[v0.2.0]
Well, the game would be promising if not for how buggy it is right now. There's too much bug, and they corrupt saves... also, the trigger aren't set properly so the scene happens in the wrong order.
I could interact with the magic ball before the first conversation with galadriel in HQ that would lead to it. Gollum got big and tryed to rape the maid which seems drunk... well, i didn't have the time to give the maid the wine that would get them drunk since gollum took it to get big.
Also, right now, there's a huge issue with story introduction. It's hard to understand what is happening in the volcano. It's hard to understand the first conversation with the queen. On top of that, the story throw to your face even more mysteries which don't make sense.
And i guess the game is happening in the same timeline as ring of power? Well, would be nice to tell us somewhere.
So we play Sauron (WTF the intro told us it's a nazgul, and suddenly it's Sauron who is throwed back in time?) who is transformed into gandalf and we are supposed to do what of this? Am no tolkien sucker but am pretty sure Sauron can transform by himself anyway. So he have the ring, but the ring power have disapear. Also Sauron have no powers. Yeah Sauron power and the ring power aren't the same thing you know. And he take uppon himself to infiltrate numenor government as gandalf. The gandalf from lotr. Which isn't a thing at this point in the serial and a position that you don't bother elaborate by any mean.
So here comes the gameplay, which seems to be some kind of gestion of numenor realm in order to make it weak so that the mordor prevail? Yeah am asking cause it's not told anywhere. Well, since gandalf position is a given and that we casually have the queen of numenor and galadriel alone in the same room with sauron, he could pretty much kill them and win the war this way. I mean, no reason is given to take the long way out. And since we, as gandalf, are catapulted as the trusted advisor and administrator of numenor's realm, i don't see how hard it could be to simply rally the mordor army and march the city at once since we are the one deciding if the city is defended or not.
Still have no idea who is this human queen though.
Well the story is a mess, it's actually even worse than the serial, which honestly is a challenge by itself. I mean, it is AI generated too right? Cause it doesn't make sense at all. Any proofreader would have pointed out so.
There is a thing in writting that is called characterization, a parody ain't the original thing so you still need to characterize. There is a thing that is called contextualization too. And they are not avoidable for a story to make sense. Maybe they are complicated words, it simply mean that you need to express who a character is and what the fuck he does there.
Overrall it's just poor. Muscle up your game dude.
I feel bad writting all this, i'll keep an eye in case you do smtg about it, but right now it's not recommendable for anyone.