I think the base game was very good, but it was just ruined by an awful post launch and some weird decisions with the pacing and bloating of the story. Excited to hear your thoughts
Detection range is HOT Garbage -- even on the 2nd lowest Stealth setting. The guards are able to see you from 3 miles away. I think it's bugged and I dunno if restarting the game fixes it. Everything else... I'm warming up to it. I love River Raids for my Stealth Assaults (unless the Stealth bugged out again).
Honestly Im the complete oppisite because of how long it takes it made me enjoy it more and it was cool to watch eivor (in my case male eivor) become wiser and become more peaceful in his ways still a vikingr but understanding that the axe isnt the only way
I gave Valhalla 4 stars, then I played Odyssey and Valhalla went down to two stars. If they had cut a third out of the game in duration it would have had double the impact for me. It’s so diluted, it’s sad, considering there are so many great moments
I’ve been alternating between Odyssey and Valhalla recently. I like Odyssey’s story a lot more and its sense of humor and heart, but the level and gear system is atrocious. The side quests are also very throwaway, with a ton of fetch quests. Valhalla’s main story is much weaker by comparison, but the gameplay is far more organic and combat is more fun. Both games could be cutdown and refined - they’re too big.
Extremely telling how bloated this game is when I chose to immediately chase the asgard storyline, regardless of the fact I was a quarter the level it suggested; simply because I was bored of politics and crowns.
While I think Valhalla is a good game on its own, it wouldve faired much better to be a spinoff even if only to introduce Basim. I think Valhalla will eventually only be remembered as Basim's first appearence.
They should just have made a proper Viking game and not some half assed mix between two genres and themes that doesn’t mix well. Like being an assassin and a Viking is completely different. Vikings are storming cities while assassins infiltrate and kill their target. Also most of the stealth mechanics are completely broken or useless, just look at detection or social stealth.
Trailers: "No wrong choices." "Your viking saga." Game: "hey screw you, how dare you play as Alexios or Male eivor, you don't count and we're gonna gaslight you and call you sexist, force kassandra and female eivor as canon, despite more players playing as Alexios and male eivor." People hate liers. So people rightly hate odyssey and Valhalla. People dont like being told how to live their life or enjoy their games. Ubisoft went to far, and broke canon for sages. All to force the badly acted female eivor as "canon." That alone ruined the game. Let alone the magic in post launch updates. Valhalla could've been special. But bias to one gender over another, and a misplaced hatred from ubisoft workers aimed at the fans and their bosses, destroyed Valhalla.
In my opinion valhalla did many things right like advancing the modern day story , it kinda fixed the damage odyssey made , it had assassin's (not a lot but the assassin stuff were really good ) , the story wasn't bad and all that thanks to darby's writing but there were many flaws like the assassin stuff having no meaning and the length of the game it's better than odyssey and a few other ac games but it's not top tier ac it's somewhere in the middle for me
I don’t get all the hate on origins and odyssey , or even this game , you cant keep making the same AC games over and over for no reason, people wanted changes, ubi brought us the last 3 games in a fresh way and I personally have played hours and hours in all of them and none of them games owe me anything.. and now we got Mirage coming out … its gonna be interesting to sat the least to see what we get this time around.
Valhalla was a perfectly fine game that's only significant flaw, to me, was that it was an assassin's creed. Released as a standalone Viking game it could have been considered great and all it would take is a few tweaks to achieve that, instead it was an AC so would have to break away to try and tie it back to that instead of just being the Viking game it wanted to be. Same goes for Odyssey tbh, if that was just released as a straight fantasy game without trying to force a tie in to the assassin's creed lore it could have been a great game about a demigod in ancient Greece. I feel like Ubisoft got bored of AC for a while there and decided to just make whatever they wanted and make that assassin's creed
Ivar doesn't almost kill ceolbert. He succeeds. Also the drug induced play through Asgard would make sense and feel just fine if you knew anything about Norse mythology. Did you make it to Jotunheim?
@@TyreII you obviously don't understand common sayings used in English. Because in this context it's clearly stating the reason it doesn't feel right is because he doesn't know anything about Norse mythology. Good job buddy. Way to try and be a smartass
Among the RPG trilogy Origins is the best. It went downhill on Odyssey, it turned into full RPG. Valhalla and Odyssey are very good game on their own but it just doesn't feel like an Assassins Creed game.
It took me 110 hours to get through it. But to be fair, I hunted the witches, killed the bounty hunters, battled the old guard and finished the animus anomalies. Tried to finish the most quests. But bugs, glitches and problems arose quickly. It was a damn alpha version. I had to glitch to play the final mission, from vanishing saves, disappearing buildings and npcs aside. It was a disaster. But when it worked it was good and you could have fun. But damn the game tried everything to ruin your experience. Couldn’t complete it at 100%, was impossible. So I never touched the DLC and put it aside. Now 1 1/2 years later I returned and man. So much was added and the micro transaction bullshit is back. Fun, not. But i had no crashings, no disappearings and no bugs or glitches so far. I guess now I can complete it and play the DLC.
Valhalla was a long amazing game and an underrated masterpiece. Nice to see in comments that people start appreciate this game. So OK, let's get to the main part! What went well: A super long story that most modern games should follow in length, because the single player length we have seen in recent for example CoDs, were short, longest CoD in last three years was MWII with six hours of campaign whereas we all remember good old days of CoD WaW that had 12 hours of campaign. And CoD 1-3 that were even longer! Also the game had like a wild feeling, a great feeling, of wilderness and the opened world was one only of it's kind. Also multiple open world maps offered a gigantic open world, nearly as huge as Skyrim that was fully amazing. Imagine how huge this open world would be in one map with all those distances and sea travels. Other amazing thing was graphics and leading your village. The other great aspect was a full mythical arc. With actual mythical open world maps That all was 10/10. What went badly However no game is perfect. The main con of the game is that even tho it took me 300 hours to complete, the game felt like a lot of wasted potential, for example the side quest mention of war with Picts, we could have like an entire DLC in Scotland with it's King, King Constantin and everything and really, I would love a game that has met 100% potential and lasts even 100 000 000 000 hours and making such games is possible may S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 be an example of it. Other con is that some of the story arcs are basically just there to be, for example Essexe, it ended like in the middle of the quest that it should be. The other one is for example East Anglia where the story did not really made sense and was too candy. The other mess was glowcestreshire arc, and it was so stupid and nonsense that I slept on it twice. So that could be done better. The other con was the OG ending, that was basically stupid. We lost like 3 good characters and on the end the king from being the king became just an ass-leaker doing work for some old lady calling him like he was 5 years old. Luckily the ending was fixed with DLCs and amazing the isle of Skye epilogue. The other con that was blinding me was the political correctness, for example I met up with a Viking and I thought he wants to fight me for swords like in "The Last Kingdom", then he asks me to exchange something more than words with a very battle-needing voice and I clicked yes, then he comes to me, grabs me by the dick and kisses. I was literally disgusted. Some more shit like that was in like 2 other places in the game and I was playing male Eivor and I am thanking God I didn't got to play female one, because that would be a true SJW shit game. The other con was a lackluster ending for the mythical storyline, however it got fixed in the DLCs. The last con sadly is Eivor. And this is because of his personality, this is saw on male Eivor more. He is basically just too kind, too candy, like too nice towards everyone, he wasn't badass enough and also he was very predictable, I would prefer to have a badass character with a lot of mysteries about him and unpredictable, something more like a Viking from "Vikings" show from history or "The Last Kingdom" show from Netflix. Because here in the game it's basically Janosik or more for your understanding Robin Hood from Viking family. This kind of personality well fitted Bayek but not Eivor. Those are all pros and cons about the game. Despite all of those crimes, the game commited it is still a very good game and should be in the top 10 games of years 2011-2020. I had blast playing it and I recommend it for everyone. Best medieval game ever. This was my review.
I played all the AC games, most of them more than once. I tried Valhalla on a free weekend, and got bored after 3-4 hours of gametime. That should say enough.
Valhalla was my first AC game I played. While I played black flag at my friends house many years ago and had a grasp on lore and what the series was about, it was the first AC game I got for myself. I personally really love the game, even though it is filled with many flaws (broken stealth, story is too long, open world does not justify it's size, etc.) I still love the game nonetheless. I have now played 8 Assassins Creed games, and I still think it tells one of the best stories in the series, but there are definitely better games in the series. I think a lot of criticisms for the game are valid but I feel like it is overhated in a lot of areas, and everyone should give it a try.
