"And how do You know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well then," the cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." (I know this comment was made 7 years ago but I absolutely love that part in the book.)
I can't possibly be the only one that had to stop playing and just stare in awe at the screen when they hit the card castles in the sky segment. For some reason, that was just so beautiful to me...Probably my favorite moment in the game.
I love the Queensland chapter so much! The level design and the music..oh god. I loved the part after the slide when the cutscene started and the music started to play...so.epic.
the doll house didn't freak me out as much, what freaked me out more was the under water level, especially the ending cinematic with the walrus eating the clams alive
Queens Land is my favourite level in the game. I love the level desing and the creepyness of the once so beautifull castle which is now in ruins after Alice killed the Queen and after the Infernal Trains attack.
The Red Queen has uh..... A Unique preference for interior design, you can at least appreciate her ascetic approach for a Fleshy, Boney, Eye-uh-Having, Organicly Red feel...
@@evanallaire2829 and I think it was all because she started to realize Lizzie was raped in real life.. That's the reason why she was hallucinating and fantasizing this Queensland level.
This track is so beautifully weird and wonderful, just like all the Alice music. Long ago I downloaded the soundtrack of the first game and I used to fall asleep to it every night! I have probably never heard more creative, unique and evocative music ANYwhere. This Queensland track comes closest to replicating the beautiful dissonant surreality/serenity of the first games music. As a whole, the second games soundtrack was somehow a different animal from the first and yet it all fit beautifully into the series as well! I really loved both games and their music and my life's been enriched by both. Maybe that sounds weird but damnit, you just don't find such weird, imaginative beauty (visual or aural) every day.
American Mcgee is a genius in these games. Now with Alice asylum being made, I heard the new one will be more messed up than madness returns. I think other classic fairytales like cinderella, or snow white should get a dark game adaptation like this one. It gives me the classic grimm brothers tales vibe to it.
How about a series that covers the events from all the games? From the fire, to the Asylum, to Bumby, all the way to Londerland, and perhaps further if McGee joins in.
This music begs you to just stand around and take in the scenery, I think Queensland was everyones favorite chapter by far. It also got the most screen time during demonstrations I think, no wonder.
Every SINGLE part of this game is gorgeous! music, backgrounds, quotes, characters, story. American McGee is a genious! I really want to see Alice:Otherlands
Too bad EA cancelled any funding for future games because it didn't follow their bullshit money quotas, and the main development studio Spicy Horse shut down not long after! At least American McGee and some other people are working on a prequel to this game and possibly even the first game, the project is named Alice: Asylum, and is supposedly gonna be about her time in Rutledge Asylum. Personally, that sounds awesome. Remember that it was during Alice's time in the Asylum that I'm pretty sure Wonderland was initially created. I'm pretty sure you can even see that in the first game...
Behold my dear Alice, the ruins of a beautiful Kingdom. A Kingdom from once astonishing size. That faded away slowly, in the mind of a ignorant child...
So the entire first part of the game was just 'ok' to you? You played alllll the first part of the game, and THEN you reach Queensland at the very end and thinks its good and interesting?
Nobody likes the prologue in a video game... and that's not what came out of my mouth. I would appreciate if you don't add words that I didn't say. And the first 3 chapters weren't AS INTERESTING as the the 4th a.k.a. QueensLand. That's what I was saying.
+Darkest Abstract I have to agree, the Veil of Tears was a nice intro, but the Hatter's domain was rather bland, the Deluded Depths were nice until the kelp forests, and the constant Shadow Scroll use was not fun at all.
+Darkest Abstract I agree.The QueensLand is definitely awesome and also the part where we play Alice in the Asylum,I think that was my top fave.I wish they didnt make some levels so long in the same area and they should have made many different levels in other settings,just to switch it up some,this is an amazing game though,I just would have liked a change of atmosphere more often in it.
