Alicemare es un "rpg" pero realmente en lo que se centra este juego es en la historia y en sus personajes. La historia es interesante ya que trata temas como los temores y traumas de los personajes, a su vez cada personaje toma inspiración en cuentos clásicos como lo son Caperusita Roja o Pedro y el Lobo. Es de esas obras tipo Evangelion que dan mensajes profundos que sabes que son importantes pero que cuesta entenderlos y tienes que leer entre lineas y sacar tus conclusiones para entenderlo.

No es un juego del otro mundo ya que hay varias cosas que deja de desear, pero lo recomiendo para pasar una tarde aburrida, puesto que su duración es bastante corta, incluso sacando todos los finales.

waste of time.
art, music, aesthetic is on point but the story isn't interesting at all nor did i feel anything other than frustration playing the game (due to the dumbass riddles). i didn't grow any attachments to any of the characters and i have trouble even remembering each of their names. the moments that were supposed to be emotional left me feeling nothing. the game was too short and offered too little while expecting me to shed tears at the tale it was telling.
A+ presentation, D- everything else. not even the tetris minigame was even good (how do you mess up tetris?)

Firstly, before getting to the review proper, this is the section where I want to comment on Miwashiba's extremely odd obsession with wanting people to play their kinda shitty version of Tetris they made. As I explained in my 1bitHeart review, that game forced playing either Tetris or Puyo Puyo on you if you didn't just max out your currency automatically. This one has the perhaps even weirder presence, with a NPC in every single area whose sole purpose is to ask "Wanna play The NuTetris?" and takes you to the... exact same version of Tetris with no point to it besides an achievement I did not bother with. What is going on here.




Anywayyyyyyyyyyys, Alicemare is the final of the 3 completed game from Miwashiba, except it's the first one they released due to me playing their gameography in reverse order. With this being the first game, the art understandably lacks a lot of the style that added so much to 1bitHeart and LiEat. However, even without some fancy aesthetics coating it, the game still holds fairly good and unsettling vibes. Each world you enter feels like some twisted fairlytale you are picking at the wallpaper of to reveal its truth.

The game does feel a bit rough around the edges and unfocused in parts. The puzzles are largely fine, certainly not to the level of Ib's puzzles (which I still feel are the gold standard of the RPG Maker games I've played). Many of them are moreso riddles than puzzles, with a couple bafflingly obtuse. One in particular I had to look up in a guide, and I still do not have the faintest clue how I was supposed to arrive to the solution.

Thematically the game also feels a little muddled, with the first bit of the game suggesting literal transfixions of classic fairytale stories, such as Little Red Riding Hood, just for it to be dropped halfway through. Still, the game has a couple of nice little stories that wrap together well enough. While I was left rather confused after finishing my first playthrough of the game, my second playthrough where I cleaned up the rest of the endings, including what could best be considered the true ending, shed a lot of light on every little aspect of the game and provided a satisfying enough closure to everything. The game also does something clever with its use of XXXX (you will understand if you play the game) that I did not pick up until my second playthrough that added a lot for me.

If you were to play the game yourself (I'd recommend it), look at vgperson's guide so you can clean up every single other ending on your second playthrough. I appreciated how easy it was to see them all in quick succession, as opposed to how a game like Ib makes most of its endings fairly mutually exclusive. However this game almost necessitates seeing most/all of its endings to put together all of the puzzle pieces as opposed to Ib's much more straightforward story, so it makes enough sense.

I was nervous going into this game after my experience with 1BeatHeart. When Miwashiba has provided me experiences of both impactful highs and incredibly frustrating lows, a just something pretty good all around, I was worried to be left feeling they've made more misses than hits. But thankfully, Alicemare is another short but sweet experience! Despite its shortcomings, it was a nice little dip into an interesting world I wouldn't mind seeing more of but at the same time feeling content with what I got.

I will never get over the Tetris thing though serious what the hell is up with that.

Jogo cheio de referencias à Alice no País das Maravilhas, mas tendo seu próprio universo e uma história "obscura" com vários personagens que você interage e conhece mais de suas vidas trágicas. O jogo tem VÁRIOS finais e a maioria deles não explica nada, você precisa ser bem atento pra pegar o final verdadeiro. Você também precisa ler bastante coisa que não está em evidencia para entender melhor o que está acontecendo ali. Os puzzles em geral são fáceis, mas tem uns que são bem chatinhos. É um game curto, muito curto e também muito fácil de platinar. Talvez você o ache bom, infelizmente eu não achei.

Vale a pena você jogar caso curta essa vibe de contos de fadas sendo historias de terror ou tenha pego ele no Miwashibundle (que foi o meu caso). Mas achei os personagens rasos e os motivos principais por trás de tudo muito vago, tanto que até lançaram um visual novel para complementar a história do jogo.

Existe uma tradução não oficial na internet...dá para você usa-la no Steam, basta substituir o executável e o arquivo wolf. Mas se o fizer não irá conseguir pegar as conquistas (ao menos aqui foi assim). Outra coisa é que, ao menos para mim, a tradução deixou as falas dos personagens mais infantis do que já eram. Não sei se foi impressão ou uma adaptação que não combinou, enfim. Acabei jogando em inglês de todo modo pelas conquistas.