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[ABANDONED] Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Game Boy Advance); One ring to rule them all. One ring to find them. One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Topic Started: Nov 18 2014, 09:58 PM (370 Views)
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What can I say about the Lord of the Rings? Well, it's one of the most influential series- that I know of- of books and movies ever to grace the world. And with hundreds of games based on the books made across the early 90's, who wouldn't expect games made of the movies made in the early 2000's? Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy really pushed the envelope in my opinion and the games take this to a whole new level. And our good ol' friends at Electronic Arts brought us games based on this trilogy- oh I'm sorry did I say trilogy? Well, actually EA made two of the four games (Counting the hobbit). The Hobbit, having been made by Sierra Entertainment, and the Fellowship of the Ring, having been made by Vivendi Universal, both are based on the books, while Two Towers and Return of the King were made to the effect that they follow the movies instead. Now that that convoluted speech is done, let's move on to the plot of the series in a short summary.

In the Second Age of Middle-Earth, rings were crafted to give enough strength and will to govern each race in the world. Three rings were given to the Elves, seven to the dwarf lords, and nine to the race of men. However, they were deceived by this and another ring, the One Ring, was made in the Land of Mordor by the dark lord Sauron in the fires of Mount Doom. A battle occurred on the ground of Mordor and Sauron was defeated. The ring had passed down to a warrior of Gondor and the heir to the throne, Isildur, who had the chance to destroy the ring but didn't. He was slain during an ambush by a group of Mordor orcs. And the ring fell to the bottom of the river where it was found by Gollum a whole age later, who took it deep into the Misty Mountains, where it left him after 3500 years to go to Bilbo Baggins. His nephew, Frodo Baggins, takes up the task of sending the ring back to the firey chasm from whence it came.

OK, so EA made the Two Towers game in 2002 for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, XBOX, and Game Boy Advance. We will be tackling the Game Boy Advance version due to ease of emulation.

In the next post, the beginning of this LP.
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Chapter 1: Prologue



And so it begins. The above video is the link to the GameCube/PS2/XBOX intro movie, as the GBA's intro shows small clips from Fellowship and Towers showcasing each playable character without any sound, just the Bridge of Khazad-Dum music from the Character Select.

But now for the main event:

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The title screen which is not so fancy today. but anyways...

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The playable characters are Aragorn, heir to the throne of Gondor and whom we will be playing as for the remainder of this LP...

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Gandalf the White (formerly Gandalf the Grey)...

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Frodo Baggins, our Ringbearer...

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Legolas the Elf...

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and finally Eowyn, the niece of Theoden, king of Rohan.


Chapter 1A: Recollection - The Pass of Carahdras

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The army of Rohan and elves are preparing for the attack on Helm's Deep. Aragorn, whom is getting ready himself, stumbles upon who else but Eowyn.

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As she has said above, she has been tasked with the protection of the refugees in the caves under Helm's Deep.

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And now Eowyn, being the caring individual she is, sees fit to ask Aragorn what is troubling him. When there is a massive army of Uruk-Hai approaching. Great time management, guys.

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He is a friend. A friend I swore to protect before leaving Rivendell. But in the safety of Elrond's house, how could we know what perils awaited us?

And he answers that he's worried for the wee Hobbit carrying the weight of a thousand suns on his shoulders to get the ring destroyed. Whom Eowyn knows nothing about, so he also explains what happened in Fellowship, again while there is a massive army of Uruk-Hai approaching from the north.

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And so he starts by telling her of the Pass of Carahdras. And now finally the game starts.

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You'll notice that the game is significantly different than the console versions in that the game is an overhead perspective, much like Diablo II, but much less demons and more Lord of the Rings. Anywho, the game starts off dumping you on the road right next to Carahdras.

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This game also utilizes a backpack system. You'll notice that there are not that many slots. This is as many slots as you get. None other than that. The control scheme is also quite convoluted as well. The L button switches the current ability that your character can use while the R button picks up items. Normally this would be dedicated to the A button but in this game, the A button uses the ability selected with the L button. The B button is used for attacking. And let me tell you, Aragorn is hard to attack people with due to his inability to fire projectiles. Gandalf can fire projectiles using his staff and Legolas uses his bow, naturally. Frodo doesn't have any attacks like this to my knowledge, but he can use the Ring at will to go into the Wraith realm. This, however, draws the attention of Sauron. So now that that explanation is done, next part we actually start exploring the Pass of Carahdras.
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I had a crap ton of fun with this game when I played it, I'm all nostalgic watching you play it now. Very well done.
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Moved to Abandoned Archive.
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