I personally loved the whole game EXCEPT that weird Asian-oragami-china vase part. That part just didn't click with me and felt grueling. Everything else was stunning. However, the card castles in the sky was the most stunning of all. When I hit that part I had to stop playing and just stare at my screen in awe. Everything was so perfect.
Perhaps give it time. 'Sanity' is something that the world is running out of, and it's been said before that people react violently to what they don't understand. But returning misunderstanding with bitterness gets no one anywhere. Share what you see with an honest and creative passion, show the world your Wonderland, instead of cursing them for not being 'You'.
This track really makes you feel like Alice decimated it the last time she was there, like finding the corpse of a monster killed long ago which I guess is pretty accurate to what the queen once was.
This chapter is quite macabre. And if the person is too sensitive, they may even feel uncomfortable with the bizarre scenario. And the chapter's theme song helps immerse the place.
@@evanallaire2829, well, yes and no. Yes because the Red Queen is conjured from Alice's memories of Lizzie before the fire, kinda like how the Dollmaker is supposed to be Bumby, but no in the sense of the real world because Wonderland is all in Alice's head...
Can't even explain how much this game/soundtrack/story means to me. When I'm super depressed I find so much solace in listening to the soundtrack and always manage to find my way back to wonderland. A welcome reprieve.
I remembered playing that part of the game really late in the night and being a bit stressful because that music and that big butcher around, great moment of videogaming
I just could not understand how they made a game that revolves around a character of a pleasant children's story bring out the the worst forms of social cancers to light. Amazing game. Been in touch with this game for exactly a decade. Seriously a masterpiece.
Listening to this track and seeing the destruction around Alice and then hearing that voice whispering 'Stay away!' I got goosebumps. Let's say I wanted to, but the story had to proceed...
I love all tracks from Alice: Madness Returns, but Queensland is incredible... Like an old broken music box. As creepy as beautiful. As perfect as insane.
Nikola Elitsov PewDiePie? That's ALWAYS been part of him, it's not his fault you just noticed. I say this as someone who has watched his old and new videos back to back. Besides, you KNOW you'd do the same thing if it got you more money. Stop bitching about something you'd without a doubt do too.
For a true gamer, games are art. Is a art that you can play with and even manipulate it. Is the ability to live IN this piece of art, is like a second life. When you're tired of this stupid reality, play you're favorite game, and find yourself in a world were everything is possible. Alice: Madness Returns is so far one of the best games I ever saw, especially for its story. It's dark, yet beautiful. Innocent, yet insane...
@dragonchic01 Especially the part towards the end where you enter where the Queen has been hiding, with all the muscle and organs. That's my favorite part ;)
It's been awhile since I listened to this and it gave me goosebumps, such a powerful track.. Loved the game too I remember it actually had decent use of PhysX (rip).
Chapter 4 is a very well done chapter. The atmosphere is so scary its so cool to explore. Like something is wrong with the place. I love this game so much. I felt a strong connection.
Very true good sir or miss. In fact, without the madness that resides in us all, we would all be the same. The same boring, idealess, personality deprived husk. Thus, with insanity comes good, it's just when you let the insanity take you over that it destroys.
Finally, someone who knows of respect! :) I totallty agree with you but my point was: what do we know on that person from only a comment? That's what I tried explaining.
Actually, I like the melody. I think it can be very relaxing, granted that depends on what you associate the music with. Though I can see Vale of Tears or Card Castles in the Sky being a bit more soothing for others perhaps? I'd think something like Jade might be more unnerving than this? Then again, maybe it's just me. Though I don't find that scary either. Actually, nothing in the soundtrack is unsettling for me, it's just all soothing really. Ehh, everyone perceives it differently. -shrugs-
Ahh...anything creepy just makes me think of perfect Ideas, and possibly manipulate someone, I personally like manipulating someone and I can tell by everybody's perspectives is that we are all insane, oh yes...yes indeed, though some people just don't seem to observe it, most of us want to shroud the fact that they are perfect than our dear Alice, oh how wrong you are, you are consumed in your own self ego and disguised reflections, I'd say you aren't using your madness right.
