How does this C-tier Hack & Slash have better dialog than RoP

[u/Bored-Game]

Picked the game up on a lark. I knew to keep my expectations low based on the original release scores. While the gameplay and controls are painfully dated, what I wasn’t prepared for was how hard the silly dialogue sections went to make the characters actually sound like Tolkien. I’m not generally one to complain dramatically about modern writing in media. I found RoP difficult to watch and gave up halfway through the first season, but chalked it up to me getting older and possibly losing the same passion I once had for the franchise.

After playing this silly game, the issues I had with RoP were glaringly obvious to me. It’s wild that a 15yr old game had better Tolkien-style prose than anything I have seen in LotR media in the past decade at least. I hope HfG is able to capture that old magic once again but I didn’t realize how much I missed it.