From the initial boot onward Alekhine's Gun has not had much going on for it.

The experience felt very cheaply put together, a sort of Hitman Blood Money in a different timeline without any of the polish, the screenshots looked super promising and really raised my expectations that were sadly quickly shattered.

There is however still fun to be had it is just that during all of my in game time I kept wishing that I would be spending my session in any other stealth focused video game.

Still, I was determined to at least check a few more levels out after spending a pair of hours exploring and eventually completing the first one. I truly wanted to give the game a bit more of a chance seeing how positively it seems to live on in the hearts of fans.

However my session was cut short as a bug made it impossible for me to select continue after the level completion, it is imperative to be clicked on this button as the keyboard won't react in this specific case. My mouse cursor has been invisible ever since even following multiple repairs and reinstalls.

It seems like after my expectations were broken the game decided it shall break itself once and for all, a terrible fate I wish for no game and I do wholeheartedly hope good health to any copy of Alekhine's Gun out there and to their respective owners.

As of now I am quite unfamiliar with the lord of the rings universe hence why the story might not have grabbed me however I do believe the delivery here is not on point.

I truly believe that this game simply does not leave you the time to actually figure anything out, it throws you in an open world telling you all these things, dumping numerous mechanics and characters on you. I felt like I truly did not have the space to appreciate anything I was doing.

The disconnect between me and the game's world has not ceased to grow since my rising disappointment in the initial hours. A certain jankiness is also present that never really ceased to make itself noticed in any aspect of the gameplay be it movement, stealth or combat.

Props deserve to be given to the fun Nemesis system yet everything surrounding it from story to gameplay just failed to make me further interested.