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@@NoobSaibotTheWraith I think Valhalla is the best mashup of the stealth combat concept, RPG concept, naval warfare concept, and open combat concept out of all Assassins's creed game.
Such stories are great but the game was too bloated and non linear for it to pay off. Plus the lore is too long and a lot of players have forgotten it.
@@benjiboy4477 bulshit?why?...the Isu where at the base of every AC game(prince of persia had dagger of time/AC have Isu artifacts)yes...and this was intended since first AC...this video explains it for everyone. At least Valhalla continues from where desmond left it. Ahh and at every start of every game it says it's a work of fiction,like Marvel movies or any SF game on market. First AC was named Prince of Persia Assassins,later changed to Assassin creed,instead of dagger of time was replaced with apple of eden...what is so hard to understand?Templars where just as introduction,assassins where just to justifiy a cause.Isu was the story from the begining,the history part is just filler for the Isu part from AC1 to Valhalla,like how WandaVision is made(nobody cares more than for the hints/tiny details in every episode,for what is going on,nobody kinda care for the sitcom side)...
@@alexandrugabriel3839 i know i followed every assassins creed game and comics but i would like to see the full on templar order again and the pieces of eden not litteraly isu's u know
@@benjiboy4477 a lot of people wants back templar vs assassins...because Ubisoft did it in such way that we all liked it,templars vs assassins i mean(AC1 to AC Syndicate,but more accent on templars only to Black Flag). So my ideea is that they made like 8 games,Rogue beiing the 9'th game with templars as history themed setting...i think is enough,or is it true that people like same stuff again and again,like in line production,like same pattern,wake up,wash,eat,go to work,come back,eat repeat?or like League of Legends,Warzone,fifa etc...same map same stuff,look what happend with Tlou2 vs Tlou1 and people wanted same stuff,Joel and Ellie main hero.I like change(tlou2 was good but not perfect 7/10,story sucked at most parts,too many flashbacks,edit fest,too many saved by the bell for ellie/abby,etc at least was different from tlou1)...maybe after 9 games with templars and that spin offs(chronicles and that psp game)i guess they decided to focus on ISU,well in my opinion. It's hard to please people,all the people...and to be honest i want a new Prince of Persia but Ubisoft is milking AC. I hope that some day Ubi will make an AC for fans,with templars and stuff but i doubt,cause...they reached Isu as playable setting not just an hologram from the vault in AC2 ending.
I personally loved the entire game. From meeting Pooh Bear, to "smack my bishop", to the countless stories integrated in the mysteries. It was all worth over the 100hrs I put into the game. I'm still not done.
Honestly they should go into it. They barely even scratch the surface instead of depth, they reuse the WORST parts of Odyssey story. Is (aelfred leading the order but higher eivor to destroy it.). Terrible story telling.
@@brandondennis5889 there are no “worst parts” of Odyssey...once again, this same team that developed a forgettable plot like they did in Black Flag/Syndicate/Origins just do whatever the FAR SUPERIOR other side of Ubi, but at least they got n board and gave us more modern day than Ashraf would have allowed if he was still there!!
The ending of this video was masterfully done. For all those people who skipped out on Assassin's Creed after AC2 don't know what they missed. I love how these games are all connected telling one massive tale.
I just finished Valhalla last night and was so confused lol. I skipped the entire Asgard part of the game because I played like 100 hours and couldn't do more. This explained so much. Awesome tie-ins
IF the story is not believable its for nothing. The latest 3 games were not that bad if they were without the present day stuff and without so many stupid fantasy in them. I prefer Assassins Creed just as a Templar vs Assassin thing but not in such a childish Isu stupid stuff. Its just...not believable...timelines? Reincarnation? Thats a kid story and the original Assassin Creed were not really that stupid even if I was against the present day stuff after the AC Brotherhood, first 2 were somewhat decent.
Played All AC except Syndicate because the characters tried to be funny and Im not into wanna be funny type of characters. The present day stuff is just ridiculous. They are not bad games, on the contrary but they would be 10 times better if they just fucking removed the childish elements from the game like stupid reincarnation and stuff like that
The entire fight with Odin is seriously underrated in my opinion, especially the part where players have to literally lay down their axe and stop fighting to win.....the music, Eivor finally accepting his father isn’t a coward, the “everything else” line. It’s just brilliant!
Only problem I had was that Odin really wasn’t aggressive at all like if it had the same feel as the debtor fight but with that ending it would be perfect in my opinion
The AC lore and story is so deep and great, I just wish the games weren’t so bloated and unnecessarily long that I have to watch a TH-cam video to remind myself what actually happened
and valhalla is so cloudy like asgard etc that i didnt even understand what was is until i realise ragnarok is the even that colapsed the isu. but the tree with the 9 worlds i asked myself if they weren't originated from outerspace and flew their planet who died from ragnarok. it made no senses.
I’m mad to be honest why was there a big fight at the end I was going to fight Sigurd or something or who ever was the last order. But instead he gave himself up and Sigurd just left. And got no end credits.
Trust me man, try to get into Kingdom Hearts lore and story, and you'll end up confused. Kinda like assassins creed were people are other people, but in reality they're different people
Legit started and replayed the series countless times trying to figure out the point of the story. But never have I seen such a detailed and on point representation of everything that's has happened and the points of all of it this is truly a masterpiece that's sums it up perfectly. Absolutely amazing job you guys are true Chad's 💯
Die-hard AC fan here. After finishing Vahalla I wrote it off as "meh", mostly as a game that is way too long with very little payoff. This video completely flipped my perspective. So much of these Isu metaphors went way over my head. I feel the need to replay it now, knowing how this all ties in.
Judging by all the comments for this video and other "AC Valhalla explained" videos, it seems like so many of you just skipped the Atlantis DLC for Odyssey. Which is a real shame, as there is no other part in the AC series where you get to learn so much about the Isu world, their personalities, how and why they literally created humans and how Adam and Eve escaped, why the artifacts exist... I could go on and on. Everyone is saying "Odyssey didn't add anything to the lore", perhaps not so much the base game. But the Atlantis DLC was fantastic and delved DEEP into Isu lore, there's a lot of resemblence between Atlantis and Asgard. (Makes sense, since they are the same thing just interperted in a "Greek filter" vs. "Norse filter".)
@@alenko4763 Asgard and Atlantis are not the same place. Imagine them as cities of different countries back in the Isu time. Same race but not the same people. Mythology arc in Valhalla made it clear trough the Jotunheim-Asgard filter. Odin was a stranger to Jupiter Minerva and Juno.
Kinda the same but I stopped part way through and recently beat it for the first time and throughout the last like 2 hours or so of game play I kept having to pause so I could process what was going on cause there is so much to Valhallas story you don't know alot of deeper parts of AC lore will just go right over your head. My biggest question at the end of Valhalla is what role will alethia and loki play, both have been shown to be isu that were more favorable towards humans, alethia is who banished Juno snd aita from Atlantis.
@@alenko4763 Part of my problem was how disjointed it was. And yes, I played all the DLC and completed both games 100%. With the exception of the Forgotten Saga (and that's because it just came out--or is coming out). Like I would completely forget that this was AC and not some semi-generic RPG until I was reminded to talk to Haytham. And personally feel like the Isu should remained the backdrop rather than coming to the forefront because it undermines the namesake: the CREED in Assassins Creed. Added with the fact that if you removed the Isu and the Assassins/Templar aspect, nothing would have changed in the story. Sigurd would still have left thanks to his dad passing on the crown to Harold. Sigurd would have been kidnapped for other reasons or experience the revelation of how much he sucked as a leader a different way. The big bads just conveniently happen to be OotA. Fulke should have been the "true" Grandmaster or Alfred having a much larger role and motivation in dismantling them. Him being the "twist hero" came out of nowhere. While this video does help secure the strings that was haphazardly woven, it doesn't fix how it's poorly it was handled in the game. I shouldn't have to scour the internet in hopes of it making sense.
