One thing i really liked about Ac Valhalla is all those dialogues. I agree that the cutscenes are clumsy but eivor's straight up witty quotes are impressive
The sad thing about Valhalla is it had so much good that was ruined by Ubisofts greediness, laziness and cheapness, the scene where Eivor and Basim sit around the campfire is unironically one of the best scenes in the series because it had actual care and wasn't there just to bloat the players time.
Not even mentioning the naval battles and bigger raids that were taken out all because of Skull n bones (which was a sole naval game). Sigh…what is Ubi doing?
Yeah I remember that scene sticking out like a sore thumb, in a good way. It was one of the only parts where the dialogue felt real. Game would have been amazing if more of it was done that way.
This game had unironically good modern day, raids and sieges were fantastic, graphically its beatiful. But story, the bloated map and long story with forgettable characters really put it down. First DLC was okay, second DLC was great, third DLC was garbage. Enjoyed my time with it for most of the time. But it is not memorable as Odyssey or Origins.
I don’t know the siege’s and raids were so buggy and just exasperated the terrible ai. The combat also didn’t feel very impactful going from comedic to tedious (heavy’s sending enemies into mars then watching the same finisher for 100hrs). The cutscenes were awful and their presentation bar 1 or 2 ugly. Dark age Britain was completely wasted as the game had no direction and didn’t know whether to be serious (like a dark age saga should be) or a poorly designed fever dream designed to sell micro transactions. No one was left happy unless you played the game completely high.
Deluded because they're enjoying the game? Never understood comments like these, you have to be pretty sad and pathetic to say that when someone shares how much fun they're having @@anotherhappylanding4746
Played it a couple of months ago, finished it with 130 hours, now starting the 2 main DLC-s. I can understand those who are into the AC universe and don't like this game, however for those who want a great action RPG with vikings and a solid but not amazing AC lore, it is a remarkably good game. Loved it from start to finish, same with Origins and Odyssey.
First AC game I’ve played. It’s a good game. I got Excalibur and Mjolnir and Gungnir. It has cool armors and the DLC were all good. I have Odessy and the Egypt one to play. Are they worth the time.
I have 100% completion. Now only doing weekly logins for free item. And always staying in Ravensthorpe for few minutes to hear perfect background music :) It always gives me this "i would like to live here" vibe :)
"So much for the historical accuracy, right" bro come on man, the first game in the series featured the apple of Eden and the Isu, almost every game in the series featured an overpowered Isu weapon which had fantastical powers, how is Thor's hammer any different?
I know right? They were more focused on historical accuracy in regards to the environments themselves, and the story of the older games was almost entirely fiction.
Odyssey and Black Flag are my favorites. Mostly because I absolutely love the historical setting of both games, and the historical accuracy found within. (For the most part). I feel like I haven’t given Valhalla a fair chance. I’m going to go back and play it again, because I think post Roman Britain is extremely fascinating.
I've recently fell in love with this game. I revisited to try and calm down the excitement I have for Shadows, and I'm really enjoying it in a "turn my brain off" kinda way
Ironically enough, I found my 2nd play-through way more enjoyable by actually role-playing. With the “hood always on” feature, I equipped Basim’s robes and sword after leaving Norway (Having this equipped, it reduced a lot of time spent looting for gear). My head canon was that Eivor joined the Hidden Ones, and acts as a representative/diplomat for the Hidden Ones and Ravensthorpe every time you pledge to a territory. That’s why Eivor is involved in all politics of the game. You said a Viking climbing the walls of a castle, and breaking the wood pieces that block the gates was dumb, and it’s true. But, having Eivor in Basim’s robe and climbing the walls to do the exact same thing is actually cool and feels more satisfying imo. Reminds me of Unity intro when the Assassins capture Jacques de Molay.
I did something like this but I ran and found all the hidden one armor pieces asap. If you look at it like you’re playing a person sympathetic to the assassins like the factions from 2-revelations that were in business with the assassins but not really tied to them it lowered my guard a lot
I enjoyed Valhalla, and I still can't believe I 100% completed everything in it. I also got it for the series X along with an HDR 4k tv and the game looked incredible considering it's size.
My only real issue is a way too long campaign. Once Sigurd returns about halfway through, nothing happens in the story until you complete the remaining regions.