This game deserves a proper remake. It needs to be shown as the game it would have been had EA not completely rushed the developers at Spicy Horse. So much good stuff was completely left out of the final product due to that rushing, including additional weapons like a flaming whip. This game badly needs a remake, especially in the gameplay department, but it needs to be handled with CARE.
As someone who only played Madness Returns with only some minor knowledge on what happened in this first game this chapter was fucking amazing to play through, not knowing exactly what went down before and seeing everything literately in ruins with barely any signs of life really made me question what the actual fuck Alice done for it to become like this and fear of how further unhinged she really is. Wasn't scared of what i'd find in the chapter, but of the character i was playing as
Same in my case, except I never even knew the first game existed until after I finished Madness Returns; As in AFTER I beat the Dollmaker boss fight. The second I saw Queensland, I was asking myself "Jesus. What screwed up shit is this?" Then heading to the castle proper, I was shocked to see it in utter ruins; There was even the remains of a Looking Glass Railway terminal on one of the rocky pillars formed from such a desolate place. Naturally, this made me question what the hell Alice had done to leave it in ruin, ESPECIALLY after the Cheshire Cat's dialogue.
Sadness is coming, near me, engulf me Darkness smiles upon me Tears coming down from my pale cheeks Yet I want to repeat this song again again and again so dangerous so lost so wild shivers claw upon me goosebumps stop my heart yet i still want to hear more and more. AM I INSANE? AM I IN WONDER LAND? NO i am in hell... the hell of Queenland...the nightmare i can sense death is near by watching every step i do shivers yet come again Tears..coming yet again... be ready to enter my wonderland...
Wow even though I haven’t played the game before this music sounds intensively spooky compared to the other horror music I heard before this one strikes me because it’s like your in this part of the area where the true horrors begin I like it
I'm assuming you are referring to the Queen of Hearts saying "off with her head" and trying to make you leave her domain with threats and gibber jabber. I wouldn't consider them whispers personally but yes, Queensland is where you hear them =)
The atmosphere of this game is so fascinating! Good mystical horror is rare to find, and this game is one-of-a-kind treasure in that sense because nothing else made me enjoy and love the darkness so much! The only level that's truly uncomfortable for me in this game is a dollhouse (both atmosphere and music feels incredibly depressing and uncomfortable, and i think the reason is the dissonance because dolls and dollhouses for me associates with happy moments of my childhood), and knowing what is it supposed to symbolize, i'm pretty sure it was done on purpose.
When it ended, I sighed and said to myslef "It's over?" Then I remebered there was a replay. Wow. That had to have made me zone off, I always remember the replay button. . .
The Queen of Hearts in this game looks so much better than the one in the actual movie. When I think of someone who is considered to be a queen or king I expect to take them a little more seriously. But it's hard to take the original Queen of Hearts because of how silly her design looks. Now this Queen of Hearts I can take seriously and I honestly wish she was in the game more. I just love her gothic design and how she doesn't even look like an adult. She looks like an evil and demented child. Not to mention that her entire castle is literally made of actual blood, flesh and organs. The entrance of her thrown room are a giant pair of actual teeth and the walk way to her throne is the tongue of the mouth. This is what Alice in Wonderland should've been a long time ago. I mean Alice in Wonderland's story already sounds like a damn horror story anyways.
Missing the forest for the trees; Nothing wrong with going for a more goofy tone, but there's also nothing inherently good about going full darkness. (Which is funny to me because this game has plenty of goofy moments. For example, in Chapter 1 on the way to Hatter's Domain in the cable car, Alice and the Cheshire Cat start bickering like a married couple and it only gets even funnier when the Bolterflies show up to try and knock the cable car into the abyss only to result in the car crashing If that was meant to be serious, it failed because the constant arguing and sarcastic comebacks only makes the sequence diluted of almost any fear and replaces it with goofiness.) It's all subjective at the end of the day, regardless.
no matter where i go in life, i can always hear this music, people stop and stare at me because i'm different. to them, this is the real world, where everything is normal and sane. but i see wonderland. and thts all i've seen for a very long time. maybe those people who stare at me in school and town should try see the world through my eyes. then they'd understand why i'm like this.....
