“Matt both loved and hated the game, as much as he loved and hated himself” -Gandalf maybe

5:00 The combined life's work of JRR Tolkien, Stan Lee and Richard Dawkins, summed up in one line: "You'll never get Morbius levels of memes here, Gollum"

Ok, who is with me in the endeavor to make Matt play the entirety of this game one hour at a time?

On the back of the case it could say as flavor text: "Platform as Gollum Take leaps of faith as Gollum So many ways to die as Gollum Good luck I guess?"

Never want to play this but I am morbidly fascinated watching you play a living modern trainwreck.

The only channel that remembers this game's existence, three weeks later. I wouldn't have it any other way.

23:01 I love the little detail that the Strong Bad's face fades out as the Game Over screen fades in. :)

So I guess Gollum won the argument on whether or not you should make more Gollum gameplay vids and insisted on you dealing with more of the game's infinite amount of jank! 😂

This game is indeed precious But in the way someone is precious when you say "bless your heart"

*takes a long sip of Matt’s laugh*

That explosion sounds effect is the same one they use in Bugsnax of all things. When a snax runs at you all angry

Gollum is back on the menu boys.

I don't think it's even worth putting in a stew, unless you want your stew to taste like ass.

Okay, I am not a voice actor, but when my character is falling into lava I think I could muster up more than a noise of mild inconvenience.

Out of all the games this is the one Matt decides to play more of

Congrats on 100 percenting Gollum! I especially liked the part where I wasn't the one playing the game

We need to bully Matt into doing a full play through

please i love watching you suffer with gollum

I legitimately hope this keeps doing so well, Matt has to… uhh, has the pleasure of playing the whole thing.

If we try our best, Matt may very well be the first person to beat this game!

Yes holy smokes, i was so sad when the last episode ended, im glad its getting more!

I need this to be a complete series

32:51 That was a better death-by-jumpscare than the entire _Slender_ and _Five Nights at Freddy's_ franchises combined. Emergent gameplay for the win!

I’m here for more sick Gollum content

Please keep playing because your delight at the stupid ways Gollum can die brings me joy

My favorite part of this game is when Gollum says "It's Gollumin' time" and Gollums all over.

This is great. We need a full playthrough. Listening to the levels of aggravation just increasing in Matt's voice, is extremely entertaining.

Tricksy Hobbitses!

The only good thing to come up from this game are all the funny titles and quotes people use to dunk on it.

Matt: I DEFINITELY won't continue this game, I'll just keep playing until you guys tell me to stop. Michael Jordan: I TOOK THAT PERSONALLY

Playing this game is very appropriate of you Matt, and I wouldn’t have it any other way

Now that I think about it, Gollum is the guy that beats Sauron in the end. So it's kind of a bold move to make a whole game that exclusively covers the hero's lowest point in this hero's journey.

You've committed to it now Matt, give over to it. Embrace the power. Play to the end.

Just not the best sign if one of the more memorable moments of the game is the ability to get close on Gollum's taint.

I don't know what you're going through, Matt, but I can assure you that it will get better. You don't have do this to yourself. There is good in this world even if it doesn't look apparent. Just stop hurting yourself like this...

I've reached new levels of appreciation for Grond ever since I learned its name basically means "Chungus" in one of their language.

More please. I haven't had enough second breakfast

I never would’ve thought that you’re doing a second play through of this game. I thought it’ll drive you mad like Gollum here.

I'm willing to bet that this game was given to a dev team inexperienced with this genre, who cobbled together whatever they could to keep their jobs. Then the publisher said "good enough, these idiots will buy anything" and rushed out the finished product. So basically modern western game development in a nutshell.

I demand more.

"...like, half the game is in prison, and trying to do prison break." We're gonna get...*CAUGHT*, Precious!

Matt - "You asked for more Gollum?" Everyone - "No." Matt - "YOUR GETTING MORE GOLLUM"

On the one hand, I enjoy watching Matt play this. On the other hand though, I think this game is taking years off his life.

You can hear Matt love for this game grow more throughout the video lol also the lava level is beautiful you get to hear Gollum moan in pain and pleasure

You've officially gotten farther than any other person I know. Now you have to finish it!

2:18 no no, half the game is in ORC prison. The other half? Elf prison.

Boil it, mash it, stick in the bin!

22:50 Oh my fuck, a Dangeresque reference. Bless you.

Is it too soon to do a "What Happened" for this game?

