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You fucking nailed it. Stuff like Ryan's audio diary about his legacy or the diary where he finds out that Joelene sold his DNA have stuck with me just as much as his big winding speeches in Bioshock 2. The "boss" characters in BS1 and Infinite (Steinman, Cohen, Slate, Fitzroy, etc.) are basically circus clowns, but Holloway, Poole and even Alex the Great, the hammiest fucker ever, were actual people with backstories and motivations and complexities to them that make you pause and think hard about what you wanna do with them.

It's unfortunate that most of the stuff related to the main plot is Bioshock 2's weak point - they don't gracefully insert Lamb into the overall lore (lol no really dude she totally owned Ryan in public once, it was so cool!!!!) and her "master plan", even after reading Jordan Thomas' explanation for it on the 2K forums so I fucking understood what she was actually trying to accomplish, frankly is just a bunch of nonsense.

But the character writing makes up for it and the game does exactly what BS1, Infinite and Burial at Sea screw up, it totally sticks the landing. Everything from the beginning of the last level on is brilliant and the endings in particular are great because of how they vary and how the player influences them. Personally I think the neutral ending perfectly, perfectly suits the tone of the game, but that's up to interpretation.

And that's not even touching on Minerva's Den, which basically hits it out of the park in every way possible.

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+a bajillion