

Not to mention, almost 80% of the game is platforming which eventually leads to an uneven pacing in the whole entire game. Platforming also plays a huge part of the game. While enemies are very interesting, from black sludge-like dolls to the wicked magic lamp, its all too interesting. Upgrading weapons are also included however it isn't very proficient and feels under utilized, you collect Teeth as your currency and spend them to upgrade weapons in Level 1 to Level 2, it doesn't change anything but the appearance and effectiveness and it feels that it could been expanded or better. The only boss battle you'll encounter is at the end game and its pretty lame. To add another boredom to the gameplay, there's no boss stages or whatsoever, so if your expecting challenge, then don't. This simplistic combat design could bore you easily. To sum it up, combat is boring, mindless and easy.

There is also an evade and block options in combat. To move to the paced of combat, you'll be pressing a single button when equipped with melee weapon again and again until the enemy is dead, there are no combos to be done with sequential form or whatsoever, range weapons can be turned to 3rd person shooter to auto aiming and will over heat when fired too much. Combat has an interesting way to show wicked variations of weaponry, as for your example, the Hobby Horse is a simple heavy weapon that is artistically touched with creativity. Overall gameplay however is a very different thing, it is consists of combat and platforming. Wonderland is definitely wide and really fun to explore with plenty of secret areas to see and unlock. That, however goes to the artistic view, the game sometimes suffer technical deficiencies and may feel poorly polish along the way. Same goes to the characters' artistic views, making Alice beautiful as ever and her adversary twisted and interesting. As you'd expected, you'll spend most of your time in the fiendish version Wonderland, the concept was very interesting and I really love the way how the developers put Wonderland in a gruesome way, the scenery is beautiful and awesome. Interesting art design but overall gameplay keeps this game failed from qualifying as a fun game.Īlice: Madness Returns introduces plenty of crazy stuffs and presents a new alternative way of retelling Alice in Wonderland.
