{"id":1171,"date":"2025-07-28T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:11:02","slug":"tales-of-the-shire-switch-review-an-adorable-game-but-a-bust-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/tales-of-the-shire-switch-review-an-adorable-game-but-a-bust-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of the Shire Switch review &#8211; an adorable game but a bust on Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a dangerous business\u201d, Gandalf once said, \u201cgoing out your door\u201d. He could not have been more right, especially when <strong>Tales of the Shire on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2<\/strong> looks the way it does.<\/p>\n<p>What am I rambling about? Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings game has been on most cozy game wishlists for a long while now. W\u0113t\u0101 Workshop and Private Division first announced it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/a-new-lord-of-the-rings-game-is-in-development-from-the-studio-that-helped-build-middle-earth\/\">in 2022<\/a>. It underwent a few delays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tales-of-the-shire-is-a-cozy-lord-of-the-rings-game-from-weta-workshop-152907546.html\">from 2024<\/a> and then into 2025, before solidifying a summer 2025 release. But perhaps it wasn\u2019t long enough.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/tales-of-the-shire\/review\">Tales of the Shire Switch review &#8211; an adorable game but a bust on Switch<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/tales-of-the-shire\/guide\">Tales of the Shire guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a dangerous business\u201d, Gandalf once said, \u201cgoing out your door\u201d. He could not have been more right, especially when Tales of the Shire on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 looks the way it does. What am I rambling about? Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings game has been on most cozy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}