I totally agree with this yet some people are nitpicking saying “now the isu sucks” no one sees how the world was expanded properly with an actual reason and not just some random BS
@@ahmedsachwani2868 I admit, I got incredibly burnt out playing Valhalla. The way alliances were executed was terrible. It made me forget about characters almost instanteously. But the introduction of lore, and the Asgardian levels, and the complexity of Odin & Eivor's conflict, was amazing.
@@MrAlittleparty for me it was the way way too big map that was littered with small chests wealth mystery and artifacts. My guy I swear oxenfordshire took me hours upon hours to clean up so that I could play the story without interruption. I’m not saying collectibles are bad but having tooo many can be bad
@@ahmedsachwani2868 it’s not that bad I’ve collected all wealth points and finished all mysteries and all artifacts with all story arcs completed including Asgard and jotunheim in 58 hrs, it wasn’t my first playthrough tho
@@toodapack4975 man it burned me out especially the cairns it took me literally 4 hours in oxenFord shire alone. The thing is for me I bought the game to play a story not see a map littered with shit. Plus 58 hours of running doing only collectibles that is waaaay too long man
Darby is a national treasure. The stuff he and the creative team did with additions to the ac lore and crafting a thematically rich experience has to be appreciated. I hope more fans warm up to Valhalla as the years go by, as it does contain a LOT of what made the og's great and crafts such an emotional roller coaster of a journey. Stuff like the noden's arc, the md connections, the mystery, a world full of secrets to find etc. will hopefully be appreciated more in the future.
I honestly like a lot about Valhalla I don’t like rpg but I’m willing to compromise the only one singular thing I completely hate about Valhalla is the fucking humongous map. It’s way too big
I couldn't agree more. I feel like this game deserves more praise than people are giving it credit for right now.... But hopefully it will be remembered as one of the best. The post launch support has been abysmal though.... I get it covid makes it hard but it seems like they're not even trying.
I don't think that will happen nothing pleases AC fans anymore like I get microtransactions and that but there's gold under the dirt that doesn't ruin it and there's the people who have clearly given up yet come back to like the twitter page or YT vid to stir shit up then the comments begin to flow with toxic crap its sad really
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I listened to this in the car today and hearing Darby made me fall in love with Valhalla again. His passion for AC just shines through. I think I'll need to play through Valhalla again, seeing that he did also mention that there's something about playing it the second time when you can connect the dots earlier. Cant wait to see where he'll take the franchise next!
Acually I'd LOVE to see animus anomalies in ac origins, because egipt fits much more for this, and seeing map from above would be pretty cool. Beyond that they have said at some point that egyptian Isu are diffrent clan, and I'd also love to see that, as in origins there were barley anything about them, maybe some connection with Eden as it was city placed in Africa or sth.
Valhalla's narrative has now opened so many doors for future AC games. I just hope that it's not all undone by the next game's writers who decide the things that actually make sense within the lore don't fit what they feel should be how things happen, and retcon what has been established and re-strengthened by Valhalla, especially after what happened with Odyssey.
darby is genuinely one of the wisest and smartest video game narrative directors ever. he understands the lore he created and didn’t create while also taking other ideas into considerations to make people happy too. he’s a national treasure
Darby really did a great job connecting everything. Unfortunately, that means Valhalla would have been the perfect game to release alongside an AC1 remaster/remake. I hope it still happens.
@@diegoestmar559 What's your gaming platform, man? I'm not sure about Playstation but they're all on Xbox One. The old ones are not that outdated but yeah, I'd love a remake!
Tbh this feels like a weird division to me, because now they're saying different mythological histories were different Isu people, but at the same time Minerva is also Gunlodr and Suttungr is Jupiter and it's all a mess now. They've done a bunch of things that make it all less sensical.
I disagree with Darby regarding the present day. He said that he wanted the present day to be more integrated into the game to avoid having to leave the past to be in the present, and then re-enter the animus because according to the players it was frustrating. For me, personally I never found it frustrating to play the part of the present as it was an important part of the plot of the conflict between assassins and templars. It's the only thing I don't agree with Darby on. Then the rest of the interview I found very interesting the details that he gives about how they were doing the project.
@@David-nq8cv Well, I was not referring specifically to unity and syndicate since the present in those games are practically null given to cinematics. Even in assassin's creed black flag change the part of the present day.
I agree that the present day is intriguing, but Darby isn't referring to us few that actually enjoy it. He's referring to the masses that just want to play in the historical setting. The players that don't actually appreciate the AC lore. He was saying he was trying to integrate the present day without forcing a full-stop to the action in the historical setting so that those players who are not interested in it may actually take time to appreciate it, rather than just get frustrated with the forced pause and jarring removal into the rather stagnant (in comparison) present day.
It’s just the logic that I find flawed. People get upset with the present day because there isn’t much gameplay, so just...put gameplay in the present? As in, put a significant portion of the game (20-30%) in the present.
The little things they put in this game made me love it. It's like they knew they could put an amazing story under all the commercial stuff the higher ups wanted and they did it unlike the odyssey team
Yes, it can run any kind of simulation based on any kind of condition. But to be honest the Eye from the Grand Temple of Assassin's Creed 3 could create any calculation too (although it seems like you could just see them on a screen, not walk within them)
Yes and no from what I gather. While it is creating a simulation, that simulation isn't created from nothing, but drawn from a possibility in the calculations of existence. However, as these possibilities are infinite as far as we know, there would be little practical difference. It's the Matrix in practice, but deviates in concept regarding how it arrives at the results if I understand correctly.
Listening to Darby is very interesting, but I'm still wondering why it does not show very well in the game. Overall, the story of Valhalla is pretty meh, with exception of the very last part (Yggdrasil tree) which felt very cool (and confusing at first). I feel like the Narrative team has done a good job, but not a great one. Which is sad because they had a lot of potential.
Exactly bro! When playing it, felt more like conquering England. Personally for me they exhausted me out with the wealth, mysteries ect on repeat in every land. Like you said they needed to be more clearer. Dont make most of ac valhalla in mysteries and riddles.
Hey there Access The Animus. Hope you are doing good. Nice video again. I love how you are working so hard to give us content. Your content always ceases to surprise me because it's usually about the things that I didn't give a lot of interest in. But as soon as I started watching your videos, I have become more and more interested, more and more amazed and rather curios and curiouser about the secrets of Assassin's Creed. Last but not least, An amazing video again.
Wish they would just decide on one cannon character doesn’t matter if male or female. I feel like it divides the fan base up. Personally I like male Eivor because I feel like the voice acting for him was 1000x better and I played as both.
