Description: Alice is Dead. In 2009, Mike Morin and his team released an unsettling little fairy-tale-gone-wrong that became a breakout success, and the sequel has finally arrived. It's time to warm up your point-and-click skills if you ever hope to solve this mystery. The game is played with the mouse, clicking on objects to pick them up or find out more about them. Unlike other point-and-click or escape titles, the cursor won't change if you can interact with an area. Fortunately, areas are small and well designed so that there's very little pixel hunting, if any. Most of them make an appropriately mad sort of sense if you apply Wonderland logic to it. If you get stuck, just stop and take a closer look at items in your vicinity... or a closer listen. Analysis: The good news is that the second episode in this strange series continues the high standards of quality the original set. Frankly, if this sequel is any indicator, the old adage holds true; good things come to those who wait. Morin's Wonderland is revealed in tiny bits and pieces gleaned from your surroundings, and feels like an early draft from Tim Burton as edited by Quentin Tarantino, who thankfully deemed Johnny Depp in pancake makeup too weird to make an appearance here. The series' signature creepy-cool music makes a comeback, and the voice work by Joshua Tomar is very well done.