I agree to an extent because the story is alright but the motivation for the player to continue the story after hours of side content make it more tedious than enjoyable. Plus Ubisoft needs to find a way to have characters have emotion while they talk without making them throw their arms around as if they are dancing.
I have sadly bought the game and hence given Ubisoft a reason to make shitty half rpgs, with bad combat, stupid traversal mechanics, stupid side missions (fetch quests in particular), filled with filler content, micro transactions and more. Also the series is supposed to be about assassins and not vikings, at least they could make a proper Viking game instead of mixing two themes that is like water and oil. Like the game has stealth but it’s a complete mess, you can’t even do the raids in stealth because you need additional people to open doors and chests. I guess this is some of the reasons why Valhalla has had such bad player retention compared to other games.
@@ibleminenI guess you could say the game would be pretty well received by players if it did not have Assassins Creed in the name? If it was just it's own thing, maybe in the same universe which would explain how you're able to be in the shoes of Eivor.
Yes, yes it was. But I still want to listen to your thoughts for over half an hour. One of my favourite things is that the settlement in England is actually where I’m from (Northamptonshire) so that’s just a special bonus for me. This game barely qualifies as AC as far as I’m concerned and I think the biggest flaw was the length and how dragged out and badly paced the story was, if the different county arcs actually made a substantial difference it would feel more worth it, such as when we have to lay siege against Falke or fight Aelfred’s army if you hadn’t recruited enough allies it would become substantially more difficult or could even change the storyline considering they’ve thrown out the lore aspect of these apparently being memories because how can we have such choices. Some of the arcs were so clearly just side content that became necessary to complete the story and they either should have been highlighted as optional or otherwise the narrative needed to be tightened up to make them more relevant overall. It was an absolute slog at times to get through everything in this game, it needed to be trimmed down desperately and Viking England was just a flat out bad choice for an AC game. This feels like a poor clone of Black Flag (my personal favourite in the series) which features a character not on either side of the Assassin and Templar conflict until he resolved his own character arc and started working through his flaws. Why Valhalla could not replicate this with a Viking instead of a pirate I don’t know, Eivor I think should have joined the Order of Ancients in the end, it would have felt like such a sting that it would be so memorable and bittersweet having spent the game hunting them down only to realise they suited her ideals better than the Hidden Ones. She wanted glory and the soon to be templars would give her that far more than an organisation dedicated to hiding in the shadows. If Ubisoft just decided to drop the AC title and release this as a historical RPG I would not be so harsh on it, but if it wants to be counted as part of the AC series it deserves to be judged as such, and in that respect for me it utterly fails. Really loved your thoughts as always, hope you do similar longer videos for others in the series
@@mrmeme2917 I mean, making it your top five tells makes sense. But widely, Ezio trilogy, Black Flag, Orgins are better than Valhalla. That’s already five. I still play Valhalla, but can’t make it top, glad you enjoy it though
So people over think this game. Yes it's title is Assassin's Creed. But it's really a Viking game. It's view is through a viking who runs into the hidden ones. But your mentality is being Norse not an Assassin.
This game is just a big checklist. They simply added stuff that sounded good on paper but didn’t think of how to implement it. Imo it’s feels like they had a lot of buzzwords like vikings, hidden blade, hidden ones, gods, territories, homestead, bigger map, more content, more micro transactions, more abilities, modern day and so on. It feels like it’s a game focused on numbers and stats and not being an enjoyable game. It kinda reminds me of how a laptop can look top tier with top of the line cpu and gpu, but with bad ram and cooling making it perform worse than the laptop with “worse” specs. It’s funny when some Indy studios makes better games than these big AAA studios like Ubisoft.
Your wrong about there only being two assassins in the game your forgetting Roshan makes an appearance in one of the quest lines and she’s pretty iconic
I honestly enjoyed this game and think it's somewhat underrated. Yes, the story was way too long, but I thought the combat, side quests, and open world were good.
I kinda want to know what games you have played since you call the combat system good. I personally would recommend Ghost of Tsushima if you have a PlayStation or god of war. If you want a challenge try sekiro or Elden ring. Imo ac Valhalla combat is spongy and while not dog shit it’s not good either. Also I have not finished the game but played quite a few side missions and many of them suffer from being in a way too big of world and they simply just feel like filler content. Like a fetch mission is rarely any fun.
The worst part of Valhalla was the ending if you played as a male and find out that the choice was completely meaningless, and you are a female regardless.
One of my biggest issues with valhalla is the fact that they went with the popular culture depiction of vikings, i never liked it and i like it even less now that i know how they were really like, it's even worse considering Assassin's Creed is supposed to be as historically accurate as possible
I felt it in my soul when you said you shouldn't have a wrong choice in a single player narrative. It was my biggest issue with the tempo of this game. Finally someone said it
Yes but that usually change the story into a different direction. In this case he picked the one that slowed down the pace of the story and made the narrative more confusing. Valhalla is just so large this happens quite often. Or at least it did for me.
Trailers: "No wrong choices." "Your viking saga." Game: "hey screw you, how dare you play as Alexios or Male eivor, you don't count and we're gonna gaslight you and call you sexist, force kassandra and female eivor as canon, despite more players playing as Alexios and male eivor." People hate liers. So people rightly hate odyssey and Valhalla. People dont like being told how to live their life or enjoy their games. Ubisoft went to far, and broke canon for sages. All to force the badly acted female eivor as "canon." That alone ruined the game. Let alone the magic in post launch updates. Valhalla could've been special. But bias to one gender over another, and a misplaced hatred from ubisoft workers aimed at the fans and their bosses, destroyed Valhalla.
@ZernoHD stop spreading this misinformation. Assassin's Creed valhalla is a recreation of what was planned for syndicate when it comes to narrative. You've been lied to by sexists who hate males. You'll dismiss me here of course, but I'll share the truth anyway. Syndicate development leaked. And Jacob feye was the games soul protagonist. Which would have been huge for minority groups representation, as he's the only canon gay male protagonist in the franchise. Evie is one of many women. Evie was the games main bad guy. Yup. You heard me. She had a black and red robe, with a Assassin's insignia necklace, a badly scared face, and a silver mask. She was the reborn sage of ISU Morrigan, and Kacob was the reborn sage Lugh. Hence Evie had a crow like look, and a burned face with grey hair. As morrigan is said to deceive, until its to late, where her hag like appearance and evil nature are revealed. Further more, Morrigan used "champions" to ususrep the powers that oppress her land. In syndicate, Evie was gonna use Jacob in this way. Hence the gang name "Rooks." Which is double meaning, as Morrigan always turns on her champion after the work is done. The symbol for rooks gang has a bird taking a chess piece of a board. This represented evie truing on Jacob after her "rooks" work was done. Jacob wears the traditional green leaf pattern, associated with Lugh, and a single coin, to represent luck. The role planned for villain evie, was given to Roth, hence why Roth ended up with the scared face, grey hair, and mask. The character of Roth was always a thing in early development, but he wasn't a bad guy, until they changed evie to a good guy. And Roth to a bad guy. This was done because higher ups were afraid of backlash from unity co-op not featuring a female option. So the dev team for syndicate were forced to make the once evil evie, into a "protagonist." Look it up on behance. You'll find much evidence of what I've said there. Jacob got side lined in his own game, and lgbt male fans, were denied a massive moment in their progress within video games representation. Later, a group known now as the AC sisterhood made claims that are lies. This was in order to abuse the political climate of today, to bolster their own careers. Again, Aya was never origins protagonist. The sisterhood have later gone back on their lies, because of these leaked game developments. The sisterhood now claim that evie and aya were "50%" of the games... these people are playing you. As for odyssey, Alexios translates to "defender of man." Which is what the eagle bearers mother says your destiny is. Go figure that one out yourself. The game even as it is, dose not make sense for kassandra. And valhalla I'm inclined to believe never was planned to have a gender changed Odin the all father.
@@BREWINGWITHCOMPANY don't trust "ZernoHD" I don't mean to call out anyone in a malicious way. But I'm sick of the lies by corrupt ubisoft devs being spread. Read my comment, then do the research if you want. Ubisoft have lied to us, and betrayed their dev teams. Don't allow them to get away with that.
@ZernoHD look up syndicate on Behance. Do the research... Jacobs game not evie. Jacob was the soul protagonist. And lgbt men were denied a full AAA game representing them. So don't pull the "equality" card here. Stop spreading lies.