@@m3rl1on I understand that women in video games are under represented and I have no problem with a main character of a video game being female as long as the voice actor and writing team do a great job portraying that characters and bringing that character to life. Look outside of ubi like Tomb Raider fantastic team behind everyone absolutely delivers, Last of us 2 no problem the teams took care of that as well but at least we all know those are cannon characters, there’s no division in the fan base for those actions. If they wanted female eivor as cannon why add the male version to the game? Gamers don’t fight over genders (least from what I’ve seen) we fight over random stuff either be romance options or choices throughout a game. Odyssey was meant for kassandra no doubt between the story, voice acting and just the overall feel of the game was meant for her no issue there, I just feel the story (in my opinion) that Valhalla was written for male eivor, his voice acting like I said was 1000x better than the female version, the story overall felt like it was for him. Especially being a descendant of Odin and Sigurd being Tyr, on top of that the option to romance Randvi just cause Sigurd is out doing his own thing and not caring for her. Just overall (to me at least) felt more of male eivor story. But if they went ahead and said that female eivor was cannon I wouldn’t have a problem with it. The only problem I have is the grey area they leave these wonderful characters in. We all love this franchise and want it to be taken care of with love and respect not only for the franchise itself but for its fans and to leave characters in a grey area just upsets me.
@@KillswitchSaint what you feel about who should be canon or not is subjective, what voice you prefer is subjective. Game was designed for Eivor not Odin. I won't even say female Eivor because it's disservice to the protagonist. The entire Layla trilogy was supposed to be female centric - Aya, Kassandra, Eivor. Just because you like the performance of Odin voice it doesn't mean that developers and director wanted male viking. Eivor is only female name. Varinsdottir means Varin's daughter. In comics and lore female is canon. In their office the post developers put on the wall is with Eivor, not Odin. And it was 10 thousands times explained that Ubisoft executives force male protagonist to be available. Because those executives live in the past and think AC wouldn't sell so well without dudebros having the possibility to play male character. And yes it sucks to have gender choice especially that the marketing team forces noncanon character on the cover. It divides fandom with constant fights who is better. Makes unnecessary fights. Toxicity is high. It's tiring. And people like us waste time on this discussion while executives laugh and swim in money.
@@KillswitchSaint one thing worth mentioning regarding the reincarnations of Odin and Tyr is that the story heavily hints at Eivor to be canonically female (apart from her name). All reincarnations share the same gender and are similar in looks and that's why Basim was so interested in Sigurd because he knew that Sigurd is Tyr. Meanwhile he didn't want to kill Eivor for the entire game until very end because Eivor was an exception to this rule. Eivor was female and looked nothing like Odin (while male Eivor is 1:1 Odin from memories) and that's why Basim didn't realize it until late game. Hence during their final fight Basim says "For too long I stared at the sun! It blinded me to the truth. That it was you. It was you I wanted all along." He wouldn't sit and chat with Odin at campfire. He would fucking kill him if he knew. Basim despises Odin.
@@David-nq8cv well "good" is almost always a questionable word to describe a person who kills people, whether they do it for a good purpose or for revenge
In this interview, Darby said that since Assassin's Creed is science fiction and not fantasy, the idea of "prophecy" is actually memory. So what is the explanation for the prophecies of Besa and the Oracle from Origins, and even for the Pig of Prophecy from Valhalla?
My issues with the game With the whole gender choices maybe the Layla Avatar thing might have worked better just cause from what we know about sages with Aita is that most of them had heterochromia and they could only be born male this kinda just makes sage a bit more convoluted than necessary, besides Darby is a fantastic character writer and the gender choices and dialogue options (which still don’t make sense) kinda limit is ability to make a good character driven story, Basim returning I’m not on board with because 100% he should totally be dead or at least is body a millennium of no sustenance and on top of that a 8 year constant barrage of heat and radiation that killed Layla’s body with a couple minutes of exposure when she dropped the staff, The Yggdrasil I’m okay with the Isu are clairvoyant and use technology to boost that ability makes sense. The sagas on the other hand (I didn’t really like, I preferred sequences and the RPG trilogy dropping them never made sense to me) didn’t really work for me I get why the story was structured that way as a writing decision I just didn’t see the appeal, I liked the Animus Anomalies though
Those with hererochromia are all Aita, he was special case, the rest of them were reborn only once and seems like they could be born as anyone. as for the gender choice, here it makes some sense, because in reality Eivor was always Female, you just choose what is animus going to display, reason for that is certain amount of Odin's DNA mixed with Eivor's DNA, in Odyssey it made no sense at all with the DNA on spear.
Oh man, I thought it wasn't perfect but didn't think it was *that* bad :D We'll try and be better in the future though, thanks for mentioning this! - Markuz
@@AdityaSathya Ohhh :D I'm always trying to get better, that's why I try and learn from every comment (even it's not targeted to me apparently :P) - Markuz
I'm a bit confused by the portion he speaks about Basim being the cause of the new solar flare danger. Which got me thinking, did the game ever explain how Basim got stuck in the grey for him to be there when Layla got there and freed him?
It implied they had aircraft IE Ra’s sunboat and Helios chariot were probably those things. They probably wasn’t able to make spacecrafts in time to escape the solar flare which would go through the entire system.
The way Darby talks makes Odyssey feel like a very second-class-citizen in terms of its relevance to the lore, which I agree with personally as it was by far the least 'assassin's creed' assassin's creed to me! But, how do you think we should view its level of being canon, or what is retained, compared to Origins and Valhalla?
the different studios don't seem to talk much very much between project,he say odyssey did this what do we do with it ? They don't seem to work together to make something that make sense from game to game.Not that Origin left something to work with,ac1 to ac 3 are connected,I hope they do something with Bassim families for a few games.
@@DarkMandrill Yeah, it is a big crazy that they don't seem to have a narrative director that supervise all storylines (like a showrunner does for TV). P.S. I'm not a big fan of Basim so I personnaly hope he gets is ending in Valhalla's DLC.
@@alexisperron-brault6009 you have your opinion. But mine is Odyssey was a horrible game with bad animation, horrible voice acting, terrible story telling, unlikeable/forgettable characters. Plus a lot more, I don't enjoy Odyssey because I can't.
Listening to him talk about trying to maintain historical accuracy just makes me want to see him stay as a sort of loremaster/consultant because I feel things could get much better if there was at least one person steering the ship at all times in one way or another.
I love AC but it comes across like they don't have a plan for where it's going like they used to, hearing the way Darby talks just reinforces that idea.
The only thing i dont understand is how the fragments of loki's memories ended up in that animus that he hasn't interacted with until the end of the story
Somehow he could broadcast from network of Isu temples to human networks. There's a digital realm called The Grey which connects human digital networks and Isu temples network. That's also how Juno escaped from Grand Temple in NY to global human network and how she could control some parts of Abstergo systems. But since Juno didn't have a physical form she could escape from Grand Temple and bcs Loki was physically attached as Basim to Ygdrassil then maybe he couldn't escape from Ygdrassil temple's inner network. At least he was able to send a message at the start of Valhalla.
Wait a second, Darby said that the game makes a clear distinction between the OoA and the Templars. Where was that? What's the distinction? And also, the question mentioned that there was a "clear end" for the OoA's story. Does that mean that by killing the last of the Order in England, and Aelfred giving up his title as Grand Master, that the OoA is officially finished?
Formally, and in England, yes, that's the idea. Aelfred is on the verge of reforming the OoA into the Templars. Then again, it's not clear what happened to the other OoA branches that weren't in England. For example the Irish and French ones that are mentioned in Valhalla and might appears in its DLCs.