That my issue as well. I'm currently playing for the first time and they make getting Sigurd back such a huge deal and then when he's back you don't talk to him or Basim for so long you almost forget about them. And they're main characters! The regional arcs are so long and there are so many of them it just feels like a chore to complete them all just to get to the important parts of the story.
@@jordangreen7191 It didn't bother me when I first played it because I always do everything anyway but when I replayed it it absolutely sucked to have to complete all the regions. In a way it was worse than level gating from previous games because I could always use NG+ for the replays so I wouldn't have to do the side quests again.
Amazing video my friend!!! I love Assassin’s Creed Valhalla so much because it feels like Skyrim but much better looking. It took me a couple years to really get into this game but within the last few months I’ve finished almost everything in the game. I also love Mirage very much, I’ve just started playing it recently and it’s a fantastic game to me. 😁😁😎😎💯💯💯♥️♥️♥️✨✨✨
It comes in a DLC. Years later (889 or 890) Eivor wants to reconnect with Odin and gain more knowledge and insight. So they go and say goodbye to everyone (King Aelfred, King Harald, King Guthrum, Hytham and Valka). They want to go far away because most won't understand. So Eivor goes to Vinland and spends the rest of their life with Odin and talking about Isu tech, Solar Flares and stuff until they're dead. You're welcome.
something interesting that I found in my game is that you can find random dead bodies in random places its usually in enemy territories but the dead bodies are where players had died before and then you can go kill the enemy that killed those players I got mostly xbox players probably because I'm on xbox but I did get a few PlayStation players
I don't however like that Canon Eivor is female as the male character gave a much better performance. It was opposite in Odyssey so it made sense there.
@@rafiuski9559 Agreed. I actually really like Alexios’s voice actor. I’m not sure where people say he was bad. As the main character version, he made Alexios witty, confidant, strong (not a muscle-head like people say), and even emotional at times with family interactions or even those with Phoebe. I even think Alexios’s connection to Phoebe was a lot better than Kassandra’s. I think he just decided to go for a deeper, more stoic voice, and people immediately thought “meathead.”
@@darkforremancer5039 same thing happened with connor, just because he wasn't cracking jokes and charming women like ezio, every false gamer bashed him despite the fact he is one of the best written characters in the series.
For me this is my favourite assassins game, next to origins and blackflag. As a fan of the vikings series, it really felt like i was a part of that. You get to meet the famous sons of ragnar (which for me was so awesome), they implemented the nordic mythology in a fantastic way. I actually liked the landscape. It felt cold and dark and mysterious. I had so much fun playing and exploring in this game. But i agree with you, if you are to really enjoy Valhalla, go in with the mindset that you are a viking, trying to reach fame and glory to be welcome into the halls of, well Valhalla. I feel like Eivor is very much inspired by Ragnar lothbrok aswell, especially the depiction of him in the Viking series. If you havent played it and you are a fan of the RPG genre, i'd strongly recommend you to give this one a try! Thanks for another great review The Hidden One.
Not really, nothing about this game felt Assassin's Creed, it was a good viking game but its a trash AC game, that along with the unrealistic microtransaction armors and weapons made it worse, the story was also bogged down and saturated, along with the stealth mechanics being almost nonexistent.
100% agree, I find Valhalla relaxing and peaceful to play, and its so immersive with no HUD, graphically the world is one of the best games Ive ever played.
I love Valhalla. I rediscovered it and have been playing the last few months. I didn’t like it the first time I played it, but love it now. Black Flag was my favorite, the Odyssey.
I’m familiar with The AC line and have dibble and dabbled with them only playing them for a couple hours. But Valhalla was the first one I actually purchased for myself and I played it in increments and I enjoyed every minute of it. A breathe of fresh air to me so that’s probably why I liked it so much
So I am that type of player who wants to achieve 100% in every game… And I can say that I play games for the fun, not because something is accurate or fits in a story line. And for me Assassins Creed is just perfect. Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla have so much to offer in the worlds, not just events, Discoveries oder Items to collect, but also beauty and Amazing landscapes that I can enjoy and look at for a moment or two. Of course, the thought of an assassin being silent and a killer got lost in the latest games, however, there still is plenty to enjoy in the games🙏
Valhalla was great because it wasn’t over saturated with horrible side quests and copy and paste armor and weapons like odyssey. And the towns feel more unique in Valhalla. Most importantly we didn’t have those stupid bounty hunters that took hours to kill the previous game.