I don't have much to say as Valhalla lost me after 24 hours of gameplay. I couldn't take the pacing. I really liked where the modern day was going but I couldn't get past the tedious alliance map. They really just wanted to make as big a game as possible. I wanted to like it, but between the boring raids, frustrating stealth and lip service to OG fans, and the pacing, I just couldn't. I hope Mirage delivers though. Great review video as always!
Well I played more than you, while thinking precisely the same. I got bored pretty quickly of the game after doing a lot of side missions and probably won’t ever play the game again.
Sigurd looks more like an Assassin, his robes are cool, he's taller, thinner, not as WIDE as Eivor, and he also has a hood, I'd hope he would become part of the Hidden Ones
I'd say it's a good game it just should have been called something like project animas: Vikings or something like that so they have More creative freedom but I still can take plays in the AC universe.
One of the things I disliked most about Valhalla is the lack of character development at the expense of free exploration and tackling the alliances in (relatively) any order. That made each alliance a story pocket that felt isolated from the overall story. Compared to AC Odyssey, where yeah, there were a lot of side stories, but often there would be a link to the overall "cult" or "family" stories woven in, and there would be cases where characters from one story overlapped into another. I wish with Valhalla, they had made it so that every few alliances would automatically trigger a character/story development so that it felt like Eivor grew. The episodic nature could be there, but it could have worked if, say, every 2 alliances, you got some overarching narrative in between. Also, in my opinion, the Asgard storyline was so small compared to the amount of playtime we were expected to put in there. It reminded me of the Kingdom Hearts series in a way, where you get a tiny bit of lore in a LONG gameplay area.
One aspect that bothered me going from Odyssey to Valhalla: why does the UI not properly reflect the fact we’re in the animus? Ubisoft has the reference for over a decade of games, why now move away from this? I feel like Mirage will use a similar system to Valhalla…
To a lot of commenters What exactly qualifies as an AC game? People absolutely adored Odyssey, this is the same game different characters and story. That's it, everything is the exact same.
I never got it because when i think assassins, i think Altier and Ezio. Stealth and mystery. I dont think Pirates blowing shit up. I dont think angry indians with tomohawk. And what says "assassin" about a Viking with a war axe roaring and charging into a war? From what i saw, its a good Viking game. Just NOT an assassin game.
Valhalla is my first Assassin's Creed game. I got it for free with my CPU a couple years ago and finally got around to playing it simply because, well, look at my name. I'm all about Nordic shit. Have about 250 hours into it now, and gotta say for a guy who never gave a shit about the franchise before I now consider myself invested. I think it was a game meant to bring new people in, and maybe change direction from what I understand the last few entries have been.
I think I enjoyed Valhalla more when I played Black Flag first and then Valhalla. That way I would freshen myself up with what Sages were in the lore so that I can understand why the Nordic Gods exist in the game
The thing is, without Basim or Hyatham, this isn't wouldn't have anything to do with Assassins creed. That's what gets me the most. That it's barely an assassins creed game.
It's honestly in the same boat as Oddysey and Origins to me, "a good game, a bad AC game" a tired but nonetheless true phrase that has represented the last 5 years of AC games for me, I like all of these game but none of them truly feel like AC, some have the aesthetics and even some have the story beats of an AC but it never goes further than that
I feel like origins is kinda the best game outa the new ones, but they all suffer from the same problem, the endless grind, as someone who likes to 100% ac games I feel like they’re bloated and filled with filler content which i feel like doesn’t impact the story at all, they’re simply there too fill the map and make players spend time in the game. Thus making them a chore to play through after the initial excitement wears off, which it does fast. Also the rpg elements are often only half baked and makes the games worse. Let’s not talk about the traversal of the games it’s the least fun I have had in games, I just press a button and my horse goes to my destination. Combat is no good either it’s a worse copy of the Witchers combat now with god powers as well. It would be nice to see Ubisoft crossing to follow their ideas instead of just choosing the “safest” option with the ac titles. Like they should make a game about Vikings, the greek mythology and not try to mix it with ac elements. Also they should try to make a more focused game.
This game has been out for almost 3 years and they still never gave it proper cloth physics but had time to add 3 years worth of microtransactions to the game
Valhalla made me to appreciate my time and be patient to try new games. Spent 35 hrs and just realised okay, I don't need to play this game. I was just desperate for this game to over, and I wasn't even on 10-15% of the story. I completed the first soma quest coz other times I was just searching the marker for the main quest. Searching for hidden doors for chests contains few coins etc. The did river raids... Its again raids with longer loading times. My god. Then this game threw me to dreams.. Awful unnecessary place.
I really like this game, once all the DLCs are released I'll be playing again. The only real complaint I have is that even on it's hardest setting, the second half of the game is way too easy.
Eivor becoming an armored champion makes sense and some of the enemies can hold their own. But honestly cutting down the arrogant Mercian soldiers or bloodthirsty bandits rarely got old.
In AC Black Flag, you do know when you’ll run into a Man-O-War ship, because there’s only a couple of them in the whole game, and each has its own specific spawn location in one of the 4 corners of the map. You also know exactly what reward you’ll get from any ship, simply by looking at it through your spyglass. Also if I remember correctly, when going to a Man-O-Wars location, a prompt would pop up saying you’re either not ready to face it, that part isn’t yet available, or it’ll let you choose rather or not you want to face it. By choosing no, the game reloads and your ship is facing away from its spawn location. So, my point is everything is completely predictable from choosing to engage in naval combat and you know exactly what the reward is by utilizing the spyglass. There is no mystery to it, it’s just a grinding tool that is more efficient than gathering supplies and currency by attacking forts, looting plantations, or whatever else ways the game offers those things.
The single most dissapointing game I've ever played. There's so much grinding just to get to the next part of the story. The game play is slow and boring. The map too large and lifeless. The combat was a massive downgrade from odyssey and felt like a 2001 game. Not to mention the story was convoluted and only muddled the modern story. Valhalla is the only AC game that's just a below average game. It's the first one I lost intrest in and didn't even want to beat.
Can you explain how you felt level gated in Valhalla? Coz... i had to bump my combat difficulty to Nightmare just so NPCs dont melt on me (they still do).
Yeah, I don’t know what that’s about. I’m only PL 98 but I’ve obliterated enemies in PL 220 regions. Unlike Odyssey, there’s a ton of leeway when it comes to levels.
I'll start off by saying, great review. But you have a line in here saying Valhalla doesnt incorporate the assassin v templar philosophy in any way. I actually think their twist on the assassin v templar conflict is my favorite aspect of the game. What is the assassin v templar conflict? Freedom v control right? From the beginning of the game, Eivor is told of her destiny. She is destined to carry out this betrayal. So she is controlled. But instead of her losing her freedom because of a group or institution, the game posits the idea that we are controlled by our social norms, our familial obligations, our religions, our culture. At the beginning of the game, Eivor is a viking's viking. Not at all questioning her choices in service of her viking upbringing. But due to her experiences in england, the prophecy of her betrayal of Sigurd, and her visions of Odin, she comes to question these ideals. In the end, she turns down being the ultimate viking when she decides her family is more important and that she will not repeat the mistakes of the past, the mistakes of Odin. Guthrum also gives this question. If we are to be happy here in England, we must adapt and let go of what we knew was true. Ultimately, i thought it was one of the more unique spins on the assassin v templar conflict.
Valhalla is a game which I love to hate and I hate to love; I just can’t really pinpoint how I feel about the game. I like and dislike it at the same time. Definitely got my money out of it and still boot it up once in a while to play around a bit in a second playthrough. The game definitely overstays it welcome in general, but I did somewhat enjoyed it for what it is
Honestly ive only just started to play it and tbh im really enjoying it lol. Its not an assassins creed game though, its an open world Viking RPG that just happens to have assassins in it lol, and Ubisoft giving it that title not only hurts the AC franchise, it brings down an otherwise good game imo.
@@mrmeme2917 Okay Vikings R Us. Take off your Horned Helm and think about what you just said. I've played every AC game there is and I can say Valhalla is FAR from an AC game. The lore is twisted and you don't even become an assassin after killing all those templars. But YOU think AC needs VALHALLA? Lmao okay.
@@mrmeme2917 No the hell it does not. But, of course you will defend it because you're a VIKING fanboy! You wouldn't know what being a ASSASSIN is about. Hell I doubt you even touched AC1.