I love the fact when u choose male or female Evior that it remains one cannon so u can choose on ur own and the ending remain the same which is how it should be
Except it doesnt. Because Ubisoft decided to once again make the female character canon (which is bs). If you look at Alfred's letter at the end, you'll see that the name is Eivor Vanirdottir, which automatically makes you a female. But yea, lets just forget that in the beginning cutscene Eivor is 100% a boy and all the historical accuracy that's thrown out the window.
@@glodeanuandrei400 I also blurted WTF when saw Alfred's letter... and that one Sub Mission (Dementia Old man who lost his daughter). Make me gone "Aww Sh*t, the canon is female again." Instantly change my Eivor to go along with all the dialogues XD.
@@glodeanuandrei400 shield maidens existed, also Soma in game was jarlksona (or however it is spelled) and we see a lot female warriors. I do agree that Cassandra as canon makes little sense. And even though I played as her, I thought Alexios was canon but honestly I am happy we finally have some female lead characters. Not that I have anything against male leads but as a woman I like seeing women in games :)
@@ilhanadervisic6256 shield maidens are a very debated topic, since there is no actual proper evidence of their existence as we know them. Also, that word does not exist in Norse language. It was created specifically for the game so that they could have a word for a female leader. That is because vikings, while more progressive than other cultures, were not progressive enough to have females lead them. I don't have a problem with female lead characters, but when you give me the option to also have a male one and advertise both characters as canon, you can see why I'm displeased with naming only the female canon.
I know that most the people who say this game sucks as because bugs glitches and yes you and I wouldn't it the terrible post-launch content in the greed however the most important part was of course the story the characters and the Lauren this game has all 3 hammer in pretty good so it's a good Assassin's Creed game to me regardless of the post launch and ubis greed and bugs i mean bugs didn't stop me from beating AC unity and I dare say I loved that game
They're both canon, in their own way. Female Eivor was the one who existed in the 9th century, so she's the canon one historically, while "Male Eivor" (Havi/Odin) is canon in the mythological arcs.
@@AkuNaRahman we could. They made ISU body in syndicate so there's probably no problem to made human male body. His conscience is still in the grey so they could put it into the body vessel
It would be cool but most AC fans will lose their shit because the fantasy part me personally as long as its not actually magic (examples being drugs or dreams)im okay with it
Idk, the idea of the different Isu clans specifically based on that regions mythology seems like a downgrade of the Isu as a whole. I mean the entire idea of the Isu in the beginning was that human mythology was a vague and inaccurate interpretation of the Isu civilization. All we knew is that after they died out the memory of their civilizations was constantly diluted, mutating into the modern human lore. This is why we had Adam and Eve with Minerva in the AC2 Truth video or how Minerva was just one of her names and not her original, real name. I feel like directly basing these Isu 'clans' on mythology really takes away a lot of things that made them interesting, limiting what you can do with them instead of creating opportunities, like how they made the Isu less sci fi and more stereotypical gods. Also if Adam and Eve existed, is there a Isu Clan that represents the Abrahamic mythology? How is that going to work? Overall I feel that all the reveals we've gotten about the Isu in the recent years just took away most of what made them interesting. They went from what was essentially an interesting and mysterious anomaly to explore to what are essentially mythological gods with vague magic that pretends to be technology. And that is a downgrade if you ask me.
You also have to understand that in order to expand stories, you have to open it up more. You cant retain the mystery in a franchise that has been running for 14 years. To dilute the rich cultures of egypt and the norse to just the capitoline triad is limiting. I am fine with this retcon due to how additional weight has been given to existing lore.
@@AdityaSathya I'm not suggesting these mythologies to be diluted because the Isu as a whole shouldn't even resemble human mythology. Even though human mythology was inspired by Isu history it is not accurate to what the Isu are. There shouldn't be an Isu named Odin that would look like an Odin and act like an Odin just how Jupiter wasn't the king of gods, but a scientist.
@@DariusVladimirAuditore but isnt the mythological section meant to be an interpretation of the events by eivor, who projected her religion onto the scenarios. It could well be that the Norse isu had other roles but it's just been interpreted by eivor in such a way
@@owenlewis9478 i mean sure, there is logic behind it at first glance, but is it good logic? And does it add anything good? Not really. For one if these visions connect Eivor directly to the Isu memories I the animus should show what he really sees not what he would interpret. Sure they couldn't show the Isu as they were so they had to do something else, and this is what leads to my second issue, that the mythical arcs take away more than they add. Yet again the Isu are relegated to fantastical gods and the sci fi aspect is stripped away even more. Like I said, there is logic, but not good logic. Plus, let's face it, they just wanted norse mythology in the game because they are not confident in making a realistic viking game. So they added this not because it ads anything significant to the game, but because norse mythology is popular. And they had to cook up lore reasons to justify this like eivor is high or eivor is interpreting stuff. To me at least the mythical arcs feel forced and not a good way to explore the Isu.
5:27 Except those cultures do share a single origin IRL. Odin, Zeus, Taranis, Enlil, Yam, etc are all diverged myths from the same proto-indo-european sky god. You can have non-Indo-European gods be the Isu of other regions though. For example, Amun and Zeus are NOT diverged from the same proto-god, so they could've been different Isu in the AC story (though that ship has sailed it seems?). Same with say the Japanese gods, the Japanese storm god, Susanoo, is not related to the Indo-European storm god, so he could've been another Isu. ETC.
Enlil is not from the PIE-stock, and he is Sumerian, a language isolate that has more in common with the Semitic languages than any PIE ever. Odin is very different from Zeus and even though they might have their origin of being the Sky father, they are different characters who do not behave the same way. It's better to have the Isu be distinct, that is far less problematic than having them be a Monolith.
Darby Mcdevitt the God of Assassin's Creed hope he doesn't leave I pray to God :) at least teach someone who is gonna grow to be on par with him one guy can't write or supervise the whole of human history lmao in the Assassins Creed 😖😖
Around 6:00 he explains how he ruined assassins creed and the isu story. They dont have an end in sight. Just a Cash grab. In my heart i want this to be the last game but maybe the next one will be for me 🤷🏻♂️
@@Pablo-ze6un I have met people in real life to have a very feminine name it happens more often than you think in fact I went to school with a few dudes with very feminine names. I also knew a few girls that had somewhat masculine names life is strange man life is strange
@@David-nq8cv I find that hard to believe when the dude says that the female Viking chick is just a reflection of the female protagonist plus it would make zero sense due to the fact the majority of Warriors at that time. We’re all dudes they’re very very few women warriors
@@sircrimsonwolf7492 Bruh have you actually played the game lmaooo also shieldmaidens existed. And Darby is saying here that those were his very first ideas of how to tackle the gender choice thing
If Layla is in the grey, then she knows that Loki is the one that orchestrated and manipulated the system to cause the Magnetic Disturbances, as well how she got played by him. She should be able as she already has, talk to Sean and Rebecca, and warn them about him and Alietta's plans, and how they all have been played by him. This should cause bells to go off in both Rebecca and Sean's head as to not allowing Basim/Loki to meet with Terry. Unless they are making the characters extremely stupid.
