Date played: November 26th
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 10/10
This is it, the last stretch before the end.
I completed all side missions, including the last slave rescue mission. It was actually a bit different than the other ones. I went into a sort of pit where 10 slaves were tied up, then as I freed them, orcs swarmed in and started fighting me. I'm really taking advantage of the combat drain ability to turn orcs to my side and help me take out other orcs. The final sword mission was cool too, it ended up being a bigger mission than intended because I was ambushed by two captains along the way.
I played one story mission. The queen, Lady Marwen, showed me that I could take control of an enemy captain, then command him to take over a Warchief's position. I found a captain, fought him, then when he was weak, I put him under my control. I then commanded him to attack a Warchief. This created a recruitment event, so I gave my struggling little captain some help. I fought off his opponents and helped him become powerful enough to take on the target Warchief. All I had to do was tip the balance in favor of my captain by helping in the battle. We succeeded, so I now had my first Warchief ally since Ratbag.
When I came back to Lady Marwen, she was clearly losing her fucking shit. She got up, muttered some spell, then started pulling my ghost friend out of my body! Her daughter saved Talion by smashing the Queen's staff. Surprisingly, as soon as the staff was destroyed, the Queen was rejuvenated and seemed to become 40 years younger! My next task was to control all 5 Warchiefs so that I could take the last of the Black Hand's guard.
I then went on a mad orc hunt. I used a variety of techniques to gain control of the Warchiefs and had a ton of fun doing it. The system they built for the hierarchy of Sauron's Army is really cool and allows lots of flexibility for the player. After about an hour of fucking around, I had control of all 5 Warchiefs and am ready to move on to the next portion of the story.
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 10/10
This is it, the last stretch before the end.
I completed all side missions, including the last slave rescue mission. It was actually a bit different than the other ones. I went into a sort of pit where 10 slaves were tied up, then as I freed them, orcs swarmed in and started fighting me. I'm really taking advantage of the combat drain ability to turn orcs to my side and help me take out other orcs. The final sword mission was cool too, it ended up being a bigger mission than intended because I was ambushed by two captains along the way.
I played one story mission. The queen, Lady Marwen, showed me that I could take control of an enemy captain, then command him to take over a Warchief's position. I found a captain, fought him, then when he was weak, I put him under my control. I then commanded him to attack a Warchief. This created a recruitment event, so I gave my struggling little captain some help. I fought off his opponents and helped him become powerful enough to take on the target Warchief. All I had to do was tip the balance in favor of my captain by helping in the battle. We succeeded, so I now had my first Warchief ally since Ratbag.
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| This guy is now a Warchief under Talion's control |
I then went on a mad orc hunt. I used a variety of techniques to gain control of the Warchiefs and had a ton of fun doing it. The system they built for the hierarchy of Sauron's Army is really cool and allows lots of flexibility for the player. After about an hour of fucking around, I had control of all 5 Warchiefs and am ready to move on to the next portion of the story.
