Burial at sea Ep 2: Elizabeth, open the retcon!

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Strathy

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#1  Edited By Strathy

Just played through Burial at Sea episode 2, which was a sight better than the first one, which is good. But there's some retconning in there which is so bluntly reactionary to a particular bit of public opinion that all of my internal organs facepalmed. Spoilers below.

When you're crawling through a vent in the beginning of the Columbia section of the episode and encounter the Luteces in discussion with Daisy Fitzroy, about how she needs to fabricate going senselessly violent, wanting to kill Fink's son and rendering the whole 'angry black woman' popular controversie just an act. Plus an audio log and some other bits which apply the same desperate 180 degree turn to the character.

What an obvious load of pandering horse shit. I was pretty well on the fence when it came to whether they should have changed the Mass Effect 3 ending, but that was at least controversialy bad, not just controversial. It is meritous to add to a character or piece of narative after the fact, but the forced backpeddling nature of this puts it into Han Solo shot first territory for me. Gameplay can and should be tweaked by popular feedback; but narative is authorship and the public should not piss in that pool. That is what Facebook is for.

One argument for this could be it was all some elaborate play by the developers from the beginning. If so, colour me entrirely fooled.

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#2  Edited By Kushteh

Fully agree and you articulate the point much more hilariously than I could.

That moment in Infinite served to make the player feel like a real shitbag for supporting the ragged underdogs of the first act and to drive home the main theme of corrupting power, I always felt it was a great gutpunch turnaround moment that made clever use of the dimension jumping plot device. Maybe it was a bit on the nose for it's intended purpose but it seemed natural to her character after how she had been treated. Not to mention it was pretty instrumental in the development of Elizabeth's character.

Burial at Sea ep 2 was otherwise a treat.