Now with these two anti-modern day and dull plot hacks GONE from Ubi, not to mention giving the absolute WORST character models to Layla and poor Rebecca (seriously, look what they did to her since AC2!) the Odyssey team can take over this franchise and elevate every game from here on consistently!!!
@@abutahirmiah1130 compare Odyssey’s bug issues to Valhalla...enough said. Oh, you need more proof?? Which studio did AC Unity!? Exactly! Montreal, or it might have been Ashraf mostly, does not know how to invest in modern day nor make an actual complete game...
5:35 But that's exactly what AC lore says . Isu had turned into legends and Gods and religions had been based on them by different civilizations giving the same Isu different names. Bit of lore breaking there
That doesn't mean that every mythological leader of a pantheon is Jupiter, that breaks the identity of these mythological figuresnwnd reduces them to a monolith. Also Juno said that humans were also bred for war, which is something only in a divided world would be needed with different clans and countries.
Please get back to the assassin roots that's the only thing about this I didn't like.I liked everything else.Im entitled to my opinions people before you bash what I said.
It’s such bad writing. Do all the people who are reincarnations of Gods know they are? Basim obviously knows he is Loki as he mentions his son being taken away by a dear friend to Eivor. But Sigurd doesn’t clearly know he is Tyr. Does Halfdan know he is Thor? Eivor has no idea he is Odin. Does Faravid? Does Svala? Why do some remember and some not. In fact, why don’t they all recognize each other as they look identical? If they know, why would any of them care for dying if they know they will be reincarnated and be reborn immediately after? All the 9 ISU weren’t just randomly reincarnated together once at 870AD. They’ve been reincarnating over and over again since 75000BCE. It’s terrible writing.
It's all explained in the game: Only Loki remembers being an Isu once, the others do not, in fact they are so different from their old selves, you can say that they are different people altogether. Those who remember lived similar lives to their precursors and thus their memory and identity triggers, hence when Sigurd lost his arm, he remembers more of his live as Tyr but not fully, because it was the betrayal that cut off his arm, not Fulke. They do not recognize all each other, but do have a feeling they know them very well, but that is not enough for them to fully remember who these people were. They weren't reincarnating over and over again, only this once and they all except for Svala and Basik failed to return. Not bad writing, it's good writing, once you pierce everything together.
14:57 - "So technically Basim is the reason why the Earth is gonna get destroyed again."
**LOL**
Well he is the reincarnation of the trickster god
These analysis videos are making me love Valhalla even more. I think adding Odin concept of Sages is a good way to expand AC lore a bit more.
I totally agree with this yet some people are nitpicking saying “now the isu sucks” no one sees how the world was expanded properly with an actual reason and not just some random BS
@@ahmedsachwani2868 I admit, I got incredibly burnt out playing Valhalla. The way alliances were executed was terrible. It made me forget about characters almost instanteously. But the introduction of lore, and the Asgardian levels, and the complexity of Odin & Eivor's conflict, was amazing.
@@MrAlittleparty for me it was the way way too big map that was littered with small chests wealth mystery and artifacts. My guy I swear oxenfordshire took me hours upon hours to clean up so that I could play the story without interruption. I’m not saying collectibles are bad but having tooo many can be bad
@@ahmedsachwani2868 it’s not that bad I’ve collected all wealth points and finished all mysteries and all artifacts with all story arcs completed including Asgard and jotunheim in 58 hrs, it wasn’t my first playthrough tho
@@toodapack4975 man it burned me out especially the cairns it took me literally 4 hours in oxenFord shire alone. The thing is for me I bought the game to play a story not see a map littered with shit. Plus 58 hours of running doing only collectibles that is waaaay too long man
Darby is a national treasure. The stuff he and the creative team did with additions to the ac lore and crafting a thematically rich experience has to be appreciated. I hope more fans warm up to Valhalla as the years go by, as it does contain a LOT of what made the og's great and crafts such an emotional roller coaster of a journey. Stuff like the noden's arc, the md connections, the mystery, a world full of secrets to find etc. will hopefully be appreciated more in the future.
I honestly like a lot about Valhalla I don’t like rpg but I’m willing to compromise the only one singular thing I completely hate about Valhalla is the fucking humongous map. It’s way too big
I couldn't agree more. I feel like this game deserves more praise than people are giving it credit for right now.... But hopefully it will be remembered as one of the best. The post launch support has been abysmal though.... I get it covid makes it hard but it seems like they're not even trying.
I don't think that will happen nothing pleases AC fans anymore like I get microtransactions and that but there's gold under the dirt that doesn't ruin it and there's the people who have clearly given up yet come back to like the twitter page or YT vid to stir shit up then the comments begin to flow with toxic crap its sad really
@@Sophie-tg8gu the franchise is finally going in a good direction but most fans just wanna fuck it up man
@@ahmedsachwani2868 ikr its ridiculous and sad
My jaw dropped when I realized that it was Ezio who said "who are you?"
Yeah but Obviously not the same voice
It was so obviously not Roger Craig Smith… I was sure it was Basim’s voice until I saw this video
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I listened to this in the car today and hearing Darby made me fall in love with Valhalla again. His passion for AC just shines through. I think I'll need to play through Valhalla again, seeing that he did also mention that there's something about playing it the second time when you can connect the dots earlier.
Cant wait to see where he'll take the franchise next!
He left :(
@@kazekagejichujisoo7838 I saw on Twitter. It's sad for AC but I wish him the best in his future endeavours.
"Im Tyr woooo! " Best Darby Quote ever
Acually I'd LOVE to see animus anomalies in ac origins, because egipt fits much more for this, and seeing map from above would be pretty cool. Beyond that they have said at some point that egyptian Isu are diffrent clan, and I'd also love to see that, as in origins there were barley anything about them, maybe some connection with Eden as it was city placed in Africa or sth.
Valhalla's narrative has now opened so many doors for future AC games. I just hope that it's not all undone by the next game's writers who decide the things that actually make sense within the lore don't fit what they feel should be how things happen, and retcon what has been established and re-strengthened by Valhalla, especially after what happened with Odyssey.
Odyssey saved the whole franchise stop the cap ok 🤣
It's damn near criminal that this channel only has 22k subs. Your ending explained videos are top tier content.
darby is genuinely one of the wisest and smartest video game narrative directors ever. he understands the lore he created and didn’t create while also taking other ideas into considerations to make people happy too. he’s a national treasure
Darby really did a great job connecting everything. Unfortunately, that means Valhalla would have been the perfect game to release alongside an AC1 remaster/remake. I hope it still happens.
At this point id be happy with a port. really wanna play the whole thing again but cant :(
@@diegoestmar559 What's your gaming platform, man? I'm not sure about Playstation but they're all on Xbox One. The old ones are not that outdated but yeah, I'd love a remake!
@@gabriel_alemdoaquario Playstation bro :S theres no way to play it in either ps4 or 5. and my 360 is dead
@@diegoestmar559 aw :( do you have a PC? You can always run the first ones in low-end machines (up to Revelations, but it depends on your computer)
The isu clans thing makes me wonder how any shared myths came about.