Played Odyssey it was good. Played Valhalla damn...the story reminded me of the Viking show and it felt heavy and gritty and was definitely souls like inspired. I loved it. It felt like I was playing through the Vikings show at a different angle 😁👍
05/2024. Inside of my 1st couple of hours and thus far the combat feels very bad. The chaotic immersive viking combat is what I imagined during purchase but as of right now that feel is not here. The story, characters, cutscenes, kill animations and overall cinematics will be the only anchor for me in this game. The combat has zero vibes until the kill animations begin.
@@AverageJoe1006 well...valhalla is fail but odyssey is my favorite from 20 years...and I like ubisoft games because they are open world...but at ubisoft there are several teams, not just one...odyssey. 2500 hours origins 400 hours valhalla 120 hours... that's how much I played beautifully
Yes it is that bad. Valhalla still has no new game plus! It didn't take odyssey and origins that long for a new game plus..so I returned Valhalla back and got my money back.
I mean I know I’m not an og assaassins player seeing as I’ve only ever played odyssey and this one , but honestly I have no idea what people would complain about . But like I said I haven’t even remotely played the others
I’ve played origins and now finishing odyssey which I think they hit the balance amazingly well between story and exploration and open world a beautiful telling of Greece. I won’t play val because it’s so fussy and it hides everything unnecessary I would also pick up on your point about side quests odyssey has “impact” quests which is new and refreshing like if you didn’t kill the bandits at the start and let them go down the line they have a quest for you.
Worst AC game I've played and been a fan since AC1 in 2007.Clunky combat boring story just nothing fun about it repetitive not in a good way.After 25 hours I was done.
I got this game during the quarantine and a breakup so I had nothing better to do and 100% the game. If it wasn't for my love of vikings and lore more then AC I probably wouldn't have even finished the game it's so long.
I have a very urgent and crucial question my good Sir. I've been a fan since day 1 and I stopped playing games for a few years and my last AC was Rogue. I'm playing Origins now and I love it.OK THAT BEING SAID IVE HEARD THAT THE AC STORY DOESN'T REALLY ADVANCE PAST ORIGINS SO SHOULD I EVEN BOTHER TRYING ODYSSEY AND VALHALLA OR JUST WAIT ON MIRAGE? Please help me brother!
Play Valhalla,ignore odyssey.. Odyssey is a cool game since you get to figjt and encounter creatures from Greek mythology and history but as an AC game it doesn't offer anything the modern day is pretty bad but you can watch it on TH-cam to catch up but valhalla is definitely worth it I'd say pretty good game and a great AC game that offers a ton of lore into the assassin's and into the ISU so I'd recommend you buy valhalla and ignore odyssey
It was a decent game but the story was just bs. There was also no real ending. Once u finish all the main alliances the game just tells u ur done. Like bruh what kind of ending is that? All those hours just for that?
Valhalla is the best game ever. People who say its bad is dumb. Dislike those comments that say its bad. Valhalla will forever be the best game until Mirage comes out. All Assassin's Creed games are the best. Assassin's Creed is life. You think your real life is life? No, you just goto work, to come home to experience the real life. You dummy!
I actually like Valhalla. Far more than Odyssey, and even Origins to a certain degree. I liked the Viking setting and Eivor as a protagonist. I think it repaired some of the damage that Odyssey did, but not as much as it should have. Hopefully AC Mirage will be a true return to form for the series.
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This is an interesting case were I agree with all the points made but not with the conclusion. I do think Valhalla was a waste of my time and I am one of those who felt the game killed their love for the franchise, but it's not because of a lack of good things. This game shines in the dialogue, writing and performance department but all this pieces aren't enough to lift the mediocre gameplay system and the broken narrative. The individual elements work on it's own but not as a whole, and to me that's a failure in any piece of media. Gameplay is the lenguage of videogames like cinematography is the lenguage of movies, it's the way the medium connects with the audience, and if it can't do that right then it's not good at all.
The repetitiveness of it all or accessing armor/loot was so mind numbingly boring. Bought it when it first came out, put 80 hours into it and just couldn't do it anymore. Finally finished the game at 130 hours just so I could see the end and.......just awful. All I could say is "That's it?" After all that, that's it. Rip out all the extra filler you force into it and just make a good AC game.
I see there's a wonderful game and story here. It's just hiding between filler and tedious work. I ended up hating playing the game and sold it before I was even halfway. Just felt confused and bored all the time. Beautiful game setting though
I had a good time playing Valhalla (except the Essex and Gloucestershire arcs, they were ass) but I don't believe I will ever replay the game since its bloated with so much filler and fluff missions. Eivor exercising Odin from her mind is one of my favourite moments of the entire series though. I would say Valhalla does't break into my top 5 ac games but definitely not near the bottom of the list either. Just a solid mid-tier game in the series.
@Connor Wiederich Probably 5- AC1 4-Brotherhood and then the top 3 always changes for me between AC2, Revelations and Black Flag, these 3 I flip flop which order to put them in, each has been number 1 for me at some point. Yeah I'd agree probably around the same level as Unity, might just nudge Valhalla slightly ahead since there's more moments I enjoyed in Valhalla
I like it. It's a bad Assassin's Creed game, but pretty solid RPG Viking game in my opinion. The open world is beautiful, alot of content, the raids never get boring, the gameplay is fun... I really enjoy it.
I think the base game was very good, but it was just ruined by an awful post launch and some weird decisions with the pacing and bloating of the story. Excited to hear your thoughts
One of rare instances where updates make the game worse.
@@IlMemetor72 completely agree
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@@IlMemetor72 A good chunk of those instances are from Ubi$oft.
Detection range is HOT Garbage -- even on the 2nd lowest Stealth setting. The guards are able to see you from 3 miles away. I think it's bugged and I dunno if restarting the game fixes it.
Everything else... I'm warming up to it. I love River Raids for my Stealth Assaults (unless the Stealth bugged out again).
The problem with Valhalla is it has no soul. The game drags on so long you become numb to everything going on & just want it to end
Honestly Im the complete oppisite because of how long it takes it made me enjoy it more and it was cool to watch eivor (in my case male eivor) become wiser and become more peaceful in his ways still a vikingr but understanding that the axe isnt the only way
I gave Valhalla 4 stars, then I played Odyssey and Valhalla went down to two stars. If they had cut a third out of the game in duration it would have had double the impact for me. It’s so diluted, it’s sad, considering there are so many great moments
I do agree with you it's a little too long but overall I f****** loved the story
For me it was the side quests. If the musteryies were anything like origins or odyssey it would be much less bloated.
I just stopped playing cause of the shitty audio
I feel like most AC’s start to overstay their welcome. Especially the modern games starting with Origins (insane grind).
I’ve been alternating between Odyssey and Valhalla recently. I like Odyssey’s story a lot more and its sense of humor and heart, but the level and gear system is atrocious. The side quests are also very throwaway, with a ton of fetch quests. Valhalla’s main story is much weaker by comparison, but the gameplay is far more organic and combat is more fun. Both games could be cutdown and refined - they’re too big.
Extremely telling how bloated this game is when I chose to immediately chase the asgard storyline, regardless of the fact I was a quarter the level it suggested; simply because I was bored of politics and crowns.
While I think Valhalla is a good game on its own, it wouldve faired much better to be a spinoff even if only to introduce Basim. I think Valhalla will eventually only be remembered as Basim's first appearence.
They should just have made a proper Viking game and not some half assed mix between two genres and themes that doesn’t mix well. Like being an assassin and a Viking is completely different. Vikings are storming cities while assassins infiltrate and kill their target.
Also most of the stealth mechanics are completely broken or useless, just look at detection or social stealth.
Trailers: "No wrong choices." "Your viking saga." Game: "hey screw you, how dare you play as Alexios or Male eivor, you don't count and we're gonna gaslight you and call you sexist, force kassandra and female eivor as canon, despite more players playing as Alexios and male eivor." People hate liers. So people rightly hate odyssey and Valhalla. People dont like being told how to live their life or enjoy their games. Ubisoft went to far, and broke canon for sages. All to force the badly acted female eivor as "canon." That alone ruined the game. Let alone the magic in post launch updates. Valhalla could've been special. But bias to one gender over another, and a misplaced hatred from ubisoft workers aimed at the fans and their bosses, destroyed Valhalla.