This was incredibly well done and detailed, some other videos didnt even get the main points and you guys went into great detail and correctly, this deserves all the views it can get. It was perfect for my mood after finishing the game and feeling sad its over, what a journey. The end montage you put there closed it off beautifully, shed a tear. Great job guys, thank you!!!
@@pavlosarvanitopoulos8496 The lenght was overwhelmimg to me too, some arcs better than other, but the last like..6-8 hrs? Really made it worthwhile for me, peak AC content and some great full circle-ness for the series. Loved the end
Whenever someone complains about AC being a true AC game anymore, show them this video. The lore is so much more than assassinating targets and parkour
I swear so many of Assassin's creed players don't care about the lore at all. They only want to do parkour and assassinate some random person without even knowing why... lol
@@sepehradonis6959 i’m a bit late replying to this comment but yeah this sums up a lot of those kinda people. The problem is that they’re too attached to their nostalgia, the old ones aren’t automatically better, its just that people are sort of addicted to those first memories of it.
This couldn't be more true. The lore surrounding the Isu is much bigger than Assassin's VS Templars. I miss the old formula of gameplay though. There's too much unnecessary fluff in the new games with the RPG formula.
@@chubbus_ I bet most of those fanboys haven’t played the earlier games in ages. I played AC2 recently and it was practically unplayable. The parkour was dreadful, the combat and stealth sucked. Ezio’s character and the moment-to-moment dialogue are a treat, but he overall story really messes up its theme after Ezio kills Vieri. It’s not about a man learning to stop being driven by revenge. It’s a about a man who learns to stop being driven by revenge in the first third of the game, followed by sequence after sequence of well-written busy work, followed by an exceptional twist ending. Not bad by any means, but nowhere near as good as ppl make it out to be. I stand by that Black Flag has the best story.
@@Dragonem_007 Never exclude the possibility. AC Valhalla discusses alternate timelines; that is only a short step away from a multiverse situation. No need to get into Marvel and multiverse situations for obvious reasons.
Eivor is such a powerful character that the fire pit scene in modern day time to me feels so powerful. I like how basim smiles and nods at her, still admiring her strength and what she did centuries after she dies.
This video definitely changes how I feel about Valhalla. Took me so long to beat the game that I wasn’t able to catch all of the lore and references made throughout it.
I have played Assassin’s Creed since I was 10 years old in 2007. Never until THIS video have I been truly confident in the over all story. You guys are amazing. This is top tier story telling and explaining. I hope you’re all proud of the work you’ve done, and the help you’ve given many fans such as myself. Y’all rock. Keep it up. You’ve earned a lifetime supporter in me.
This is a perfectly executed explanation of not just Assassin's Creed Valhalla which I'll admit had me hella confused at times, but the assassins story as a whole. Well done guys very well done bravo and thank you.
This is the best video abou AC I've ever seen!!! I'm so happy to watch this as I'm still playing Valhalla... knowing all this makes me appreciate and enjoy the game even more. So many pieces of the story I knew but never tied them together. I've always loved AC, but this video gave me a new perspective and made me fall in love with the series even more. I actually had chills throughout the whole video lol no joke. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
100? more like 800 lol its a nice summary from the first games... Many people just play the main quest line, but before, you wouldnt learn so much about the ISU or subject16 etc... unless u did the side quests. Recently theyve added it to the main quest line but I know a lot of people who are still confused, because for them it comes a lil bit out of nowhere.
This video deserves so many more views. This is absolutely amazing. The amount of time, effort, and overall thought going into this video must've been insane. Good job and keep it up. :)
The quality of this video, and of your research and delivery is insane. The ending is better than anything Ubisoft have put together. This really is something to be proud of dude 👌
Just an FYI, Alfred was not removed as king, he was just in hiding. Since most peasants had no idea what their king actually looked like, he was able to assume a new identity and hide safely from Guthrum until he was able to regain Wessex's strength. Great video man!
And Guthrum later converted to Christianity after being defeated by Alfred, and was renamed to Aethelstan. You can see hints of this interest in christianity in the last mission.
@@AverageAlien It was quite sudden the way they introduced that change to him. One day he is an angry viking, the other day he feels bad about all the slaughter
the ending left me breathless. you worked magic, wonders and mysticism with this video. i'm blown away. Full ADHD hyperfocus the entire time. Thank you for this.
I'm just sad that eivor never learned that he was odin. Or the reincarnation at least. That would have opened up a whole other thing they could have looked into
I think he kinda does know just from his vision and I assume he’d think something when he saw Odin look exactly like him. And plus when eivor died you can see him in modern day so either way he’d would have found out one way or another. I think he kinda knew just didnt take it to heart so the complete opposite as to what Odin would of done with similar knowledge.
I know where u coming from with this but i feel like it really doesnt matter tjat he didnt know cause it was from the start that they planned it. Now i do not know ANYTHING. Ive just kinda liked the idea of assassins and decided to buy this game and stumbled upon this vid, so everything is super new to me. But yeah i just think that he didnt need to know, u know?
It’s weird cause I played As female Eivor and y’all refer to Eivor as he and canonically Eivor is a female while the male counter part is Odin hence why they use the same voice actor and why it’s canon if you “let the animus choose” but yes it is sad Eivor will never know she was a reincarnation of Odin, and I wonder what would happen if Odin took over like Basiim/ Loki and I wonder how long he’s been self aware already or just Loki made a fake name for himself and made up his whole personality for that world but if that’s the case why didn’t any other reincarnation become self aware?
Just finished the game (and getting Mjolnir hehe) This video was like the end game explanation cinematic that you always want but never get - I agree with some comments, this video deserves to be put out there and get all the views it can get because it really "does it for you" in terms of closing out current plots and getting you extremely excited for what's to come! Great job guys!
Excellent work fellas. In my opinion this story is brilliantly woven with the lore of the series and is the reason it's my favorite in the franchise. And I've been playing since 2007 when the first released.
This video is breathtaking and wonderful in its scope. So beautifully constructed with painstaking detail, and a thrill of cinema. Why this hasn't gone viral I don't know...time to spread the word, i guess. I feel so well educated right now.
Dude I got chills when that montage at the end began with how eivor played apart in kick staring the Templar order and how bayeks idea of the hidden ones died with him and how it birthed the assassins brotherhood that was beautiful
Wanted to say thank you. Finished the story today but realized I never looked at the laptop, and didn't played the last couple of ACs all the way through so this truly helped me understand so much more.
