![]() Sauron's forces overthrew Lestor's kingdom and killed his people many years ago, and Sauron turned Lestor into one of his chief torturers, "the Candle Man", while poisoning his daughter against him. Additionally, batches of dozens of prisoners are vaporized every hour, their bloody remains used to keep the "dark water" rivers of Mordor constantly flowing. ![]() Thousands of captured prisoners are subject to humiliating, back-breaking, and lethal labor on a daily basis, forced to wrangle ravenous beasts and go on suicide missions to set off explosives. Sauron is the Dark Lord of Mordor, who rules over the land with an exceptionally cruel system of slavery.Bile Fascination: This game quickly became one of the worst-reviewed games of 2023 and a contender for worst game of the decade, which may have helped in it getting more notoriety than it deserved, even among players who are normally not familiar with or fond of Tolkien's Legendarium.On the narrative level, one can get behind a nasty, effective protagonist or a nice, ineffectual one, but nasty and ineffectual? That's just depressing, even before I had to watch the little scrote die an average of fifty times an hour, knowing that his eventual lifelong peak will only come after he bites a finger off a nice, pretty Elijah Wood. Yahtzee: To be honest, I'm hard-pressed to envision how a game about Gollum could've worked. This, alongside the Obvious Beta nature of the game at launch and the cash-grabby monetization, led to the game selling very poorly. Being a stealth game with no combat (a rather niche genre for games) that is also developed by a company with no experience with a game of this scale, and still launching at full price didn’t help sell people either. Gollum is certainly an iconic character, but not one many believed could carry a game by himself, as every version of the story depicts him as unlikeable and pathetic. Audience-Alienating Premise: When the game was first announced, many fans were actively wondering why it was being made.Similarly, Wayne Forester's performance as Gollum has received mixed reactions for not matching the films - while it's agreed Forester is a talented actor, Andy Serkis's performance has been so thoroughly ingrained into pop culture that many players found it jarring how Forester doesn't imitate it at all, sounding much more like Riki at times.Besides LEGO The Lord of the Rings - which is still based heavily on the films - the last Lord of the Rings video game to do so was probably The Hobbit way back in 2003 (which wasn't particularly highly rated by reviewers either). One of many criticisms of the game is that the visuals aren't based on the Peter Jackson movies, but rather use a very stylized, cartoony original art style and character designs of its own creation.Accidental Innuendo: The subplot about Gollum being made to hatch a bird's egg is introduced by an orc telling Gollum to go the "the breeding halls", followed by repeated dialogue about how "you don't want to make him wait." The ambiguity in the lines of what is being bred (especially since the most immediate conclusion is Gollum himself) can spark a lot of giggles.
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