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Yeah. I don't think it did much, but it's an interesting fight. But again, for a story so rich in philosophy and questions and that, it just seems as if it's let down. It almost feels like a doom villain at times. Yeah, it just feels rushed. It feels bolted on. But for me, though, it is tempered by the fact that if you do the good ending, which I'm sure most people do, that is quite a nice emotional punch at the end of it. Oh, I love that ending. It made me tear up. I don't know about you, Definitely, I said it made my wife it it tear up a bit. And even me, it it gets me. I'm not going to lie. course it does. it's far For anyone who doesn't know, and if you don't know, then why are you listening? Go play Bioshock. But yeah, at the very end, if you choose to save all the little sisters, there is a lovely narration by Tenenbaum where she says... They gave you the key to the city, but you gave them hope, the freedom, and you essentially take these little sisters to the surface and you give them the one thing that they had never had up until that point. You give them their freedom, you give them their life back. And it almost goes back, I can't believe I'm saying this, but it goes back to what Andrew Ryan was saying about the whole notion of freedom, about how a man chooses a slave obeys. And it's that idea that Jack has chosen to oppose Ryan's doctrine and ideology, that he is not just fighting for himself anymore. He is fighting for the future of these poor children that have been essentially brainwashed into being little sisters and he has saved them. There wasn't any real motivation for him to save them other than the fact that if you're playing it right he is a good person. But then he takes them to the surface and he gives them a long full life. They go away, they get an education, they get married and things. And bit that always gets to me at the end is when you see Jack's hand withered because he's old. you tell his past and and that's the thing it's just a hand but you know exactly what it's telling you exactly yeah but then you see all the fans take his and you know they've all got the wedding rings and things yeah see thinking of it right now it's just it's baffling how much you can get out of that because there's not really other than the narration there's not any dialogue that goes on between them there's not any little sister going gee willikers i'm glad i've got an education or gee whiz dad you're dying lot of it's implied along with the narration, but it's really effective and I can't put my finger on it either. Yeah, it's totally unspoken and I think that's partly due to the sound design, which I know something we've not really touched on much, but the sound effects throughout the game are absolutely amazing and building that and especially the music. But for the ending especially, it's that kind of swelling, happy music. And again, you think, oh great, they're getting married, they've got a degree, so what? But the implications behind that is the fact that they have gone from rapture into this, as we said, this just utterly horrible place where they get no choices. They are basically slaves to the system of down in rapture as gatherers for Adam to living this normal life, you know, because it's something we can all relate to, wanting to an education, get married, find that special someone. And then at the very end, and think that's really what gets me, is the fact that Jack