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The Death Storm

Dear Insane Children, 

I won't lie. I like a good typhoon. Certainly not while out sailing or riding my scooter. But viewed safely from indoors with Lulu and Yan by my side (actually, Yan's at work right now; thank god for Lulu)... they can be a bit of fun. 

Shanghai is now in the middle of the 4th typhoon of the season - Rumbia. Kinda sounds like a drunk uncle of one of those floor cleaning robots. And it looks a bit like this...

Only problem is that Martin, being way over on the other side of Shanghai, doesn't want to risk drowning so he's staying home and won't be on tonight's YouTube livestream. I don't blame him. Blub, blub.

Assuming I don't blow away in the typhoon, I'll still be there with Lulu, and we'll have Martin in the chat. Let's see how that goes. This is a special EU-friendly time (7PM HKT, 12PM BST). 

Zzzzzzz...

But why are we talking about the weather when we have an AMAZING new dress from Omri to comment on!?!?! Seriously...

This might be my favorite new dress of them all. First off, it's all BLACK. Perfect! There are two distinct modes. Wow! It's got "shiny everything" - which, let's face it, everything needs. Great! And it's literally The Death Dress... which I don't think can get more METAL. So, yeah, this is my favorite.

It also has me thinking... maybe all the dresses need two modes? I wrote to Omri about this... saying that we could imagine a 'normal' mode Denial Dress similar to what's already been presented; and then a 'chaos' mode of that same dress where everything is on fire, smoking, and burnt. Not sure where we might take this idea... but something to ponder. 

And then there's... 

Which is Omri's take on The Jabberwock Dress - the outfit she's wearing prior to going into battle with the Jabberwock. We showed this during the livestream last week but I'd not yet had a chance to post it here on Patreon. Naughty, American! 

We heard many of you loved the presentation of the Bargaining Suit and wanted some elements of that maintained somewhere in the game, so this is an attempt at honoring that request. What do you think? 

Do the Thing

Again, livestream tonight. 7PM HKT. Hit that link and set a reminder. 

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See you all tonight! :) 

From Shanghai with Rumbia,

-American (and Lulu)

The Death Storm

Comments

OFF its AWESOME

Gabriele Gambucci

I love the on in battle!! Wicked!!

Love this dress! Reminds me of one a character wears briefly in the anime Soul Eater. Also love the more angry side of the dress, for some reason it reminds me of Alice when she goes into Lunacy in AMA2.

I really like the lead dress. Reminds me of a crow.

My favorite one is the Harvest dress.

sumblinker

Summer's red moon is often called harvest moon so I expected the harvest dress to be red. But red moon is also called the hunter's moon so, nevermind.

Make Nine Inch Nails great again

Favorite dress out of the concepts so far 🖤

Awesome! 😈

love it!

I love this Death/Harvest design so much!!! 😍

Love this concept!

So Amazing ! She's really deadly beautiful !

This is aaaaamazing! Do all these images of Alice in different outfits allude to the possibility of the game having support for skins? :)

This looks like something straight out of a nightmare <3 I love this so much! Omri is amazing!

Hannah Young

PS I didn't get the invitation to the discord :(

I love the kings outfit!

The Harvest dress looks amazing!!! The King of Space suit looks cool too

Personally I don’t like the dress that much . I say get rid of the tights and make it more poofy and maybe some armor .. love the death dress though!!🖤

My heart 💀🔪🖤

The Jabberwocky fight dress -- the space background detailing is fantastic!

Her boots have always been that way I believe. Gloves is a little different but it works for that ON stage.

the gloves and the boots make the look bdsmish, which I don't find appropriate for Alice ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯

Love the black dress, the skirt kinda reminds me of raven feathers, which ties into the whole death theme :D

This looks stunning and I can't wait to see it in game if it makes it. Especially the space elements, so beautiful. Question on the game, is it a possibility that there may be a bundle/remake edition that would have all previous games along with the new one? I never played much of the first two as it was with my sister. Thanks :D you're amazing.

