Since I completed BioShock last week in a bit of a hurried effort I've decided to replay the game on the hard difficulty.  This time around I am looking to find all of the audio diaries and hope to max out all research.  I am only missing six achievements so hopefully I can get them on this play through.

One of the things I've been able to pay more attention to are the back stories and how the world of Rapture ended up in desuetude.  I really do like this story and it's tail of a failed Objectivism society.  I've read an interesting article on Shack News that goes into detail on this topic and how the two central characters in this game counteract each other.  It's a good read but full of story spoilers.

This time around I have decided I am going to harvest the Little Sisters.  I justified this for myself two ways: 1) I'm playing on hard so I need to get more Adam earlier in the game and 2) I want to see the harvester ending of the game.  There has to be two distinct version of how this game ends so I'm looking forward to that.  I did the good ending the first time around because it's a 100 point achievement to not harvest a single Little Sister.  This time I'm a little more curious how it works for the other side.  I have already realized I miss out on one of the best plasmids, the one that a Big Daddy thinks you are a little Sister and protects you from Splicers.  this was very useful in tough spots.  I'm hoping maybe I'll get some more evil minded ones instead.



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