9. The Wild Bunny – BioShock
Audio Diaries are BioShock’s way of filling in exposition of character development without having any real cutscenes. It allows us to get a glimpse into the lives of these people and help better understand what their motives are and ultimately what caused their demise. Enter Sander Cohen, the artist that you encounter at Fort Frolic and someone that doesn’t seem completely insane. Well, he doesn’t seem like that until you stumble across an Audio Diary titled “The Wild Bunny.”
Not only is this poem about a rabbit losing its mind over not being able to remove its own ears chilling, but it helps you understand that even Cohen is beyond salvation. It helps players realize that your trust in him shouldn’t exist and reinforces the concept that in Rapture you can only trust yourself. It also doesn’t help that Cohen screaming the last lines of the poem is super terrifying the first time you ever hear it.
