Alice: Madness Returns -

[Niggercat 0w0]

İ'm suprised we don't have a thread about this game. İt's really underrated.
Has anyone played the game??

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

The hair physics chuckles me when i pirated the game like 8 years ago.

 

[RinguPingu745]

I've been meaning to play this game again! It's been years since I touched it. It's a really good game with awesome monster designs, music and set pieces. Only thing I hated was how long some of the chapters take to finish. They overstay their welcome a bit, but otherwise I recommend this gem of a game.

 

[Quintex96]

I enjoyed the game and the original, interesting interpretation of the Alice lore.

The story surrounding the game and American Mcgee is quite fascinating too.

 

[Just A Butt]

Not even a trailer. Smh

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Alice 1 was poor, poor third person game when PC devs tried to make console games. It also rode heavily on Tim Burton's coattails while giving goth girls tired ideas. It was Sucker Punch years before Sucker Punch.

 

[Irrelevant]

It's interesting how Alice is a relatively cult game that most non-PC gamers have probably never heard of but it was the inspiration of so much artwork and cosplayers that it's aesthetic is probably what most young people associate most with Alice in Wonderland.

Something similar I think is Harley Quinn in her sexy nurse outfit from Arkham Asylum. No girls wanted to be Harley Quinn when she was in a jester jumpsuit but Arkham Asylum made her sexy and it was copied so much people forgot the source.

Alice = average platformer but a unique atmosphere, overall good

Madness Returns = still a boring platformer but the atmosphere was no longer new, shit

The books = they're not dark or about drugs or anything like people seem to think these days

 

[Just wandering]

madness reutrn is like the sequel of tim burton alice movie. Everything in the design barely any substence

 

[biggest big boy]

Is it easy to pirate this game? I had it for PS3 as a kid, never finished it, don't know what happened to it. Lewis Carrol's Alice is my favorite book and I like seeing all the adaptations of it, even the dumb edgy ones.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I liked it but every level felt like it dragged on for too long and by the end you always felt sick of a level, it felt padded.

I have a soft spot for the original Alice too, yes the gameplay is clunky but it looks so fucking cool and had such a great atmosphere, I'll never forget the day I saw the game box in Wal-Mart, I was transfixed by the cover art, it blew my mind.

 

[Merry]

Good waifu material but shallow gameplay

 

[Borax Bozo]

I have the artbook for this. From the contents of the book and how the game plays, it seems they had amazing stuff they had severe technical problems with implementing. McGee's decision to try to do everything with a Chinese dev house seems a bad idea in retrospect.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I have the artbook for this. From the contents of the book and how the game plays, it seems they had amazing stuff they had severe technical problems with implementing. McGee's decision to try to do everything with a Chinese dev house seems a bad idea in retrospect.

Oh yeah, that artbook is incredible.

 

[XYZpdq]

I should probably try the original one since I finally have a shit toaster good enough to do it.
iirc didn't the first one have some shit platform sequences?

 

[Aaa0aaa0]

I should probably try the original one since I finally have a shit toaster good enough to do it.
iirc didn't the first one have some shit platform sequences?

Yep. You'll see them coming so you can save before then at least, and the game lets you save and reload anywhere so they're not too ball busting.

 

[Borax Bozo]

If you're having trouble with some platforming, Alice will also allow you to aim at a specific floor spot for a few seconds and the cursor will turn into feet. Press space once and Alice will jump to that exact spot.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I should probably try the original one since I finally have a shit toaster good enough to do it.
iirc didn't the first one have some shit platform sequences?

It's a little clunky, but it really isn't too bad overall, I think it's a pretty good game for the era, although of course the real draw is the atmosphere.

 

[Just wandering]

mmmhh