Wednesday 27 February, 2008

A note between my assignment entries - one of the strangest choices they made in this game was to change any part of the plot that would deny you a hero unit (no dropping Gandalf off the bridge in Moria, Boromir survives Amon Fen, ect. This might be understandable if to do otherwise would cause a hero shortage, but the Fellowship missions suffer from acute hero glut.

It's kind of funny if you think about it, no? Boromir and Gandalf's deaths (or disappearance) play a really important role in terms of the original narrative and your observation is a pretty telling example of how distanced the game's design is from the source material. I'm not saying this is a bad thing...