OMG, You Killed Alice!! (You Bastard!)

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland will be hitting theaters in the Philippines tomorrow so in line with that, I wrote a blog post to join this contest for the prize. As I checked out the other entries in random, I came across this one. Part of it tells of a game and I'm someone who likes games so checked it out after seeing only one screenshot, reading a bit of the plot and learning the title...

Alice Is Dead.

I am typing this only a few minutes after finishing Alice Is Dead and Alice Is Dead 2; Flash games found on the listings of legitgames.com. I know a good review usually provides quite some pictures but I'm too freaked out to even try to go through the game again to get anymore details. Now I'm not saying it's overly dark and gory and stuff. It's just that I'm not used to these kind of games. If I say "I don't play Resident Evil or Silent Hill even if they're good games because I get scared and freaked out easily with gore, darkness and blood.", I think you'll get what I mean.

If you're in for freaky, dark, kind-of-twisted fairytale remake kind of game and you don't want spoilers, click here for the first part and here for the second part. I assure you, if you want things to have a kind of suspense, read no further and just play. The title is enough clue.

Oh, and since it's a Flash game, you're going to need a Flash player.

The Story
Hello, there, you! You're... um... Well, anyway, welcome to Wonderland and guess what? There are only three things you know and none of those is your identity. One, Alice is dead. (So much for Alice in Wonderland.) Two, you're somewhere in Wonderland. And Three, you have to get out of here to find out what's going on or find out what's going on to get out of here, whichever you prefer. That's all you need to know because if I say anything more, I'll ruin everything.

The Gameplay
The instructions are rather simple. All you need is a mouse and there are only three things you can do with it:

Click on the environment to interact with it.
Click on the items to interact with the environment.
Click on the items one after the other to combine them.

The reason why it's relatively simple is probably because you'll be spending more time figuring out what to do and how to do it while trying to endure the freaky music about the Boogeyman, the dark ambience of the whole thing and that terrifying spider that made a home out of one of the panels (I'm arachnophobic). Navigating through the world is rather easy, too. You click on the arrows to be taken to another panel. It's kind of like those Robby Rabbit PC games back on the Windows 95 or maybe how you navigate across your house on Pet Society. The graphics aren't so heavy, too, since there's not much to load and I mean that in a good way. The loading process only takes a while as well.

The puzzles in the game rate a 7 out of 10 (that is in my humble opinion). It's not that you're going to crack your head trying to figure out what to do but for a mini-game made in Flash, those puzzles are way cool. It kind of puts your observation and deduction skills to use. It won't take you even half a day to finish both parts of the game not because it's too easy but because it's way too short that you're going to be wanting for more.

The Experience
As I've said earlier, I'm not into freaky, dark, twisted games (or stuff for that matter). So how do I know this is good? Well, that's exactly why I can tell it's good. I PUT UP WITH IT TILL IT WAS FINISHED!! Normally, I would've said "Screw you, I'm not freaking out my self shitless" and just stopped playing. I was playing it with my guy best friend who so loves Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Hotel 626 and even he thinks it's good. (Astig, actually) I guess that's one of it's plus sides. Alice Is Dead doesn't drag on for so long, at least not enough to kill me. If the dark hardcore games aren't for you but you want to experience it somehow then Alice Is Dead probably is.

So goodbye Alice in Wonderland because Alice... Is Dead.

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