![]() It's not meant to be a culmination of her story arc, it's not meant to be the tragic end of a brilliant mind who was consumed by her own hatred, she dies for the sake of Elizabeth's character development. That's brow-raising enough, but then there's Fitzroy's death itself. After her death those who were under her leadership just become generic bad guys unable to be reasoned with. And then the game tries to retroactively justify that she's "just as bad as Comstrock" by having her kill one of their worst oppressors followed by threatening his child. But the game then tries to depict her as being "just as bad as Comstock" because her rebellion is violent, even though the slaves of Columbia literally had no other choices available to them, and we're supposed to feel bad that the fluffy, naive, innocent and funny-racist commonfolk are caught in the crossfire. Her story starts out pretty compelling, she's a victim of circumstance whose been thrust into the leadership of a rebellion through pure inertia and has embraced it. ![]() Daisy Fitzroy's entire story arc, in my opinion, suffers from a bad case of Unfortunate Implications. That in itself would be worthy of criticism, but I feel like it goes further than that. Matthewmatosis pretty much hit the nail on the head with his review when he said the racism aspect lacks any "nuance" or "bite" and that Columbia, even though it enslaves blacks in a time where slavery was already illegal in the US, may actually not be as bad as the rest of the country as far as outright violence and hatred goes. To start with, the game depicts really only Comstock as being viciously racist, with all the other townsfolk of Columbia depicted as having quaint, archaic viewpoints that are mostly played for laughs. ![]() I've felt like discussing it and thought it might be an interesting topic for this sub.īioshock Infinite has been praised for being bold in its decision to address period racism, but in my opinion it does it in the worst way possible while completely lacking self awareness in other areas of the game. ![]() It's something that has bothered me for a while, but even moreso now after both completing and the game and watching a Let's Play of Burial at Sea parts 1 & 2. ![]()
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