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pluralstories"You've gone quite mangy, cat, but your grin's a comfort..."
Blurb: After a house fire kills her family and gets her shipped to an asylum, the emotionally traumatized Alice makes a mental retreat to Wonderland, which has been disfigured by her injured psyche. She has to hack and slash her way back to reality.
Why is it worth your time? It's fun to play. If you're into the Hot Topic, Tim Burton aesthetic, and find smashing through a violent headspace cathartic, this game is for you, though the controls are a bit clunky by nowadays standards. (We admit, we have been unable to finish it.) Also the soundtrack is fantastic.
Plural Tags: non-switching, headspace galore
Content Warnings: In comments below; contains spoilers.
Accessibility Notes: game has both audio dialogue and subtitles, and a Let's Play is available. (Note: if I link a Let's Play, it's to a completionist version with an unobtrusive, leisurely player who focuses on the game.) Despite this game's age, you can still get it in a good few ways--used original copies for PC are still pretty easy to find, and the sequel comes with a copy and is available for PC, Playstation3, and... er, whichever Xbox was in use at that time. www.myabandonware.com also seems to have put the game up for free, though we cannot vouch for the quality of that, and the comments show that it has glitches and bugs.
Blurb: After a house fire kills her family and gets her shipped to an asylum, the emotionally traumatized Alice makes a mental retreat to Wonderland, which has been disfigured by her injured psyche. She has to hack and slash her way back to reality.
Why is it worth your time? It's fun to play. If you're into the Hot Topic, Tim Burton aesthetic, and find smashing through a violent headspace cathartic, this game is for you, though the controls are a bit clunky by nowadays standards. (We admit, we have been unable to finish it.) Also the soundtrack is fantastic.
Plural Tags: non-switching, headspace galore
Content Warnings: In comments below; contains spoilers.
Accessibility Notes: game has both audio dialogue and subtitles, and a Let's Play is available. (Note: if I link a Let's Play, it's to a completionist version with an unobtrusive, leisurely player who focuses on the game.) Despite this game's age, you can still get it in a good few ways--used original copies for PC are still pretty easy to find, and the sequel comes with a copy and is available for PC, Playstation3, and... er, whichever Xbox was in use at that time. www.myabandonware.com also seems to have put the game up for free, though we cannot vouch for the quality of that, and the comments show that it has glitches and bugs.