The Queensland theme is permenantly stuck in my head Also am I the only one who noticed that the Queensland theme and the Londerland theme sound very similar?
Alice: How do you know I'm mad?
Cheshire Cat: You must be, or you wouldn't have come here.
That is true.
"And how do You know that you're mad?"
"To begin with," said the cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?"
"I suppose so," said Alice.
"Well then," the cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."
(I know this comment was made 7 years ago but I absolutely love that part in the book.)
I can't possibly be the only one that had to stop playing and just stare in awe at the screen when they hit the card castles in the sky segment. For some reason, that was just so beautiful to me...Probably my favorite moment in the game.
I love the Queensland chapter so much! The level design and the music..oh god. I loved the part after the slide when the cutscene started and the music started to play...so.epic.
Lol
And that fucking dress!
So true! Every single time I repeat that chapter I get chills!
There is NO method in this madness!
Authority must be obeyed, or it must be overthrown!
My fave dialogue from queensland 😍😍😍
You shouldn't ask questions you know the answer, it's not polite!
Arrogance. Tyranny... Negativity.. loss... Agony ... heartbroken, heaviness of the heart all in this one single soundtrack
You either Live in Order or Live in Chaos, Stability was never an option.
And I thought this place was freaky.
Then the game showed me the Dollhouse.
Hnngh.
the doll house didn't freak me out as much, what freaked me out more was the under water level, especially the ending cinematic with the walrus eating the clams alive
@@thehatter9400 i love that part it's gruesomely(?) awesome
Doll house is the worsts and let’s now even talk about that giant doll and the bitch baby
Lkr
Ikr
Queens Land is my favourite level in the game. I love the level desing and the creepyness of the once so beautifull castle which is now in ruins after Alice killed the Queen and after the Infernal Trains attack.
This has to be the best song in the game
It’s like the dollhouse one
No vale of tears is good too.
This was my favourite
Dollhouses, queensland, card castles in the sky and vale of tears are the best songs change my mind
This is the "taking in the aftermath" music. Like after somewhere you loved was destroyed and all that's left is rubble and ruins.
Well that's what happened to Alice's family
The afterglow of an incident. Madness and destruction.
There's something about *this* theme specifically that gets all the way into my bones and gives me the most insane chills down my spine.
Those organic rooms made of pulsating flesh, bones and eyes...
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The Red Queen has uh..... A Unique preference for interior design, you can at least appreciate her ascetic approach for a Fleshy, Boney, Eye-uh-Having, Organicly Red feel...
Gives me Saya no Uta vibes to this.
Fucking disgusting
@@evanallaire2829 and I think it was all because she started to realize Lizzie was raped in real life.. That's the reason why she was hallucinating and fantasizing this Queensland level.
This track is so beautifully weird and wonderful, just like all the Alice music. Long ago I downloaded the soundtrack of the first game and I used to fall asleep to it every night! I have probably never heard more creative, unique and evocative music ANYwhere. This Queensland track comes closest to replicating the beautiful dissonant surreality/serenity of the first games music. As a whole, the second games soundtrack was somehow a different animal from the first and yet it all fit beautifully into the series as well! I really loved both games and their music and my life's been enriched by both. Maybe that sounds weird but damnit, you just don't find such weird, imaginative beauty (visual or aural) every day.
American Mcgee is a genius in these games. Now with Alice asylum being made, I heard the new one will be more messed up than madness returns. I think other classic fairytales like cinderella, or snow white should get a dark game adaptation like this one. It gives me the classic grimm brothers tales vibe to it.