I've always been into Valhalla, just like Odyssey. Yeah, they're not your typical Assassin's Creed games, but I still have a blast running around and exploring these open-worlds. Ubisoft nails it with the details, making these worlds come alive. I haven't tried the Valhalla DLC, heard it's not great. But the main game? Totally enjoyable, even if it's not your typical Assassin's Creed stuff. I ditched stealth and just went full Viking, raiding every time that prompt popped up - felt like a proper warrior XD. The story and length could've been better, but for the exploration, combat, and overall vibe, I'd give it a solid 7.5/10.
I have played every Assassin Creed game ever and i can say that Valhalla on my ps5 is my favourite...The graphics are amazing and the games is so big that keeps you playing for weeks or months...Lets respect the time Ubisoft spend to make this game and stop loving games just because they are old and give us nostalgia...
Very long its not about quality. I played Origins, it was good, but would be much more better if was more compact, now I am in Odyssey and this is looks like eternity...
I had a "little" bug in valhalla. I was going for the platinum and after 200hours of gameplay and completing every activity in the map I did not get the trophy for it. At the time I did my research and I was not the only one with that problem
(LIGHT SPOILERS ALERT!) I personally feel that this game's narrative, modern day and isu/ hidden truth lore is probably the best from the RPG trilogy (although the mythological filter is kinda enigmatic and difficult to understand it the first time you play it imo). The problem tho, is that darby mc devitt's excelent writing gets diminished by the forced long length of the storyline, which forces you to play this kingdom arcs that, although fulfills the viking fantasy, kills the flow and focus on the odin's, tyr's and loki's fight for reincarnation after the ragnarok/toba catastrophe. The idea of eivor not joining the hidden ones, although going against the game's title, it's still interesting because eivor still has a position in the long lasting assassin/templar philosofical conflict: helps hytham in killing the order of ancients, while also unknowingly helps king arthur in paveling the way of a christian based organization: the poor soldiers of christ, known in the future as the templars.
I'm late to the party, but to me the absolute biggest improvement over the other 2 rpg games is that the side content actually tells some stories and aren't just fetch quests. In Odyssey pretty much every quest and side quest involves "go here, kill or steal, come back", while in valhalla you actually have conversations with people, walk with them, and have objectives that go above just killing someone. It's a huge step away from Odyssey and towards Witcher 3, a change i enjoy a lot. Also helps that Eivor isn't as over the top in terms of trying to be funny or emotional as Kassandra.
Yes! You're the only other person I know of who admitted to actually enjoying the storyline. The twists and how the Isu sages were implemented were extremely intriguing for me, but I feel like it took too long to get to those pivitol moments, which took out the impact of the narrative.
Wasted potential. this sums up the whole franchise. The unique concept of the first civ the twist on adam and eve and slavery secret wars lasting thousands of years the assassins the templars pieces of eden the message through time characters being prophets and sages the world order and illuminati A pile of amazing concepts and ubisoft still shat on the whole pile
As a norwegian, I really thought it was fascinating to explore places I knew. Some spots were spot on when it came to landscaping which was extremely cool
I played this game during lockdown and i wasn’t familiar with Assassins creed but this game was really enjoyable to me and i now finished some AC games like origins, Mirage, AC 3 and now playing AC Black Flag
male eivors voice actor just gave a more interesting performance, female eivor just feels too aggressive and angry, while male eivor feels a lot more diplomatic and calm
@@xvadmins5689disagree, i played with both through the entire story each and i think female eivor pulls off this „intelligent, collected yet savage warrior“ alot better. Its prolly my fav female voice performance ever
Male Eivor was the one shown in the reveal trailer, he's the one most people we're sold on and he's also the one who makes the most sense story wise. Edit: and beards are cool
@@Anonymous-fn8nj not gonna lie, she sounded like she smoked 5 packs of menthols a day. It was annoying. Male eivor was far more composed and showed far more emotion.
@@GraceAlone614 i think they were just very different. I understand why ppl prefer male eivor, i just really think the voice and the performance really suited the character and how her personally adapted with the along story.
