You are able to read everything back but it ruins the flow for me and that is why I deducted the .5 as it is my only issue so far. I mean the game has so much story that it is very noticiable for me or I would say anyone that tries to use the subtitles. Again most will not be affected by this as subtitles is off by default. I have read about 15 Bioshock reviews and some where long though I think only once was this mentioned as an issue. Again it ruins the flow so the game drops down slightly for me.