Jumat, 25 Maret 2011

A Madder Look at Alice in Wonderland


Certainly not your regular Alice simply lost in Wonderland.


This time around, the girl is mad, mad, mad, I tell you (maybe the Mad-Hatter finally rubbed off on her.)  Or maybe, her family got killed in a fire in their house and it was all too much for poor Alice.

In

Alice: Madness Returns

--American McGee's dark-and-macabre-as-ever sequel to Alice--Alice is finally released from Routledge Asylum, where for ten years she has been under the care of Dr. Heironymous Wilson.  But alas, Alice is still a nutcase, and Wonderland and all its inhabitants (including the Chesire Cat, White Rabbit, and Queen of Hearts) are warped more than ever courtesy of Alice's own deeply-twisted mind.

Thankfully, the heroine is armed with a badass Vorpal sword (from Lewis Carroll's Jaberwocky poem), so you know you'll be fighting in style.

Alice: Madness Returns is set to be released this 2011. 

Expect Lewis Carroll to turn in his grave, but for the right reasons.

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Notable: Chris Vrenna's wonderfully eerie soundtrack made entirely out of toy instruments and percussion, music boxes (reputedly a Fisher-Price music box pocket radio), clocks, doors, and various convulutions of female voices--all lending an nightmarishly unstable quality to the game.

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Incidentally, there is an actual medical condition called Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) in which the sufferer has a distorted perception of the shape and size of his or her body and/or parts of it, much like Alice drinking the potion that shrunk and bloated her.  Distance perception is a problem too among sufferers, as well as losing the sense of time.  AIWS has nothing to do with bad eyesight; it's bad neurons that's causing problems.

Fortunately, the condition is treatable with anti-migraine pills, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and beta blockers.


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