The game was good but had extremely poor level design. After a main quest I was lvl 90 and had to be lvl 120 for the next main quest, which is no fun at all and that's why I never finished it
Personally I like that feeling of emptyness in the open world. It is more realistic and it gives you a moment to take a breath. I understand why people may dislike it but I think it's kinda beautiful
@VitchAndVorty I've been living in the country for my entire life so far, surrounded by nothing but green hills and natural forests, both I know very well, as well as a few farms here and there. I guess that answers your second questions. To your first one, I think the Open World in AC Valhalla is not that unrealistic because while you can easily spot certain wildlife like deer, foxes, rabbits and birds the nature is not crawling with them. Actually I'd say the devs even increased the spawn density, just take the foxes. I live near a forest, one where I have played, took walks and helped my dad out with woodworking countless times and I've always been told that foxes live in our forest but in almost 25 years I've never seen a single one, closest I got was when I saw paw prints that looked like from a fox. But then in Valhalla I feel like there are foxes everywhere I go. But I think the spawn rate of deer and rabbits is pretty accurate to what I am used. At home you can often see deer in the forest or close to it or hear them running, same goes for rabbits, we often see one or two at once in the plains around our house. But still, AC Valhalla is pretty nice with players, in reality wild deer would run away before you even have the chance to get closer than a 100 meters and wild boars are so shy you can barely see a few. So yeah, actually I feel the spawn rate of animals in AC Valhalla is a bit increased for some animals and they are a bit less shy, a bit less wild, presumably so that the player can take a closer look (or shot). But I need to add, that's all in comparison to where I live wich is in the north/north-west of Austria, where the climate, flora and fauna are similar but still different from england and I don't know where you live. Population density and shyness of certain animals might vary, depending on the country and regions within countries. All I can do is confirm that the world of AC Valhalla feels very familiar for me in terms of wildlife.
19:56 Yep. I was extremely fatigued playing this game despite having numerous breaks. Worst part is i didn't even remeber what happened in most of the region arcs/storylines I usually see everything an Assassin's Creed game has to offer, but i chekced out before the last DLC
we get a new assassins creed basically every year Red dead redemption was made under 8 years... so yeah no comparison at all. Assassins creed is the kebab of games you can enjoy it whenever you want always provides a solid experience and RDR2 is like a fancy restaurant you go once every decade to have an extraordinary experience.
Trying to 100% this game made me realize how dull, repetitive, and tedious the world and activities could be. Still enjoyed my time playing though. England was beautiful, story was okay, liked the Valhalla sections also.
5:02 The Wild West back then was also an empty desert, forest, mountain, etc with few small towns or whatever here and there. But Rockstar made those areas really vast, lonely, "far from civilization feel" but engaging and not plain, boring, empty area. While in Valhalla, it's just f*cking plain, empty, boring and tedious to be there, not engaging, almost nothing to do at all.
For me my rank for RPG Assassin game 1.Odyssey 2.Origin 3.Valhalla Open world game need not only need good story, but the felt of the world. Valhalla just felt empty, too bloated. Now Odyssey on the other hand, felt so much alive.
I can say this from the bottom of my heart. The absolute worst part of Valhalla for me was those god damn rock stacking games. Never have I seen something so “harmless” and “peaceful” induce such a deep rage in me that lasts into the next day.
Biggest annoying bug is the glitch where the walking in grass sound plays twice and doubled up and also starts playing when walking around everywhere on rock etc after it happens until you reload
Are you sure that the Female Eivor is the canon one? It's the male Eivor that is on all the box art and in the CGI trailer. The canon Odyssey character was Kassandra but I'm quite certain that the canon Valhalla character is the Male Eivor.
Female Eivor is canon. If you let the Animus decide, it gives you female Eivor & Ubi has confirmed it. Never mind how that completely destroys any trace of historical accuracy.
@dqverify6797 it also destroys biological sense. Since they get the DNA for the animus from Eivors corpse. Even amateurs with basic medical knowledge are know that there is a difference in Bone structure and DNA between males and females. Yet somehow the animus, a device that is supposed to read memories from DNA, forgot about that.
This game is for sure one of my favorites, if anything top 5! I’ve played a couple AC games in the past but was never fully invested. I mainly got this one because of all the Viking shows I’ve been watching for the past 2 years. I think they did a great job making it a true Viking game, I truly enjoyed it. I get the reason why people hate on it but from someone who mainly wanted a Viking game, I’m satisfied.
