When intuition fails, there’s a button to engage Gollum Vision™ (Sméagoggles, perhaps) and see usable objects, enemies and hinted paths highlighted. Still, Gollum is fragile and longer drops kill him instantly, ragdolling spectacularly for half a second before abruptly snapping back to the last checkpoint.ĭespite frequent deaths, the path is usually clear and checkpoints generous. The environments are often gorgeous and very vertical, providing a fun excuse to make death-defying leaps. On the platforming front, there’s usually a single route through each area, involving some mixture of highlighted grabbable ledges, brightly colored rope or vines to scramble across walls and the occasional bar to swing across. Not being the finest of physical specimens, Gollum is a little awkward at both, in-character and out. Think halfway between Uncharted’s wall-clambering navigation and Splinter Cell creeping. At heart, it’s a cinematic but basic stealth platformer. Gollum straddles two action genres, and neither holds up to scrutiny. Unfortunately, like its fragmented protagonist, its ideas fall into two distinct camps, and one is significantly nicer than the other. The good news is that Gollum (the game) does have some interesting ideas. Reviewed on Nvidia 2080 Ti, Intel i9-9900k 4.9ghz, 32gb RAMĭespite my nature (a sun-averse hermit hoarding shiny treasures) giving me a certain affinity for Gollum, I’ve been a bit skeptical about Daedalic’s much-delayed Lord Of The Rings game, as early footage left me uninspired and unsure whether there was even a coherent game here. What is it? A stealthy platform narrative Lord Of The Rings adventure.
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