Perhaps like in real history. basic human needs (isu in this case )
Tbh this feels like a weird division to me, because now they're saying different mythological histories were different Isu people, but at the same time Minerva is also Gunlodr and Suttungr is Jupiter and it's all a mess now. They've done a bunch of things that make it all less sensical.
I disagree with Darby regarding the present day. He said that he wanted the present day to be more integrated into the game to avoid having to leave the past to be in the present, and then re-enter the animus because according to the players it was frustrating. For me, personally I never found it frustrating to play the part of the present as it was an important part of the plot of the conflict between assassins and templars. It's the only thing I don't agree with Darby on. Then the rest of the interview I found very interesting the details that he gives about how they were doing the project.
Loved the present day from the ezio trilogy
Its frustrating in Unity and Syndicate
@@David-nq8cv Well, I was not referring specifically to unity and syndicate since the present in those games are practically null given to cinematics. Even in assassin's creed black flag change the part of the present day.
I agree that the present day is intriguing, but Darby isn't referring to us few that actually enjoy it. He's referring to the masses that just want to play in the historical setting. The players that don't actually appreciate the AC lore. He was saying he was trying to integrate the present day without forcing a full-stop to the action in the historical setting so that those players who are not interested in it may actually take time to appreciate it, rather than just get frustrated with the forced pause and jarring removal into the rather stagnant (in comparison) present day.
It’s just the logic that I find flawed. People get upset with the present day because there isn’t much gameplay, so just...put gameplay in the present? As in, put a significant portion of the game (20-30%) in the present.
The little things they put in this game made me love it. It's like they knew they could put an amazing story under all the commercial stuff the higher ups wanted and they did it unlike the odyssey team
So Yggrasil is basically just their version of The Matrix? 🧐🤔
Yes, it can run any kind of simulation based on any kind of condition.
But to be honest the Eye from the Grand Temple of Assassin's Creed 3 could create any calculation too (although it seems like you could just see them on a screen, not walk within them)
Yes and no from what I gather. While it is creating a simulation, that simulation isn't created from nothing, but drawn from a possibility in the calculations of existence. However, as these possibilities are infinite as far as we know, there would be little practical difference. It's the Matrix in practice, but deviates in concept regarding how it arrives at the results if I understand correctly.
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More like San Junipero (Black Mirror)
@@AccessAnimus I guess the eye was more a secret project while the other one was more public for the ISU
Listening to Darby is very interesting, but I'm still wondering why it does not show very well in the game.
Overall, the story of Valhalla is pretty meh, with exception of the very last part (Yggdrasil tree) which felt very cool (and confusing at first).
I feel like the Narrative team has done a good job, but not a great one. Which is sad because they had a lot of potential.
he pitches amazing ideas but some people reject it :(
Exactly bro! When playing it, felt more like conquering England. Personally for me they exhausted me out with the wealth, mysteries ect on repeat in every land. Like you said they needed to be more clearer. Dont make most of ac valhalla in mysteries and riddles.
The issue is they habe no idea what the narative Team of the next game is doing
I loved the anomalies in Syndicate where we see different time periods in the region. Imagine Egypt during the Arab Spring or England during the Blitz
Bless you for making this for us time-poor and AC-starved.
Awww! Look who's here!!
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Hello !! Thanks for this video Marco !! Always nice to hear you !!
Hey there Access The Animus.
Hope you are doing good.
Nice video again.
I love how you are working so hard to give us content.
Your content always ceases to surprise me because it's usually about the things that I didn't give a lot of interest in.
But as soon as I started watching your videos, I have become more and more interested, more and more amazed and rather curios and curiouser about the secrets of Assassin's Creed.
Last but not least,
An amazing video again.
I am most excited when Darby said what The Eye that Desmond activated did to the world.
Wish they would just decide on one cannon character doesn’t matter if male or female. I feel like it divides the fan base up. Personally I like male Eivor because I feel like the voice acting for him was 1000x better and I played as both.
i think that's the order from the higher up, and Darby was just finding a possible explanation in order for that option to make sense, lore-wise.
@@m3rl1on I understand that women in video games are under represented and I have no problem with a main character of a video game being female as long as the voice actor and writing team do a great job portraying that characters and bringing that character to life. Look outside of ubi like Tomb Raider fantastic team behind everyone absolutely delivers, Last of us 2 no problem the teams took care of that as well but at least we all know those are cannon characters, there’s no division in the fan base for those actions. If they wanted female eivor as cannon why add the male version to the game? Gamers don’t fight over genders (least from what I’ve seen) we fight over random stuff either be romance options or choices throughout a game. Odyssey was meant for kassandra no doubt between the story, voice acting and just the overall feel of the game was meant for her no issue there, I just feel the story (in my opinion) that Valhalla was written for male eivor, his voice acting like I said was 1000x better than the female version, the story overall felt like it was for him. Especially being a descendant of Odin and Sigurd being Tyr, on top of that the option to romance Randvi just cause Sigurd is out doing his own thing and not caring for her. Just overall (to me at least) felt more of male eivor story. But if they went ahead and said that female eivor was cannon I wouldn’t have a problem with it. The only problem I have is the grey area they leave these wonderful characters in. We all love this franchise and want it to be taken care of with love and respect not only for the franchise itself but for its fans and to leave characters in a grey area just upsets me.
@@KillswitchSaint what you feel about who should be canon or not is subjective, what voice you prefer is subjective. Game was designed for Eivor not Odin. I won't even say female Eivor because it's disservice to the protagonist. The entire Layla trilogy was supposed to be female centric - Aya, Kassandra, Eivor. Just because you like the performance of Odin voice it doesn't mean that developers and director wanted male viking. Eivor is only female name. Varinsdottir means Varin's daughter. In comics and lore female is canon. In their office the post developers put on the wall is with Eivor, not Odin. And it was 10 thousands times explained that Ubisoft executives force male protagonist to be available. Because those executives live in the past and think AC wouldn't sell so well without dudebros having the possibility to play male character. And yes it sucks to have gender choice especially that the marketing team forces noncanon character on the cover. It divides fandom with constant fights who is better. Makes unnecessary fights. Toxicity is high. It's tiring. And people like us waste time on this discussion while executives laugh and swim in money.
@@KillswitchSaint one thing worth mentioning regarding the reincarnations of Odin and Tyr is that the story heavily hints at Eivor to be canonically female (apart from her name). All reincarnations share the same gender and are similar in looks and that's why Basim was so interested in Sigurd because he knew that Sigurd is Tyr. Meanwhile he didn't want to kill Eivor for the entire game until very end because Eivor was an exception to this rule. Eivor was female and looked nothing like Odin (while male Eivor is 1:1 Odin from memories) and that's why Basim didn't realize it until late game. Hence during their final fight Basim says "For too long I stared at the sun! It blinded me to the truth. That it was you. It was you I wanted all along." He wouldn't sit and chat with Odin at campfire. He would fucking kill him if he knew. Basim despises Odin.
