I'll say it once again, there will be major spoilers for Alice in this thread so if you don't want to know don't enter.
Right, well during the moments in the game where I'm not jumping from floating platform to floating platform I was desperately trying to understand the games plot. For most of the game I was having difficulty understanding just exactly what I was working towards, all I seemed to do was go from one area to the next looking for someone. Bits of Alice's past start to come up, like her realising she couldn't have been the one to start the fire since she wasn't there and neither was her cat and as the pieces fell into place everything started getting clearer.
From the start I despised the psychiatrist that "helps" Alice, I've been studying psychology for 2 and a half years and even people who don't can tell you repressing and forgetting a traumatic event is the worst possible thing you could ever do to cope. That sort of shit can even turn you blind. Imagine my delight when my hatred was completely justified.
I wasn't really surprised this basterd was the true enemy, what did surprise me was his actual plans and the symbolism of his Wonderland counterpart "The Dollmaker". The psychiatrist is a child rapist, easy enough to understand and gives me every reason to hate him, but he's also using his skills to essentially wipe away the memories of the children he "councils" and making them into child prostitutes, truly believing he's doing a service to the community. This is represented by the Dollmaker, a gigantic puppeteer who kidnaps the mad children in Wonderland and turns them into featureless dolls. Empty minded and just used for appearances. Sickening.
When Alice fights the Dollmaker in Wonderland while talking to the Psychiatrist about his plans, she's essentially struggling with her own mind to confront him. When she wins something interesting happens. Her real world self transforms into Wonderland Alice, and she appropiately pushes the basterd in front of a train, one of the most appropiate deaths I've ever seen (considering the Dollmaker was destroying Wonderland with the Infernal Train.) And then things get tragic. As she walks out, London has seemed to mix with Wonderland. Alice finally snapped. By saving Wonderland and avenging her family, she truly went insane and is stuck in Wonderland forever, mixing it with the real world so she can no longer tell the difference.
As you can imagine, I find this ending to be quite powerful and did enjoy the story once it started making sense. But what were your thoughts on the ending or the game in general? Did you have a different interpretation of the ending?
Right, well during the moments in the game where I'm not jumping from floating platform to floating platform I was desperately trying to understand the games plot. For most of the game I was having difficulty understanding just exactly what I was working towards, all I seemed to do was go from one area to the next looking for someone. Bits of Alice's past start to come up, like her realising she couldn't have been the one to start the fire since she wasn't there and neither was her cat and as the pieces fell into place everything started getting clearer.
From the start I despised the psychiatrist that "helps" Alice, I've been studying psychology for 2 and a half years and even people who don't can tell you repressing and forgetting a traumatic event is the worst possible thing you could ever do to cope. That sort of shit can even turn you blind. Imagine my delight when my hatred was completely justified.
I wasn't really surprised this basterd was the true enemy, what did surprise me was his actual plans and the symbolism of his Wonderland counterpart "The Dollmaker". The psychiatrist is a child rapist, easy enough to understand and gives me every reason to hate him, but he's also using his skills to essentially wipe away the memories of the children he "councils" and making them into child prostitutes, truly believing he's doing a service to the community. This is represented by the Dollmaker, a gigantic puppeteer who kidnaps the mad children in Wonderland and turns them into featureless dolls. Empty minded and just used for appearances. Sickening.
When Alice fights the Dollmaker in Wonderland while talking to the Psychiatrist about his plans, she's essentially struggling with her own mind to confront him. When she wins something interesting happens. Her real world self transforms into Wonderland Alice, and she appropiately pushes the basterd in front of a train, one of the most appropiate deaths I've ever seen (considering the Dollmaker was destroying Wonderland with the Infernal Train.) And then things get tragic. As she walks out, London has seemed to mix with Wonderland. Alice finally snapped. By saving Wonderland and avenging her family, she truly went insane and is stuck in Wonderland forever, mixing it with the real world so she can no longer tell the difference.
As you can imagine, I find this ending to be quite powerful and did enjoy the story once it started making sense. But what were your thoughts on the ending or the game in general? Did you have a different interpretation of the ending?
