Is it enough to satisfy that you've completed the challenges of the text adventure or you invested in the story in the game and want to get some kind of conclusion?
... 'cause basically at the end of Childers of Mordor, you get to the edge of Mordor. There's been a Mordor, right? - Yeah. - So yeah, it's a bit like the Ralph Backstreet thing. It's like, well, that's not concluded. Would you then again invest time playing part one and part two to know Is it enough to satisfy that you've completed the challenges of the text adventure or you invested in the story in the game and want to get some kind of conclusion? - Yes. - And I think, I mean, it's a lot more simple compared to the others, there's no bad thing. And obviously it's a lot shorter. You know, it's just, it's quite a quick adventure ...
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00:21:10 - 00:23:31
- So, we thought we've gotta go right at the beginning, and, you know, that is the text adventures. I mean, there's three official ones, and one that was, like, fan-made, wasn't it, to, like, finish off the story. ...
00:30:16 - 00:32:24
... But it is a very good game, but it is a deep, involving text adventure that has far too many characters. And I mean, it's fine if you want to do all the note-taking, you remember where Mary is now, and where Simon Frodo are, and you just need to make a map of this. ...
00:16:14 - 00:16:47
- Yeah, I mean, from my perspective, yeah, it was the books, you know, obviously, as a kid, you read The Hobbit because it was always like one of the ones you needed to read, and I think, didn't The Hobbit come with the text adventure, the book? - Yeah, and that's how I first read it at that point, and my world changed absolutely, yeah. ...
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... - Yeah, I mean, where do you go when you've got such an epic book and it takes adventure? I mean, obviously you've got to take liberty, or otherwise you may as well read the book. ...
01:19:33 - 01:20:07
lying below and you're swinging across all the ropes. It feels epic in the halls of this massive, you know, location. Just absolutely stunning. It was a highlight of the game that, again, get past the shire bits because they're all about the same either, whereas this turns more a gripping platform adventure rather than an RPG that is superb. Yeah, no, I totally agree. Totally agree. Right. Should we go on to our penultimate game? We're already there. We had to include these. I mean, I loved going back to them…
01:35:40 - 01:36:15
Now hobbits are peace-loving folks, you know. They're never in a hurry and they take things slowly. They don't like to travel away from home. They just like to eat and be left alone. But one day Bilbo was asked to go on a big adventure to the caves below to help some dwarves get back their gold that was stolen by a dragon in the days of Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins. Only three feet tall. ...
01:01:03 - 01:01:35
The Brie itself and the Prancing Pony, it has a different feel than the Shire did. Really good, try and find what else. Just how all the, even the Hobbits before they get to Brie, just their adventures moving through the countryside, you know, the big spiders getting across the river. It's got a charm. I just think it does have a charm. I mean, I understand. I mean, it got middling review system there. It's typically like 60%. And a lot of it was, a lot of the complaints was like the presentation's a little…
01:33:35 - 01:34:06
... I've really enjoyed Delphin and the knees, you know what I mean? But it's just a shame I had to choose so many games and run through so many. So I'm going back to Dan Lok Pocket, and I'm just going to continue my adventures on the Game Boy Advance. They're the greatest way to play those sort of games, aren't they? And stuff, you know, because, as I say, it's so difficult to put in the hours with things, you know, these sort of games. But I have a fighting chance with the Ambonyx, which is why I'm sort of, in…
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