I have my own theory as to why Basim never suspected Eivor on top of her being female. First and foremost, the mark Eivor is supposed to have on their neck is hidden by their scar, meaning Basim wouldn't have a reason to suspect they were even a sage at all. But I also have a feeling Basim simply *couldn't* have thought Eivor was Odin bc the way they act towards him and other people is so far off from what Odin would do that he just can't connect the two together Bc if you look at it, Sigurd behaves so much more like Odin than Eivor ever did. He was so convinced that he was the rightful lord of England, to the point where he became irrational and delusional, like how he somehow thought telling Eadwyn (Oxenefordscire arc) to "kiss his lordly feet" wouldn't backfire on him immediately. Sigurd lost sight of what he used to care about, aka his clan, and jeopardized both his relationship with Eivor and his clan by putting his own megalomania at the top of his priorities This parallels Odin being ready to bargain his marriage with Freyja to get what he wanted out of the Builder (which Freyja got rightfully mad at him for) and him letting Tyr putting up his arm as a gage knowing fully well what would happen. He's even ready to sacrifice his own eye to achieve his goals There's also the fact that out of Eivor and Sigurd, Eivor ended up being the most welcoming out of the two. Even if they went through a rough patch with Basim until Cent arc, when Basim thanked them for always being nice to Hytham, Eivor replied that both he and Hytham would always be welcome and at home within their clan despite them both being outsiders (just like Loki was), something Odin obviously never did and never would've done Idk. I feel like all of this adds up but maybe that's just me
I kinda hated the part with the builder. Freya should have different reactions, like understandable she would be mad, but there should be some level of recognition in her if you choose the “that is her choice” option. That is what I chose, because just like it isn’t my right to agree to the terms, it also is not my right to deny the terms. That is literally a decision that she would have to make, which is why I chose that option, and yet she reacts as if I had agreed to the terms anyway
@@Legacysong2012 Yeah I agree with you on that. I love Valhalla but there are some parts that just feel like the writers tried to rush through it bc they were getting bored of their own work or something like that. Asgard (part 1 specifically, I don’t really have any big issue with the Jotunheim bit) is definitely part of those imo, which is a shame bc I feel like it should’ve been the most important arc in the story so we can understand Basim/Loki’s motives more clearly. Unfortunately most of the characters in the Asgard arc feel a bit too 2-dimensional for you to connect with them and it’s really a shame If the entire game was written the same way the campfire scene™ was, it would’ve been close to a masterpiece
Wait, how is it possible that this Video only has up to 5k views? I was instantly thinking of a channel with at least 500k subs.. Thank you so much for explaining the whole ending i guess it really brightened up everyones understanding for all that happened in that game. I am really excited for the next AC because this one was the best when it comes to overall story telling. Almost every question i had could the game answer and i am so hyped for the upcoming story of the ISU and how they think of coming back!
Dude this video was amazing I was so lost after beating the main story. Also when you showed things from all the other games with music was clean my guy.
This is such a great video. I realized some of this while playing by realizing how the main characters and some of the gods resembled each other, but I didn’t know it went this deep. Great video
3 years later and I've finally completed this game and I have to say, it's a masterpiece in disguise. Thank you for this video it honestly blew me away and reignited my love for the franchise. Would you be willing to create a video explaining the AC story and it's deeper meanings as you did with this one? Would love to see more AC content like this!
I played 1 assassins creed on my PSP back in 2011 and never played another again, but I must say the quality and passion that went into making this is unreal, such a riveting and in depth video into something i didn’t know could have depth haha, great work man!!!
For me the ending was hard to understand. Thank you for making this video. I've played and beaten all of the AC games. Some of the best times of my life. I'm restarting right now playing them in the order that they came out.
How did it take 9 months for me to see this in my YT feed?? This was AMAZING! Extremely well put together, one of the best AC videos I've ever seen. Great explanations, great research, great video production quality. The blending of all those quotes from so many of the games...wow. Going to bookmark this in my browser (does anyone do that anymore??) so I can come back and watch it every time I need an AC fix. It's like an adrenaline injection into the bloodstream. THANK-YOU! Also, wow, I had pieced together a lot of this, but wow. Still in awe of all the different threads from many games that you pulled together to make such a great tapestry. Bravo!
This a great video. You went in great detail to tie everything together. I has missed some aspect of the story and this video was the perfect recap of where it came from to where this is going. I played the game continuously telling myself Eivor is not an assassin, by previous game standard and now using the knowledge gain from seeing the totality of the story so far it makes more sense. Thank you.
bro this was exactly me haha i thought they were just focused on the game and not what the characters were talking about if its an she or a he but. haha
@@lukas107 In reality Eivor was a female and the male Eivor is just a manifestation of Odin's personality, depicted through the animus. That's why male Eivor looks exactly like Odin and why he's called "she", cause in reality Eivor is a female
This was actually a very well constructed summary of the series so far, tying in the plot lines from every game sensibly and in a timely fashion too. Great work 👏👍👌💪🙌
I don't say this often as I find most recaps either too fast, or not explained well. But this was excellent. I can't imagine how long this took to put together and I can barely keep up with all these details while playing. A lot of this info I didn't catch while playing the original games. This opened my eyes and helped me understand Valhalla a lot more. Thanks!
😭😭I’ve been such a fan of assassins creed, I played every one of them up to the point now. I’ve loved them all, to me they all had a good story to tell. But finding this video AND FINALLY after all the years of playing. FINALLY understanding the story much more just makes it even better.. this whole video was so good. I thank you so much🙏. I cannot wait for mirage
Thank you so much for making this. It was a huge help. Cant believe I missed quite a bit of this throughout playing the trilogy but once you "see it" there is no unseeing it. Your work here GREATLY enriched the soil of the Creed games for me and opened my eyes to look a bit deeper as I'm playing. A+ production
Wow... So well made! I have missed a few AC titles and I am so blessed to have found your video! Assassin's Creed has really now became so much clearer and playing the game moving forward would be so much more fulfilling and fun! Thank you so much! :)
@@raidenthenctzenwithinsomni4961 I get it. I am still glad this video was made. Because it opened 1,2 million people's eyes that AC Valhalla's story isn't bad,but great(just bloated).
this was such a well made video!! flawless explanation. i feel like people who complain that the 'newer parts aren't AC games anymore" simply don't see how it's still all connected. of course it is. and I love it. that last sequence just made emotional.
I play and platumin ALL assassin creed games. THIS one , this video is beautifully written and beautiful vision . Your example and story telling and explanation is on point
Awesome video. I would like to point out that the thing that was trying to destroy the Earth in Valhalla wasn't aurora borealis but Earth's magnetic field which was strengthened by Desmond in 2012. Aurora borealis is just symptom. And I have to praise that cut at the ending of video. It's really great how you put ending of video in context of whole series.
I would like to point out in that case that you are wrong too. What does that even mean "the Earth's magnetic field destroyed the Earth"??? It was a coronal mass ejection that was supposed to destroy the earth (solar flares basically, look it up on wikipedia). The earths magnetic field is what's protecting us from these flares happening all the time in real life, except if a particularly large ejection happens. (Like in 2012, or when the Isu got wiped out)
Phenomenal video, i wrote off valhalla and im playing odyssey again but after watching this im gonna have just get through it Ubisoft should be paying you for doing them a service like this. Great job! Glad i found this
Damn, this is actually a really well put together story, and I love the elements of entropy. I missed a lot of the links you made, so well done for such a great analysis! I’m excited for the sequels now more than ever!
This video is such a big help to AC fans who love to play the game and understand what truly is the purpose of the assassins & their origin. it described the history & connected everything from the start to the end. Even telling that the founder of the order of the ancient is indeed King Aelfred in AC Valhalla. but AC Valhalla takes place years after AC Origins, in which Bayak is the true founder of the brotherhood but it was forgotten as well as the order of the ancient, but everything was founded again in the timeline of Altair. Your Video is a big help to new fans playing this game & to old ones having difficulty understanding the relations. BIG THUMBS UP FROM ME ❤👍
These game journalists condemning this game for being "bloated"...are just mad because they can't finish it in a weekend and write up their snarky, probably politicized review. Meanwhile they are TOTALLY ignoring the ongoing saga that is stretching forwards and back through generations of games. The overarching story of Assassins Creed is remarkable, and the work and effort that has been put into it deserves more than bashing through the game over a couple of days....