It's mostly because the higher ups at ubisoft are sexist and refuse to have a female protagonist so they have to work around it like this
Nice video. Most of these didn't surprise me at all.
One question I want answered by darby or anyone else ; why in the name of god is Fenrir's muzzle so long?
"The better to eat people with, my dear."
Oh wait, wrong story
@@AccessAnimus a man of humour... I like you.
In the myth he eats the sun, gonna need a big mouth for that
@@josha5933 pretty sure you are talking about Skol or Hatti , not Fenrir
@@josha5933 That’s not Fenrir. That’s Skol & Hati, who each chase after the sun & moon & signal Ragnarok when they catch them.
Thank you for this :D Great video!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
So basically in the next games we will play the protagonist that is also the villain himself🤣
Protagonist doesn't always mean a good character
@@David-nq8cv well "good" is almost always a questionable word to describe a person who kills people, whether they do it for a good purpose or for revenge
Good and evil are malleable in this franchise
basim wasn't a bad guy tho
Odin did alot to him... loki was better than odin's selfish ass
Guys I was joking, calm down😅😅😅
Thanks for editing this down
You're welcome man!
In this interview, Darby said that since Assassin's Creed is science fiction and not fantasy, the idea of "prophecy" is actually memory. So what is the explanation for the prophecies of Besa and the Oracle from Origins, and even for the Pig of Prophecy from Valhalla?
The pig of prophecy is Eivor on hard drugs bro
@@diegoestmar559 Indeed, but how does Eivor on hard drugs accurately predict future events? And what about Besa and the Oracle?
Black Hermit which future event did Eivor predict? Take into account she had a previous Isu life with memories
My issues with the game
With the whole gender choices maybe the Layla Avatar thing might have worked better just cause from what we know about sages with Aita is that most of them had heterochromia and they could only be born male this kinda just makes sage a bit more convoluted than necessary, besides Darby is a fantastic character writer and the gender choices and dialogue options (which still don’t make sense) kinda limit is ability to make a good character driven story, Basim returning I’m not on board with because 100% he should totally be dead or at least is body a millennium of no sustenance and on top of that a 8 year constant barrage of heat and radiation that killed Layla’s body with a couple minutes of exposure when she dropped the staff, The Yggdrasil I’m okay with the Isu are clairvoyant and use technology to boost that ability makes sense. The sagas on the other hand (I didn’t really like, I preferred sequences and the RPG trilogy dropping them never made sense to me) didn’t really work for me I get why the story was structured that way as a writing decision I just didn’t see the appeal, I liked the Animus Anomalies though
Those with hererochromia are all Aita, he was special case, the rest of them were reborn only once and seems like they could be born as anyone. as for the gender choice, here it makes some sense, because in reality Eivor was always Female, you just choose what is animus going to display, reason for that is certain amount of Odin's DNA mixed with Eivor's DNA, in Odyssey it made no sense at all with the DNA on spear.
I love AC Valhalla can't wait for the dlc
Agreed
I love that the host is talking on a HAM radio. Or at least that’s what my brain thought
Oh man, I thought it wasn't perfect but didn't think it was *that* bad :D
We'll try and be better in the future though, thanks for mentioning this!
- Markuz
@@AccessAnimus he is probably talking about the hosts in the valhalla discussion. You guys are great!!
@@AdityaSathya Ohhh :D
I'm always trying to get better, that's why I try and learn from every comment (even it's not targeted to me apparently :P)
- Markuz
@@AccessAnimus not you. I’m talking about the Young Lady in particular 😂
Darby just left Ubi :(((
It'd be cool to see the isu asgard arc from basims perspective so that way we can see all the isu technology and architecture like in the Odyssey DLC.
I'm a bit confused by the portion he speaks about Basim being the cause of the new solar flare danger. Which got me thinking, did the game ever explain how Basim got stuck in the grey for him to be there when Layla got there and freed him?
Yeah at the ending of the story it explains how he's in the grey, and Darby in the stream explains it
@@David-nq8cv i don't remember the explanation at all, anyone want to summarize what the reason was for Basim to be stuck in the grey?
@@pendragon3434 Eivor trapped him in the Yggdrasil machine and then Layla freed him that's how he got there
@@kazekagejichujisoo7838 ohh that's right lol that's literally the ending of the game my bad I forget things really quickly 😂
Thanks for this
You're welcome!
I’m curious if they’ll keep Basim past the DLC in the game... maybe they’ll end the series with him as the protagonist if they don’t.
Actually Basim in past is still trapped in that Yggdrasil device so he is no where to be found after the Events of main story in the past.
@@riteshmishra3773 Id like for someone to rescue Basim and for him to defeat Loki the same way Eivor defeated Odin
I’ve never understood why Isu didn’t build some spaceships rather than focus on those calculations, it was easy for them with that technology.
It would have only killed them faster. It was a solar eclipse so if they tried to leave the planet, the solar eclipse would have destroyed them faster
It implied they had aircraft IE Ra’s sunboat and Helios chariot were probably those things. They probably wasn’t able to make spacecrafts in time to escape the solar flare which would go through the entire system.
The way Darby talks makes Odyssey feel like a very second-class-citizen in terms of its relevance to the lore, which I agree with personally as it was by far the least 'assassin's creed' assassin's creed to me! But, how do you think we should view its level of being canon, or what is retained, compared to Origins and Valhalla?
My best answer to that question is. Just forget that it exists because Odyssey did far more bad than it did good for this franchise.
@@jasonhector5296 Or enjoy Odyssey was it is (a very good game with weird AC lore) and Valhalla for what it is (a good game with great AC lore).
the different studios don't seem to talk much very much between project,he say odyssey did this what do we do with it ? They don't seem to work together to make something that make sense from game to game.Not that Origin left something to work with,ac1 to ac 3 are connected,I hope they do something with Bassim families for a few games.
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Yeah, it is a big crazy that they don't seem to have a narrative director that supervise all storylines (like a showrunner does for TV).
P.S. I'm not a big fan of Basim so I personnaly hope he gets is ending in Valhalla's DLC.
@@alexisperron-brault6009 you have your opinion. But mine is Odyssey was a horrible game with bad animation, horrible voice acting, terrible story telling, unlikeable/forgettable characters. Plus a lot more, I don't enjoy Odyssey because I can't.
Great video i like stuff like this Why does Ellie keep making that noise it's really annoying is she ok
Roadhouse
Because shes yet another person who loves the sound of their own voice
@@ajorngjdonaydbr she didn't really say much i just found the noise annoying
Roadhouse
Because Darby is a sexy beast
Hey you’re in Fizhy’s videos
So Valhalla is the true "Templar "born story game.
Odyssey started this thing where king Aelfred wanted to end and create the Templars.
Listening to him talk about trying to maintain historical accuracy just makes me want to see him stay as a sort of loremaster/consultant because I feel things could get much better if there was at least one person steering the ship at all times in one way or another.
Lots of us would like him to stay, oversee and coordinate the narrative aspect... Fingers crossed he *stays* at least!
I love AC but it comes across like they don't have a plan for where it's going like they used to, hearing the way Darby talks just reinforces that idea.
