Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

Song Ren in the game felt a little strange.

After all, as a player who has just experienced "Bioshock: Infinite", he is still very concerned about the whereabouts of Elizabeth.

But looking at it now, he is manipulating a character named Jack?

And judging from the surrounding scenes of Elysium City, it seems to be a little different from the previous preview?

The Bliss City in front of him gave Song Ren a very gloomy feeling.

It's completely different from the preview video content I've seen before.

The city of Bliss, located in the deep-sea metropolis, is empty and full of ruins.

There are also crazy mutants jumping out and attacking people.

Putting aside his obsession with Elizabeth for the time being, Song Ren groped forward little by little.

Guided by a strange man named Atlas on the radio, Song Ren began to explore around the city of bliss.

"This guy is a little polite, and the whole process is honorific."

Song Ren was also a little emotional while exploring the City of Bliss.

This should be the most respectful NPC he has encountered since playing the game.

Even though it was a guide, every sentence would be accompanied by an honorific saying if I could please you, which made Song Ren feel a little embarrassed.

All your own family, what do you say you are polite?

With Song Ren's exploration of Elysium City, he felt a strong contrast more and more.

The Bliss City, located in the deep-sea metropolis, is very beautiful, but it is dilapidated and full of water leaks.

The dreamy neon signs on the street stand in stark contrast to the corpses and bloodstains next to them.

The lazy singing in the jukebox in the bar is very pleasant, while the sound effect of the clown in the vending machine is very strange. Song Ren was shocked when he heard it for the first time.

The combination of these elements made Song Ren feel that the city of bliss seemed to be a beautiful and ugly, crazy and real dream.

Of course, what made Song Ren more interested was the way of fighting in the game.

Similar to the supernatural magic in "Bioshock: Infinite", the superpower in Elysium City is called Adam's Plastid, and like the ability of Sky City, the plastid formed by Adam's matter is also openly sold.

Fire, thunder and lightning, through different bodies, players can also release different elemental powers.

And what makes Song Ren amazing is the same as "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild".

In the game, you can use the power of different elements to interact with the surrounding environment.

For example, the ground is full of water stains, and the player attacks with electricity attributes, then the monsters in the water will be electrocuted.

Roads covered with ice, which can be melted with fire.

Of course, Song Ren paid more attention to the story about Bliss City.

In the City of Elysium, besides him, there are many lunatics who are addicted to Adam's substance, as well as a little sister who collects Adam's substance and a big dad who protects the little sister.

Big Daddy is a big monster wearing a metal diving suit and holding an electric drill.

The relationship between the two is like Elizabeth and Nightingale.

But the difference is that Big Daddy is just a bodyguard, while Little Sister seems to be able to move at will.

After playing all the way, Song Ren's heart was full of curiosity and doubts.

When will Elizabeth see it, and what happened to this blissful city?

All haunted his mind.

However, Song Ren didn't have to wait long, and finally he also saw Elizabeth.

In the game, Chen Xu uses a two-line narrative technique.

This is a little different from the previous life.

After all, the "Bioshock" generation of the previous life, and the sea burial DLC.

can be regarded as an independent correlation.

On this, Chen Xu has cut down some level processes that delay time.

Of course, some excessive shots were added to make the switching between characters more comfortable.

After all, Elizabeth's line, and Jack's line can be said to be parallel.

Just like the existence of the white wolf Geralt and Ciri in The Witcher: Wild Hunt.

The main line is a bright line from Jack's point of view.

The dark line is from Elizabeth's point of view.

In the previous life "Bioshock", there are actually two lines of light and dark, but because of the scale of production and the cost, the dark lines are only displayed in the mode of data.

So here Chen Xu combines some dark lines with Elizabeth's sea burial line, such as the rise and fall of Elysium City, and the stories behind characters such as Dr. Yi, all of which are described through the Elizabeth line.

Elizabeth belongs to the past with one of the surviving Bookers.

And the city of Elysium where Jack is located is the future.

Through Elizabeth's perspective, Song Ren finally saw what this prosperous city of bliss was like at its peak.

It's not the same as Jack's later point in time.

At this time, there was no civil strife or war in Bliss City.

Its prosperity is not lost to Colombia, the city in the sky.

It is different from Colombia's strong religious atmosphere.

In Bliss City, it is full of artistic atmosphere.

Performance posters, sculptures, and movies can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of Elysium.

At this point in time, Song Ren could also watch Elizabeth take Booker on an adventure.

At the same time, according to some clues and collectibles, the connection between Bliss City and Sky City can be drawn.

The setting of Big Daddy and Little Sister comes from the setting of the bond between Elizabeth and Nightingale in Sky City.

In the same way, the magic of the city in the sky comes from the Adam substance of the city of bliss.

At the same time, as the game progressed, more and more truths were gradually revealed, and he was completely shocked.

Compared to "Bioshock: Infinite", this ending titled Elysium is even bolder in terms of plot.

Why is Elizabeth still alive?

What is the origin of Booker in Elysium?

As Booker was attacked by Big Daddy on the way, under the guidance of Elizabeth, he finally recalled everything.

It turned out that Booker in this time and space first became Comstock, and he chose to be baptized after Wounded Knee River.

What happened after that was the same as Comstock in Bioshock: Infinite.

By funding Lutes, he built Columbia Sky City and built machines that could open up parallel worlds.

Using what the parallel world saw, he became a prophet and a Comstock.

So he was also infertile, so he went through the parallel world to find his daughter Elizabeth.

But variables emerged, and Elizabeth's presence was quantitative.

But Elizabeth's life and death have become variables.

Because of the time and space where Booker was, at that time Elizabeth was not cut off her fingers but her head.

Killed his own daughter with his own hands, even if this daughter was his own daughter in a parallel world.

This made Booker wake up, but what he chose was not to face it, but to escape reality once again, just like the Battle of the Wounded Knee River.

He asked the Lutes to teleport him to another world where no one knew.

This place is the City of Elysium, and it is precisely because of the teleportation of Comstock that the City of Elysium has a relationship with the City of the Sky.

And here Booker also adopted an adopted daughter Sally, that is, the little sister.

Along the way, Elizabeth helps Booker find her so-called adopted daughter Sally, just to remind him of his sins.

The game is over here.

Song Ren was stunned.

Elizabeth finds Booker just to guide him to restore his memory and kill him! ?

If Song Ren was surprised here, then there were doubts behind.

"Booker is dead again!? What the **** is this? Does Elizabeth have anything to do with Jack over there? And the timeline between Elizabeth and Jack is only a few short years!"

Watching the sudden appearance of Big Daddy not only kills Booker, but even Elizabeth.

Song Ren's head is a little bigger, and his cerebellum is overloaded. This is how he feels now.

And what made him a little weirder was that it was Elizabeth.

Although he also died under Big Daddy's drill, he was different from Booker.

Due to Elizabeth's unique ability, Elizabeth, like Lutes, became a state of quantum entanglement at the moment before her death.

That is, it exists in any time and space, but it does not really exist.

And there is another difference from the Lutes brothers and sisters, that is, Elizabeth can only observe the development of fate, and cannot interfere with fate.

In terms of vital signs, Elizabeth is already in a state of immortality.

But what Song Ren did not expect was that Elizabeth chose to give up her observer form after seeing the future, and voluntarily became a mortal.

At the same time, this also caused Elizabeth to lose some memories, and at the same time, the subconscious turned into Booker's thinking to accompany Elizabeth on adventures.

And Elizabeth made a deal with a rebel leader to save her little sister Sally.

Why would Elizabeth do this?

What future does she see?