RAGE. OH MY GOD RAGE.
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I just finished Chapter 5, and -- ye GODS.
-->Start up next to the Radula Room, make my way over to where I'm supposed to be. Do de do do until--
-->Oh, HELLO Colossal Ruin! I haven't seen you in AAAGES! Here, have some tea! *BOOM* And you've brought some Slithering Ruin friends, how nice --
-->Except they kept leaping on me and causing me to miss my shots! Quit that!
-->Make it through the fight (Yahtzee, you can complain about the Teapot Cannon all you like, but I love it) and find myself confronted with a pressure pad puzzle. One pad lowers one dolls head so you can get to another pad which lowers another doll's head. The problem is, the second head doesn't lower far enough to match up with the first doll -- it's all a tricky business of throwing Rabbits on the pads, waiting until JUST the right moment, and then running like hell -- or trying to, anyway, as there's our old friends the swingy spiky dolls to contend with. Somehow, after a bunch of tries, I make it through.
-->Hey, we're back at the insane kid's place, Fort Resistance! I collect a pig snout, go hunting inside the fo-
Oh. Oh shit.
The little girl leader of the kids is lying dead outside.
You know what, I don't care how scary she looks, I feel awful that I can't help her.
-->There's nothing for it but to collect the teeth inside the fortress and continue on -- oh, great, Bitch Babies. Have some teapot and pepper, you --
-->FUCKING GOD, CHESTER! AGAIN?!?!
Yes, my computer did the "random shut off" thing again. That was the first instance of rage. I played for three hours last night with almost no problems, why did --
-->Let the computer cool, start 'er up, load her up -- okay, why is the MENU screen stuttering? I exit to see that Windows is downloading updates.
And it hits me that THIS might be the cause -- not Alice itself, but trying to do too many things at once. I wait out the updates loading, turn off Kaspersky for good measure (though it ran last night with it on. . .whatever) and went back to the game. Stuttering is drastically reduced, so I think I'm onto something.
-->Anyway, back to the fort. Recollect the teeth, fight the Bitch Babies, and then it's up and through the butt of another doll. First the crotch, now the -- FRIDGE HORROR MOMENT. I'll explain when I get to the end.
-->We head through the body and out the mouth (guh) and find ourselves facing a little dolly house. Which has a Monstrous Ruin problem. Fortunately THEY'RE up on the second level, which means I can dodge their attacks a lot easier. The teapot cannon finishes them both off, and it's around we go.
-->We come to a toy piano under some dolls' heads -- DDR puzzle-like thing time! I'm actually pretty good at these now -- who votes I try real DDR one day? There's a version over at Dave & Busters. . . .
-->The puzzle opens up the side of the house, revealing the Looking-Glass Line stop for the Dollhouse. Completely wrecked, as usual. And it looks like such a pretty train, too. . .
-->Before we go to investigate, however, there's a bit of exploring to be done. I pick up another memory from Wilson -- about how hard it is to tell when a "broken" mind has healed, as opposed to the broken body. Damn it, I so want to give Alice a hug. . . .
-->Go investigate the broken railroad, come across an insane child (and model reuse -- should have programmed in another face or two, Spicy Horse), and a Shrink Flower which shows some invisible platforms. Which lead up to --
-->A Radula Room! Last one! As usual, it's the "domain minigame" one. Lots of navigating the head through ramps and tunnels and being shot out of things. (And again, nobody caught that these were still programmed to show the CONSOLE instructions?)
-->Get the last of the flower paint (if only I'd found the first one in the Mysterious East! I'd have all my flowers!), head the way I'm supposed to go and -- a jack-in-the-box. Okay then, time to gear up for minigame number two! But first, a pig snout. (I did better on these than I thought -- 6 out of 8.)
-->More doll head rolling, focusing a lot of being fired out of cannons. My days of playing games on Miniclip have served me well. There's three stages to get through, and eventually I make it through them all.
-->End up in a dark and depressing area, of course -- because it involves SLIDES. There's actually been a couple in this level -- I just haven't been talking much about them because they're not quite as frustrating. This one needs a little maneuvering, though -- I get my butt burned by Ruin and keep falling off before I can get to an area where I can jump back on. Eventually, though, we make it to the bottom.
-->Wander around, collect some stuff (including another Bumby memory around here, where he talks about building children up, tearing them down, making them forget the old -- you are creepy, dude).
