![]() ![]() ![]() I was informed the Gollum sense pulse could be turned off or left unused, but it would be a requirement at certain points. Indeed, there were huge, awful arrows on the wall literally pointing the direction you should go. Even so, a few of the modern additions - like a sense pulse to show you places to be stealthy or emblazon an enemy in red - might help ease player frustration, but I have concerns it might put the game on such steady rails that it might be impossible to ever be caught by surprise or find fun in doing something unruly. I'm hoping that if Gollum can find that satisfying tempo and Daedalic can nail the feel of those platforming sections, a lot more of this game will click into place. As it turns out, they really did find footing even with all the time already put into them. Having played Uncharted: The Legacy of Thieves for review recently, I remember wondering if the long platforming situations would still be fun on my fourth replay of the two games. I imagine actually placing my hands on the controller might help engage me more practically. There is no doubt that there is potential for more variety than in the levels I saw - the screenshots showing future levels have me excited, for sure. There seem to be a lot of sections where you are climbing up the same obviously interactable tree branches, hopping over very similar-looking gulleys, and trying to nuzzle into collectable-filled caves that looked near indistinguishable from the next corner. While it did harken back to platformers of old - the likes of Spyro the Dragon and Banjo-Kazooie came to mind - it wasn't really that bounteous in terms of variety. ![]() ![]() This involves a lot of crouching, crawling, jumping, climbing, and all the other non-combative things you could do to get out of their way. You must sneak your way around them using linear pathways. While I wasn't quite sure what the objective was, there were lots of orcs flitting about saying horrible things in horrible voices. We open in the crags of Gollum's home territory: the roots of the Misty Mountains (I think). ![]()
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