More Alice Thoughts

[crossover_chick]

-->Pressure pad puzzles are tricky business, especially when you add stompy things to the mix. And when you get reset to the beginning of the puzzle every time you fail. On the plus side, I think I've FINALLY got a handle on Alice's jumping!
-->A memory recovered from Radcliffe (who appears to be the Liddell family solicitor of sorts) explains why these industrial sections are so awful (and yet so cool) -- he's told her industrialization is basically built on misery. He recommends she go live the farming life in Australia. You want her for a neighbor, Moose?
-->March Hare employs -- or, rather, enslaves -- dodos. They have an awful Miseraium all to themselves. Poor things.
-->American McGee, I kind of dislike it when you take control of the camera away from me. Can we not do that? Especially when I suddenly have to adjust to a different key being "forward" with the new camera angle?
-->March being Scottish now still perplexes me, but I like the new character design.
-->I'm also slowly getting better in combat -- at least, to the point where I'm not always getting my ass kicked. I've learned a few tricks, such as even the eyepots get you, you can spring to your feet firing and get them right back.
-->Got Hatter all reassembled -- I find something endearing about his babblings. Also it's cool to see him jumping across the landscape with Alice riding on his back.
-->OH SHIT THE INFERNAL TRAIN -- SOOOO much creepier when you see it close up. Bad March and Dormy, bad!
-->On a related note, their return is in a giant Automaton with a drill and a crusher, and it looks to be an epic boss battle that you have NO IDEA how you'll win -- and then Hatter saves you by dropping a huge teapot on their heads. XD
-->Hmm, the last portion is one of those paper cutout cutscenes. Poor Hatter -- even after all of this, he still wants March and Dormy to be his friends. And then his realm collapses. . . .
-->And we're back in London, on the docks in the rain! And while Alice had said in the cutscene that Hatter "deserved to die," she certainly sounds upset when she says his name upon awakening.
-->On that note, OMG it's Chapter 2! Amazing!
-->Alice's nanny apparently runs a whorehouse in a place called the Mangled Mermaid. Charming. The guys out front think Alice is ripe for the taking, but Alice heads them off.
-->I love Alice's horrible London. Apparently the guys fishing around the Mermaid are selling fish from a very polluted part of the Thames. *makes note of this for crossover purposes*
-->Okay, dude who just hit Alice and knocked over a burning lamp? You've not only earned my ire, but that of at least two Victor Van Dorts. *growl*
-->My current ending spot is in an ice world called Tundraful. Oh American McGee.