The only thing i dont understand is how the fragments of loki's memories ended up in that animus that he hasn't interacted with until the end of the story
Somehow he could broadcast from network of Isu temples to human networks. There's a digital realm called The Grey which connects human digital networks and Isu temples network. That's also how Juno escaped from Grand Temple in NY to global human network and how she could control some parts of Abstergo systems. But since Juno didn't have a physical form she could escape from Grand Temple and bcs Loki was physically attached as Basim to Ygdrassil then maybe he couldn't escape from Ygdrassil temple's inner network. At least he was able to send a message at the start of Valhalla.
Wait a second, Darby said that the game makes a clear distinction between the OoA and the Templars. Where was that? What's the distinction? And also, the question mentioned that there was a "clear end" for the OoA's story. Does that mean that by killing the last of the Order in England, and Aelfred giving up his title as Grand Master, that the OoA is officially finished?
Formally, and in England, yes, that's the idea. Aelfred is on the verge of reforming the OoA into the Templars.
Then again, it's not clear what happened to the other OoA branches that weren't in England. For example the Irish and French ones that are mentioned in Valhalla and might appears in its DLCs.
The best in whole Ancient history Trilogy. It's now one of the best alongside AC1, Relevations, 3, 4 and Unity.
Can agree with that! Although it has some huge gameplay issues, story wise it was one of the best!
I wouldn't go as far as to put this game even near AC1 and Revelations.
It sure has gameplay issues but in long run Stories are what we remember so that's the reason why I am not minding gameplay flaws a lot.
@@DariusVladimirAuditore Huh? i definitely would.
@@AccessAnimus What gameplay flaws?
I love the fact when u choose male or female Evior that it remains one cannon so u can choose on ur own and the ending remain the same which is how it should be
Except it doesnt. Because Ubisoft decided to once again make the female character canon (which is bs). If you look at Alfred's letter at the end, you'll see that the name is Eivor Vanirdottir, which automatically makes you a female. But yea, lets just forget that in the beginning cutscene Eivor is 100% a boy and all the historical accuracy that's thrown out the window.
@@glodeanuandrei400 I also blurted WTF when saw Alfred's letter... and that one Sub Mission (Dementia Old man who lost his daughter). Make me gone "Aww Sh*t, the canon is female again."
Instantly change my Eivor to go along with all the dialogues XD.
@@glodeanuandrei400 why is it BS that the cannon character is female??
@@glodeanuandrei400 shield maidens existed, also Soma in game was jarlksona (or however it is spelled) and we see a lot female warriors. I do agree that Cassandra as canon makes little sense. And even though I played as her, I thought Alexios was canon but honestly I am happy we finally have some female lead characters. Not that I have anything against male leads but as a woman I like seeing women in games :)
@@ilhanadervisic6256 shield maidens are a very debated topic, since there is no actual proper evidence of their existence as we know them. Also, that word does not exist in Norse language. It was created specifically for the game so that they could have a word for a female leader. That is because vikings, while more progressive than other cultures, were not progressive enough to have females lead them. I don't have a problem with female lead characters, but when you give me the option to also have a male one and advertise both characters as canon, you can see why I'm displeased with naming only the female canon.
What? Ezio voice but not roger? I will not have this heresy!
How does evior die I’ve been wonderin that since I first played Valhalla
It was so obviously not Roger Craig Smith… I was sure it was Basim’s voice until I saw this video
I know that most the people who say this game sucks as because bugs glitches and yes you and I wouldn't it the terrible post-launch content in the greed however the most important part was of course the story the characters and the Lauren this game has all 3 hammer in pretty good so it's a good Assassin's Creed game to me regardless of the post launch and ubis greed and bugs i mean bugs didn't stop me from beating AC unity and I dare say I loved that game
He talks about Eivor like the female version is the only canon....but aren't both male/female Eivor canonical?
They're both canon, in their own way. Female Eivor was the one who existed in the 9th century, so she's the canon one historically, while "Male Eivor" (Havi/Odin) is canon in the mythological arcs.
Dual greatswords are best
You should've asked him if reader could come back as a Desmond in future installments 🥺
One thing we know that we cannot brought dead people came back alive.
@@AkuNaRahman we could.
They made ISU body in syndicate so there's probably no problem to made human male body.
His conscience is still in the grey so they could put it into the body vessel
confirmed the suspicion that most of origins story was cut content
Am I the only one hopin that the Ireland DLC has at least SOME elements of fantasy-horror?
It would be cool but most AC fans will lose their shit because the fantasy part me personally as long as its not actually magic (examples being drugs or dreams)im okay with it
Why didn’t the isu just make everyone a staff and sit in one of the vaults for a bit????
Honestly I can’t watch an ATA video without timestamps
Idk, the idea of the different Isu clans specifically based on that regions mythology seems like a downgrade of the Isu as a whole. I mean the entire idea of the Isu in the beginning was that human mythology was a vague and inaccurate interpretation of the Isu civilization. All we knew is that after they died out the memory of their civilizations was constantly diluted, mutating into the modern human lore. This is why we had Adam and Eve with Minerva in the AC2 Truth video or how Minerva was just one of her names and not her original, real name. I feel like directly basing these Isu 'clans' on mythology really takes away a lot of things that made them interesting, limiting what you can do with them instead of creating opportunities, like how they made the Isu less sci fi and more stereotypical gods. Also if Adam and Eve existed, is there a Isu Clan that represents the Abrahamic mythology? How is that going to work?
Overall I feel that all the reveals we've gotten about the Isu in the recent years just took away most of what made them interesting. They went from what was essentially an interesting and mysterious anomaly to explore to what are essentially mythological gods with vague magic that pretends to be technology. And that is a downgrade if you ask me.
You also have to understand that in order to expand stories, you have to open it up more. You cant retain the mystery in a franchise that has been running for 14 years. To dilute the rich cultures of egypt and the norse to just the capitoline triad is limiting. I am fine with this retcon due to how additional weight has been given to existing lore.
It’s better for the ISU to be different so each polytheistic mythology is accounted for. But Abrahamic religions are most likely off limits.
@@AdityaSathya I'm not suggesting these mythologies to be diluted because the Isu as a whole shouldn't even resemble human mythology. Even though human mythology was inspired by Isu history it is not accurate to what the Isu are. There shouldn't be an Isu named Odin that would look like an Odin and act like an Odin just how Jupiter wasn't the king of gods, but a scientist.
@@DariusVladimirAuditore but isnt the mythological section meant to be an interpretation of the events by eivor, who projected her religion onto the scenarios. It could well be that the Norse isu had other roles but it's just been interpreted by eivor in such a way
@@owenlewis9478 i mean sure, there is logic behind it at first glance, but is it good logic? And does it add anything good? Not really. For one if these visions connect Eivor directly to the Isu memories I the animus should show what he really sees not what he would interpret. Sure they couldn't show the Isu as they were so they had to do something else, and this is what leads to my second issue, that the mythical arcs take away more than they add. Yet again the Isu are relegated to fantastical gods and the sci fi aspect is stripped away even more. Like I said, there is logic, but not good logic. Plus, let's face it, they just wanted norse mythology in the game because they are not confident in making a realistic viking game. So they added this not because it ads anything significant to the game, but because norse mythology is popular. And they had to cook up lore reasons to justify this like eivor is high or eivor is interpreting stuff. To me at least the mythical arcs feel forced and not a good way to explore the Isu.