-->Arena fight time! Doll Girls, Bitch Babies, and a Monstrous Ruin. Interestingly, the middle of the arena is a slightly elevated platform at the start -- I promptly jump on that, take care of the Ruin, then work on the dolls. It's a bit of a tough go, but eventually my teapot cannon and I prosper.
-->After that, it's up some bouncy mushrooms, shattering a piece of cracked doll parts, and -- a burning Liddell door! This is our only paper-theater cinematic of the chapter, incidentally, which is weird. I run up to the door --
-->And run right through it. Inadvertent LOL moment as I discover I can clip right through the plot-important door. Oh games.
-->Eventually I interact with it like I'm SUPPOSED to and see the cinematic. Alice now knows she's not responsible for killing her family -- because she recalls a certain doctor was an undergraduate of her father's in Oxford! Not only that, the bastard still has Lizzie's room key! Bumby, you bastard!
-->Out the other side of the door is a creepy corridor with more weird mixes of animal parts, human parts, doll parts, and other mechanical bits. Doll Maker, the Hatter called -- he wants his schtick back. I smash open some breakables and make my way out--
-->OMG IT'S THE INFERNAL TRAIN. It's RIGHT below Alice -- you can see a lot of the details. It's horrible, but also vaguely beautiful. This game is so weird. At least it's not plowing through Wonderland at the moment.
-->There's also a memory that's apparently about the death of Alice's grandfather. Daddy Liddell says the man wouldn't have wanted his granddaughters to cry -- he lived a good life, and he's had a peaceful death. Awwww. . . .
-->Up and over the train, into a box of sorts, and we're back in major creepyville! Specifically, we're in what looks to be a factory of sorts, with dolls going by on --
THOSE ARE THE INSANE CHILDREN'S HEADS!!
Ye FUCKING Gods, this is MESSED UP! The poor kids are dangling on hooks with their heads attached to doll bodies, while below your feet you can see the regular dolls being fed along. Euugh, and you have to walk UNDER some of these assembly lines. . .
-->More Ruin to fight -- lucky it's mostly Insidious Ruin (the small kind), so they're fairly easily dispatched. There's also a memory to get: Lizzie complaining she's no toy and that Bumby tried to make her do things she didn't want to do. *patpat*
-->Deeper into the factory and WHAT IS THAT
-->The Doll Maker proves to be a giant glasses-less Bumby with Ruin pouring out of his eyes and mouth and stitches and DOLL HEADS EMBEDDED IN HIS HANDS -- I seriously considering chickening out, but force myself to go on.
-->After some rather awkward climbing, we make it to the Maker and a cutscene. Alice is naturally very upset that she's working for her family's MURDERER, but then she drops another bombshell on me --
"Oblivious, I live in a TRAINING GROUND for PROSTITUTES!"
Bumby runs an ORPHANAGE, let me remind you. And every kid we saw in there was YOUNGER than Alice.
This fucking bastard has been warping kids' minds so that they'll go out and sell themselves on the street -- or is possibly catering to a particularly DISGUSTING crowd.
BUMBY, YOU ARE THE DEVIL. (Also, remember my fridge horror moment about how you enter certain areas above? Yeaaaah.)
-->Bumby admits to catering to certain "appetites," as he takes the crying, struggling insane children/dolls and fits them with creepy doll heads before throwing them down a chute. He also says that Alice was close to forgetting and being free -- Alice is naturally enraged by the idea that she should just forget her family. They talk about the Infernal Train -- Bumby lays the blame for the train itself on Alice, but admits he's behind where and when it runs. He quotes a bit of poetry I've seen around a lot in relation to the game -- fuck you, Bumby, you shouldn't be allowed to say something so pretty. A furious Alice promises to stop the train if it's the last thing she does. And then --
-->WHAT PUT HER DOWN DON'T YOU TOUCH HER
-->This ends with a really creepy sequence (I know I keep saying that, but it IS) where you see Alice with that doll head from the minigame and a naked, Barbie-like body being tossed down the chute.
-->And then we're back in London, in front of the orphanage, which looks rather worse for wear and has -- black shadows wandering around in front of it? Well, anyway, it's Chapter 6, which means I need a break.
So yeah, can you understand my rage?
-VuM: *voice cold* I say we gut the bastard.-
-TTV: Now, now, it's not for us to decide. It's for ALICE to decide.-
Damn straight -- there's one more chapter to go, and there is ASS TO KICK. Supper's gonna be up shortly, though, and I need a shower, so we'll save that for later.