Dude the game is way longer than it needs to be, progression is both way too easy and way too drawn out meaning your character is over-leveled for half the game with under-leveled armour unless you go around looting every chest further extending the game. It's fun and the main story is super entertaining but the whole game takes so long to actually get to the point it's hard to stick with it.
@@thehonkerman I think the game I receiving too much hate, when it's clearly a very good game It's not great, not on the leagues of Red dead 2, but it's certainly a fun, and by no means a bad game
Look, i appreciate the homage to the old ACs that can be seen in Valhalla. That said, you can't rebuild a series over a pile of trash. AC died in 2012 because money was more important than making a meaningful product, what i would have called art. They should let AC die in peace, every new game is just sad to look at.
I always thought Assassins Creed was not even about the assassins at all. It was about something so much bigger. AC2 blew my mind back in middle school
So the origin of the templars believed in the isu, then the new version of the templars from altair era, belive there following the father of understanding, basically God, the way king Alfred wanted, so did the templars and the assassin's just forget about the isu until modern times when religion wasn't as strong?
No. The Order of ancients were obsessed but Alfred reformed and changed the order. The Templars thought of using these first civ artefacts to further their own purpose but they never believed the isu to be the lord incarnate like OOTA did. Eventually, corruption started to seep into the order and alfred's strong ideals began to fall into the background.
Nah the writers are just bad at writing. Fans of games need to learn game devs historically don’t make great stories. It’s just a poor retcon after the terrible missteps the last few games have made.
@@AdityaSathya Also the father of understanding was just a analogy that the Templar cult used to describe their own potential, as they believed that they were gods.
The order of the ancient believed in the Isu. After Eivor killing most of the members in England and helping King Aelfred, Aelfred reformed the order with his ideal and vision, and that led to the order of the ancient becoming what we know today as The templars. With time, Templars forgot Aelfred ways and corruption started to rise when they began to discover the Isu artifacts and use them to fulfill they’re visions of order for the world. A very few group of people knew about the Isu. I don’t remember if the Hidden Ones knew about the Isu, but from what i know, The order of the ancient were the only ones who knew about the Isu and their stuff. The order of the ancient after being reformed by aelfred forgot the Isu and believed in the father of understanding (Possibly Odin, but that’s a theory or story for another moment). Just like de Norse and Danes, they portrayed the story of the Isu as Norse Mythology believing the sages as Gods, Templars began to believe in a God, the father of understanding and forgot about the Isu.
Can't even imagine the amount of work it you to took to create this video , absolutely brilliant explanation felt like a movie and most importantly because I love this franchise from its beginning its was emotional to see how it all turned out , thank you for making this ....Hope you get a million subscribers but don't worry ( Just like the assassins "Work in the Dark to Serve the Light " )
I had catched maybe 20% of everything mentioned in this video while playing through Valhalla. The rest just went past my head. Thanks for making it all clear!
it makes sense though. Aletheia’s consciuosness is housed in the staff and she was Loki’s lover. and they stated in the ending tgat they had some sort of plan all along.
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The ancient alien bullshit is one of the things that drives the series down into ridiculous cliches .
Thank you for this video, it's priceless
I'd been disappointed with the franchise since 3, thank you for making me love it again!
I can't wait to see what you do next.
@@serronserron1320 don’t like it, don’t play it anymore, cuz the “ancient alien bullshit” has been around since day one and is not going anywhere...
@@collegebro85 Dang it you're right.
As an AC fan for over a decade now, I appreciate that last sequence of the video. Absolute masterpiece.
Yes sir
I understand a lot of people don’t like the game, but I think it’s perfect.
@@NoobSaibotTheWraith I actually had a really good time with the game. The last few arcs got repetitive for me though.
@@NoobSaibotTheWraith I think Valhalla is the best mashup of the stealth combat concept, RPG concept, naval warfare concept, and open combat concept out of all Assassins's creed game.
Agreed 💯
I can imagine even the people at Ubisoft watching this like “Oh so that’s what’s been happening this entire time” lmao.
lol
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I spilled the water in my mouth lmao
Such stories are great but the game was too bloated and non linear for it to pay off. Plus the lore is too long and a lot of players have forgotten it.
This helped understand so much and actually appreciate where the series had gone
Yes to bunch of bullshit
@@benjiboy4477 bulshit?why?...the Isu where at the base of every AC game(prince of persia had dagger of time/AC have Isu artifacts)yes...and this was intended since first AC...this video explains it for everyone. At least Valhalla continues from where desmond left it.
Ahh and at every start of every game it says it's a work of fiction,like Marvel movies or any SF game on market.
First AC was named Prince of Persia Assassins,later changed to Assassin creed,instead of dagger of time was replaced with apple of eden...what is so hard to understand?Templars where just as introduction,assassins where just to justifiy a cause.Isu was the story from the begining,the history part is just filler for the Isu part from AC1 to Valhalla,like how WandaVision is made(nobody cares more than for the hints/tiny details in every episode,for what is going on,nobody kinda care for the sitcom side)...
@@alexandrugabriel3839 i know i followed every assassins creed game and comics but i would like to see the full on templar order again and the pieces of eden not litteraly isu's u know
@@benjiboy4477 a lot of people wants back templar vs assassins...because Ubisoft did it in such way that we all liked it,templars vs assassins i mean(AC1 to AC Syndicate,but more accent on templars only to Black Flag). So my ideea is that they made like 8 games,Rogue beiing the 9'th game with templars as history themed setting...i think is enough,or is it true that people like same stuff again and again,like in line production,like same pattern,wake up,wash,eat,go to work,come back,eat repeat?or like League of Legends,Warzone,fifa etc...same map same stuff,look what happend with Tlou2 vs Tlou1 and people wanted same stuff,Joel and Ellie main hero.I like change(tlou2 was good but not perfect 7/10,story sucked at most parts,too many flashbacks,edit fest,too many saved by the bell for ellie/abby,etc at least was different from tlou1)...maybe after 9 games with templars and that spin offs(chronicles and that psp game)i guess they decided to focus on ISU,well in my opinion. It's hard to please people,all the people...and to be honest i want a new Prince of Persia but Ubisoft is milking AC.
I hope that some day Ubi will make an AC for fans,with templars and stuff but i doubt,cause...they reached Isu as playable setting not just an hologram from the vault in AC2 ending.
@@benjiboy4477 62 hours to finish the game and I didn’t get the ending LMAO
Basim as Loki in the modern day wearing a wolf t-shirt is a nice touch by Ubisoft.
Cringe but yes :D
Wearing a wolf t-shirt is modern day? 😂
The story sucked so bad compared to all other AC.
@@gold333 So True , Just completed the game
I personally loved the entire game. From meeting Pooh Bear, to "smack my bishop", to the countless stories integrated in the mysteries. It was all worth over the 100hrs I put into the game. I'm still not done.
its bonkers how much story is involed that a lot of players will never see/understand or even know about
Honestly they should go into it. They barely even scratch the surface instead of depth, they reuse the WORST parts of Odyssey story. Is (aelfred leading the order but higher eivor to destroy it.). Terrible story telling.
@@brandondennis5889 there are no “worst parts” of Odyssey...once again, this same team that developed a forgettable plot like they did in Black Flag/Syndicate/Origins just do whatever the FAR SUPERIOR other side of Ubi, but at least they got n board and gave us more modern day than Ashraf would have allowed if he was still there!!
@@collegebro85 did you... did you just say Odyssey has no flaws and... Black Flag and Origins have a forgettable plot?
