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Gollum in lord of the ring origin
Gollum in lord of the ring origin







I felt elated to make it through, only for the game to close again mere minutes later. I restarted the entire game and finally made it past the cutscene. I booted it up, only to be met with three crashes in the same space. The game opened up, I finally got control of Gollum, and the very first cutscene caused the entire app to close down. I met my first major crash in just under ten minutes. If I felt stuck for more than 20 seconds at a time, the quickest solution was always just to refresh from a checkpoint and check the same area again. Gollum is filled with so many bugs, glitches, and crashes that it became unclear every few seconds if the problems I witnessed stem from poor game design or poor quality control. Other times they simply hog up a doorway, refusing to leave until you reset from the latest checkpoint. Sometimes, this works in your favour as being stuck leaves them unable to catch you even when they see you. Though AI seems designed to take pre-registered paths to allow you to move past at the right time, they often get entirely stuck, frozen in an animation, or incapable of moving. Controls are finicky, imprecise and imprecise, and the AI is practically nonsensical. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a stealth game at heart, but it never quite grasps what makes the best stealth games work. Given the story is mostly played out already, Gollum relies heavily on the gameplay and atmosphere to pull it through into an enjoyable experience.It fails at both. The story is okay at best and bloated at worst. Though there is a lot of story left unexplored in the middle of The Lord of the Rings, but the game doesn't even manage something meaningful or distinct to fill in that space. If you're a fan of the series, you will know most of what this game leads up to, which doesn't give it much room to grow. It could play into this disorienting feel but it always feels like an afterthought. You know where you are, but rarely know why. Your short preamble into the world never quite sets the tone right, and the story continues on anyway. This isn't a bad place for the story to start, but it immediately feels rather thrown together as you find yourself in a cave, where you run into orcs within minutes.









Gollum in lord of the ring origin