In my opinion valhalla did many things right like advancing the modern day story , it kinda fixed the damage odyssey made , it had assassin's (not a lot but the assassin stuff were really good ) , the story wasn't bad and all that thanks to darby's writing but there were many flaws like the assassin stuff having no meaning and the length of the game it's better than odyssey and a few other ac games but it's not top tier ac it's somewhere in the middle for me
Completely agree there
You're smoking crack...Valhalla was absolutely horrible and damaged Assassin's Creed beyond repair in every way
@@barco6645 Played odyssey 2500 hours...valhalla is too boring game...
@@barco6645 Played odyssey 2500 hours...valhalla is too boring game...
I don’t get all the hate on origins and odyssey , or even this game , you cant keep making the same AC games over and over for no reason, people wanted changes, ubi brought us the last 3 games in a fresh way and I personally have played hours and hours in all of them and none of them games owe me anything.. and now we got Mirage coming out … its gonna be interesting to sat the least to see what we get this time around.
I get the feeling you should have finished the OTA sequence before finishing the Main Quest. Coz that progression makes much more sense.
This is an absolutely phenomenal breakdown/review. Wow. Well done. Take my subscription!
Valhalla was a perfectly fine game that's only significant flaw, to me, was that it was an assassin's creed. Released as a standalone Viking game it could have been considered great and all it would take is a few tweaks to achieve that, instead it was an AC so would have to break away to try and tie it back to that instead of just being the Viking game it wanted to be.
Same goes for Odyssey tbh, if that was just released as a straight fantasy game without trying to force a tie in to the assassin's creed lore it could have been a great game about a demigod in ancient Greece.
I feel like Ubisoft got bored of AC for a while there and decided to just make whatever they wanted and make that assassin's creed
Ivar doesn't almost kill ceolbert. He succeeds. Also the drug induced play through Asgard would make sense and feel just fine if you knew anything about Norse mythology. Did you make it to Jotunheim?
If he knew anything about Norse mythology? Anything!? So if you know any small detail at all than your good to go?
@@TyreII you obviously don't understand common sayings used in English. Because in this context it's clearly stating the reason it doesn't feel right is because he doesn't know anything about Norse mythology. Good job buddy. Way to try and be a smartass
Among the RPG trilogy Origins is the best. It went downhill on Odyssey, it turned into full RPG. Valhalla and Odyssey are very good game on their own but it just doesn't feel like an Assassins Creed game.
Shut up....nobody care about assassin...we need good game...that why odyssey is the best
It took me 110 hours to get through it. But to be fair, I hunted the witches, killed the bounty hunters, battled the old guard and finished the animus anomalies. Tried to finish the most quests. But bugs, glitches and problems arose quickly. It was a damn alpha version. I had to glitch to play the final mission, from vanishing saves, disappearing buildings and npcs aside. It was a disaster. But when it worked it was good and you could have fun. But damn the game tried everything to ruin your experience. Couldn’t complete it at 100%, was impossible. So I never touched the DLC and put it aside.
Now 1 1/2 years later I returned and man. So much was added and the micro transaction bullshit is back. Fun, not. But i had no crashings, no disappearings and no bugs or glitches so far. I guess now I can complete it and play the DLC.
Valhalla was a long amazing game and an underrated masterpiece. Nice to see in comments that people start appreciate this game. So OK, let's get to the main part!
What went well: A super long story that most modern games should follow in length, because the single player length we have seen in recent for example CoDs, were short, longest CoD in last three years was MWII with six hours of campaign whereas we all remember good old days of CoD WaW that had 12 hours of campaign. And CoD 1-3 that were even longer! Also the game had like a wild feeling, a great feeling, of wilderness and the opened world was one only of it's kind. Also multiple open world maps offered a gigantic open world, nearly as huge as Skyrim that was fully amazing. Imagine how huge this open world would be in one map with all those distances and sea travels. Other amazing thing was graphics and leading your village. The other great aspect was a full mythical arc. With actual mythical open world maps That all was 10/10.
What went badly
However no game is perfect. The main con of the game is that even tho it took me 300 hours to complete, the game felt like a lot of wasted potential, for example the side quest mention of war with Picts, we could have like an entire DLC in Scotland with it's King, King Constantin and everything and really, I would love a game that has met 100% potential and lasts even 100 000 000 000 hours and making such games is possible may S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 be an example of it. Other con is that some of the story arcs are basically just there to be, for example Essexe, it ended like in the middle of the quest that it should be. The other one is for example East Anglia where the story did not really made sense and was too candy. The other mess was glowcestreshire arc, and it was so stupid and nonsense that I slept on it twice. So that could be done better. The other con was the OG ending, that was basically stupid. We lost like 3 good characters and on the end the king from being the king became just an ass-leaker doing work for some old lady calling him like he was 5 years old. Luckily the ending was fixed with DLCs and amazing the isle of Skye epilogue. The other con that was blinding me was the political correctness, for example I met up with a Viking and I thought he wants to fight me for swords like in "The Last Kingdom", then he asks me to exchange something more than words with a very battle-needing voice and I clicked yes, then he comes to me, grabs me by the dick and kisses. I was literally disgusted. Some more shit like that was in like 2 other places in the game and I was playing male Eivor and I am thanking God I didn't got to play female one, because that would be a true SJW shit game. The other con was a lackluster ending for the mythical storyline, however it got fixed in the DLCs. The last con sadly is Eivor. And this is because of his personality, this is saw on male Eivor more. He is basically just too kind, too candy, like too nice towards everyone, he wasn't badass enough and also he was very predictable, I would prefer to have a badass character with a lot of mysteries about him and unpredictable, something more like a Viking from "Vikings" show from history or "The Last Kingdom" show from Netflix. Because here in the game it's basically Janosik or more for your understanding Robin Hood from Viking family. This kind of personality well fitted Bayek but not Eivor.
Those are all pros and cons about the game. Despite all of those crimes, the game commited it is still a very good game and should be in the top 10 games of years 2011-2020. I had blast playing it and I recommend it for everyone. Best medieval game ever. This was my review.
I played all the AC games, most of them more than once. I tried Valhalla on a free weekend, and got bored after 3-4 hours of gametime. That should say enough.
Valhalla was my first AC game I played. While I played black flag at my friends house many years ago and had a grasp on lore and what the series was about, it was the first AC game I got for myself. I personally really love the game, even though it is filled with many flaws (broken stealth, story is too long, open world does not justify it's size, etc.) I still love the game nonetheless. I have now played 8 Assassins Creed games, and I still think it tells one of the best stories in the series, but there are definitely better games in the series. I think a lot of criticisms for the game are valid but I feel like it is overhated in a lot of areas, and everyone should give it a try.
Not my first game but i agree.
I agree to an extent because the story is alright but the motivation for the player to continue the story after hours of side content make it more tedious than enjoyable. Plus Ubisoft needs to find a way to have characters have emotion while they talk without making them throw their arms around as if they are dancing.
I have sadly bought the game and hence given Ubisoft a reason to make shitty half rpgs, with bad combat, stupid traversal mechanics, stupid side missions (fetch quests in particular), filled with filler content, micro transactions and more.
Also the series is supposed to be about assassins and not vikings, at least they could make a proper Viking game instead of mixing two themes that is like water and oil. Like the game has stealth but it’s a complete mess, you can’t even do the raids in stealth because you need additional people to open doors and chests.
I guess this is some of the reasons why Valhalla has had such bad player retention compared to other games.
@@ibleminenI guess you could say the game would be pretty well received by players if it did not have Assassins Creed in the name? If it was just it's own thing, maybe in the same universe which would explain how you're able to be in the shoes of Eivor.
@@pleasedontkillme1185 nah the game was bloated as hell and generally just mid.
Yes, yes it was. But I still want to listen to your thoughts for over half an hour. One of my favourite things is that the settlement in England is actually where I’m from (Northamptonshire) so that’s just a special bonus for me.
This game barely qualifies as AC as far as I’m concerned and I think the biggest flaw was the length and how dragged out and badly paced the story was, if the different county arcs actually made a substantial difference it would feel more worth it, such as when we have to lay siege against Falke or fight Aelfred’s army if you hadn’t recruited enough allies it would become substantially more difficult or could even change the storyline considering they’ve thrown out the lore aspect of these apparently being memories because how can we have such choices. Some of the arcs were so clearly just side content that became necessary to complete the story and they either should have been highlighted as optional or otherwise the narrative needed to be tightened up to make them more relevant overall.
