Bioshock Infinite: Empathising with the Handyman

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Bioshock Infinite: Empathising with the Handyman

Added: 22.04.2013 23:18 | 11 views | 0 comments

"The Handyman is sorely misunderstood by Columbias people, as a spectacle and technological wonder, not a person. As Booker walks through the streets of Shantytown, he comes across two Vox posing with the slumped body of a dead Handyman while their friend takes a photograph." Jack Bromley talks about the Handyman as a tragic figure, and how he fits into the Bioshock: Infinite universe and enhances its narrative themes. "Plenty have complained that they should have been featured more prominently as their omnipresence in the trailers suggested but like the Boys of Silence, theyre placed and distributed so that they can be perfectly appreciated as unique characters and not faceless recurring obstacles."