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The Missing Levels of American McGee's Alice

Fri Aug 21, 2009, 1:07 AM
I completed American McGee's Alice for the fourth time on 19 August 2009. Yes, on easy level. I've never been able to get past the mad hatter boss battle on medium. This time the missing levels, and some plot holes, were more obvious than ever. Three levels that are absolutely missing are Alice's return to the gnome village to use the key to release gnomes from those locks around their necks, a second red chess level in which the door to the area where the white queen lost her head opens after Alice kills the red king, and a level in between the opening cut scene of Burning Curiosity where Griffin tells Alice to recruit allies and the endless rock climbing and jumping of that level. There was supposed to be a level in which Alice actually recruits allies. Insane children? It would have been very cool in Battle Royale to see insane children throwing rocks at the card guards. I also think there was originally supposed to be a level in which Alice drinks the shrinking potion in front of the white rabbit's door in Dementia and has to fight her way through the tunnel that leads to what was probably originally intended to be Wonderland Woods. The Vale of Tears chapter looks like a late insert in between the Fortress of Doors chapter and the Wonderland Woods chapter. The level Mystifying Madness looks like it was cobbled together with leftover pieces of Majestic Maze and Labyrinthine Revenge. Waterlogged, my vote for worst level in the game, looks like space filler in which Airborne Terror was simply repeated with water pipes replacing the air geysers and snarks replacing the boojums. There are other mysteries, too. Anyone besides me notice the extreme paucity of cut scenes in the Queen of Hearts Land chapter? In the chess levels, the Cheshire Cat has no cut scenes. You must ask him to appear by pressing a key. Finally, in the Queen of Hearts boss battle, if the Queen of Hearts manages to grab hold of Alice via telekinesis, why does she not simply drop Alice into the black crevice in the floor? It is very obvious that the game was released unfinished. I've mentioned three sure missing levels and a probable fourth. I suspect that the game was originally intended to have fifty levels and perhaps ten chapters. I would gladly pay $50 for a remake with updated graphics and the missing levels filled in.

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:iconjiyone:
Cool to see someone using my alice's levels :meow:

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So... I see you REALLY like this game...

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