It was an absolute slog at times to get through everything in this game, it needed to be trimmed down desperately and Viking England was just a flat out bad choice for an AC game. This feels like a poor clone of Black Flag (my personal favourite in the series) which features a character not on either side of the Assassin and Templar conflict until he resolved his own character arc and started working through his flaws. Why Valhalla could not replicate this with a Viking instead of a pirate I don’t know, Eivor I think should have joined the Order of Ancients in the end, it would have felt like such a sting that it would be so memorable and bittersweet having spent the game hunting them down only to realise they suited her ideals better than the Hidden Ones. She wanted glory and the soon to be templars would give her that far more than an organisation dedicated to hiding in the shadows.
If Ubisoft just decided to drop the AC title and release this as a historical RPG I would not be so harsh on it, but if it wants to be counted as part of the AC series it deserves to be judged as such, and in that respect for me it utterly fails.
Really loved your thoughts as always, hope you do similar longer videos for others in the series
Valhalla is meh... Simply meh, not bruh or bleh
Disagree
@@mrmeme2917 meh meh
@@mrmeme2917 I mean, making it your top five tells makes sense. But widely, Ezio trilogy, Black Flag, Orgins are better than Valhalla. That’s already five. I still play Valhalla, but can’t make it top, glad you enjoy it though
@@zagabuba7485 It's worse then bleh.
The platinum costed my soul
I personally loved AC VALHALLA. It might be because of my affection towards Vikings and Norse Mythology. but I really liked it.
So people over think this game. Yes it's title is Assassin's Creed. But it's really a Viking game. It's view is through a viking who runs into the hidden ones. But your mentality is being Norse not an Assassin.
Why bother titling the game *"Assassin's Creed"* then which is what Ubisoft should've dropped.
Valhalla is a game that tried to please everyone but ended pleasing no one
Speak for yourself
I like it. 🤷🏻♂️
It pleased a lot of people actually
This game is just a big checklist. They simply added stuff that sounded good on paper but didn’t think of how to implement it. Imo it’s feels like they had a lot of buzzwords like vikings, hidden blade, hidden ones, gods, territories, homestead, bigger map, more content, more micro transactions, more abilities, modern day and so on. It feels like it’s a game focused on numbers and stats and not being an enjoyable game.
It kinda reminds me of how a laptop can look top tier with top of the line cpu and gpu, but with bad ram and cooling making it perform worse than the laptop with “worse” specs. It’s funny when some Indy studios makes better games than these big AAA studios like Ubisoft.
Your wrong about there only being two assassins in the game your forgetting Roshan makes an appearance in one of the quest lines and she’s pretty iconic
i loved it. they should have just cut out all the assassins creed stuff. it stands on its own has a viking rpg
I honestly enjoyed this game and think it's somewhat underrated. Yes, the story was way too long, but I thought the combat, side quests, and open world were good.
Doing raids and slaughtering hundreds never get old
Neither does fishing
yeah that story goddamn way too long man
I kinda want to know what games you have played since you call the combat system good. I personally would recommend Ghost of Tsushima if you have a PlayStation or god of war. If you want a challenge try sekiro or Elden ring.
Imo ac Valhalla combat is spongy and while not dog shit it’s not good either.
Also I have not finished the game but played quite a few side missions and many of them suffer from being in a way too big of world and they simply just feel like filler content. Like a fetch mission is rarely any fun.
The worst part of Valhalla was the ending if you played as a male and find out that the choice was completely meaningless, and you are a female regardless.
One of my biggest issues with valhalla is the fact that they went with the popular culture depiction of vikings, i never liked it and i like it even less now that i know how they were really like, it's even worse considering Assassin's Creed is supposed to be as historically accurate as possible
Bro people cried for Vikings since Blackflag
@@mrmeme2917 My issue is with how they depicted vikings, not that the game is about them
@@zjay what is wrong with how they did it
@@mrmeme2917 it's historically inaccurate
@@zjay how
I felt it in my soul when you said you shouldn't have a wrong choice in a single player narrative. It was my biggest issue with the tempo of this game. Finally someone said it
Yes but that usually change the story into a different direction. In this case he picked the one that slowed down the pace of the story and made the narrative more confusing. Valhalla is just so large this happens quite often. Or at least it did for me.
Trailers: "No wrong choices." "Your viking saga." Game: "hey screw you, how dare you play as Alexios or Male eivor, you don't count and we're gonna gaslight you and call you sexist, force kassandra and female eivor as canon, despite more players playing as Alexios and male eivor." People hate liers. So people rightly hate odyssey and Valhalla. People dont like being told how to live their life or enjoy their games. Ubisoft went to far, and broke canon for sages. All to force the badly acted female eivor as "canon." That alone ruined the game. Let alone the magic in post launch updates. Valhalla could've been special. But bias to one gender over another, and a misplaced hatred from ubisoft workers aimed at the fans and their bosses, destroyed Valhalla.
@ZernoHD stop spreading this misinformation. Assassin's Creed valhalla is a recreation of what was planned for syndicate when it comes to narrative. You've been lied to by sexists who hate males. You'll dismiss me here of course, but I'll share the truth anyway. Syndicate development leaked. And Jacob feye was the games soul protagonist. Which would have been huge for minority groups representation, as he's the only canon gay male protagonist in the franchise. Evie is one of many women. Evie was the games main bad guy. Yup. You heard me. She had a black and red robe, with a Assassin's insignia necklace, a badly scared face, and a silver mask. She was the reborn sage of ISU Morrigan, and Kacob was the reborn sage Lugh. Hence Evie had a crow like look, and a burned face with grey hair. As morrigan is said to deceive, until its to late, where her hag like appearance and evil nature are revealed. Further more, Morrigan used "champions" to ususrep the powers that oppress her land. In syndicate, Evie was gonna use Jacob in this way. Hence the gang name "Rooks." Which is double meaning, as Morrigan always turns on her champion after the work is done. The symbol for rooks gang has a bird taking a chess piece of a board. This represented evie truing on Jacob after her "rooks" work was done. Jacob wears the traditional green leaf pattern, associated with Lugh, and a single coin, to represent luck. The role planned for villain evie, was given to Roth, hence why Roth ended up with the scared face, grey hair, and mask. The character of Roth was always a thing in early development, but he wasn't a bad guy, until they changed evie to a good guy. And Roth to a bad guy. This was done because higher ups were afraid of backlash from unity co-op not featuring a female option. So the dev team for syndicate were forced to make the once evil evie, into a "protagonist." Look it up on behance. You'll find much evidence of what I've said there. Jacob got side lined in his own game, and lgbt male fans, were denied a massive moment in their progress within video games representation. Later, a group known now as the AC sisterhood made claims that are lies. This was in order to abuse the political climate of today, to bolster their own careers. Again, Aya was never origins protagonist. The sisterhood have later gone back on their lies, because of these leaked game developments. The sisterhood now claim that evie and aya were "50%" of the games... these people are playing you. As for odyssey, Alexios translates to "defender of man." Which is what the eagle bearers mother says your destiny is. Go figure that one out yourself. The game even as it is, dose not make sense for kassandra. And valhalla I'm inclined to believe never was planned to have a gender changed Odin the all father.
@@BREWINGWITHCOMPANY don't trust "ZernoHD" I don't mean to call out anyone in a malicious way. But I'm sick of the lies by corrupt ubisoft devs being spread. Read my comment, then do the research if you want. Ubisoft have lied to us, and betrayed their dev teams. Don't allow them to get away with that.
@ZernoHD look up syndicate on Behance. Do the research... Jacobs game not evie. Jacob was the soul protagonist. And lgbt men were denied a full AAA game representing them. So don't pull the "equality" card here. Stop spreading lies.
I don't have much to say as Valhalla lost me after 24 hours of gameplay. I couldn't take the pacing. I really liked where the modern day was going but I couldn't get past the tedious alliance map. They really just wanted to make as big a game as possible.
I wanted to like it, but between the boring raids, frustrating stealth and lip service to OG fans, and the pacing, I just couldn't. I hope Mirage delivers though. Great review video as always!
Well I played more than you, while thinking precisely the same. I got bored pretty quickly of the game after doing a lot of side missions and probably won’t ever play the game again.
Sigurd looks more like an Assassin, his robes are cool, he's taller, thinner, not as WIDE as Eivor, and he also has a hood, I'd hope he would become part of the Hidden Ones
I'd say it's a good game it just should have been called something like project animas: Vikings or something like that so they have More creative freedom but I still can take plays in the AC universe.