Bad news: Alice: Asylum got cancelled. :(
Until EA killed the entire Alice series. Like they do with every good title.
Yes bc making them dark makes so much sense to me
They should make a horror movie based on this game
I would watch the heck out of that
Hidetaki Miyazaki (yes the guy from the Soul series) should make a game based on this.
I prefer having another sequel, Asylum is currently being developed :>
Tim Burton + McGee partnership? Would be pogs!
How about a series that covers the events from all the games?
From the fire, to the Asylum, to Bumby, all the way to Londerland, and perhaps further if McGee joins in.
This music begs you to just stand around and take in the scenery, I think Queensland was everyones favorite chapter by far. It also got the most screen time during demonstrations I think, no wonder.
“Back to admired your handy work? Returning to the scene of the crime?”
Every SINGLE part of this game is gorgeous! music, backgrounds, quotes, characters, story.
American McGee is a genious! I really want to see Alice:Otherlands
Too bad EA cancelled any funding for future games because it didn't follow their bullshit money quotas, and the main development studio Spicy Horse shut down not long after! At least American McGee and some other people are working on a prequel to this game and possibly even the first game, the project is named Alice: Asylum, and is supposedly gonna be about her time in Rutledge Asylum. Personally, that sounds awesome. Remember that it was during Alice's time in the Asylum that I'm pretty sure Wonderland was initially created. I'm pretty sure you can even see that in the first game...
Behold my dear Alice, the ruins of a beautiful Kingdom. A Kingdom from once astonishing size. That faded away slowly, in the mind of a ignorant child...
11 years ago and my mind set this BGM was the scariest
I wasn't sure of this game at first but when I made it to QueensLand I was like "okay, this is getting interesting" Lol
So the entire first part of the game was just 'ok' to you? You played alllll the first part of the game, and THEN you reach Queensland at the very end and thinks its good and interesting?
Nobody likes the prologue in a video game... and that's not what came out of my mouth. I would appreciate if you don't add words that I didn't say. And the first 3 chapters weren't AS INTERESTING as the the 4th a.k.a. QueensLand. That's what I was saying.
+Darkest Abstract I have to agree, the Veil of Tears was a nice intro, but the Hatter's domain was rather bland, the Deluded Depths were nice until the kelp forests, and the constant Shadow Scroll use was not fun at all.
+Darkest Abstract I agree.The QueensLand is definitely awesome and also the part where we play Alice in the Asylum,I think that was my top fave.I wish they didnt make some levels so long in the same area and they should have made many different levels in other settings,just to switch it up some,this is an amazing game though,I just would have liked a change of atmosphere more often in it.
I personally loved the whole game EXCEPT that weird Asian-oragami-china vase part. That part just didn't click with me and felt grueling. Everything else was stunning.
However, the card castles in the sky was the most stunning of all. When I hit that part I had to stop playing and just stare at my screen in awe. Everything was so perfect.
My favourite track of the soundtrack, besides Jack Splatter cause that one is very chilling.
Perhaps give it time. 'Sanity' is something that the world is running out of, and it's been said before that people react violently to what they don't understand. But returning misunderstanding with bitterness gets no one anywhere. Share what you see with an honest and creative passion, show the world your Wonderland, instead of cursing them for not being 'You'.
This track really makes you feel like Alice decimated it the last time she was there, like finding the corpse of a monster killed long ago which I guess is pretty accurate to what the queen once was.
I don't know why i start crying soo much when i hear this song
feels like despair is coming to haunt me down
CAN'T STOP CRYING
Me too. I don't know this melody is nostalgic or maybe sad
"What you claim not to know is merely what you've denied. Authority must be obeyed, or it must be overthrown!"
I used to put this ambiant music in every days of my life!
How mysterious!! It just makes you feel the evil of the place.. What a talented composer!! ❤️
This chapter is quite macabre. And if the person is too sensitive, they may even feel uncomfortable with the bizarre scenario. And the chapter's theme song helps immerse the place.
poor lizzie:(
PASTEL__GHOST yeah, poor Lizzie .
