Daedalic won't be developing its own games anymore, and while Gollum was quite bad, the company had previously made great point and click adventures.
Ourwas one of its more generous critiques, and Dominic Tarason judged that it"straddles two action genres, and neither holds up to scrutiny." Even in our previews, we just wondered how you make a fun or worthwhile game about an awful little grubby man who roots around in the dirt, collects hair, and everyone hates him. By the way, it's a prequel with a preordained ending so none of this matters.
The result for Daedalic's dev staff feels so sour and pointless though. While that team ultimately created a bad triple-A stealth platformer, it seems like such a waste of the talent. Why try and fit the square peg of your"charming 2D adventure game" development house into the round hole of"let's make a 2012-core action platformer about the Jar-Jar Binks of Middle Earth?" Now 25 people have lost their jobs and we're left with Gollum.
Moving forward, Daedalic will focus exclusively on its publishing business, which has helped create such indie favorites as
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