As Alice explores wonderland she will be spending a lot of time jumping from one platform to another, or riding up streams of air. It’s a little tough to put Madness Returns into a single genre, but the best bet would probably be saying it’s a platformer. London is sad and dreary, just like in the real world! The worst offender has to be the Cheshire Cat: he’s always following Alice around and imparting “knowledge” that basically amounts to a very verbose way of saying “good things are good and bad things are bad.” He has a lot to say but says very little during it, and could easily be cut from the game with no negative consequence. Characters just sort of come and go without much reason, the mystery of what set the fire was obvious halfway through the game but the game insisted on dragging it out, and the dialogue always felt choppy: like I was coming in halfway through a conversation all the time. I think it’s a good premise that is let down by not being very interesting. Back in Wonderland Alice is attempting to stop a train that is going around and corrupting everything it touches, and doing so also assists with rebuilding her memories. In the real world Alice is basically just wandering around visiting people she knows who all have different opinions about her, while trying to piece together her memories and figure out what started the fire that killed her family. Sadly, it seems Alice wasn’t the only one hit with madness as many of the design decisions in Alice: Madness Returns are, well… maddening.Īlice Liddell is having a bad time, somewhere between her hallucinations, shattered memories, and finding herself brought back to the now decaying and destroyed Wonderland. Eleven years later and we’re given Alice: Madness Returns, the sequel to the cult classic. There may be differences between versions.Ģ000’s American McGee’s Alice is often considered a cult hit, an interesting take on Alice in Wonderland both from a story and gameplay perspective.

Reviewer’s Note: I played this game on a PC. Available On: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

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