The first half of this BioShock Infinite apology tour leaves much to be desired. As a staunch fan and defender of the core game's narrative despite its rampant flaws, Burial at Sea: Episode One seems content to make sure the BioShock critic of every stripe is dumbfounded and disappointed. Can I safely say this is Ken Levine's The Rise of Skywalker? I'll need to play the second part before I hand down that guilty verdict. Regardless, much of the problems from the base game carry over here: laborious FPS arenas, lacking level design, and the added bonus of copious 'member berries for fans of the original BioShock, all tied together into a narrative that undercuts BioShock Infinite's ending and adds more fuel to the fire for anyone with a negative disposition towards that game anyway. If I wasn't just coming off of revisiting BioShock Infinite, I'd probably call this expansion "perfectly cromulent." It isn't, however. It is remarkably worse.