Very much love the black dresses, especially the death one really has an Alice feel to it. Might want to make the "layers" on the OFF dress a little calmer to really emphasise the contrast between off and on when the layers come to "life" on the ON dress, but if not that its furthermore perfect!

Omg the Harvest (Death) dress is AMAZING!! I want one so badly. @_@ Having two mods for all the dresses can be interesting. It might give a more strategic element to the fighting The second one is kinda "meh". For me the concept of Alice wearing pants is kinda out of place, especially since the game still takes place in the 19th century and the idea of girls wearing pants wasn't around. Stay safe in Shanghai!

WitchDoll

It's so amazing work! hold on!

I saw this dress and freaked it’s AMAZING!! The costumes in madness returns are one of my favourite things and i can tell you guys won’t skimp out on them this time around either! Yay!!!

The Death dress is gorgeous! The layered fabrics kind of remind me of crow feathers, which I think is very fitting. I also love the second concept, would definitely like to see more.

Rhia

The black dress looks beautiful! I like the idea of the layered fabrics :)

This might just be my favorite dress concept from Omri so far, and that’s saying a lot because the Denial dress is incredible! Very fitting for the character of Alice and the atmosphere of Wonderland. LOVE IT!

O...M...G... Be still my heart! That death dress look is beautiful! I love it and it's my new favorite too!! Maybe a future art print with this? I really really love it!

I'm very worried that chinese investors might take back their money even in the middle of the development if they got the feeling that the final product could be banned in China. Which just happened to a game as harmless as Monster Hunter.

Make Nine Inch Nails great again

looks amazing

I love the death dress! Still not sold on the suit... just used to her dresses I suppose! I love all the dresses I've seen so far.

I think both designs look phenomenal. The death Outfit Looks in his normal form grimm and gloomy, but the other form could be straight from a nightmare. Especially how the dress looks in the second form like it's a livving creature is great. In the final form it would be cool if the dress would move a Little on it's own. Also the second dress is beautiful. I like how her chain changed. How would a second form of this dress looks like? Maybee that her whole skin is covered in this space tone. I'm happy to see more of you guys :) Greetings from Germany!

Love the Death Dress!!! Loving the ruin leeches on her arms! I think it would be awesome to see all the dresses have a chaos/battle mode. It would work perfectly for the innocent dresses(bargaining etc.). Now for my QUESTION I’ve been playing Madness Returns and got to thinking; will the ruin be a main enemy in wonderland? And will we hear more about Bumby ‘touching’ and hitting on Lizzie? There were lots of memories collected that contained information about that child molesting bastard!! Last QUESTION- I know people were angered about the sexualization of Alice but I will ask, Will Alice have to deal with some creepers in the asylum? And how will that affect her wonderland and innocence? Let’s be honest here; I would think there would be some nasty orderly (man or woman) that would be trying to have their way with her or try molesting her in some way. I’m not trying to be demented but an issue like that would not surprise me considering the era or her living situation (orphan crazy girl)

I love the return of the suit outfit, I think it'd be really great thematically for Alice to find herself dressed differently for what she believes would be the ultimate fight. SUGGESTION: Maybe there could be little star particles falling off the dress where the nebulous areas show? SUGGESTION: This could be a bit too much, but could scythe blades be incorporated into the design of the activated Death dress? Perhaps Hollow Yves's bow ends (If it's appearing as a character in this game) could become thin, tentacle-like things that whip around with scythe blades on the end that do damage to enemies congruent with Alice's attacks. For great visual examples, check out the creatures in an anime called Parasyte: The Maxim; they do something like this very frequently. Also, there could be the tip of a scythe blade exiting one or both shoulders, reminiscent of the Cheshire cat. Last, and most horrifying (at least to me), Alice's legs could become black-dripping scythe blades that drag along the ground as she glides around, shooting up sparks or leaving wound-like gashes behind her.

Jay Olsen

YES - that Death Dress is exactly what I've been waiting to see. Perfection! <3 I do like the idea of each dress having a secondary mode associated with a stage of grief, too, giving each a potential unique ability and/or overdrive once chaos hits the fan.

