only chucks coins at the player and opens portals when the writers want to abandon the plot they are currently developing for another more convoluted one.

Tears are the main contributors to the jumbled up mess that Bioshock Infinite ended up being. At the beginning of the game the writers setup this extremely interesting plot based on criticizing religion and how it can be used to perpetuate racism, classism, and other societal evils, but instead they end up vilifying the leader of the rebellion just as much as they vilify Comstock, and make the player go through a wild goose chase that ends with the entire plot of the game never mattering because they wanted to explore alternate universes and make a last ditch effort to connect Infinite to the other bioshock games. Tears needlessly complicated the plot of the game and made the entire game redundant because apparently nothing you did mattered as long as Booker Dewitt drowns at the end of the game.

What makes me the angriest is that there is a very simple solution to all these problems. Ditch Booker Dewitt and make Elizabeth the protagonist. The game is about Elizabeth and her coming of age, so why am I playing as “No Memories Mc Dead Wife”? Get rid of the vigors and make Elizabeth’s powers the plasmid substitute, and get rid of the tears, or at least use them intelligently. Have the player, as Elizabeth, decide whether or not she wants to help the vox populi, have her decide if she wants to use her powers on people, have her decide what to do with Comstock. Let her have any agency in a game about her, instead of having her be kidnapped by Booker and having the only choice in the game be what necklace she wears. You can even keep the alternate universe plot, as long as the twist at the end doesn’t completely disregard every single decision made by the player and Elizabeth throughout the entire game. 

The “Tornado scene” is the only remaining inkling of the strong and dangerous girl who we saw in the early production, in the actual game