So is the Red Queen Lizzie
@@evanallaire2829, well, yes and no. Yes because the Red Queen is conjured from Alice's memories of Lizzie before the fire, kinda like how the Dollmaker is supposed to be Bumby, but no in the sense of the real world because Wonderland is all in Alice's head...
This Queensland level was based off lizzie's incidents btw.
@@evanallaire2829 nooooo. That's a younger Alice.
Can't even explain how much this game/soundtrack/story means to me. When I'm super depressed I find so much solace in listening to the soundtrack and always manage to find my way back to wonderland. A welcome reprieve.
“Now cut me loose I’ll show you the true meaning of sacrifice..”
I remembered playing that part of the game really late in the night and being a bit stressful because that music and that big butcher around, great moment of videogaming
Ooooh friggin Executioner at every corner!!! Eating the cake afterwards was the most satisfying cutscene for me!
I just could not understand how they made a game that revolves around a character of a pleasant children's story bring out the the worst forms of social cancers to light. Amazing game. Been in touch with this game for exactly a decade. Seriously a masterpiece.
such an amazing chapter. kept only the music volume on all through queensland
Listening to this track and seeing the destruction around Alice and then hearing that voice whispering 'Stay away!' I got goosebumps. Let's say I wanted to, but the story had to proceed...
I love all tracks from Alice: Madness Returns, but Queensland is incredible... Like an old broken music box. As creepy as beautiful. As perfect as insane.
I could listen to this song all day and all night,its beyond haunting and so relaxing
I wish Cry would play this game.
I wish my lord and savior pewdiepie would finish it to bad he said he never will
Nikola Elitsov you just gatta get used to it doesn't matta how he acts I'm with him all the way supporting him unless he does something extreme
Nikola Elitsov PewDiePie? That's ALWAYS been part of him, it's not his fault you just noticed. I say this as someone who has watched his old and new videos back to back.
Besides, you KNOW you'd do the same thing if it got you more money. Stop bitching about something you'd without a doubt do too.
Slender Man or murder but you really need a therapist if that's the first thing that popped in your head
For a true gamer, games are art. Is a art that you can play with and even manipulate it. Is the ability to live IN this piece of art, is like a second life. When you're tired of this stupid reality, play you're favorite game, and find yourself in a world were everything is possible.
Alice: Madness Returns is so far one of the best games I ever saw, especially for its story. It's dark, yet beautiful. Innocent, yet insane...
@dragonchic01 Especially the part towards the end where you enter where the Queen has been hiding, with all the muscle and organs. That's my favorite part ;)
I don't know why but,i love this song.eh,it's so sad and I love that
"So you've returned to the scene of the crime, come to admire your handiwork?"
It's been awhile since I listened to this and it gave me goosebumps, such a powerful track.. Loved the game too I remember it actually had decent use of PhysX (rip).
"It's had to be done, Cat..."
Boi
Arrogance. Tyranny... Negativity.. loss... Agony ... heartbroken, heaviness of the heart all in this one single soundtrack
Chapter 4 is a very well done chapter. The atmosphere is so scary its so cool to explore.
Like something is wrong with the place.
I love this game so much. I felt a strong connection.
American Mcgee said he wants to buy the rights so that he can continue to make more
Very true good sir or miss. In fact, without the madness that resides in us all, we would all be the same. The same boring, idealess, personality deprived husk. Thus, with insanity comes good, it's just when you let the insanity take you over that it destroys.
Okay but like, can we just talk about how scary the executioner was? It was so satisfying when he finally died towards the end of the chapter
Finally, someone who knows of respect! :) I totallty agree with you but my point was: what do we know on that person from only a comment? That's what I tried explaining.
