The first story expansion for Middle-earth: Shadow of War – “The Blade of Galadriel” – cuts itself off from the microtransactions, giving away a separate plot with the new heroine. The assassin of Galadriel, however, does not quite fit into the basic assumptions of the Shadow of War.
Controversial Middle-earth: Shadow of War got a strong 9/10 from me, despite all the confusion with the endgame grind and the “real” ending hidden behind it. I’ll admit right away – no, until today I have not completed this repeated conquest and defense of fortresses. Soon after the premiere Middle-earth appeared Assassin’s Creed Origin and I preferred to platinum this beautiful adventure in Egypt than to torture myself with sieges over and over again. I got to know the plot of Talion’s adventure, I collected the collectibles, I completed the sets of items – I was full. He plans to return to these fortresses one day (preferably armed with a dozen overdue podcasts in the background), while the recently released story expansion had no problems attracting me to the console again.
“Galadriel’s Blade”Depicts what happened to the elven assassin Eltariel after her final scene from the base game. Avoiding major spoilers, let me just write that the heroine must now convince the hated orcs to help her conquer fortresses … Yes, we are getting another series of sieges! But more about that soon. Before that, I must warn you that there is something much worse – the plot of this DLC. Eltariel is as sexless and boring as in the stand, and every decision she makes, however irrational it may be, always turns out to be the right one. “Why didn’t she give it to him?”, “Why did she do that?”, “What’s the point if …” – by paying minimal attention to the events of the expansion, you will quickly notice how many inaccuracies in the story are here. I’m not even talking about the events of the movies (which the expansion tries to allude to) anymore, but that doesn’t make sense even with the Shadow of War story! Well, at least the orcs are funny …
Exactly, orcs. Eltariel decided not to dominate them like Talion, but in keeping with the fact that everything works out for her and is so perfect – they join her. The main story missions are about getting the orcs to enjoy simple activities and sieges. We do not dominate the orcs, we do not influence their ranks, we do not take command – we only fight. “Galadriel’s Blade”Simply abandons the most original mechanics that made the whole game famous, the Nemesis system. Fortunately, since we have no influence on the choice of allies, it was possible to prepare more interesting personalities and what would happen to them. An orc-architect who tears down (and at the same time criticizes!) A hostile wall, brothers fixed on the point of explosions or a gallant bodyguard already have more character in their first dialogue lines than Eltariel after all the Shadow of War and his own DLC.
The plot sucks, the heroine sucks, the Nemesis system has been fired – are there any bright spots (apart from the orcs, of course)? Eltariel is played a bit differently than Talion. Her light abilities allow you to blind and damage enemies from a distance, making her a great character to control larger groups of enemies on the battlefield (so-called crowd control). With his quick fireflies, he can keep up to 5 or 6 orcs at a distance! Additionally, it can heal itself and create blinding traps, and it can kill enemies charged with light with one shot. After finding better gear than the basic one (and there are some new sets), I even felt that the game had become too easy. However, I did not have time to feel bored, because after 2-3 hours I saw the final cutscene – and this was playing without rushing and collecting new legendary items. For PLN 63 it is a LITTLE little.
“Galadriel’s Blade”Wanted to introduce something fresh with Eltariel’s Light Powers, but in the end we got extremely poor DLC. There are no new locations here, the plot is boring and silly, the heroine is impossible to like, and the Nemesis system is put aside. The heroine skin for Talion is also not very tempting. This is a typical DLC without much thought for itself, released, because AAA game must have story additions to call an additional hundred (or even more!) For the season pass. I didn’t need a repeat of “The Hidden Ones“To Assassin’s Creed Origins, unfortunately I was disappointed again.
The game was reviewed on PS4 Pro
We received the code for the season pass from Warner Bros. Interactive
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