@@ajayavsm7476 probably that was sarcastic
they were stopped from "this isn't assassin anymore" and "there's no more hidden blade" ...
so they didn't see the good of it ...
The ending of this video was masterfully done. For all those people who skipped out on Assassin's Creed after AC2 don't know what they missed. I love how these games are all connected telling one massive tale.
I just finished Valhalla last night and was so confused lol. I skipped the entire Asgard part of the game because I played like 100 hours and couldn't do more. This explained so much. Awesome tie-ins
IF the story is not believable its for nothing. The latest 3 games were not that bad if they were without the present day stuff and without so many stupid fantasy in them. I prefer Assassins Creed just as a Templar vs Assassin thing but not in such a childish Isu stupid stuff. Its just...not believable...timelines? Reincarnation? Thats a kid story and the original Assassin Creed were not really that stupid even if I was against the present day stuff after the AC Brotherhood, first 2 were somewhat decent.
Played All AC except Syndicate because the characters tried to be funny and Im not into wanna be funny type of characters. The present day stuff is just ridiculous. They are not bad games, on the contrary but they would be 10 times better if they just fucking removed the childish elements from the game like stupid reincarnation and stuff like that
I refused to play Valhalla and just finished mirage and now I’m
Upset
The best thing about ac games was the multiplayer by far
The entire fight with Odin is seriously underrated in my opinion, especially the part where players have to literally lay down their axe and stop fighting to win.....the music, Eivor finally accepting his father isn’t a coward, the “everything else” line. It’s just brilliant!
Only problem I had was that Odin really wasn’t aggressive at all like if it had the same feel as the debtor fight but with that ending it would be perfect in my opinion
@@trapezoidlt371 that's because you are fighting you vs you
I mean it was a cool touch but yanno it's Odin I expected way more of a fight then whatever he did
@@sourtsunami5732 he was taking it light on us showing us a little of his potential so we can give in
@@TyrXVZ source: trust me bro
Being an Ac fan since childhood , it honours me that the franchise kinda revolves around my name.
Oh Loki I see u
Dude that’s sick
So what to expect in the AC Mirage Basim? xD
You do know well about your past no?
Tbh name Basim is badass af
Welcome… hidden one.
The AC lore and story is so deep and great, I just wish the games weren’t so bloated and unnecessarily long that I have to watch a TH-cam video to remind myself what actually happened
and valhalla is so cloudy like asgard etc that i didnt even understand what was is until i realise ragnarok is the even that colapsed the isu. but the tree with the 9 worlds i asked myself if they weren't originated from outerspace and flew their planet who died from ragnarok. it made no senses.
It's actually pretty shallow and contrived with the writer's desperately trying to connect strings to to prior mistakes.
I’m mad to be honest why was there a big fight at the end I was going to fight Sigurd or something or who ever was the last order. But instead he gave himself up and Sigurd just left. And got no end credits.
@@Gatto751 I thought the "9 realms" in Norse myth were the 9 planets of our Solar System.
Trust me man, try to get into Kingdom Hearts lore and story, and you'll end up confused. Kinda like assassins creed were people are other people, but in reality they're different people
Legit started and replayed the series countless times trying to figure out the point of the story. But never have I seen such a detailed and on point representation of everything that's has happened and the points of all of it this is truly a masterpiece that's sums it up perfectly. Absolutely amazing job you guys are true Chad's 💯
Die-hard AC fan here. After finishing Vahalla I wrote it off as "meh", mostly as a game that is way too long with very little payoff. This video completely flipped my perspective. So much of these Isu metaphors went way over my head. I feel the need to replay it now, knowing how this all ties in.
Judging by all the comments for this video and other "AC Valhalla explained" videos, it seems like so many of you just skipped the Atlantis DLC for Odyssey. Which is a real shame, as there is no other part in the AC series where you get to learn so much about the Isu world, their personalities, how and why they literally created humans and how Adam and Eve escaped, why the artifacts exist... I could go on and on.
Everyone is saying "Odyssey didn't add anything to the lore", perhaps not so much the base game. But the Atlantis DLC was fantastic and delved DEEP into Isu lore, there's a lot of resemblence between Atlantis and Asgard. (Makes sense, since they are the same thing just interperted in a "Greek filter" vs. "Norse filter".)
@@alenko4763 Asgard and Atlantis are not the same place. Imagine them as cities of different countries back in the Isu time. Same race but not the same people. Mythology arc in Valhalla made it clear trough the Jotunheim-Asgard filter. Odin was a stranger to Jupiter Minerva and Juno.
Kinda the same but I stopped part way through and recently beat it for the first time and throughout the last like 2 hours or so of game play I kept having to pause so I could process what was going on cause there is so much to Valhallas story you don't know alot of deeper parts of AC lore will just go right over your head. My biggest question at the end of Valhalla is what role will alethia and loki play, both have been shown to be isu that were more favorable towards humans, alethia is who banished Juno snd aita from Atlantis.
@@alenko4763 Part of my problem was how disjointed it was. And yes, I played all the DLC and completed both games 100%. With the exception of the Forgotten Saga (and that's because it just came out--or is coming out). Like I would completely forget that this was AC and not some semi-generic RPG until I was reminded to talk to Haytham. And personally feel like the Isu should remained the backdrop rather than coming to the forefront because it undermines the namesake: the CREED in Assassins Creed. Added with the fact that if you removed the Isu and the Assassins/Templar aspect, nothing would have changed in the story. Sigurd would still have left thanks to his dad passing on the crown to Harold. Sigurd would have been kidnapped for other reasons or experience the revelation of how much he sucked as a leader a different way. The big bads just conveniently happen to be OotA. Fulke should have been the "true" Grandmaster or Alfred having a much larger role and motivation in dismantling them. Him being the "twist hero" came out of nowhere.
While this video does help secure the strings that was haphazardly woven, it doesn't fix how it's poorly it was handled in the game. I shouldn't have to scour the internet in hopes of it making sense.
I am right there with you!
The last sequence was unreal, it gave me goosebumps. the video was well explained and detailed, this made me understand so many things. Thank you
This was incredibly well done and detailed, some other videos didnt even get the main points and you guys went into great detail and correctly, this deserves all the views it can get. It was perfect for my mood after finishing the game and feeling sad its over, what a journey. The end montage you put there closed it off beautifully, shed a tear. Great job guys, thank you!!!
Thank you very much, it means a lot to see a comment like this, glad that you enjoyed the video.
Such great production value, just great. Great great editing.👍
Should I finish the game?
@@pavlosarvanitopoulos8496 The lenght was overwhelmimg to me too, some arcs better than other, but the last like..6-8 hrs? Really made it worthwhile for me, peak AC content and some great full circle-ness for the series. Loved the end
@@lukasj123 ok I so I should finish it how long did it take you to complete everything?
Whenever someone complains about AC being a true AC game anymore, show them this video. The lore is so much more than assassinating targets and parkour
I swear so many of Assassin's creed players don't care about the lore at all. They only want to do parkour and assassinate some random person without even knowing why... lol
@@sepehradonis6959 i’m a bit late replying to this comment but yeah this sums up a lot of those kinda people. The problem is that they’re too attached to their nostalgia, the old ones aren’t automatically better, its just that people are sort of addicted to those first memories of it.
This couldn't be more true. The lore surrounding the Isu is much bigger than Assassin's VS Templars. I miss the old formula of gameplay though. There's too much unnecessary fluff in the new games with the RPG formula.
