She’s constantly scrounging, looking for things like ammo, health kits and salts to throw his way when he’s in a tight spot. Liz has no fighting or shooting experience, but she doesn’t just stand around while Booker does all the work. In fact, the relationship between Booker and Liz is largely that of a team effort. The game actually telling you to let go of your outdated notions about protecting a fair lady. She’s attempted escapes from her tower multiple times, with her monstrous guardian Songbird being the only things that stands in her way, and it’s clear that though Booker does in fact help her escape from her prison, she’s not interested in playing the role of helpless girl. She’s resourceful and quick-witted, with the ability to break codes and pick locks like they’re nothing (being locked in a tower with nothing but books means she’s got a lot of hobbies).
However, it becomes immediately apparent once he gets to know her that despite her naivety, Liz has a strong spirit, incredible smarts and the unbelievable ability to rip tears in the universe to do her bidding. She’s innocent, eager and curious and trusts you almost immediately. When Booker first meets her, she seems fair and gentle, with a Disney princess vibe and a burning desire to go to Paris. Not only is she about to beat you with a book, she’s showing off the fact that she’s infinitely smarter than you by wielding a book on Quantum Physics. It’s the classic Damsel in Distress scenario, but when Booker gets there, he finds that she’s not nearly as helpless as he thinks. But what transpires with the girl, Elizabeth, turns out to be much different and much more satisfying.Įlizabeth is a young woman who has been locked in a tower by her zealot father Zachary Comstock for her entire life, in order to prepare her to become his successor. When you start the game as hard-boiled ex-Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, you’ve been hired to fetch a young woman from the flying city of Columbia. The aspect of it that I was most impressed by was how the game managed to take the tired, broken down Damsel in Distress trope and turn it on its head. It was a thrilling, sometimes disturbing epic that not only took a hard look at America’s prejudiced past, but delved into the weird world of quantum physics and turned it all into a mind blowing story. Recently, I completed Irrational Games’ Bioshock Infinite. WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR BIOSHOCK INFINITE.
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