Alice: Madness Returns - The Infernal Train, final boss and ending

[WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS HEAVY SPOILERS FROM THE MAIN STORY OF ALICE: MADNESS RETURNS]

This video basically features the final sequences of Alice: Madness Returns. To be more precise, the video starts around the last part of the Dollhouse visit and Alice's meeting with the Dollmaker, goes on with the Infernal Train as the very last level of the game and the final boss fight held there and ends with the final cutscene. Note that the video was recorded while playing on hard difficulty.

While it was initially developed as a full fledged level not different from the previous ones, the Infernal Train featured in the game proper is basically a tragically short area where all you have to do is to let Alice walk around, kickstart a bunch of cutscenes that give closure to the plot and have the final boss fight of the game. Considering the Train spots arguably the best visuals and design of the entire game, it's kind of a letdown.

The Dollmaker is arguably the only boss fight featured in Madness Returns and the last battle you must win before reaching the ending. The fight has two different phases:

- In the first phase you must destroy the Dollmaker's hands, one at a time. Each hand will keep attacking you till its weak spot, a huge doll head, will lack its tar shield and will be opened to your attacks. Hitting the doll head will cause the hand to collapse, which allows you to get several easy hits in. The Dollmaker's hands can dish out several attacks, but all of them can be more or less dodged easily with Alice's evasion move. In this phase the boss will also summon some basic Ruins, which at this point should be a mere nuisance to you (they also drop roses upon death to recover your health).

- The second and last phase is kicked in when both hands of the Dollmaker have been dealt with. In this phase the boss will sometimes expose his long tongue to your attacks while summoning some Floating Ruins: you must try to ignore the Ruins and aim straight at the tongue with a ranged weapon since it's the boss' only weak point now. Whenever the Dollmaker doesn't expose his weak spot he will send again his hands after you: they very much act like they did in the first phase, only now they are more aggressive and have also a tricky grabbing attack that is harder to dodge and will consume a nice chunk of Alice's health over the time if it hits. After dealing enough damage to the Dollmaker's tongue, the boss will be defeated