10 Ridiculous Things We Just Had To Go With In Bioshock
5. The Lutece Twins Are Actually The Same Person
If there's one thing Bioshock Infinite does, it's completely melt your brain. If you've finished it, you know you probably didn't have a clue what was going on until you trawled the net and found loads of additional material that you missed that filled in the blanks. The narrative of Infinite is filled with so many twists, time jumps and reality-bending craziness that it can be hard to digest, particularly when the question of the mysterious Lutece twins needs to be answered. See, they're not twins at all - they're the same person. Except they're from different realities. They've came together as a result of experiments into the tears, which allow one to bridge the gap between alternate universes. By pooling their collective skills, the two 'twins', Robert and Rosalind Lutece, are the agents behind abducting Anna Dewitt (Booker's daughter, rechristened in Columbia as Elizabeth) and are - after seeing the error of their ways and seeing a future where Elizabeth destroys New York using Columbia - the very same people who are responsible for enlisting Booker's aid in stopping Comstock altogether before any of this happens. To make matters worse, the twins are extremely cryptic all the way through, challenging Booker with split decisions (a nod to their mirror-image personalities, i.e Rosalind being a fatalist, while Robert is not) and causing, as we said previously, your brain to melt into a nice pile of sludge.
Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.