WE CAME, WE SAW, WE KICKED ASS!
Jul. 15th, 2011 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI beat the game! :D
-D: *startled* Already??-
Yeah -- Chapter 6 is, essentially, cutscenes and a boss fight. But what a boss fight! Here, let me tell you about it.
-->As I said before, we open in London, where there are floating bricks, snow falling, and ghostly children playing in the streets. And all wearing numbers, for some reason.
-->We head down a dark, smoky tunnel into what looks like a train station. The London Underground, perhaps? But there doesn't seem to be an ex--
-->Oh. HELLO, BUMBY.
-->Cutscene! Alice confronts Bumby about the way he's been breaking the children and destroying them, and Bumby -- is a smug, self-satisfied BASTARD. He apparently sells these children on the black market to god knows who. And he basically admits that he's going to get away scot-free because he broke Alice. (And admits to having plans to turn HER into a -- let's just say my RP Victors are out for BLOOD.)
-->Sudden switch to the end of the Dollmaker cutscene. Now we see Doll Alice and the other dolls being dumped into the Infernal Train (fuel?). But then POW! Alice emerges in her classic blues! No, you will NOT break her!
-->Into the "Wonderland" Portion, which is set on the Infernal Train. There's nothing to find, nothing to see -- well, except the scenery, which gets progressively more and more hellish the farther up you go. You basically just run toward the front (or the back? I'm actually not sure where the final boss arena is), passing through cars and meeting up with familiar characters.
-->Said familiar characters? Hatter, Caterpillar, and the Queen of Hearts. Nobody has much nice to say (obviously), but the Queen's theatrical basically makes it clear why Alice feels so guilty -- Alice SAW Bumby go into her sister's room, and he saw her in turn when he came out. "All died on my account, I couldn't save you" -- it's not explicit, but I do believe the general idea is that Bumby set the fire specifically to kill Alice. (It must have pissed him off big-time when she was the only one who lived.)
-->This is also occasionally intercut with London, where Alice and Bumby are still yelling at each other. Bumby accuses Lizzie of being a tease and said she got what was coming to her. Can I reach in through the screen and kill him?
-->More heading toward the front of the train. We finally reach the engine, and --
-->It's the Dollmaker, ripping off the top and making mocking comments. BOSS FIGHT TIME.
-->Round One: Attack the hand he's sent out after you, killing the Insidious Ruin to keep your health up. There's a doll's head on the back of it -- most of the time it's covered in black goo, but sometimes it's white and that's when you can shoot it. I basically try every trick in my arsenal to get at it, and eventually I manage to do something. Save time!
-->Round Two: More Ruin, more avoiding the hand and its attacks. This time we add a Monstrous Ruin to the mix, joy. I die a couple of times, but eventually make it through. Another savepoint.
-->Round Three: The other hand joins the fun, if you can call it that, and now we get to deal with Drifting Ruin! I die a LOT here, mostly because whenever one hand grabs you, you're guaranteed to lose a LOT of health.
-->Lots of dying and reloading -- STOP GRABBING ME, I'M JUMPING AND DODGING NEAR CONSTANTLY.
-->My one saving grace in the end? HYSTERIA. Nothing like a little invincibility and multiplied damage to help out.
-->As I work on fighting the Ruin, I notice something odd about the bastard's tongue -- it's got doll heads. Can I fire on it? I CAN! I promptly do my best to take it out.
-->And then, when I'm down to just one rose and fading fast -- I clear out the rest of the heads on his tongue. The Dollmaker screams, flails, and collapses. . . .
-->And we're back in London -- with the battle music, because my game is a little evil. It fits the final cutscene, though. There's a flash of -- Alice in Rutledge? At the very least, it looks like it could fit with the old game. Then we're back in the present, and Alice snarls that she'll see Bumby in jail and then hanged. Bumby laughs her off, saying no one will believe an obvious psychotic, and tells her to shove off, he's waiting for her replacement. And then he takes out his watch, which has Lizzie's key on it.
Alice glares, snatches back the key, and then -- makes to go? Alice, what--
-->And then she turns back, Bumby gets a definite "oh crap" look, and -- IT'S WONDERLAND ALICE! She advances, Bumby backs up, she gives him a good hard shove onto the tracks --
Yeah, guess what comes along just then. FUCK you, Bumby. FUCK you.
-->Alice heads up the steps and -- WTF? It's -- Londerland? But it's a happy Londerland. We get control, and we walk Alice around, looking at the gorgeous scenery.
-->And then the camera sweeps off as Cheshire comments one can never go home again, but that Alice has done her job, and that Wonderland is safe in memory -- for now.
-->Credits! Which I don't stick around for. Instead, it's back to the main menu. Continue Game is now New Game+ -- I guess that means "restart from the beginning, but you've still got all your awesome stuff." :D And that's where I left off for the night.
So yeah, the game is beat! :D Of course, I've still got to locate all the stuff I missed. There's 9 memories, 10 snouts, 1 Radula Room, and -- well, a whole bunch of bottles. ^^; But now I feel okay about using YouTube to ferret out what I missed. Hooray for the end of spoilers!
