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The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria Review | MMORPG.com
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The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria Review | MMORPG.com
In the shadowy depths of Middle-earth, the Dwarves have begun to delve, maybe too greedily, again. They've returned to Moria, and Emily has you covered. How does the survival game hold up? Here is our review.
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The game was made with Epic's Unreal Engine
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
Progress is slow and also quite repetitive, but I found myself enjoying the references to the books, which were on par with the lore and spot on. However, the in-game map is absolutely terrible, and you can spend a long time looking for that shrine which you found yesterday and you can now access.,..
For me, I palyed it and finished it solo without a great deal of difficulty. I found myself never making a truly permanent base, as each new zone I'd need to make a new outpost so that when I eventually died I didn't have to travel for ages.
Thankfully, there are some fast travel mechanics which save a ton of time. As you progress through the zones, you'll begin to realise that it's all too similar. It gets quite repetiive by the end, but in all honesty while I wouldn't call it a great game, I did enjoy it.
The sounds, atmosphere are great. graphics are pretty nice too and dwarven structures look spot on. However, the procedural generation mentioned as selling point isn't quite as procedural as you may think, but procedural enough to annoy you when you realise where you need to get to is hiding at the end of a corridor in a little crack!
When you hit near end-game, there are a few scarce resources that will leave you frustratingly farming for them, or more accurately finding the locations in which you can get them to craft the equipment you need (no spoilers).
That leaves me a bit worried about multiplayer! If I had problems equipping myself, I'm not sure if that would just be compounded had I played with a friend or two!
All in all, my take on it is - come for the dwarfs, don't take it too seriously, and don't expect an AAA game. Drink some beer, hit some rocks and just enjoy it as a little trip into Moria
6/10 would agree.
You do have stats btw they are just not directly manipulable. Gear and buffs change your stats instead. You can see what your current stats are via tab on the pc and a clickable icon appears down the bottom left of the screen which show you the current numbers.
Buffs maybe don't last long enough is my only complaint.
- Earl Nightingale
My conspiratorial statement aside, its pretty clear by review scores that 'Return to Moria' is mediocre at best, its a shame that if/when 'Return to Nangrim' comes out its potential success is likely to be hampered not only by the general confusion around both games having very similar names and premise, but also that the first to release has a massive IP attachment and ended up being bad.