The buggy madness is over.

Yes it has been a month since i bought Alice: Madness Returns and i have only just
got round to finishing it which is a huge shame, the first is one of my faveorite games and while Madness is in a lot of ways superior it suffers from huge game breaking bugs. If those bugs were fixed then would be fantastic! Aside from the bugs i have two nitpicky complaints A: The lack of boss fights, boss fights are some of the best parts in games and certainly was in the 1st Alice but in Madness there is only the final level, i know a lot of games now-a-days don't really have bossess but its annoying, they have the bosses from the 1st as characters to talk to now and they set up fights (especially in the first chapter) only to do nothing with it which is a little disapointing. And B: the lack of weapons, there is only 4 now the signature Vorpal Blade, a Hobby Horse hammer, a Pepper Grinder machine gun and a Teapot Cannon which are awesome weapons i can't deny. But in the original the weapon viarity was amazing and each weapon had two different types of attack effectivly making nearly double the types of attack you can make. Oh also theres no fucking Jabberwocky what the shit? Well there sorta-not-really-creppy-cutsecne is and also there sorta-not-really-skeltal-corpsey-10second-version is. But its annoying the Jabberwocky was the iconic boss in the 1st game. Representing alice's guilt and he kept coming back and there were smaller children versions as regular enemies, once you defeated him the first time you got one of the most powerful weapons he was a big deal. Then in Madness BAM hes gone although he is replaced with  other symbolic enemies but still he should be there, even if only for one level.
         Anyway i'm being really negative towards it so far but i have a lot of praise for it and recomend... well i use the term recomend lightly get it for xbox if you do buy it not pc my freind had it for xbox where as i have it on PC and he said he didn't have any buggy problems. But yeah i have a lot of praise for it the gameplay is fast paced, smooth and a lot of fun with some puzzles thrown in the mix and 2D sections which are awesome. The graphics and physics are beautiful (the physics especialy i wasted time just walking through the goo and shooting my pepper grinder just for the particles), the story is fantastic which ties in with the graphics its a very visual telling like the first game everything is very metaphorical and symbolic, also the writing is very clever and i love the word play its filled with amazing lines and quotes. But most importantly is the atmosphere and the level design it is with out a doubt the best i have played in a long, long time if not the best. The levels set peices are breathtaking and they themselves can invoke all sorts of emotions this is the most apparant in the final chapter, which is truly the creepiest couple of hours of my life and after 11 hours and a half it has a great payoff. It could have easily been up there with my faveorite games if it only wasn't for the bugs and having it constantly breaking. But never the less it is an amazing surreal game that is a rare gem to find in the modern state of video games.