Size: 2443 x 3109 at 300 dpi Medium:Charcoal, inktense, water colour, glitter and gel pens Series: Alice in Wonderland Character:Mad-Hatter Actor: Yoshiyama Hiromi
“Alice didn’t even think about how she would return and jumped into the hole after the White Rabbit. She fell down and down. She was falling endlessly. She said in a loud voice, ‘How many miles have I fallen?’”
This was Lee Gon reading his favorite, Alice in Wonderland, to the kids in episode 1. We probably knew that Alice represents Lee Gon, especially after seeing him chase after Luna in the rabbit sweater. What actually makes this so good is that Luna’s sweater was black. Alice in Wonderland refers to a white rabbit, not black. And this perfectly shows how Jeong Tae Eul is the white rabbit, as she is the doppelgänger of Luna, but has a very different life and personality from her, hence the contrast in color. Jeong Tae Eul doesn’t have as dark of a life as does Luna, so she’s the White Rabbit. Also, the position at which Lee Gon places her ID in the Alice in Wonderland book is directly on top of where the white rabbit is. (KES what are you on lol)
Lee Gon crossed over to ROK to Jeong Tae Eul without paying much attention to how he would return. He fell endlessly, for her, and he watched as everything around him fell endlessly too - the worlds clashing, Buyeong dying, PM Koo getting involved, the time freezes, and everything that occurred as a result of imbalancing the two worlds. He truly questioned how far he has gone when he noticed everything going wrong around him. In his journey to Jeong Tae Eul, he realized how much he truly fell, and failed to protect the balance between the two worlds. He then questioned how far he had to go to fix it all, which was when he decided he had to save the flute instead of himself. I just think it’s incredible to see all the references, callbacks, and symbolism. There’s SO much of that in TKEM.
Would you believe the text boxes half more colour than the pictures?
Alice in Wonderland, 2000
This is my favorite adaptation. Alice is a blonde, doesn’t have a knife and you can push buttons to make things happen.
I put more effort into this than I should. And I’m guessing the devs thought the same.
Who asked for this game?
Disney’s Alice (the good one) is a movie from 1951. This game came out 49 years later! 50 IN EUROPE!!
The stitchings you see above is all I played plus to the end of this level. This was all just an example piece before it was fleshed out into this.
This seems like a cash grab… It definitely is. But I don’t know. There’s a lot of effort put into this. It didn’t play too bad. And did you see the production values? These are pretty decent. And I guess the game’s pretty decent as well.
And my hunch seems to be correct. If Wikipedia is to be believed, this game has scores ranging from 7/10 to 9/10. I don’t believe the latter.
I am kinda fascinated by this game. I think I’ll revisit this game. And the movie as well. I don’t watch many movies, but Alice (1951) is my favorite movie I only watched once. Same with Detective Pikachu.
