Examining American McGee's Alice Series + Alice: Asylum

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  @BoulderPunch · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @Sleepgarden · 3 years ago

  Imagine having a huge design doc for Alice Asylum and EA just says &quot;no&quot; and you can&apos;t have the rights

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  @madydoo · 3 years ago

  And EA just turned Alice: Asylum down and refused to give Mcgee the rights... I&apos;m gonna cry

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  @Kaylakaze · 4 years ago

  One thing I never hear anyone discuss, and it could just be my interpretetation, but it&apos;s with how distorted everyone in the &quot;real world&quot; looks while Alice is normal looking, maybe even somewhat idealized. My theory is that the people don&apos;t actually look that way, but we&apos;re seeing them through Alice&apos;s eyes and that&apos;s how she sees them.

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  @TheHouseAlwaysWins20 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I can&apos;t believe American Mcgee made a better gothic Alice in Wonderland than Tim Burton

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  @RockorSomething83 · 4 years ago

  Shame this series has once again entered Development Hell. I remember following Madness Returns when it was first announced and constantly searching for new info on it. When it was finally released, I remember playing the game nonstop till it was 100%ed achievement wise.

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  @Cunning-h2i · 4 years ago

  I believe the lack of bosses in Alice madness returns is a great story telling choice. <br>When she is in danger, be it psychological with the old nurse in the begining, or physical with her maid, she seek refuge in wonderland despite its state and the opposite is true. When she is in danger psychologicaly with the bombyx or physicaly with the white rabbit or even the walrus she snaps back to reality.<br>Its only at the end that she faces her fear and danger head on and thats also why i believe what happens agiter the boss fight to be true in some way shape or form.

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  @oneesan9298 · 4 years ago

  I&apos;ve always found it funny how the train which was destroying Wonderland ended up being the train that ran over Bumby. As if Alice&apos;s Wonderland worked as a time vortex.

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  @bloomfernArt · 10 months ago (edited)

  i went as alice to a halloween party this year at a local bar, i even repainted a bratz doll and made it some clothes for &quot;shrunken alice&quot; who i called &quot;drunken alice&quot;. i thought no one was going to know who i was but over 10 people approached me to chat about the game and we bonded over the 2 games but by the end of the conversation it was very bitter sweet because of asylum. really great night though.

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  @kylespevak6781 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei4-s2F8hI0&amp;t=225">3:45</a> Art direction beats realism every time. Realism looks bad after a few years, art direction always looks good

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  @Darcyisboredd · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei4-s2F8hI0&amp;t=23">0:23</a> the way the Executioner simply looks up at Alice with his mouth open as if saying “What the F**k am I supposed to do now, she’s huge!” Just makes me laugh to no end.😂

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  @K.Marie119 · 4 years ago

  Minor nitpick (not all that important) Alice is catatonic in the first place, not comatose. Coma, vegetative states, and minimally conscious state and confusional state have a physical, underlying, cause. <br><br>Coma patients are completely unconscious as the result of either TBI or prolonged hypoxia. Same for the other altered states of consciousness mentioned. <br><br>The defining feature of catatonia is psychological. When we see Alice in her bed at the asylum, she appears to be in a stupor.

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