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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (unlicensed)

Overview

The game is best described as a Pocky & Rocky / Kiki Kaikai clone. It's an overhead view game that has your character going through the level while confronting hordes of enemies that get in your path. Collecting orbs that enemies occasionally drop levels up your projectile, the highest level allowing you to shoot many of them in all directions. Each level starts off with a screen taken from The Fellowship of the Ring movie with a narrative of the team going to areas that were not even in the movie. As such, most of the levels bear no resemblance to anywhere that is explored in the movie. There are 8 levels total in the game, each with two acts except for level 7. At the end of each level is a boss, most of the time also not representing anything that appeared in the movie, such as a giant octopus that you fight on a raft or a giant scorpion in the desert.

The playable characters are Aragorn, Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Legolas, and Gimli, who only superficially resemble their respective characters from the Peter Jackson movies and take on more anime-styled fantasy designs in the game. In all currently dumped versions (the English version and 魔戒奇兵, the original Chinese version), the characters use different names, the names used differing in each version. In the original Chinese version, Aragorn is named Shredder (史瑞德), Frodo is named Roger (羅金斯), Gandalf is named Glenda (葛蘭達), Legolas is named Alice (亞拉斯), and Gimli is named Jerry (傑力). In the English version, Aragorn is named Sherd (he is named "SherdSherd" in the intro), Frodo is named Rojins, Gandalf is named Granda ("GrandaGranda" in the intro), Legolas is named Alias, and Gimli is named Jali.

The Chinese version of the game was developed and published by Vast Fame. The English version was published by New Game Color Advance.

Developers
Vast Fame
Alternate Names
  • 魔戒奇兵
  • Mo Jie Qi Bing
  • Mo Jie Qibing
Wikipedia
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Media

Box - Back

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Screenshot - Gameplay

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