alice madness returns pc controller support

In fact, that very concept seems to liter this game all around, perhaps intentionally, but that does not prevent the game from throwing singing fish made out of a bottle in the loop with the only justification being how it may or may not have been faithful to a book from the 1800s. Though needing to scan for the sound of a pig and find a floating nose that must be shot is borderline nonsense… actually, no, it is just plain old nonsense. Oh, but the collection impulse is merely a hindrance held by a few, and is ultimately kept optional.

That, and he apparently he forgot to give the items much a purpose aside from being audio logs or 16 pieces of hearts hidden behind challenge rooms.

Almost rapidly so as a matter of fact, as if the level designer of 2008’s Alone In The Dark didn’t quite understand what made for enjoyable object hunting. A move that is questionable when you realize that collectibles only really work in a game with more open areas, and preferably small ones at that, as the game’s environments are not only plentiful in quantity but they are less than hesitant to seal themselves off. Though before getting to either of those, there is the pressing matter of 252 collectibles that are oddly scattered throughout this linear adventure. It is merely one large level laid out with what I don’t view as much care, and merely a string of different platforming set pieces with some hack and slash battles littered about. In fact, if I were to be asked at nearly any point in the game where I was or what I was doing in this openly dark reinterpretation of a world I am unfamiliar with, I would respond with a shrug at best. From what I can gather Alice went insane after her house burned down about nine years ago and has revisited her own personal wonderland only to see a big train causing chaos and mutating this one happy place… Except for how it seemed to be screwed up in what little I played of the prior title, but whatever. Which is a very kind way of claiming that while I do believe there potentially is something very compelling to be found if you are well versed in the subject matter the game is based on and the prior title released a decade ago, I was less than impressed. The storyline towards Alice Madness Returns is one that I wish to give the benefit of the doubt. So how is its more modern sequel? Pretty bad.

Unfortunately, American Mcgee’s Alice was very much a PC game, so controlling it with a controller felt odd, and the gameplay was more daunting than it had any right to be. I have a small list of games that I feel I should have really played through this past generation, simply due to my own curiosity surrounding them, and if those games happen to be $5, then I haven’t any reason to pass them up, especially when they are technically two games.

Alice madness returns pc controller support