#chapter 3: Alice goes to visit her lawyer who’s dicking around her cash. he collects Chinese antiques. that’s all the framing this one gets
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all this to say I reached the Orientalism Chapter of Alice madness returns and it’s just as bad as you think it it
#so the game as a whole is interested in victoriana but also pointing out the social issues underpinning the whole enterprise right#the first chapter is steampunk theme and it’s at in a factory while the enemies are designed to have cogs#they are literal machines - doesn’t take a genius to work out that one. Industrial Revolution has led to disruption of natural order#that’s one example.#chapter 2 is similarly concerned with exploitation but more so in entertainment and especially in sex work: climax of that act is the walrus#eating the oysters who are figured as women dancing#and the entry into said chapter is inside a brothel#chapter 3: Alice goes to visit her lawyer who’s dicking around her cash. he collects Chinese antiques. that’s all the framing this one gets#and then we’re in the orientalist den smoking a fucking hookah#it’s so bad
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