Review: The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S.

I know I took a playful swipe at The Lord of the Rings as a property in my first Dee Dee visual novel, but I actually really like Tolkien's vision, and the Peter Jackson cinematic adaptation of it. What has been patchy has been the video games. EA (of all companies) did a brilliant job with the film license, turning over some amazing titles like The Battle For Middle Earth and The Third Age. Warner Bros, which has had the license in recent years... has not done so well. The two Assassin's Creed clones were decent enough though barely representative of Tolkien, and otherwise it's been everything from forgettable MMOs to even more forgettable MOBAs.

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