While I was playing through Bioshock Infinite, I was certain the whole affair was a dream inside Booker's head. It would have explained some odd things in the game that the parallel-universes thing didn't, like the mysterious corpse in the lighthouse, the near-fatal baptism, and the confusing shared history with Cornelius Slate. If anything, saying "it was all a dream" allows you to handwave any plot holes in the narrative, and Bioshock Infinite has quite a lot of them. I'm not saying the epilogue was terrible - there was a proper build-up to it - but I still think the dream idea would have felt a little better.
What is Bioshock Infinite was just a dream? (SPOILERS)
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Usually people dont like the ah it was all a dream outcome it makes all your actions feel useless and inconsequential as well as being seen as a bit of a cop out storywise.
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Sorry if I ruined the story for anyone with this spoiler info but well I did spoiler it.
Also for those who dont know
The ending to Mario 2 was that all that had happened was part of Marios dream who was safely tucked up in bed at the time, thats right hes so badass he even saves the world in his sleep
Sorry if I ruined the story for anyone with this spoiler info but well I did spoiler it.
Saying it was all a dream can work if you plan around it from the start, rather than tack it on at the end after the main body of the story is already finished (like Mario 2, or the 9th season of Dallas). It works especially well if the setting is absurd. Examples include The Matrix, Inception, Brazil and Pan's Labyrinth.
I had a funny theory that Booker was actually the dead guy in the lighthouse (just who was he anyway?). Dewitt was tortured by the gangsters to whom he owed money, and as his brain is bleeding out, he's reviewing his life through a fantastic dream. Of course, as I played further this idea came to have problems of its own.
I had a funny theory that Booker was actually the dead guy in the lighthouse (just who was he anyway?). Dewitt was tortured by the gangsters to whom he owed money, and as his brain is bleeding out, he's reviewing his life through a fantastic dream. Of course, as I played further this idea came to have problems of its own.