Episodes
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What can we see?
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What can we hear?
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What shall we do?
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Quiet
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Black screen with white text and bard blinking
after some time. Then flash of light
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Silence and sudden scream at the end
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The player can’t do anything (beside colleting
the matryoshka dolls)
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Alice
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White text on a black background
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The same dark music
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The player can’t do anything
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School
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A map, school, a lot of kids and few pictures.
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Creepy music, voices.
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This episode is partly interactive.
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That top
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Messy room with clothes and other junk
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The same dark music
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This episode is partly interactive.
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Apartment
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Large dirty room. Layout
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The same dark music
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The player can’t do anything
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Argument
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Black background and a man with a gun
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Creepy music, Russian voice.
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This episode is partly interactive.
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Эссэ
I’ve read the story about Alice in Russia it is a third episode of Inanimate Alice. I was expecting some kind of challenge in text complexity or in collecting the dolls or at least some visual tricks so I could miss them and because of that, I looked at all the backgrounds and all texts simultaneously since I’m used to focusing on the whole monitor instead of single parts of it. Well, the music wasn’t as annoying as everyone said and pictures and animations couldn’t be better because of Flash limitations also the game would lag more and more as time goes on. The story felt rushed and incomplete. I enjoyed the stereotypical Russian environment it’s absurd and that what makes it enjoyable. There was nothing difficult about reading there weren’t that much text on screen at a single time and at places where the transition is automatic it gives plenty of time to read. The best bit about the story was the ending, because it summed up the story, forced you to have all matryoshka dolls and made me chuckle because you can bribe Russian guards with dolls. As for tips, do people really need tips on how to read a book? Just read the text and keep your hand on the mouse in case there will be something to click or react to.
