

Kidding! There’s actually a super powerful conduit in the future called the Beast who killed everybody, including Cole-Kessler’s family. He jumped back in time because he realized Trish sucks and that bitch gots to die. Turns out all this was orchestrated by the First Sons, specifically a man named Kessler but surprise again! He’s actually you from the future. You’ve got a girlfriend named Trish-Oh, wait, no you don’t because no matter what you do she hates you until maybe she doesn’t but that doesn’t matter anymore because she fell off a building. Cole’s a conduit who’s got lightning powers.
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But for those who need a quick-ish refresher, here’s a summary full of all the spoilers because duh: inFAMOUS is about Cole McGrath, a slacker bike messenger who gets hired to deliver a package but surprise! It’s actually a magic-tech bomb called the Ray Sphere that kills thousands of normies and activates a gene in people called Conduits, giving them powers. I don’t care if you’ve played Second Son because that game doesn’t matter. Going forward with this I’m going to assume you’ve played both inFAMOUS 1 and 2. And how Sucker Punch failed to make inFAMOUS 3. But then, because of the very nature of the series, Cole’s journey leads us down two very different, contradictory fates: either become the Beast, a god amongst supers, or sacrifice yourself to save the world, your body drifting away at sea, into the unknown. He became an actual person you partner with to play the game, instead of just driving him around to see the sights. And this was true enough in the first inFAMOUS, but in inFAMOUS 2 (now near a decade old) the developers put some serious effort in elevating Cole’s character.

It’s easier to slip into a nobody’s shoes and walk your way to greatness.

He starts off the first game as an unmotivated bike messenger. I’d even argue that the majority of his appeal comes from his cool design, the way Sucker Punch syncs his vast array of powers to the environments of Empire City or New Marais, and the very fact that he’s a nobody. He’s got as much personality as a wooden board, especially in the first game. Not because he’s particularly well-written. I don’t think there’s a protagonist in videogames I think about more than Cole McGrath.
