Oh Alice, my dear Alice…you never stop to surprise me. Since the first time I read the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, or better know by Lewis Carroll, I encountered this wondrous character. Now she is different and her psychotic breakdown strikes again in Alice: Madness Returns.
As the Chesire cat mentions in one of his ill-natured lines in this game- “Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same” – we spot a distinct ambience than the usual, childish movie Alice in Wonderland, 1951 by Walt Disney Productions. Alice comes back madder and more sadist than ever…and even more violent. This jewel was released in June, 2011 by Electronic Arts, becoming the sequel to American McGee’s Alice and prequel of Alice: Otherlands.
Briefly, Alice returns (again) to Wonderland: lost, confussed and more cursed than ever. At the begining, Alice is getting “psychiatric” help after the past two games, living filthy and unsupervised in the Victorian England in the Rutledge Insane Asylum full of uncanny children. Apparently Alice suffers a psychotic break and goes back to her memories and hallucinatory abode: Wonderland. She encounters childhood memories which help her to construct her own mind, and luckly for us…the game.
I am extremely excited to continue playing Alice: Madness Returns. This is one of the games I have wanted to play many years ago. I hadn’t had the chance to do so, but now this is my opening line fot this category Videogames.
This game is available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. I will be posting my ideas from the game and the correlation between her psychological course and the sly way Spicy Horse, the developers, made it blend.
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