{"id":1438,"date":"2025-07-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:04:50","slug":"review-tales-of-the-shire-a-the-lord-of-the-rings-game-switch-the-hobbit-or-there-it-crashed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/review-tales-of-the-shire-a-the-lord-of-the-rings-game-switch-the-hobbit-or-there-it-crashed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Tales Of The Shire: A The Lord Of The Rings Game (Switch) &#8211; The Hobbit, Or &#8220;There It Crashed Again&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We don&#8217;t want any adventures here, thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Lord of the Rings<\/strong> cosy game? Made by Weta Workshop, who made the sets, costumes, and props for the beloved Peter Jackson movie trilogy? Say no more, right?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/tales_of_the_shire_a_the_lord_of_the_rings_game\">Tales of the Shire<\/a> is not the perfect mashup of hobbits and hygge we&#8217;ve all been waiting for, but is instead emblematic of the kind of game development that has failed both its employees and its players. Those employees deserve to have their work appraised for the things they did right despite everything, though \u2014 so I&#8217;ll at least start with that.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/tales-of-the-shire-a-the-lord-of-the-rings-game\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t want any adventures here, thank you. A Lord of the Rings cosy game? Made by Weta Workshop, who made the sets, costumes, and props for the beloved Peter Jackson movie trilogy? Say no more, right? Unfortunately, Tales of the Shire is not the perfect mashup of hobbits and hygge we&#8217;ve all been waiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}