-TD: Time to catch up on the forums?-
Maybe. For now I might content myself with the TV Tropes page.
-D: *startled* Already??-
Yeah -- Chapter 6 is, essentially, cutscenes and a boss fight. But what a boss fight! Here, let me tell you about it.
-->As I said before, we open in London, where there are floating bricks, snow falling, and ghostly children playing in the streets. And all wearing numbers, for some reason.
-->We head down a dark, smoky tunnel into what looks like a train station. The London Underground, perhaps? But there doesn't seem to be an ex--
-->Oh. HELLO, BUMBY.
-->Cutscene! Alice confronts Bumby about the way he's been breaking the children and destroying them, and Bumby -- is a smug, self-satisfied BASTARD. He apparently sells these children on the black market to god knows who. And he basically admits that he's going to get away scot-free because he broke Alice. (And admits to having plans to turn HER into a -- let's just say my RP Victors are out for BLOOD.)
-->Sudden switch to the end of the Dollmaker cutscene. Now we see Doll Alice and the other dolls being dumped into the Infernal Train (fuel?). But then POW! Alice emerges in her classic blues! No, you will NOT break her!
-->Into the "Wonderland" Portion, which is set on the Infernal Train. There's nothing to find, nothing to see -- well, except the scenery, which gets progressively more and more hellish the farther up you go. You basically just run toward the front (or the back? I'm actually not sure where the final boss arena is), passing through cars and meeting up with familiar characters.
-->Said familiar characters? Hatter, Caterpillar, and the Queen of Hearts. Nobody has much nice to say (obviously), but the Queen's theatrical basically makes it clear why Alice feels so guilty -- Alice SAW Bumby go into her sister's room, and he saw her in turn when he came out. "All died on my account, I couldn't save you" -- it's not explicit, but I do believe the general idea is that Bumby set the fire specifically to kill Alice. (It must have pissed him off big-time when she was the only one who lived.)
-->This is also occasionally intercut with London, where Alice and Bumby are still yelling at each other. Bumby accuses Lizzie of being a tease and said she got what was coming to her. Can I reach in through the screen and kill him?
-->More heading toward the front of the train. We finally reach the engine, and --
-->It's the Dollmaker, ripping off the top and making mocking comments. BOSS FIGHT TIME.
-->Round One: Attack the hand he's sent out after you, killing the Insidious Ruin to keep your health up. There's a doll's head on the back of it -- most of the time it's covered in black goo, but sometimes it's white and that's when you can shoot it. I basically try every trick in my arsenal to get at it, and eventually I manage to do something. Save time!
-->Round Two: More Ruin, more avoiding the hand and its attacks. This time we add a Monstrous Ruin to the mix, joy. I die a couple of times, but eventually make it through. Another savepoint.
-->Round Three: The other hand joins the fun, if you can call it that, and now we get to deal with Drifting Ruin! I die a LOT here, mostly because whenever one hand grabs you, you're guaranteed to lose a LOT of health.
-->Lots of dying and reloading -- STOP GRABBING ME, I'M JUMPING AND DODGING NEAR CONSTANTLY.
-->My one saving grace in the end? HYSTERIA. Nothing like a little invincibility and multiplied damage to help out.
-->As I work on fighting the Ruin, I notice something odd about the bastard's tongue -- it's got doll heads. Can I fire on it? I CAN! I promptly do my best to take it out.
-->And then, when I'm down to just one rose and fading fast -- I clear out the rest of the heads on his tongue. The Dollmaker screams, flails, and collapses. . . .
-->And we're back in London -- with the battle music, because my game is a little evil. It fits the final cutscene, though. There's a flash of -- Alice in Rutledge? At the very least, it looks like it could fit with the old game. Then we're back in the present, and Alice snarls that she'll see Bumby in jail and then hanged. Bumby laughs her off, saying no one will believe an obvious psychotic, and tells her to shove off, he's waiting for her replacement. And then he takes out his watch, which has Lizzie's key on it.
Alice glares, snatches back the key, and then -- makes to go? Alice, what--
-->And then she turns back, Bumby gets a definite "oh crap" look, and -- IT'S WONDERLAND ALICE! She advances, Bumby backs up, she gives him a good hard shove onto the tracks --
Yeah, guess what comes along just then. FUCK you, Bumby. FUCK you.
-->Alice heads up the steps and -- WTF? It's -- Londerland? But it's a happy Londerland. We get control, and we walk Alice around, looking at the gorgeous scenery.
-->And then the camera sweeps off as Cheshire comments one can never go home again, but that Alice has done her job, and that Wonderland is safe in memory -- for now.
-->Credits! Which I don't stick around for. Instead, it's back to the main menu. Continue Game is now New Game+ -- I guess that means "restart from the beginning, but you've still got all your awesome stuff." :D And that's where I left off for the night.
So yeah, the game is beat! :D Of course, I've still got to locate all the stuff I missed. There's 9 memories, 10 snouts, 1 Radula Room, and -- well, a whole bunch of bottles. ^^; But now I feel okay about using YouTube to ferret out what I missed. Hooray for the end of spoilers!
-TD: Time to catch up on the forums?-
Maybe. For now I might content myself with the TV Tropes page.