I imagine they're for power ups or emergencies like the rage perfume and Hysteria mode respectively. Probably also for special, cinematic scenes, but I agree, it'd be silly if it was for every single combat.

Jay Olsen

I think seeing it rendered in a 3D space with all the glossy textures ought to create enough contrast, but even if it doesn't, death personified tends to be portrayed as a shadow a lot, which is how Alice would look if she was shrouded in something that looked mostly solid black without much definition. Both sound cool to me.

Jay Olsen

The death dress is by far my favorite 🖤🖤

Beautiful! <3

QUESTION: any plans on an Asylum outfit. I'm curious what an updated Asylum outfit would look like. (The white, blood stained asylum dress.) SUGGESTION: Maybe an updated straitdress too? I always liked how dark and unsettling these were.

😱🤯🖤 I'm am speechless!... This is this level of horror I am looking forward to! It sends shivers down my spine! I love it!!!

THAT DEATH DRESS IS INSANE! I'll love to see it animated! My second favorite, right before the Denial one. I really like the idea of all the dresses having a on/off mode! Omri is such an amazing artist, I'm so happy to have him on board!

Priscila Nosoma

The harvest dress is stunning! In battle mode is the kind of creepy/scary Alice I've been wanting to see ^-^ while she's not in battle mode I think her face or hair could be changed. Maybe give her slightly wavy hair or something?

Oh dear gods that death dress is absolutely INCREDIBLE!!! I can't stop looking at it! It's PERFECT ♡ ♡ it's a really cool idea to have all the dresses in on/off mode but I have a QUESTION: does the battle mode dresses mean that every time Alice would fight enemies she would enter some kind of battle scene? I mean she wouldn't just be like running and encounter one random enemie and change to the ON dress just for that?

The Jabberwocky dress is starting to look REALLY good, I love all the silver detail and the space accents!!! And the Death Dress is AMAZING! Really gives off a "here to kick some ass" vibe and i'm totally digging that!

Destiny Jenson

Yeah! Now that's hell of a dress! Love it! Face could be less witch-like... but still possibly my favorite now! Woo! <3

I'm so excited to use the king of planets dress, do you think you might do collector's editions of the game?

I love the death dress. Finally Omri made the design that conform my vision of Alice in this game. I like that the dress looks classic and sinister at the same time. And it doesn´´´ t look as usually overloaded designs that Omri made previously. It is quite simple and I like it.

I really like the harvest/death dresses. Especially the dripping boots were a awesome addition, as Ina nicely described it. Only thing is that it maybe needs some contrasting colours to make each part of her dress stand out a little more. The monochrome look makes everything sort of blend in itself, which still looks fine of course, but it’s just a thought.

I wanna be murdered by Harvest (Death) Alice in her ON (In Battle) mode.

OMG, THAT DRESS!! :D :D :D <3 <3 <3 Would be cool of every dress has a normal and chaos version. Chaos version could be for when you enter 'unknown power up mode like Hysteria', instead of it having just one specific look. The black goo dripping from her boots makes me think of the Ruin monsters in AMR. Could be a kinda cool "call back", since the destruction originates from Alice herself, all the things she's repressed dripping from her and poisoning Wonderland. We don't have typhoons in Denmark, but I was once slammed into a lamp post by a gust of wind, so I really don't blame Martin for wanting to stay indoors. Cool that you don't cancel the live stream and see ya there! (:

I'm not sure how I feel about the Death Dress in Off Mode. Maybe, a splash of contrasting color(s) in there? (Or I'm just flashbacking to my Hot Topic "scene" phase) I'm not sure. Though, I'm digging the On Mode for the Death Dress. I would suggest making her hands look a little skeletal. She already has the exaggerated, skeletal waist/ribcage in the On Mode. If that was intentional, use that motif somewhere else in the design. As for Jabberwock Suit I'm digging the power suit concept, as well the space content within it. In addition, I really like the color palette. Though, like a previous Patron suggested, maybe alter her dress so its more like a simpler suit jacket/high-low jacket? As it is right now, it feels kind of busy with the ruffles, layers, colors, stars, etc. Overall, I like where the designs are headed.

