Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Blade of Galadriel

Its short story missions are creative and its colorful uruks are good splashes of personality, but the repetitive battles against more than a dozen Legendary uruks get old, even with the promise of new gear sets.

It’s a decent DLC, but also a redundant one. Shadow of War’s core gameplay is still entertaining, but Blade of Galadriel offers merely around three hours of new story content and no side activities apart from killing captains for legendary gear, which is moderately engaging pastime. [04/2018, p.74]

Blade of Galadriel is much more to the point, without much of the same flair -- either the good or the bad.

The Galadriel Blade is too lazy to represent a virtuous extension of Shadow of War.

Contrary to popular opinion, I don’t think the length of this DLC was much of an issue. Eltariel is a bit limited in her customization options, and a lot of what she offers has already been seen in Talion, including her kill animations. That said, I had a decent time playing Blade of Galadriel. It’s bot exceptional by any means, but it’s decent enough. I do enjoy Eltariel’s unique abilities, but they are few, and she often faces enemies that are immune to her light type abilities - which reminds you that Talion has more to offer in any given situation and seems like a bit of a weird design choice to me. Speaking of design, in order to get the new legendary rank equipment in this expansion, you have to beat various enemies in what often boils down to a rock/paper/scissors situation where the elemental damage granted by your gear is the key to beating them. This system might appeal to some people, but I didn’t enjoy having to cheese some of the enemies that were resistant to almost everything I threw at them. Even with the right gear, the way those few enemies are designed to be beaten seemed to drag out the battles in a way that didn’t make much sense to me. All in all, those who like the base game will likely enjoy Blade of Galadriel as well, but they kept things very close to what the base game offers and didn’t seem to put in a ton of effort to make the experience feel unique or notably worthwhile. Like other critics, I also don’t appreciate race/gender/diversity politics that aren’t handled in an organic fashion that makes sense to the plot and lore of the game. I wasn’t particularly bothered by it in this game, but it’s a trend that, more often than not, does the developers no favors in winning over potential consumers. It can be very immersion-breaking, and it risks disrespecting the players who truly care about the integrity of the lore.

After such waiting that is the first piece of expansion we get ? Imagine how the second one will turn out to be. Utterly disappointing like this one i suppose. Don't get me wrong is not a bad dlc but definitely not worthing the Gold edition label or the price tag for it at the moment. Graphically is outstanding just like the base game, Eltariel is a re-skin of Talion which was predictable and at some points it's so obvious that it was hilarious, you will understand when you see it at a certain siege later in the story. The story is really sort and all the extras ( almost nothing ) are not worthing the time you are most likely thinking to spend in the game. There is nothing new unfortunately at some points it tries to bound together some plotholes from the base game but i believe it was a lackluster effort.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]