Actually, I like the melody. I think it can be very relaxing, granted that depends on what you associate the music with. Though I can see Vale of Tears or Card Castles in the Sky being a bit more soothing for others perhaps? I'd think something like Jade might be more unnerving than this? Then again, maybe it's just me. Though I don't find that scary either. Actually, nothing in the soundtrack is unsettling for me, it's just all soothing really. Ehh, everyone perceives it differently. -shrugs-
This game was super good but really fucked up at the same time..lol.
+steven6666600000 just like everyone's brains, right?
And it was supposed to be fucked up lol.
i love this kind of music, i always hear this music in my mind because i think i have gone mad too
It's too hard to choose a favourite
Play this and listen to the quotes from the Chesire Cat. Glorious!
Ahh...anything creepy just makes me think of perfect Ideas, and possibly manipulate someone, I personally like manipulating someone and I can tell by everybody's perspectives is that we are all insane, oh yes...yes indeed, though some people just don't seem to observe it, most of us want to shroud the fact that they are perfect than our dear Alice, oh how wrong you are, you are consumed in your own self ego and disguised reflections, I'd say you aren't using your madness right.
This is the best track in the game, it just makes you feel alone in the world, like Alice.
This sounds almost like a deeper, more melancholy version of Card Castles in the sky
thanks for all those track man holy shit you're awesome
one of my favorite tracks. the more i listen to it the more i *feel* it, feel me?
My favorite song of the entire game, i also extend some songs and i can say you did an excelent work here thanks :D
For some reason this makes like Chessie and Alice even more. I am a bit jealous of his voice. I can sort of imitate it but it takes a lot of effort.
But also....there's meaning in the heartbreak...there's silence, but there's peace ..in that heartbreak DAMNNN
Wish this game would be in Xbox one backwards compatibility .
Ben Crawley Agreed.
Ben Crawley It's available for Xbox One now.
Ben Crawley have another look ;)
This game deserves a proper remake. It needs to be shown as the game it would have been had EA not completely rushed the developers at Spicy Horse. So much good stuff was completely left out of the final product due to that rushing, including additional weapons like a flaming whip. This game badly needs a remake, especially in the gameplay department, but it needs to be handled with CARE.
As someone who only played Madness Returns with only some minor knowledge on what happened in this first game this chapter was fucking amazing to play through, not knowing exactly what went down before and seeing everything literately in ruins with barely any signs of life really made me question what the actual fuck Alice done for it to become like this and fear of how further unhinged she really is. Wasn't scared of what i'd find in the chapter, but of the character i was playing as
Same in my case, except I never even knew the first game existed until after I finished Madness Returns; As in AFTER I beat the Dollmaker boss fight. The second I saw Queensland, I was asking myself "Jesus. What screwed up shit is this?" Then heading to the castle proper, I was shocked to see it in utter ruins; There was even the remains of a Looking Glass Railway terminal on one of the rocky pillars formed from such a desolate place. Naturally, this made me question what the hell Alice had done to leave it in ruin, ESPECIALLY after the Cheshire Cat's dialogue.
this chapter and the dollhouse there beautiful i love iiiiit
Red queen
Deep down, we are all at least a little mad!
Sadness is coming, near me, engulf me
Darkness smiles upon me
Tears coming down from my pale cheeks
Yet I want to repeat this song again again and again
so dangerous
so lost
so wild
shivers claw upon me
goosebumps stop my heart
yet i still want to hear more and more.
AM I INSANE?
AM I IN WONDER LAND?
NO i am in hell... the hell of Queenland...the nightmare
i can sense death is near by
watching every step i do
shivers yet come again
Tears..coming yet again...
be ready to enter my wonderland...
try walking around Queensland wearing the fleshmaiden's dress.
perfect combo. in my opinion.
Yes it surely is, no doubt.
Let alone, the Knightmare weapon.
Wow even though I haven’t played the game before this music sounds intensively spooky compared to the other horror music I heard before this one strikes me because it’s like your in this part of the area where the true horrors begin I like it
"The Red Kingdom's in ruin but you're no better off."