Love the Death Dress and the space bits on the Jabberwock Suit. Can't wait for the EU stream and Martin will be on our side too :D Stay safe!

In love with the death dress!!!!!!!!! You and lulu stay safe I will be watching the livestream recording tomorrow as I’m in california.

The death dress 😱🤯🤯 I love it! It is incredible! My favourite dress out of the whole Alice series! Also keep safe during the typhoon season.

Hope you guys manage well the arrive of the typhoon , be safe!!

OMG i totally have to add the Harvest/Death dress to my cosplay dreamlist now!

Jaina Mitchell

The harvest/death dress is fucking fantastic!! Love the angry ghost look, it's similar to hysteria mode in MR. This and the ash dress are my favorite so far.

Amazing as always! Can't say more :)

St. Thomas

Loving the Harvest dress and the banshee vibe I'm getting from the picture. With the other outfit, I'm very intrigued with it. Particularly the idea of galaxy/space bits! I know its still early with the pantsuit, but is the green going to be a deep hue? In my head it would be nice with a deep, rich green. Offsets the tin and the galaxy imagery!!

Wow, I think the Death dress is the most beautiful so far. This sort of dark elegance is definitely something I would expect to see and look forward to in a new Alice game.

Death Dress is quite impressive. I'd only suggest perhaps making the gloves on the "off" version longer, and making her eyes solid white in the "battle" mode. If every dress has two forms then that might mark a return to "domain" dresses where each stage has a unique powered-up battle form. Definitely something worth thinking about, and how it would be implemented.

The black dress looks awesome the on version is pretty scary, she reminds me of the level of creepy the first sailor moon villian had in the original TV series. Skinny creepy limbs and mid section, very creepy. The new adjustments to the green suit looks nice, pants look odd to me on Alice but that's probably because I'm not used to it. The above comment mentions a high low skirt/jacket style, maybe that would make the pants look less odd to my brain.

The death dress is amazing! I think for the king of planets outfit, maybe just cut the jacket to the bottom of the second ruffle so that it appears as a peplum jacket? It seems slightly too long as if she’s wearing a dress with pants underneath. Unless possibly making the jacket similar to tail coat of sorts? Like a high low design with the ruffles ending at the same length but on the back instead

SUGGESTION: The Denial dress was shown to have some writing on the back of it. Adding onto a previous suggestion on here, what if, whenever Alice enters Rage/Hysteria mode, her whole dress is burnt and covered in similar writing? Evanescence singer Amy Lee wore a dress similar to this concept, appropriately titled “Malice in Wonderland”. ;)

This death dress is the best one yet!

SUGGESTION: instead of one specific chaos mode every dress has a chaos mode suited to the dress and the world but the only way she can make the chaos work is if she finds the correct runic symbols in each world 💓

I. Love. It. It’s gorgeous and terrifying and American McGee all over. I would totally cosplay this Alice!

I love the concept of the suit. But I'm not sure about the bottom of the jacket. SUGGESTION (For Omri): What about a 3-tiered jacket. I want to see what it looks like with longer sleeves. The Harvest (Death) dress looks amazing. I love everything about it. QUESTION: Does this mean the Ruin play a part in the gameplay/story?

Oh f*ck me that Death dress is to DIE FOR!!

Stay safe folks! I really love this new dress, it is indeed very metal and feels a lot closer to our Alice than some of the other ones.

Chaussette

Honestly love the crap of the black dress

Stay safe out there! Suggestion: if you wanted a second version for each dress you could re-introduce hysteria mode and when activated the outfit you’re wearing would change.

Justin Cole

Her face is terrifying. Very zombie like

I really love the Death Storm dress. I cant wait to see what the cosplayers do with to make it.

Lucas Severin

I want this dress.

Morgan LeFay Dethen

I love it! Looks so sleek and fantastic :D

Boy is that harvest or death dress awesome. It has a concept similar to hel. One side beautiful (off) and the other (on) well creepy for a lack of better word.

Davinellulinvega

The Death Storm looks awesome :D

The Death Storm....creepy... I LOVE IT!

Kristina Shelton

BEAUTIFUL

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