One of the things I disliked most about Valhalla is the lack of character development at the expense of free exploration and tackling the alliances in (relatively) any order. That made each alliance a story pocket that felt isolated from the overall story. Compared to AC Odyssey, where yeah, there were a lot of side stories, but often there would be a link to the overall "cult" or "family" stories woven in, and there would be cases where characters from one story overlapped into another. I wish with Valhalla, they had made it so that every few alliances would automatically trigger a character/story development so that it felt like Eivor grew. The episodic nature could be there, but it could have worked if, say, every 2 alliances, you got some overarching narrative in between. Also, in my opinion, the Asgard storyline was so small compared to the amount of playtime we were expected to put in there. It reminded me of the Kingdom Hearts series in a way, where you get a tiny bit of lore in a LONG gameplay area.
As a solo game? It holds.
As an Assassin's Creed? Completely bullshit.
I love Valhalla but then again I love every Assassin's Creed game ever made
Me too, but then i play each game for what they are, instead of looking at them through assassin’s tainted glasses
One aspect that bothered me going from Odyssey to Valhalla: why does the UI not properly reflect the fact we’re in the animus? Ubisoft has the reference for over a decade of games, why now move away from this? I feel like Mirage will use a similar system to Valhalla…
To a lot of commenters
What exactly qualifies as an AC game?
People absolutely adored Odyssey, this is the same game different characters and story. That's it, everything is the exact same.
I never got it because when i think assassins, i think Altier and Ezio. Stealth and mystery. I dont think Pirates blowing shit up. I dont think angry indians with tomohawk. And what says "assassin" about a Viking with a war axe roaring and charging into a war? From what i saw, its a good Viking game. Just NOT an assassin game.
Garbage take. Generally ac has always had buggy weird stealth, and forced stealth missions rarely worked well
If this game is being treated like a viking adventure game it becomes way better , just think about how vikings fight and you have a ton of fun
The fact that you said that there only being 2 assassin's is a personal annoyment makes me cry
Valhalla is my first Assassin's Creed game. I got it for free with my CPU a couple years ago and finally got around to playing it simply because, well, look at my name. I'm all about Nordic shit. Have about 250 hours into it now, and gotta say for a guy who never gave a shit about the franchise before I now consider myself invested. I think it was a game meant to bring new people in, and maybe change direction from what I understand the last few entries have been.
I think I enjoyed Valhalla more when I played Black Flag first and then Valhalla.
That way I would freshen myself up with what Sages were in the lore so that I can understand why the Nordic Gods exist in the game
The thing is, without Basim or Hyatham, this isn't wouldn't have anything to do with Assassins creed. That's what gets me the most. That it's barely an assassins creed game.
I bought it for my ps5 played it for like 20 minutes and I haven't touched it since. I thought the controls were very unresponsive
It's honestly in the same boat as Oddysey and Origins to me, "a good game, a bad AC game" a tired but nonetheless true phrase that has represented the last 5 years of AC games for me, I like all of these game but none of them truly feel like AC, some have the aesthetics and even some have the story beats of an AC but it never goes further than that
I feel like origins is kinda the best game outa the new ones, but they all suffer from the same problem, the endless grind, as someone who likes to 100% ac games I feel like they’re bloated and filled with filler content which i feel like doesn’t impact the story at all, they’re simply there too fill the map and make players spend time in the game. Thus making them a chore to play through after the initial excitement wears off, which it does fast. Also the rpg elements are often only half baked and makes the games worse. Let’s not talk about the traversal of the games it’s the least fun I have had in games, I just press a button and my horse goes to my destination. Combat is no good either it’s a worse copy of the Witchers combat now with god powers as well.
It would be nice to see Ubisoft crossing to follow their ideas instead of just choosing the “safest” option with the ac titles. Like they should make a game about Vikings, the greek mythology and not try to mix it with ac elements. Also they should try to make a more focused game.
This game has been out for almost 3 years and they still never gave it proper cloth physics but had time to add 3 years worth of microtransactions to the game
Valhalla made me to appreciate my time and be patient to try new games. Spent 35 hrs and just realised okay, I don't need to play this game. I was just desperate for this game to over, and I wasn't even on 10-15% of the story. I completed the first soma quest coz other times I was just searching the marker for the main quest. Searching for hidden doors for chests contains few coins etc. The did river raids... Its again raids with longer loading times. My god. Then this game threw me to dreams.. Awful unnecessary place.
I really like this game, once all the DLCs are released I'll be playing again. The only real complaint I have is that even on it's hardest setting, the second half of the game is way too easy.
Eivor becoming an armored champion makes sense and some of the enemies can hold their own. But honestly cutting down the arrogant Mercian soldiers or bloodthirsty bandits rarely got old.
Do it with odyssey
In AC Black Flag, you do know when you’ll run into a Man-O-War ship, because there’s only a couple of them in the whole game, and each has its own specific spawn location in one of the 4 corners of the map. You also know exactly what reward you’ll get from any ship, simply by looking at it through your spyglass. Also if I remember correctly, when going to a Man-O-Wars location, a prompt would pop up saying you’re either not ready to face it, that part isn’t yet available, or it’ll let you choose rather or not you want to face it. By choosing no, the game reloads and your ship is facing away from its spawn location. So, my point is everything is completely predictable from choosing to engage in naval combat and you know exactly what the reward is by utilizing the spyglass. There is no mystery to it, it’s just a grinding tool that is more efficient than gathering supplies and currency by attacking forts, looting plantations, or whatever else ways the game offers those things.
those are ghost ships, you can have dozzens of Man o wars randomly spawn.
You must be playing a different black flag, because the one I played didn’t have ghost ships
The game is simply too long.
Screen tearing everywhere in this video or is it just me?
I’m going to try and do main quest see how far I can get Cuz last time (a year ago) this game had me snoozing every 3-5 minutes 😂
It haven't changed bro. But it gets better once you reach level 30.
The single most dissapointing game I've ever played. There's so much grinding just to get to the next part of the story. The game play is slow and boring. The map too large and lifeless. The combat was a massive downgrade from odyssey and felt like a 2001 game. Not to mention the story was convoluted and only muddled the modern story. Valhalla is the only AC game that's just a below average game. It's the first one I lost intrest in and didn't even want to beat.
great video and honest review
Can you explain how you felt level gated in Valhalla?
Coz... i had to bump my combat difficulty to Nightmare just so NPCs dont melt on me (they still do).
Yeah, I don’t know what that’s about. I’m only PL 98 but I’ve obliterated enemies in PL 220 regions. Unlike Odyssey, there’s a ton of leeway when it comes to levels.
I feel like doom slayer
I'll start off by saying, great review. But you have a line in here saying Valhalla doesnt incorporate the assassin v templar philosophy in any way. I actually think their twist on the assassin v templar conflict is my favorite aspect of the game. What is the assassin v templar conflict? Freedom v control right? From the beginning of the game, Eivor is told of her destiny. She is destined to carry out this betrayal. So she is controlled. But instead of her losing her freedom because of a group or institution, the game posits the idea that we are controlled by our social norms, our familial obligations, our religions, our culture. At the beginning of the game, Eivor is a viking's viking. Not at all questioning her choices in service of her viking upbringing. But due to her experiences in england, the prophecy of her betrayal of Sigurd, and her visions of Odin, she comes to question these ideals. In the end, she turns down being the ultimate viking when she decides her family is more important and that she will not repeat the mistakes of the past, the mistakes of Odin. Guthrum also gives this question. If we are to be happy here in England, we must adapt and let go of what we knew was true. Ultimately, i thought it was one of the more unique spins on the assassin v templar conflict.
people said side quest in odyssey sucked but god i prefer them a thousand times than these nonsense activities of valhalla what a let down
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I heard that too haha!
Still to this day in 2024 no clues to eviors death
Its a solid game but going forward, RPG AC games need to follow the example of the masterpiece Origins.
Valhalla is a game which I love to hate and I hate to love; I just can’t really pinpoint how I feel about the game. I like and dislike it at the same time. Definitely got my money out of it and still boot it up once in a while to play around a bit in a second playthrough. The game definitely overstays it welcome in general, but I did somewhat enjoyed it for what it is
Honestly ive only just started to play it and tbh im really enjoying it lol. Its not an assassins creed game though, its an open world Viking RPG that just happens to have assassins in it lol, and Ubisoft giving it that title not only hurts the AC franchise, it brings down an otherwise good game imo.
