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No, not trying to be the next Angry Video Game Nerd or whatever, just trying to address the elephant in the room that I bet many are experiencing with Bioshock Infinite. So I give you;

The Nitpickers Review of Bioshock Infinite.

So I'm one of the masses that picked up Bioshock: Infinite last week. I don't get to play much and I havn't beaten it yet, I don't want to rush through it, either.

So yeah I'm on board with what everyone else has been saying about the game; its an absolute marvel of an achievement for Irrational Games. Its beautiful, original, great story, great atmosphere, and manages to make escort missions not suck.

Of course hardly any game is perfect, and nobody needs me to reiterate whats been said already, so I'm here to rain on the parade and review the nitpicky issues I have with the game.

For starters, its an OCD/Completionists nightmare. There are so many crates, boxes, chests, cabinets, trash cans, thingys, and more thingys to search it can be very distracting. If you are like me, you are paranoid you will miss something so you search every nook and cranny for every little thing you can find and try to take it. Also the things you find don't always make sense for the object you found it in. For example; fruit in the chocolate boxes? A lock pick by the toilet? Why no lock pick in the TOOL BOX? Only 3 coins in the cash register? On top of this, its STILL easy to miss things you need and have to backtrack, and your comb-through of a large area can often only produce tiny boosts or a few coins. 

Now lets pick on vending machines. I'm playing on "normal" difficulty, so this may have something to do with it. But I find the vending machines to be pretty useless. There is so much salts/health to find scattered about, plus the stuff whats-her-face throws at you during battle, what do you REALLY need to buy any for? You could buy upgrades for your vigors, but one small upgrade nearly wipes you out of your coins. If you hoard like me, you don't want to blow all your cash on one incremental upgrade so you hold on to it. So I finally spend a few bucks on weapon upgrades, although hardly anything for weapons I'm actually using,  and I don't have enough left for something that really matters. So I'm half way through the game and I've barely bought any upgrades for anything and still doing just fine.

Lastly, remember the first time you saw a Big Daddy? Those things are still frightening and cool looking as hell. The Songbirds in Infinite are pretty darn cool but don't have the same  lasting impact as the Big Daddys.

Ok I think I will stop here, I think I bummed you all out enough and made it look like i"m not enjoying the game. On the contrary, this is one of the best gaming experiences in a while, I usually wait for new games to come down in price but I jumped on this one and enjoying the hype ride along with everyone else. I hope to have this finished before the weekend is over.

-Chrozi