I just finished Chapter 5, and -- ye GODS.
-->Start up next to the Radula Room, make my way over to where I'm supposed to be. Do de do do until--
-->Oh, HELLO Colossal Ruin! I haven't seen you in AAAGES! Here, have some tea! *BOOM* And you've brought some Slithering Ruin friends, how nice --
-->Except they kept leaping on me and causing me to miss my shots! Quit that!
-->Make it through the fight (Yahtzee, you can complain about the Teapot Cannon all you like, but I love it) and find myself confronted with a pressure pad puzzle. One pad lowers one dolls head so you can get to another pad which lowers another doll's head. The problem is, the second head doesn't lower far enough to match up with the first doll -- it's all a tricky business of throwing Rabbits on the pads, waiting until JUST the right moment, and then running like hell -- or trying to, anyway, as there's our old friends the swingy spiky dolls to contend with. Somehow, after a bunch of tries, I make it through.
-->Hey, we're back at the insane kid's place, Fort Resistance! I collect a pig snout, go hunting inside the fo-
Oh. Oh shit.
The little girl leader of the kids is lying dead outside.
You know what, I don't care how scary she looks, I feel awful that I can't help her.
-->There's nothing for it but to collect the teeth inside the fortress and continue on -- oh, great, Bitch Babies. Have some teapot and pepper, you --
-->FUCKING GOD, CHESTER! AGAIN?!?!
Yes, my computer did the "random shut off" thing again. That was the first instance of rage. I played for three hours last night with almost no problems, why did --
-->Let the computer cool, start 'er up, load her up -- okay, why is the MENU screen stuttering? I exit to see that Windows is downloading updates.
And it hits me that THIS might be the cause -- not Alice itself, but trying to do too many things at once. I wait out the updates loading, turn off Kaspersky for good measure (though it ran last night with it on. . .whatever) and went back to the game. Stuttering is drastically reduced, so I think I'm onto something.
-->Anyway, back to the fort. Recollect the teeth, fight the Bitch Babies, and then it's up and through the butt of another doll. First the crotch, now the -- FRIDGE HORROR MOMENT. I'll explain when I get to the end.
-->We head through the body and out the mouth (guh) and find ourselves facing a little dolly house. Which has a Monstrous Ruin problem. Fortunately THEY'RE up on the second level, which means I can dodge their attacks a lot easier. The teapot cannon finishes them both off, and it's around we go.
-->We come to a toy piano under some dolls' heads -- DDR puzzle-like thing time! I'm actually pretty good at these now -- who votes I try real DDR one day? There's a version over at Dave & Busters. . . .
-->The puzzle opens up the side of the house, revealing the Looking-Glass Line stop for the Dollhouse. Completely wrecked, as usual. And it looks like such a pretty train, too. . .
-->Before we go to investigate, however, there's a bit of exploring to be done. I pick up another memory from Wilson -- about how hard it is to tell when a "broken" mind has healed, as opposed to the broken body. Damn it, I so want to give Alice a hug. . . .
-->Go investigate the broken railroad, come across an insane child (and model reuse -- should have programmed in another face or two, Spicy Horse), and a Shrink Flower which shows some invisible platforms. Which lead up to --
-->A Radula Room! Last one! As usual, it's the "domain minigame" one. Lots of navigating the head through ramps and tunnels and being shot out of things. (And again, nobody caught that these were still programmed to show the CONSOLE instructions?)
-->Get the last of the flower paint (if only I'd found the first one in the Mysterious East! I'd have all my flowers!), head the way I'm supposed to go and -- a jack-in-the-box. Okay then, time to gear up for minigame number two! But first, a pig snout. (I did better on these than I thought -- 6 out of 8.)
-->More doll head rolling, focusing a lot of being fired out of cannons. My days of playing games on Miniclip have served me well. There's three stages to get through, and eventually I make it through them all.
-->End up in a dark and depressing area, of course -- because it involves SLIDES. There's actually been a couple in this level -- I just haven't been talking much about them because they're not quite as frustrating. This one needs a little maneuvering, though -- I get my butt burned by Ruin and keep falling off before I can get to an area where I can jump back on. Eventually, though, we make it to the bottom.
-->Wander around, collect some stuff (including another Bumby memory around here, where he talks about building children up, tearing them down, making them forget the old -- you are creepy, dude).