I disagree Valhalla is 100% AC game with great lore ! Actually assassin's Creed without Valhalla is more confusing
@@mrmeme2917 It's almost like a certain other game screwed up the lore and Valhalla had to fix it.
@@mrmeme2917 Okay Vikings R Us.
Take off your Horned Helm and think about what you just said.
I've played every AC game there is and I can say Valhalla is FAR from an AC game. The lore is twisted and you don't even become an assassin after killing all those templars.
But YOU think AC needs VALHALLA? Lmao okay.
@@stealthkillz3114 bro Valhalla has the deepest lore in the AC series it connects evrey game together! Lmao try harder
@@mrmeme2917 No the hell it does not.
But, of course you will defend it because you're a VIKING fanboy!
You wouldn't know what being a ASSASSIN is about. Hell I doubt you even touched AC1.
I hope it ended with Eivor joining the Hidden Ones on the upcoming Final Act
Played Odyssey it was good. Played Valhalla damn...the story reminded me of the Viking show and it felt heavy and gritty and was definitely souls like inspired. I loved it. It felt like I was playing through the Vikings show at a different angle 😁👍
Yup
05/2024. Inside of my 1st couple of hours and thus far the combat feels very bad. The chaotic immersive viking combat is what I imagined during purchase but as of right now that feel is not here.
The story, characters, cutscenes, kill animations and overall cinematics will be the only anchor for me in this game. The combat has zero vibes until the kill animations begin.
Ubisoft = copy and paste , never gonna buy a ubisoft game again.
You joking...then wait 5 years for rock star games to come out...I love ubysoft great games...
@@zicuvalentin2251 you like doing the same stuff over and over again? I dont even buy rockstar games either. At least Origins was kinda decent.
@@AverageJoe1006 well...valhalla is fail but odyssey is my favorite from 20 years...and I like ubisoft games because they are open world...but at ubisoft there are several teams, not just one...odyssey. 2500 hours origins 400 hours valhalla 120 hours... that's how much I played beautifully
Yes it is that bad. Valhalla still has no new game plus! It didn't take odyssey and origins that long for a new game plus..so I returned Valhalla back and got my money back.
I mean I know I’m not an og assaassins player seeing as I’ve only ever played odyssey and this one , but honestly I have no idea what people would complain about . But like I said I haven’t even remotely played the others
Idc I love this game I love odyssey I love origins I love syndicate I love them all
I’ve played origins and now finishing odyssey which I think they hit the balance amazingly well between story and exploration and open world a beautiful telling of Greece.
I won’t play val because it’s so fussy and it hides everything unnecessary
I would also pick up on your point about side quests odyssey has “impact” quests which is new and refreshing like if you didn’t kill the bandits at the start and let them go down the line they have a quest for you.
Yes, it is that boring and lifeless, I played Ghost of Tsushima and that game is totally the opposite.
Funny how they're just getting ideas that Shadow of War has been using for years. It's almost as though they got them straight from there.
Worst AC game I've played and been a fan since AC1 in 2007.Clunky combat boring story just nothing fun about it repetitive not in a good way.After 25 hours I was done.
Bruh
As a hack and slash viking game it was good. As an Assassin's Creed game it sucked
I got this game during the quarantine and a breakup so I had nothing better to do and 100% the game. If it wasn't for my love of vikings and lore more then AC I probably wouldn't have even finished the game it's so long.
Valhalla isn’t bad it’s just fun
I agree with the video but they had no dedication to historical accuracy the game is 90 percent fantasy and is the least accurate ac game
19:54 I thought my JBL turned off
The game was great for me because I don’t need a game to be perfect in order to have a great time, unlike everyone else.
The gameplay and outfits break the immersion honestly
Shit take to be honest. Game story is 70% filler. Sure the 30% of it thats the real story is good but you cant just simp for that.
Ya but this game I redem ubisoft item but not showing on inventory I hope ubisoft fix bug
It was buggy at times but I didn’t have many issues with the game
I have a very urgent and crucial question my good Sir. I've been a fan since day 1 and I stopped playing games for a few years and my last AC was Rogue. I'm playing Origins now and I love it.OK THAT BEING SAID IVE HEARD THAT THE AC STORY DOESN'T REALLY ADVANCE PAST ORIGINS SO SHOULD I EVEN BOTHER TRYING ODYSSEY AND VALHALLA OR JUST WAIT ON MIRAGE? Please help me brother!
Play Valhalla,ignore odyssey..
Odyssey is a cool game since you get to figjt and encounter creatures from Greek mythology and history but as an AC game it doesn't offer anything the modern day is pretty bad but you can watch it on TH-cam to catch up but valhalla is definitely worth it I'd say pretty good game and a great AC game that offers a ton of lore into the assassin's and into the ISU so I'd recommend you buy valhalla and ignore odyssey
Depends if your a lore junkie yea probably skip odyssey if you like solid gameplay definitely try odyssey and Valhalla
it was a very long game but the ending wa so worth it imo
It was a decent game but the story was just bs. There was also no real ending. Once u finish all the main alliances the game just tells u ur done. Like bruh what kind of ending is that? All those hours just for that?
Valhalla is the best game ever. People who say its bad is dumb. Dislike those comments that say its bad. Valhalla will forever be the best game until Mirage comes out. All Assassin's Creed games are the best. Assassin's Creed is life. You think your real life is life? No, you just goto work, to come home to experience the real life. You dummy!
I Actually like eivors arc
Game’s boring as f, mediocre at best and buggy as hell.
Eivor was full of shit not joining the assassins. After denying glory from Odin then denying the shadows for glory from ol boy (forgot his name). Wtf.
I want want to be the game and 10 to 20 hours I'd want to take my time weeks or months
I actually like Valhalla. Far more than Odyssey, and even Origins to a certain degree. I liked the Viking setting and Eivor as a protagonist.
I think it repaired some of the damage that Odyssey did, but not as much as it should have. Hopefully AC Mirage will be a true return to form for the series.
This is an interesting case were I agree with all the points made but not with the conclusion. I do think Valhalla was a waste of my time and I am one of those who felt the game killed their love for the franchise, but it's not because of a lack of good things. This game shines in the dialogue, writing and performance department but all this pieces aren't enough to lift the mediocre gameplay system and the broken narrative. The individual elements work on it's own but not as a whole, and to me that's a failure in any piece of media. Gameplay is the lenguage of videogames like cinematography is the lenguage of movies, it's the way the medium connects with the audience, and if it can't do that right then it's not good at all.
The repetitiveness of it all or accessing armor/loot was so mind numbingly boring. Bought it when it first came out, put 80 hours into it and just couldn't do it anymore. Finally finished the game at 130 hours just so I could see the end and.......just awful. All I could say is "That's it?" After all that, that's it. Rip out all the extra filler you force into it and just make a good AC game.
I see there's a wonderful game and story here. It's just hiding between filler and tedious work. I ended up hating playing the game and sold it before I was even halfway. Just felt confused and bored all the time. Beautiful game setting though
I took a long break tbh
I had a good time playing Valhalla (except the Essex and Gloucestershire arcs, they were ass) but I don't believe I will ever replay the game since its bloated with so much filler and fluff missions. Eivor exercising Odin from her mind is one of my favourite moments of the entire series though. I would say Valhalla does't break into my top 5 ac games but definitely not near the bottom of the list either. Just a solid mid-tier game in the series.
@Connor Wiederich Probably 5- AC1 4-Brotherhood and then the top 3 always changes for me between AC2, Revelations and Black Flag, these 3 I flip flop which order to put them in, each has been number 1 for me at some point.
Yeah I'd agree probably around the same level as Unity, might just nudge Valhalla slightly ahead since there's more moments I enjoyed in Valhalla
100% agree
This game is 19.99 at games top. After looking at this video i think is time pick it up
Eivor really felt like a side character in her own game
@@piotrmontgomerytv7786 Ubisoft said that female eivor is the one that's canon
@@piotrmontgomerytv7786 bro u dumb
@@MagentaLux456 always confused me on why they always showed male eivor in the marketing
@@jacoblawien7853 Ubisoft logic
@@jacoblawien7853 It’s because both can be considered canon since the animus is able to tell that Eivor was once Odin
I like it. It's a bad Assassin's Creed game, but pretty solid RPG Viking game in my opinion. The open world is beautiful, alot of content, the raids never get boring, the gameplay is fun... I really enjoy it.
It's not a bad AC game, it is not an AC game at all actually 😂 It is more anti-assassin game, you fight Basim assassin on the end.