@@chubbus_ I bet most of those fanboys haven’t played the earlier games in ages. I played AC2 recently and it was practically unplayable. The parkour was dreadful, the combat and stealth sucked. Ezio’s character and the moment-to-moment dialogue are a treat, but he overall story really messes up its theme after Ezio kills Vieri. It’s not about a man learning to stop being driven by revenge. It’s a about a man who learns to stop being driven by revenge in the first third of the game, followed by sequence after sequence of well-written busy work, followed by an exceptional twist ending. Not bad by any means, but nowhere near as good as ppl make it out to be. I stand by that Black Flag has the best story.
@@pastlife960 facts black flag has the best story imo as well
At least, when exploring an anomaly Basim never complains about "been falling for 30 minutes"...
And Tom Hiddleson’s voice along with it?
@@itsmemrewok 😂😂he should be grateful that Dr Strange is not in AC universe
Lollllll
@@Dragonem_007 Never exclude the possibility. AC Valhalla discusses alternate timelines; that is only a short step away from a multiverse situation. No need to get into Marvel and multiverse situations for obvious reasons.
Still fell into beastiality and auto-incestual relationships.
This is absolutely fantastic. Thank you!
This might be the most well constructed AC video I’ve ever seen
That ending montage moved me to tears. Brilliantly done.
Eivor is such a powerful character that the fire pit scene in modern day time to me feels so powerful. I like how basim smiles and nods at her, still admiring her strength and what she did centuries after she dies.
Eivor is a Guy
@@machineferret3359 actually, the canon one is the female one, some people in the game mention Eivor as a "she" also
@@treznopresto4878 ohh okay I just thought because everyone else chooses the guy and all the trailers but that okay then
@@treznopresto4878 Eivor is a woman and Havi is a man, so both are technically canon
What do you guys mean when you say Canon lol
This video definitely changes how I feel about Valhalla. Took me so long to beat the game that I wasn’t able to catch all of the lore and references made throughout it.
THIS IS THE BEST EXPLANATION YET! THANK YOU
Darby is a literary genius and the glue thats holds assassins creed up. His work is always so well thought out.
I have played Assassin’s Creed since I was 10 years old in 2007. Never until THIS video have I been truly confident in the over all story.
You guys are amazing. This is top tier story telling and explaining. I hope you’re all proud of the work you’ve done, and the help you’ve given many fans such as myself. Y’all rock. Keep it up. You’ve earned a lifetime supporter in me.
THIS
Nah man the game is trash now they messed up
Even now, that last bit of the video is what you might call pure art, its perfect on so many levels. unmatched in every way.
This is a perfectly executed explanation of not just Assassin's Creed Valhalla which I'll admit had me hella confused at times, but the assassins story as a whole. Well done guys very well done bravo and thank you.
I love that miles is in that digital world where layla goes. Such a cool way to show Miles didn't necessarily die
The way it was told and ended was so touching my eyes we're sweating before I realised. The story of AC truly beautiful
@Aether Hilichurl Destroyer really only in the last couple games but yeah I’m not doing it either 😅😂
This is the best video abou AC I've ever seen!!! I'm so happy to watch this as I'm still playing Valhalla... knowing all this makes me appreciate and enjoy the game even more. So many pieces of the story I knew but never tied them together. I've always loved AC, but this video gave me a new perspective and made me fall in love with the series even more. I actually had chills throughout the whole video lol no joke.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
Real history is far more fascinating
I was confused af when I finished the story this literally cleared up 100hr playing time in 30mins 😂
More than 100 tbh.. got 106 hours of playing in ac odyssey alone
100? more like 800 lol its a nice summary from the first games... Many people just play the main quest line, but before, you wouldnt learn so much about the ISU or subject16 etc... unless u did the side quests. Recently theyve added it to the main quest line but I know a lot of people who are still confused, because for them it comes a lil bit out of nowhere.
@@SKJ9Nrox if I play a assassins creed game.. I want it all completed including the side quests and collectibles
Should i finish valhalla is it worth it?
@@pavlosarvanitopoulos8496 If you've seen this video without having finished it you're a criminal
What a MASTERPIECE. You're all geniouses! This video legit gives my 140 hours of playtime meaning!
This video deserves so many more views. This is absolutely amazing. The amount of time, effort, and overall thought going into this video must've been insane. Good job and keep it up. :)
Yes it does a much better job filling in the plot holes that the writers have created than the actual story of the games
The quality of this video, and of your research and delivery is insane.
The ending is better than anything Ubisoft have put together.
This really is something to be proud of dude 👌
This was the true sequel to AC 3
And prequel! I never played AC3 but seeing how Connor's tribe got the Piece of Eden was pretty cool.
How so?
Do you mean prequel this was set nearly over 900 years before ac3
@@xXSonTJXxx Its like a pre sequel. It may not happen after but the information is best told in this order imo
@@xXSonTJXxx I mean in terms of the modern day storyline
That last bit there could be in itself a motivational video. Nicely put together.
Just an FYI, Alfred was not removed as king, he was just in hiding. Since most peasants had no idea what their king actually looked like, he was able to assume a new identity and hide safely from Guthrum until he was able to regain Wessex's strength. Great video man!
And Guthrum later converted to Christianity after being defeated by Alfred, and was renamed to Aethelstan. You can see hints of this interest in christianity in the last mission.
@@AverageAlien It was quite sudden the way they introduced that change to him. One day he is an angry viking, the other day he feels bad about all the slaughter
the ending left me breathless. you worked magic, wonders and mysticism with this video. i'm blown away. Full ADHD hyperfocus the entire time. Thank you for this.
I never sincerely liked a video, not even the videos of the youtubers to whom i subscribed. You deserve a million subs.
Continue your work, love from a fan of AC
This is one of the best ac lore videos i have seen. Such a detailed summary of the story
The last 5minutes of the video. A true masterpiece!!
I'm just sad that eivor never learned that he was odin. Or the reincarnation at least. That would have opened up a whole other thing they could have looked into
It kinda adds to his story ngl. At the end eivor stops caring about being a violent materialistic man. Kinda the opposite of Odin
I think he kinda does know just from his vision and I assume he’d think something when he saw Odin look exactly like him. And plus when eivor died you can see him in modern day so either way he’d would have found out one way or another. I think he kinda knew just didnt take it to heart so the complete opposite as to what Odin would of done with similar knowledge.
I know where u coming from with this but i feel like it really doesnt matter tjat he didnt know cause it was from the start that they planned it. Now i do not know ANYTHING. Ive just kinda liked the idea of assassins and decided to buy this game and stumbled upon this vid, so everything is super new to me. But yeah i just think that he didnt need to know, u know?
@@fournaros4010 for sure
It’s weird cause I played As female Eivor and y’all refer to Eivor as he and canonically Eivor is a female while the male counter part is Odin hence why they use the same voice actor and why it’s canon if you “let the animus choose” but yes it is sad Eivor will never know she was a reincarnation of Odin, and I wonder what would happen if Odin took over like Basiim/ Loki and I wonder how long he’s been self aware already or just Loki made a fake name for himself and made up his whole personality for that world but if that’s the case why didn’t any other reincarnation become self aware?
I gained so much more understanding of the entire Assassins Creed Saga after watching this. So well done! 🙌🏻
Just finished the game (and getting Mjolnir hehe) This video was like the end game explanation cinematic that you always want but never get - I agree with some comments, this video deserves to be put out there and get all the views it can get because it really "does it for you" in terms of closing out current plots and getting you extremely excited for what's to come! Great job guys!
Excellent work fellas. In my opinion this story is brilliantly woven with the lore of the series and is the reason it's my favorite in the franchise. And I've been playing since 2007 when the first released.
