Like Song Ren, quite a few players had been looking forward to BioShock: City of Rapture.
With its dark and complex story, many players had already mentally prepared themselves halfway through the game.
They knew that the ending of BioShock: City of Rapture might not leave them feeling very good.
Besides, most protagonists in games developed by Chen Xu met tragic ends.
But seeing Elizabeth collapse in a pool of blood still made every player's heart clench.
Especially since players had witnessed everything this girl had gone through in Sky City Columbia.
They had gone on adventures together, and the emotional bond it created was simply overwhelming.
Thinking about it carefully, Chen Xu really had never said that Elizabeth would survive.
He had only said that she was no longer the protagonist, but that she would still appear.
But this kind of appearance was far too cruel!
Before this, players could still imagine that Elizabeth had not disappeared, that it was an open-ended conclusion.
Just like the story of The Last of Us: if it kept going, many players had to admit that in that perilous post-apocalyptic world, sooner or later, either Ellie or Joel might die.
Yet the story stopped abruptly after they left the Glow, and that open ending instead became a kind of perfection.
But BioShock: City of Rapture was too complete.
So complete that the entire story formed a perfect closed loop.
As Elizabeth slowly closed her eyes, the game screen returned to Jack once more.
The game needed an ending, and the players needed an explanation.
So, while being hunted by City of Rapture's security forces under Fontaine's control, Jack fled to Dr. Tenenbaum's secret hideout.
With the female doctor's help, Jack raced against time to Dr. Yi's former laboratory, drank the serum, and broke