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Friday, October 25, 2024 4:39:06 PM

Middle-earth: Shadow of War Review (Whatnot Awot)

Here is my Nemesis Story for the game from when I had it on Xbox 7 years ago. Some details are dramatized and may be out of proportion.
Upon completing act one and finally being able to dominate orcs I met my first rival. Tugog Gold Theif from the Outlaw Tribe. He kept cheating death and returning. Eventually it got so bad I ran away to Gorgoth where I decided I could be left alone away from him. I was wrong, he followed me to Gorgoth. He didn't stop at just following me though, he then went on a killing rampage there and became a level 51 overlord in Gorgoth despite the fact that we were still in the early game in the twenty-thirty levels. I tried to send 5 spies to kill him but he managed to kill them all and become level 60 so now my game progress has been stalled by this Tugog Gold Theif and so I dominated every orc in the region and sent them to spy on him. Now I return to the throne room and proceed to 20v1 the guy with my like 19 spies and he actually kills most of them before dying but he falls. Finally, my game is at peace without him!
... or so I thought but then he returned again. so I decided if he wasn't going to leave me alone he could at least be on my side so I shamed him down and recruited the dude but he betrayed me in 5 seconds flat. Afterwards, I jumped him with 2 of my captains and shame him down so that if he was going to harass me, he would so as a low leveled fodder. I was wrong. After excessive shaming, he became a maniac and actually leveled up to like level 65 screaming his lungs out, keep in mind we're still in the early-game here. He proceeds to go on another killing spree and is at this point reaching max level in the early-game and becomes a legendary orc.
I return to the first option of running away to a different region. This time he does not follow me and since he's in a region controlled by me he can't become overlord this time. I decide it's time to just speedrun the campaign and ignore him. Surprisingly, beating the campaign was faster then dealing with him.
After I arrived at the end game I decided it was time to return and finish the fight. I shamed out his iron will and recruited him. This time I promoted him to overlord before he even had a chance to betray me. Now I sent him a one way ticket to a place I know that would take care of him real good... the online overlord fight pits. To no ones surprised he was curb stomped in the first round and marked dead and was finally out of my game and was promptly replaced by another less annoying character.
Fun game. Could play for several hundred hours. Glad this went on sale for 90% off.