In life, we make connections with others. We protect the ones we love as they protect us, creating ties that bind us for life. We can’t forcibly create those bonds, and once created, they are not easily broken.

Burial at Sea – Episode 2 is about those kinds of personal connections. Like the disappointing first episode, this concluding chapter ties the Columbia of BioShock Infinite to the Rapture of BioShock and BioShock 2–yet it begins in neither city. Instead, you are in Paris, though it is not a Paris that ever was, but rather a Paris so perfect, so ideal, that even the most imaginative daydreamers could not have thought up a place of such sunny beauty. And no longer are you Infinite protagonist Booker DeWitt, but instead his talented ward Elizabeth, who had long dreamed of visiting La Ville-Lumière. Your initial stroll along the city’s sublime terraces takes you past smiling couples and friendly onlookers, many of whom know you by name. This glorious opening recalls your …