This video is breathtaking and wonderful in its scope. So beautifully constructed with painstaking detail, and a thrill of cinema. Why this hasn't gone viral I don't know...time to spread the word, i guess. I feel so well educated right now.
Dude I got chills when that montage at the end began with how eivor played apart in kick staring the Templar order and how bayeks idea of the hidden ones died with him and how it birthed the assassins brotherhood that was beautiful
Wanted to say thank you. Finished the story today but realized I never looked at the laptop, and didn't played the last couple of ACs all the way through so this truly helped me understand so much more.
I have my own theory as to why Basim never suspected Eivor on top of her being female. First and foremost, the mark Eivor is supposed to have on their neck is hidden by their scar, meaning Basim wouldn't have a reason to suspect they were even a sage at all. But I also have a feeling Basim simply *couldn't* have thought Eivor was Odin bc the way they act towards him and other people is so far off from what Odin would do that he just can't connect the two together
Bc if you look at it, Sigurd behaves so much more like Odin than Eivor ever did. He was so convinced that he was the rightful lord of England, to the point where he became irrational and delusional, like how he somehow thought telling Eadwyn (Oxenefordscire arc) to "kiss his lordly feet" wouldn't backfire on him immediately. Sigurd lost sight of what he used to care about, aka his clan, and jeopardized both his relationship with Eivor and his clan by putting his own megalomania at the top of his priorities
This parallels Odin being ready to bargain his marriage with Freyja to get what he wanted out of the Builder (which Freyja got rightfully mad at him for) and him letting Tyr putting up his arm as a gage knowing fully well what would happen. He's even ready to sacrifice his own eye to achieve his goals
There's also the fact that out of Eivor and Sigurd, Eivor ended up being the most welcoming out of the two. Even if they went through a rough patch with Basim until Cent arc, when Basim thanked them for always being nice to Hytham, Eivor replied that both he and Hytham would always be welcome and at home within their clan despite them both being outsiders (just like Loki was), something Odin obviously never did and never would've done
Idk. I feel like all of this adds up but maybe that's just me
I think one more thing: Female Eivor is canon so Basim/Loki wouldnt have gussed Odin reborn as a Female
I kinda hated the part with the builder. Freya should have different reactions, like understandable she would be mad, but there should be some level of recognition in her if you choose the “that is her choice” option. That is what I chose, because just like it isn’t my right to agree to the terms, it also is not my right to deny the terms. That is literally a decision that she would have to make, which is why I chose that option, and yet she reacts as if I had agreed to the terms anyway
@@Legacysong2012 Yeah I agree with you on that. I love Valhalla but there are some parts that just feel like the writers tried to rush through it bc they were getting bored of their own work or something like that. Asgard (part 1 specifically, I don’t really have any big issue with the Jotunheim bit) is definitely part of those imo, which is a shame bc I feel like it should’ve been the most important arc in the story so we can understand Basim/Loki’s motives more clearly. Unfortunately most of the characters in the Asgard arc feel a bit too 2-dimensional for you to connect with them and it’s really a shame
If the entire game was written the same way the campfire scene™ was, it would’ve been close to a masterpiece
Wait, how is it possible that this Video only has up to 5k views? I was instantly thinking of a channel with at least 500k subs..
Thank you so much for explaining the whole ending i guess it really brightened up everyones understanding for all that happened in that game. I am really excited for the next AC because this one was the best when it comes to overall story telling. Almost every question i had could the game answer and i am so hyped for the upcoming story of the ISU and how they think of coming back!
Dude this video was amazing I was so lost after beating the main story. Also when you showed things from all the other games with music was clean my guy.
That was awesome to watch . Good job guys
Thanks Brian, we're glad you enjoyed the video!
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Great video. Thank you for all the hard work.
This is such a great video. I realized some of this while playing by realizing how the main characters and some of the gods resembled each other, but I didn’t know it went this deep. Great video
3 years later and I've finally completed this game and I have to say, it's a masterpiece in disguise. Thank you for this video it honestly blew me away and reignited my love for the franchise. Would you be willing to create a video explaining the AC story and it's deeper meanings as you did with this one? Would love to see more AC content like this!
Wow, congratulations what a video. One of the best
Thank you, that means a lot.
I played 1 assassins creed on my PSP back in 2011 and never played another again, but I must say the quality and passion that went into making this is unreal, such a riveting and in depth video into something i didn’t know could have depth haha, great work man!!!
For me the ending was hard to understand. Thank you for making this video. I've played and beaten all of the AC games. Some of the best times of my life. I'm restarting right now playing them in the order that they came out.
You make me want to go back and read all of those letters I picked up along the way. Great video and storytelling.💯
This refreshed my mind of all the AC lore (I’ve played every game from 0-100%) Valhalla truly is a masterpiece that people don’t cherish !
How did it take 9 months for me to see this in my YT feed?? This was AMAZING! Extremely well put together, one of the best AC videos I've ever seen. Great explanations, great research, great video production quality. The blending of all those quotes from so many of the games...wow. Going to bookmark this in my browser (does anyone do that anymore??) so I can come back and watch it every time I need an AC fix. It's like an adrenaline injection into the bloodstream. THANK-YOU!
Also, wow, I had pieced together a lot of this, but wow. Still in awe of all the different threads from many games that you pulled together to make such a great tapestry. Bravo!
I was not ready for the end of this video. Beautiful bro. Well done.
Such an amazing video ! Really helped me get the true meaning of this game’s story and also of the whole series. Great work !!!
This a great video. You went in great detail to tie everything together. I has missed some aspect of the story and this video was the perfect recap of where it came from to where this is going. I played the game continuously telling myself Eivor is not an assassin, by previous game standard and now using the knowledge gain from seeing the totality of the story so far it makes more sense. Thank you.
I just finished the end and got a surplus of viewers for that specific livestream. I was also confused until now. Thank you for making this!!
Well now I feel like a fool for thinking that other characters calling my male Eivor a 'she' was just poor game design...
Wjy
bro this was exactly me haha i thought they were just focused on the game and not what the characters were talking about if its an she or a he but. haha
@@owen2597 i still don't get iz
@@lukas107 In reality Eivor was a female and the male Eivor is just a manifestation of Odin's personality, depicted through the animus. That's why male Eivor looks exactly like Odin and why he's called "she", cause in reality Eivor is a female
@@justames5979 oooh thanks but idk i just can't imagine eivor being a she it's kinda weird
This was actually a very well constructed summary of the series so far, tying in the plot lines from every game sensibly and in a timely fashion too. Great work 👏👍👌💪🙌
The ending of the video gave me goosebumps, excelent video man!
I don't say this often as I find most recaps either too fast, or not explained well. But this was excellent. I can't imagine how long this took to put together and I can barely keep up with all these details while playing. A lot of this info I didn't catch while playing the original games. This opened my eyes and helped me understand Valhalla a lot more. Thanks!
😭😭I’ve been such a fan of assassins creed, I played every one of them up to the point now. I’ve loved them all, to me they all had a good story to tell. But finding this video AND FINALLY after all the years of playing. FINALLY understanding the story much more just makes it even better.. this whole video was so good. I thank you so much🙏. I cannot wait for mirage
Thank you so much for making this. It was a huge help. Cant believe I missed quite a bit of this throughout playing the trilogy but once you "see it" there is no unseeing it. Your work here GREATLY enriched the soil of the Creed games for me and opened my eyes to look a bit deeper as I'm playing. A+ production
Wow... So well made! I have missed a few AC titles and I am so blessed to have found your video! Assassin's Creed has really now became so much clearer and playing the game moving forward would be so much more fulfilling and fun! Thank you so much! :)
I swear to god I almost choked on my drink. I could have sworn at 3:53 you said;
"Loki, living up to his reputation as a c*nt and trickster..."
