The Lord of The Rings: The Third Age - Personal Challenge - 10

Facing the Balrog: A Long, Hard Fight!

I felt like revisiting this amazing game. But since there weren’t any mods that gave me a fresh experience, I decided to come up with my own challenge.

Using the PCSX2 emulator, the game runs at speed 1.2, for this playthrough, I added a few rules to make things tougher:
win all battles (without using Retreat or All Retreat);
do not use Save Points (saving the game via the emulator’s save state function);
Note: except at the beginning of each region, as it is a necessary condition to access Evil Mode.
do not use Perfect Mode;
do not use Elfstone Skills (Craft Item, Shadowcraft, and Lightcraft);
do not use the skills Crippling Shot and Crippling Smash to delay enemy turns (they may only be used as negative status effects);
do not use Elegost's ability Arrows of Sleep after acquiring his passive abilities Sleep Volley and Lingering Sleep;
do not use multi-hit combo attack skills (Citadel Rage, Ecthelion Wrath, Gondor Rampage, Elven Rage, Gil-galad Rampage, Mountain Rage, Durin Wrath, Rampage of Durin, Wrath of Penmark, Rohirric Rampage, Rohirrim Rage, Wrath of Edoras, and Rampage of Helm);
do not use Berethor's abilities "War Call" and "War Cry";
do not use extra action abilities ("Double Attack" and "Frenzy");
do not use guest characters (as they cannot be removed or eliminated, they will only use “skip”);
Note: except during the battle against the Balrog, as it is impossible to withstand Pillar of Wrath without using Gandalf’s Endure Shadow skill.
do not use cheats/scene skips;
complete 100% of all quests.

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