I'm assuming you are referring to the Queen of Hearts saying "off with her head" and trying to make you leave her domain with threats and gibber jabber. I wouldn't consider them whispers personally but yes, Queensland is where you hear them =)
The atmosphere of this game is so fascinating! Good mystical horror is rare to find, and this game is one-of-a-kind treasure in that sense because nothing else made me enjoy and love the darkness so much! The only level that's truly uncomfortable for me in this game is a dollhouse (both atmosphere and music feels incredibly depressing and uncomfortable, and i think the reason is the dissonance because dolls and dollhouses for me associates with happy moments of my childhood), and knowing what is it supposed to symbolize, i'm pretty sure it was done on purpose.
Sounds like a hidden malevolence, suppressed desire of revenge. Malice seeping drop by drop through the walls of mind.
When it ended, I sighed and said to myslef "It's over?"
Then I remebered there was a replay.
Wow. That had to have made me zone off, I always remember the replay button. . .
Thanks very much, best 3 minutes I spent all day :)
Very cool.
Such a haunting tune!
The Queen of Hearts in this game looks so much better than the one in the actual movie. When I think of someone who is considered to be a queen or king I expect to take them a little more seriously. But it's hard to take the original Queen of Hearts because of how silly her design looks. Now this Queen of Hearts I can take seriously and I honestly wish she was in the game more. I just love her gothic design and how she doesn't even look like an adult. She looks like an evil and demented child. Not to mention that her entire castle is literally made of actual blood, flesh and organs. The entrance of her thrown room are a giant pair of actual teeth and the walk way to her throne is the tongue of the mouth. This is what Alice in Wonderland should've been a long time ago. I mean Alice in Wonderland's story already sounds like a damn horror story anyways.
Missing the forest for the trees; Nothing wrong with going for a more goofy tone, but there's also nothing inherently good about going full darkness. (Which is funny to me because this game has plenty of goofy moments. For example, in Chapter 1 on the way to Hatter's Domain in the cable car, Alice and the Cheshire Cat start bickering like a married couple and it only gets even funnier when the Bolterflies show up to try and knock the cable car into the abyss only to result in the car crashing If that was meant to be serious, it failed because the constant arguing and sarcastic comebacks only makes the sequence diluted of almost any fear and replaces it with goofiness.) It's all subjective at the end of the day, regardless.
That was the best description i've ever heard. Congratulations to you *claps* :)
Thanks! I love this game :] Just the whole wonderland theme in general is legit!
no matter where i go in life, i can always hear this music, people stop and stare at me because i'm different. to them, this is the real world, where everything is normal and sane. but i see wonderland. and thts all i've seen for a very long time. maybe those people who stare at me in school and town should try see the world through my eyes. then they'd understand why i'm like this.....
Oh, good. Hopefully they'll give the rights to him.
thank you for your compliment :) It makes me happy :)
Chapter 4 is an interesting chapter. But what haunts to this day is the executioner. He appears in my dreams trying to execute me...
I love how foreboding and desolate this sounds.
Which fits the level...
I can either see Cry or Brad playing this game, but mostly Cry because he'd get really into to it.
This game is amazingly unique (each level is a different theme) and so fucked up but its so cool!!!
I hope you realise that Alice is not real,but this person is.
Damn creepy music, damn creepy level. Loved it.
The series as a whole is very dark and creepy, yet it contains so much whimsical shit and colorful stuff that contrasts heavily with the darkness...
I just played it now hitting 2021 with it
This song is the best👏👍
I love your profile thumbnail! How'd you make that?
The Queensland theme is permenantly stuck in my head
Also am I the only one who noticed that the Queensland theme and the Londerland theme sound very similar?
This make me feel the most sad and maniac feelings
holy cow i inly just relised i listend to the whole video zomg hypnotic music
I didn't know that. I have the PS3 version, and I thought it was made for both at the same time.
Because its magical x3
nice , finally someone
this is really great