You actually made assassin's Creed Valhalla a coherent story
That makes no damn sense
@@raidenthenctzenwithinsomni4961 Why?
@@iamcolourblind10 Because the story is already coherent.
@@raidenthenctzenwithinsomni4961 I get it. I am still glad this video was made. Because it opened 1,2 million people's eyes that AC Valhalla's story isn't bad,but great(just bloated).
Amazing, thank you for this. Helps understand not only valhalla but series as whole. I really appreciate this.
This is probably the best AC video I’ve ever seen
this was such a well made video!! flawless explanation. i feel like people who complain that the 'newer parts aren't AC games anymore" simply don't see how it's still all connected. of course it is. and I love it. that last sequence just made emotional.
Masterpiece of analysis
You deserve more subs
I play and platumin ALL assassin creed games. THIS one , this video is beautifully written and beautiful vision . Your example and story telling and explanation is on point
Awesome video. I would like to point out that the thing that was trying to destroy the Earth in Valhalla wasn't aurora borealis but Earth's magnetic field which was strengthened by Desmond in 2012. Aurora borealis is just symptom. And I have to praise that cut at the ending of video. It's really great how you put ending of video in context of whole series.
True that is how the science works anyway.
I would like to point out in that case that you are wrong too. What does that even mean "the Earth's magnetic field destroyed the Earth"???
It was a coronal mass ejection that was supposed to destroy the earth (solar flares basically, look it up on wikipedia). The earths magnetic field is what's protecting us from these flares happening all the time in real life, except if a particularly large ejection happens. (Like in 2012, or when the Isu got wiped out)
Very very well done. I've played a LOT of AC over the years, and I still gained a tonne of insight from this video. Thank you for your work on this.
What an amazing video, Valhalla is my first AC game since Black flag, so this was amazing
Phenomenal video, i wrote off valhalla and im playing odyssey again but after watching this im gonna have just get through it Ubisoft should be paying you for doing them a service like this. Great job! Glad i found this
Thank you! I definitely needed this video. I was so confused at the end of the game. I didn’t even notice I had finished the story lol.
Damn, this is actually a really well put together story, and I love the elements of entropy. I missed a lot of the links you made, so well done for such a great analysis! I’m excited for the sequels now more than ever!
well done brother! appreciate your effort in bringing this together, Kudos
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This video is such a big help to AC fans who love to play the game and understand what truly is the purpose of the assassins & their origin. it described the history & connected everything from the start to the end. Even telling that the founder of the order of the ancient is indeed King Aelfred in AC Valhalla. but AC Valhalla takes place years after AC Origins, in which Bayak is the true founder of the brotherhood but it was forgotten as well as the order of the ancient, but everything was founded again in the timeline of Altair.
Your Video is a big help to new fans playing this game & to old ones having difficulty understanding the relations.
BIG THUMBS UP FROM ME ❤👍
Now I fully understand about Isu & all the catastrophes. This is the best video about AC ever made.
These game journalists condemning this game for being "bloated"...are just mad because they can't finish it in a weekend and write up their snarky, probably politicized review.
Meanwhile they are TOTALLY ignoring the ongoing saga that is stretching forwards and back through generations of games. The overarching story of Assassins Creed is remarkable, and the work and effort that has been put into it deserves more than bashing through the game over a couple of days....
Dude the game is way longer than it needs to be, progression is both way too easy and way too drawn out meaning your character is over-leveled for half the game with under-leveled armour unless you go around looting every chest further extending the game. It's fun and the main story is super entertaining but the whole game takes so long to actually get to the point it's hard to stick with it.
@@thehonkerman I think the game I receiving too much hate, when it's clearly a very good game
It's not great, not on the leagues of Red dead 2, but it's certainly a fun, and by no means a bad game
Well I’m glad they stuck with the ancient stuff, regardless if reviewers never get it.
the game is 70 hours when it should be 30-40 , great what they did the actual story but this barely covers what ac valhalla actually is
Look, i appreciate the homage to the old ACs that can be seen in Valhalla. That said, you can't rebuild a series over a pile of trash. AC died in 2012 because money was more important than making a meaningful product, what i would have called art. They should let AC die in peace, every new game is just sad to look at.
I always thought Assassins Creed was not even about the assassins at all. It was about something so much bigger. AC2 blew my mind back in middle school
better than most of the other endings explained by other Channels. Great Editing and call backs to previous AC games. Great job on this one
Goosebumps with the outro, great job
So the origin of the templars believed in the isu, then the new version of the templars from altair era, belive there following the father of understanding, basically God, the way king Alfred wanted, so did the templars and the assassin's just forget about the isu until modern times when religion wasn't as strong?
No. The Order of ancients were obsessed but Alfred reformed and changed the order. The Templars thought of using these first civ artefacts to further their own purpose but they never believed the isu to be the lord incarnate like OOTA did. Eventually, corruption started to seep into the order and alfred's strong ideals began to fall into the background.
Nah the writers are just bad at writing. Fans of games need to learn game devs historically don’t make great stories. It’s just a poor retcon after the terrible missteps the last few games have made.
@@AdityaSathya Also the father of understanding was just a analogy that the Templar cult used to describe their own potential, as they believed that they were gods.
@@countpicula Yes all this is is filling for the numerous plot holes that the series has created throughout the games.
The order of the ancient believed in the Isu. After Eivor killing most of the members in England and helping King Aelfred, Aelfred reformed the order with his ideal and vision, and that led to the order of the ancient becoming what we know today as The templars. With time, Templars forgot Aelfred ways and corruption started to rise when they began to discover the Isu artifacts and use them to fulfill they’re visions of order for the world. A very few group of people knew about the Isu. I don’t remember if the Hidden Ones knew about the Isu, but from what i know, The order of the ancient were the only ones who knew about the Isu and their stuff. The order of the ancient after being reformed by aelfred forgot the Isu and believed in the father of understanding (Possibly Odin, but that’s a theory or story for another moment).
Just like de Norse and Danes, they portrayed the story of the Isu as Norse Mythology believing the sages as Gods, Templars began to believe in a God, the father of understanding and forgot about the Isu.
Wow. Excellent recap. I just finished Valhalla last night. You guys did an exceptional job explaining this!
Can't even imagine the amount of work it you to took to create this video , absolutely brilliant explanation felt like a movie and most importantly because I love this franchise from its beginning its was emotional to see how it all turned out , thank you for making this ....Hope you get a million subscribers but don't worry ( Just like the assassins "Work in the Dark to Serve the Light " )
I had catched maybe 20% of everything mentioned in this video while playing through Valhalla. The rest just went past my head. Thanks for making it all clear!
Holy damn, that is very deep story ever in gaming history. This video is very well detailed and presented with awesome music.
This was incredibly well made and cleared up a lot of confusion I had. Great job guys!
Thank you very much, glad we could help!
This takes the edge off “the eagle bearer” meeting Lyla and giving her the staff.. only just to get it taken off her
it makes sense though. Aletheia’s consciuosness is housed in the staff and she was Loki’s lover. and they stated in the ending tgat they had some sort of plan all along.
I love this game and didn't even understand the story on this level. Thank you so much. EXCELLENT video.
So well put together and finally a video that puts all the pieces together! Amazing and hopefully more AC content to come! 👏🏻🙌🏻