This is a game fans of the character need to try, but I think most will be comfortable with a taste. I was also to the point where if I wasn't being paid to play the game, I would quit, which is a good place to stick a fork in it and explain my frustrations. I did not finish this game due to time constraints, but I did want to share my thoughts. This is a game that would have benefited greatly from being shorter and tighter the extra length doesn't add anything to the game but tedium. I found myself wishing the game would grow as I progressed, or at least give the action more than a new look in a new world. The problem is this rarely happens, and a stronger hand was needed to work on the pace of the levels. When the game clicks, and the story and setting and action all work together, it's a wonderful time. In some sections it seems like quality was controlled and kept high, only to come crashing down in the next segment of the game. The voices likewise alternate between magical and hard to sit through. While the art direction is superb, you'll often find muddy textures, characters lacking detail, or graphical glitches.

The graphical quality of the game is also problematic. When I was in the middle of a long quest in a world, only to meet a character who gave me another repetitive task featuring multiple steps before he would give me what I needed to finish the original quest, I wanted to throw the controller down in disgust. That should never be a feeling you get from a platformer. There were many sessions where I was just wishing for a section to end already so I could leave the game at a good point for the night. It's fun to explore each world for a bit, but then it seems to drag on and on as you continually do the same thing. It's these subtle subversions of expected gaming mechanics that makes the game so much fun for the first few hours. My personal favorite is the pepper grinder, which operates like a machine gun when Alice turns the crank. Each of the weapons can be upgraded by spending the teeth you collect by killing enemies and exploring the nooks and crannies of the levels. Alice will gain four weapons in the game, and you'll need to use them all in different ways to excel in combat and exploration.

The enemies are also well crafted, and require a series of different strategies to take down. At its best, this is game that looks like a painting, and the interstitial chapters that take place in a Dickensian London are appropriately dark and dreary, making Wonderland seem even more beautiful in comparison. You'll see wonderful patterns in the motion blur of your Vorpal blade. You block projectiles by spinning a parasol. When you dodge attacks you briefly break apart into a fluttering group of butterflies. The game adds many beautiful touches to the classical play.

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