Where do I even start with this game?
It's funny how many rings of power haters like this game because it makes that show look downright canon by comparison. The entire basis of the plot is what if Sauron corrupts Numenor, he already did that in canon and succeeded. Tar-Miriel the queen of Numenor captures Sauron, he is imprisoned in Numenor and he basically corrupts Kor Phaerzon and has him launch a coup d'etat. Sauron corrupts Nuemnor so bad that the entire place is just thrown back into the sea with Elendeil et al being among the survivors. Gandalf wasn't a factor in the second age, dude just wasn't, even if you're going by Rings of Power canon, the man was some bearded homeless dude wandering around with a harfoot. If I corrupt Galadriel I Sauron will win the war....what?
So we open the game at Mount Doom, where for some reason Galadriel is there and Sam is on a mobility scooter? The entire opening is just weird, confusing and unintuitive. I don't know what the hell is going on or what the point of all of this is.
Are we supposed to sabotage the relationship between Galadriel and the nameless Queen? If so how? They seem to damn well hate each other and be prised to rip each other apart without Sauron having to do damn near anything. The only goal we seem to have is to gather intelligence to give to the armies of Mordor, which y'know how do we get intelligence? only way I can find is by making potions and apparently I need to save that shit so I can make the queen and Galadriel into sluts for... some reason.
So this guy seems to like Akabur but utterly misses the point of his trainer games. Jasmine trainer and Hermione trainer both have you training the girls involved for a reason.
There is intelligence, so I don't know what the point of this is, we have a treasury full of money that we can do absolutely nothing with, but it's important we grow it for some reason? Getting intelligence is a massive pain in the ass because all you can do to make it is make potions and you can only collect potion ingredients once a day. The fact that Gollum steals a love potion from you is annoying as hell, that took time and effort to make you annoying goblin and it could have netted me a pretty penny. I could have at least gotten a sex scene out of it with Gollum and the maid, but nope, nothing, not even a damn nipple.
Then there's what I would charitably call the humour, maybe I just have too high standards but I have found exactly nothing in this game funny. Sam on a mobility scooter adds nothing to the plot seeing as this entire game is set in the second age. I know it's a gag, but if he's so fat why did they agree to send him with Frodo? Frodo went on a perilous journey that a fat man on a mobility scooter wouldn't be able to keep up with. Also, does this mean that they have electricity or is this scooter magic? Why is the Pallantir in the Kitchen?! The entire exchange of sorry not telling anyone that someone claiming to be the dark lord shtick is annoying as hell.
TLDR: this is a bad game, as an adaption of LOTR content it completely misses the mark. Ignoring that it's just not a fun game, maybe my complaints will be addressed in future updates but as it stands, I would advies not playing.