Luckily there is a way around this to get an achievement and it's easy to find if you google it. I will say there is an achievement where you have to beat The Mines of Moria in under 15 minutes which is practically impossible. Some of the achievements were really fun to figure out how to get and unique to character stories and overall different the achievements I had to get in other games. Some of the minikits were pretty difficult to find and I found myself returning to level sometimes 3 or 4 times to fully complete them. I appreciate how much more challenging the minkit and special item collecting was in comparison to Lego Marvel Superheroes and this probably attributed to why it took me so long to finish.

The voice acting was also a major bonus and while I know this is something that people have come to expect from a Lego game, some of us still remember the no voices of the Lego Harry Potter series that made that game seriously lacking. I love how the developers where able to recreate everything perfectly including the music and it really just sucks you in. Having an open world Middle-Earth is absolutely magical with the option of both following the story and exploring on your own doing quests for other people. I think if you'v ever wanted to play a game that is an accurate representation of LotR from look to story that there is no better game to turn to than this one. Second thing I want to mention is that I believe the 52 hours is not a fair representation on how long it actually takes to beat this game, probably more along the lines of 40 - 45 hours but I do remember bullshitting a lot in the game when i first played it because I was so enamored with exploring Middle-Earth and doing random stuff. I find with these Lego games it's best to beat them and then come back to 100% them because the process of 100%ing them is pretty draining towards the end haha.

First is that I've returned to this game after beating it and that this wasn't one continual play through to the end. Review: A couple things I want to mention at the top of this review. In game pictures: Lego LotR Pic 1 / Lego LotR Pic 2 / Lego LotR Pic3

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