## Description
_Alice in Wonderland: An Adventure Beyond the Mirror_ is a tie-in for the
2010 Tim Burton’s movie _Alice in Wonderland_. It is loosely based on the
movie’s story, borrowing from it main characters such as Alice, the White
Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the March Hare and the Mad Hatter.
It is a 2D platform puzzle game bearing some similarities to The Lost Vikings
series. The main objective in each stage is take Alice from left to right
until the end of the stage. The stages can be transposed either by taking
Alice through Wonderland or through a mirror version of Wonderland, accessed
by mirrors which will work like doorways. Some mirrors will be shattered, so
Alice will need to collect the missing pieces to fix and then use them.
Alice can only run right and left or jump. In order to proceed in some
locations, the player must swap Alice for the other characters, which she will
find along the way. Each character has a special ability and can be called
upon just to use them, not to move. The White Rabbit can stop time for some
objects; the Cheshire Cat can make objects appear and disappear; the March
Hare can use telekinesis to move an object from a point to another and the Mad
Hatter can transform objects from one world to another. Some locations will
demand the combination of two or more characters’ abilities. When the player
reaches the end of a stage, a map of Wonderland will be shown, displaying the
next location available as well as the already completed ones. As new
characters join Alice’s party, the player can replay a stage to reach specific
areas which weren’t reachable before (without those character abilities). Some
low ceiling areas will require Alice to drink the “drink me” bottle to be
transposed, only to eat the “eat me” candy to regain her normal size.
The obstacles faced are mostly water sections, bottomless pits, spikes and the
like. There are Red Queen soldiers in some stages, which can’t be killed, only
bypassed. Some stages have passages similar to holes opened by torn portions
of a book page. In those passages, Alice will find hidden objects, which can
be collected and accessed in Alice’s journal outside the game. The iPhone
version also offers different ways of unlocking those objects, with the
player’s GPS, Camera and Photo Library. Some other objects can be unlocked by
solving riddles or by logging in on specific dates, such as the date when
Alice’s original Disney movie was released.