Someone on the dev team played Styx and was like: "Yo, what if you only played as Rakash? That would be cool."

There's a breeding puzzle later, where you make a horrible looking bird.

The game told you to jump! You were just doing what you were told.

At the 10 second mark lol

There should be a Jedi Power Battles version where you can do stingers! Maybe the mod community can work some magic here...

I'm rewatching lotr, and 2002 CGI Gollum looks so much better than 2023 Gollum

I can't believe they won't even let you take louse

I accept your burial of Creed WITH ARMS WIDE OPEN!!

I have a lot of love and respect for Matt. His videos always make me laugh and I find is insight on gaming to be interesting....that being said...I want to see this man play this awful awful game to completion and then to platinum it. Suffer just like Sauron would have wanted.

I regret to inform you Matt, I want more. I would like to watch you finish this game tbqh

RUN, Matt! RUN!!

"Next objective: Jump... Game Over. You are dead." What do you want, game?

6:02 GA!

Objective: Jump Game: no, not like that.

this is one of those games "it's so bad that is good" like movies xD

Yes! Play the game some more. It's great amusement!

Yes, precious, give us moooreee...

I played the shit out of that Hobbit game when I was little and I still stand by it as the best adaptation of the story out there.. It captures the spirit of the book way better than the movies did imo and I don't even mind the Hobbit movies, but they'll never be The Hobbit (2003) for Playstation 2.

Man keep this up ...I am laughing so hard 😂🎉🎉

If only this Gollum could've gotten the Rankin Bass/Jr skin in this game. Could've made some things a little better lol!

You've basically seen all there is to see. Unless you want bird breeding.

I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT Are the lemurs from Madagascar also in Sauron's prison?

keep playing, we gots to know

Please finish and complete this game😊❤

I can't wait for part 3 :P

More more MORE!!

FINISH IT FINISH IT

But what if we haven't had enough until you finish...?

You havent gotten to the water room yet!

12:51 I think I’ll go play some Nier: Automata now.

The voice actor of Heropon Riki (Xenoblade) is the voice of this Gollum. Ugh I can't with the death sounds, it's so bad lol

Hey, Matt McMuscles. You should play a '90s fighting game called Aggressors of Dark Kombat for your next Arcade playthrough.

Playing Diablo while listening to this, I am a peacemaker

Gollum is a game that asks so much from you for no reward at all. It is literally a game without rewards. The collectibles are there only to be collected just because games have to have collectibles, only they forgot to give you anything to encourage looking for them (yknow, like concept art or behind the scenes extras or a secret ending for getting them all). Even fucking Indigo Prophecy had rewards for its collectibles. Your choices mean nothing, you can complete the self-arguments with minimal consequence or struggle. Your bird will always look a single way at the end of the game despite the appearance options you choose for it. Control is taken away from you in critical cutscenes where you should be the one taking certain actions, in favor of more busywork and platforming. This is not a game you "win". Gollum is a character who, by his nature in the middle of the story, can have no satisfying narrative conclusions here. It just takes and takes and takes.

I’m only now just hearing about a PS2 Hobbit game apparently existing. Genuinely didn’t know. Anyway, I’m totally down from more of this. Nice touch with Terminator sound effects btw.

More golem

You all better watch this, the suffering is delicious.

I like stealth games and thats the only thing I heard about this Gollum game, but it looks more of a early 2000 action adventure game with platforming and stealth. Oh! Could it be, that THIS is Beyond Good and Evil 2? 🤣

Want more Gollum game

Full playthrough

you know a game is bad when you think “geez even Gollum deserves better then that.”

Is this a tomb raider clone? 😆 can't wait for the Air Gollum shoe DLC. thanks for playing. You should beat the game!

Nah you gotta finish it matt

Sorry, bro but now I must see you go through all this jank til the end. 😂

I tried to go back and listen to that higher song by Creed thanks to OSW. It wasnt as bad as I remember, but it also wasnt good, either.

Why can't you play as the Frail Man? He's arguably much more interesting.

I really hate that Matt knows about Baby Gronk

The thing about bad games is that usually they are still fun to watch people make fun of This isnt the case here outside of gollum itself everything is do bland with dark areas and mud colors and just the most generic voice acting possible The font is boring, the story is boring, the gameplay is boring, etc It isnt ever weird its just boring

Ok so can we keep asking you to do more videos until you DO finish the game

I feel bad for the devs of this game. They clearly got this project dumped on them and lost their jobs because of it.

I would definitely watch a full LP of this nonsense