-->Arena fight time! Doll Girls, Bitch Babies, and a Monstrous Ruin. Interestingly, the middle of the arena is a slightly elevated platform at the start -- I promptly jump on that, take care of the Ruin, then work on the dolls. It's a bit of a tough go, but eventually my teapot cannon and I prosper.
-->After that, it's up some bouncy mushrooms, shattering a piece of cracked doll parts, and -- a burning Liddell door! This is our only paper-theater cinematic of the chapter, incidentally, which is weird. I run up to the door --
-->And run right through it. Inadvertent LOL moment as I discover I can clip right through the plot-important door. Oh games.
-->Eventually I interact with it like I'm SUPPOSED to and see the cinematic. Alice now knows she's not responsible for killing her family -- because she recalls a certain doctor was an undergraduate of her father's in Oxford! Not only that, the bastard still has Lizzie's room key! Bumby, you bastard!
-->Out the other side of the door is a creepy corridor with more weird mixes of animal parts, human parts, doll parts, and other mechanical bits. Doll Maker, the Hatter called -- he wants his schtick back. I smash open some breakables and make my way out--
-->OMG IT'S THE INFERNAL TRAIN. It's RIGHT below Alice -- you can see a lot of the details. It's horrible, but also vaguely beautiful. This game is so weird. At least it's not plowing through Wonderland at the moment.
-->There's also a memory that's apparently about the death of Alice's grandfather. Daddy Liddell says the man wouldn't have wanted his granddaughters to cry -- he lived a good life, and he's had a peaceful death. Awwww. . . .
-->Up and over the train, into a box of sorts, and we're back in major creepyville! Specifically, we're in what looks to be a factory of sorts, with dolls going by on --
THOSE ARE THE INSANE CHILDREN'S HEADS!!
Ye FUCKING Gods, this is MESSED UP! The poor kids are dangling on hooks with their heads attached to doll bodies, while below your feet you can see the regular dolls being fed along. Euugh, and you have to walk UNDER some of these assembly lines. . .
-->More Ruin to fight -- lucky it's mostly Insidious Ruin (the small kind), so they're fairly easily dispatched. There's also a memory to get: Lizzie complaining she's no toy and that Bumby tried to make her do things she didn't want to do. *patpat*
-->Deeper into the factory and WHAT IS THAT
-->The Doll Maker proves to be a giant glasses-less Bumby with Ruin pouring out of his eyes and mouth and stitches and DOLL HEADS EMBEDDED IN HIS HANDS -- I seriously considering chickening out, but force myself to go on.
-->After some rather awkward climbing, we make it to the Maker and a cutscene. Alice is naturally very upset that she's working for her family's MURDERER, but then she drops another bombshell on me --
"Oblivious, I live in a TRAINING GROUND for PROSTITUTES!"
Bumby runs an ORPHANAGE, let me remind you. And every kid we saw in there was YOUNGER than Alice.
This fucking bastard has been warping kids' minds so that they'll go out and sell themselves on the street -- or is possibly catering to a particularly DISGUSTING crowd.
BUMBY, YOU ARE THE DEVIL. (Also, remember my fridge horror moment about how you enter certain areas above? Yeaaaah.)
-->Bumby admits to catering to certain "appetites," as he takes the crying, struggling insane children/dolls and fits them with creepy doll heads before throwing them down a chute. He also says that Alice was close to forgetting and being free -- Alice is naturally enraged by the idea that she should just forget her family. They talk about the Infernal Train -- Bumby lays the blame for the train itself on Alice, but admits he's behind where and when it runs. He quotes a bit of poetry I've seen around a lot in relation to the game -- fuck you, Bumby, you shouldn't be allowed to say something so pretty. A furious Alice promises to stop the train if it's the last thing she does. And then --
-->WHAT PUT HER DOWN DON'T YOU TOUCH HER
-->This ends with a really creepy sequence (I know I keep saying that, but it IS) where you see Alice with that doll head from the minigame and a naked, Barbie-like body being tossed down the chute.
-->And then we're back in London, in front of the orphanage, which looks rather worse for wear and has -- black shadows wandering around in front of it? Well, anyway, it's Chapter 6, which means I need a break.
So yeah, can you understand my rage?
-VuM: *voice cold* I say we gut the bastard.-
-TTV: Now, now, it's not for us to decide. It's for ALICE to decide.-
Damn straight -- there's one more chapter to go, and there is ASS TO KICK. Supper's gonna be up shortly, though, and I need a shower, so we'll save that for later.
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