I am kinda worried about the franchise now that Darby has left Ubisoft
Nope, give it to the Odyssey team and this franchise will expand like never before!!
@@collegebro85 I thought I was the only one who liked Odyssey
@@collegebro85 I bet your first game was Odyssey
yes. you should be very worried. Ubi writers gonna fck it up now.
Thank you the summary (timestamps) @AccessTheAnimus
You're welcom man!
5:27 Except those cultures do share a single origin IRL. Odin, Zeus, Taranis, Enlil, Yam, etc are all diverged myths from the same proto-indo-european sky god. You can have non-Indo-European gods be the Isu of other regions though. For example, Amun and Zeus are NOT diverged from the same proto-god, so they could've been different Isu in the AC story (though that ship has sailed it seems?). Same with say the Japanese gods, the Japanese storm god, Susanoo, is not related to the Indo-European storm god, so he could've been another Isu. ETC.
Enlil is not from the PIE-stock, and he is Sumerian, a language isolate that has more in common with the Semitic languages than any PIE ever. Odin is very different from Zeus and even though they might have their origin of being the Sky father, they are different characters who do not behave the same way.
It's better to have the Isu be distinct, that is far less problematic than having them be a Monolith.
Ellie is really annoying with her “hmmmm”.
Also her random laughs, also her mere existence in this interview.
@@riteshmishra3773 bit much don't you think?
@@kurtiswatson97 yep was just joking.
Did he really say nothing about the stupid wolf t shirt Basim wears after finishing the game?? Who in the team made the call on the t shirt 😂😂
... No, not really, and to be honest the Ubisoft hosts would have never asked that question imho :P
- Markuz
@@AccessAnimus yeah I wasn't being serious just playing around 😅
@@kshiteej7575 Ohhhh
Uhm
*Cough*
Still more appropriate than Kassandra arriving in a suit.
@@penumbrum3135 I still laugh my ass off about this to this day
Darby Mcdevitt the God of Assassin's Creed hope he doesn't leave I pray to God :) at least teach someone who is gonna grow to be on par with him one guy can't write or supervise the whole of human history lmao in the Assassins Creed 😖😖
Um about that 😭
“God of AC”...yeah, not even close!!
Around 6:00 he explains how he ruined assassins creed and the isu story. They dont have an end in sight. Just a Cash grab. In my heart i want this to be the last game but maybe the next one will be for me 🤷🏻♂️
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I’m sorry but whenever that girl makes a mhm sound it’s really uncomfortable 😂😂
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Why isn’t there a present day assassin’s creed I wonder
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I which they had gone this way with the protagonist gender
same
Why do we turn into basim at the end instead of the girl what is he role what does that mean
Well, there goes my headcanon of Altair, Ezio, and Desmond being sages of a different Isu.
This video is solid proof that the male Viking dude is canon
Male viking dude with a female-given name, sure.
@@Pablo-ze6un I have met people in real life to have a very feminine name it happens more often than you think in fact I went to school with a few dudes with very feminine names. I also knew a few girls that had somewhat masculine names life is strange man life is strange
Nope, Darby confirmed female is canon while in the asgard arc male is
@@David-nq8cv I find that hard to believe when the dude says that the female Viking chick is just a reflection of the female protagonist plus it would make zero sense due to the fact the majority of Warriors at that time. We’re all dudes they’re very very few women warriors
@@sircrimsonwolf7492 Bruh have you actually played the game lmaooo also shieldmaidens existed. And Darby is saying here that those were his very first ideas of how to tackle the gender choice thing
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If Layla is in the grey, then she knows that Loki is the one that orchestrated and manipulated the system to cause the Magnetic Disturbances, as well how she got played by him. She should be able as she already has, talk to Sean and Rebecca, and warn them about him and Alietta's plans, and how they all have been played by him. This should cause bells to go off in both Rebecca and Sean's head as to not allowing Basim/Loki to meet with Terry. Unless they are making the characters extremely stupid.
Now with these two anti-modern day and dull plot hacks GONE from Ubi, not to mention giving the absolute WORST character models to Layla and poor Rebecca (seriously, look what they did to her since AC2!) the Odyssey team can take over this franchise and elevate every game from here on consistently!!!
Odyssey was an awful AC game, the team should focus with their new IP immortal Pheonix Rising or a new IP. Montreal should focus on AC games.
@@abutahirmiah1130 compare Odyssey’s bug issues to Valhalla...enough said. Oh, you need more proof?? Which studio did AC Unity!? Exactly!
Montreal, or it might have been Ashraf mostly, does not know how to invest in modern day nor make an actual complete game...
5:35 But that's exactly what AC lore says . Isu had turned into legends and Gods and religions had been based on them by different civilizations giving the same Isu different names. Bit of lore breaking there
That doesn't mean that every mythological leader of a pantheon is Jupiter, that breaks the identity of these mythological figuresnwnd reduces them to a monolith. Also Juno said that humans were also bred for war, which is something only in a divided world would be needed with different clans and countries.
@@basilofgoodwishes4138 I think you're right about the humans being made for war. That proves that there were multiple civs or atleast communities.
Please get back to the assassin roots that's the only thing about this I didn't like.I liked everything else.Im entitled to my opinions people before you bash what I said.
It’s such bad writing.
Do all the people who are reincarnations of Gods know they are? Basim obviously knows he is Loki as he mentions his son being taken away by a dear friend to Eivor. But Sigurd doesn’t clearly know he is Tyr. Does Halfdan know he is Thor? Eivor has no idea he is Odin. Does Faravid? Does Svala?
Why do some remember and some not.
In fact, why don’t they all recognize each other as they look identical?
If they know, why would any of them care for dying if they know they will be reincarnated and be reborn immediately after? All the 9 ISU weren’t just randomly reincarnated together once at 870AD. They’ve been reincarnating over and over again since 75000BCE. It’s terrible writing.
It's all explained in the game:
Only Loki remembers being an Isu once, the others do not, in fact they are so different from their old selves, you can say that they are different people altogether.
Those who remember lived similar lives to their precursors and thus their memory and identity triggers, hence when Sigurd lost his arm, he remembers more of his live as Tyr but not fully, because it was the betrayal that cut off his arm, not Fulke.
They do not recognize all each other, but do have a feeling they know them very well, but that is not enough for them to fully remember who these people were.
They weren't reincarnating over and over again, only this once and they all except for Svala and Basik failed to return. Not bad writing, it's good writing, once you pierce everything together.
Hated the anomalies. Didn't finish them even with the promise of another ending.
Guess you never played the Subject 16 stuff in AC2, brotherhood
Clearly not a fan of platforming...
@@David-nq8cv Origins was my first AC game and have been a fan ever since.
Darby : explaining....
female host : umm... umm.. umummmm....
it's so annoying