I have played every AC game and got this game on PS4 as a christmas gift when it came out. I had no hype for it and even waited until I got a PS5 about a year later. I ended up loving the game and it has become my favorite AC game, which was Origins before. I just had a blast with it and ran through the game and both DLC's. I shouldn't love it as much as i do since there are better worlds and better main characters, but I just found the game fun. I loved how brutal the combat was and dual wielding any 2 weapons. I know that's an unpopular opinion though.
One part about the game that I agree about is that I wish there were more dense populations in the game but the game seems to be somewhat accurate historically with the population size since during this time period there seemed to only be around 1 million people in Britain at most.
Odyssey is my favourite overall, Syndicate is a guilty pleasure, I loved Valhalla for the scenery (even though, as a Brit, it wasn't accurate) the building a settlement (which I wish we could've expanded more on) and the fact that male Eivor was hot as hell. 😂
Just got back into the game at the beginning of this month after taking a break for a few years and I’m looking forward to finally beating the game, I enjoy it for what it is, sure not every AC game is perfect but I like Valhalla because it’s unique and special to me.
I had the game for a while and today I finally dug into it. So far I’m enjoying the exploration and side quests. Don’t really care for the raid quests but everything else is good
Dag literally spends the whole first 1/3 of the game questioning your choices that hurt the clan. Then he turns on you. They spent the whole first act prepping him turning on you
I love this game. It’s graphically beautiful, full of interesting historical info and sites and so intricate and involved that you can really become immersed for hours. I love games like that.
I was power level 513 something,after 115 Hours grinding,I didn’t even knew what’s going on,i was grinding the DLC druids or something and Dawn of Ragnarok. By the time i back to main game,i was overpowered and felt like using trainer or cheat to go through the game. I quit playing it,and never went back. Valhalla is really insane. Everytime game threw a whole new game,insanely big map,a total new gameplay mechanics. I even remember going Paris. But the main story was not soo gripping. Note : I did play AC Odyssey for 169 hours,level 99( only main story) the game was “fun”.
AC Valhalla suffered from the same issue Halo 5 did, its namesake. If Halo 5 was called "Super Space Marines," people would have loved it. If AC Valhalla would have been called "Warrior of Valhalla," it would have been a decent game, but comparing it to what it was supposed to be killed most people's enjoyment. I play Halo to be Masterchief and fight the Covenant in traditional Bungie era art style, not to be a random new guy that feels disconnected with the world of Halo. I play Assassin's Creed to be a stealthy Assassin, not a brutish warrior who doesn't even become an Assassin. Halo 5's multiplayer was fun of you forget its supposed to be Halo, AC Valhalla is fun at times of you forget it's an Assassin's Creer game.
It’s funny to hear people who’ve played all the ac games versus my perspective since I’ve only played Valhalla. This game is so much fun to me and super addicting. I love how I can follow the story or just go hunt gear and treasure
I platinum the game, it’s great if you play slow and let game come to you & use TH-cam guide for some mystery, animus, stone building, shards in Asgard & Jotunheim and you’ll be fine. If you rush you’ll feel like a chore or bored you’ll never finish it.. relax and conquer game. I enjoy Valhalla cinematic story, I like raiding and helping kings conquer, it’s like Viking movies. I also platinum Origins Odyssey and I feel like Valhalla plat is more accomplished, it was hard to get.
I found that by adjusting the damage output and input in the setting to 200 percent for both eivor and enemy's, and changing scaling enemies to constant, provided a better assassins creed experience. Also speeds up the pace of combat which in turn speeds up the 100 hour run time of the game making the game more digestible over time.
There's just so much padding and level gating that it took like 5 attempts between a span of 2 years before I finally forced myself to beat it. Never buying a RPG Assassins Creed at full price at launch again.
For me it was the first AC I finished after AC Revelations and it made me return to the older games at the end of last year. I‘ve already finished 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, 3, Liberation and I‘m currently working on 4.
Played and enjoyed every AC game (not including the arcade titles)since the first one and Valhalla was the first game in the series that was a chore to finish
I platinum Valhalla, it’s great if you play slow and let game come to you.. just relax. Don’t rush or you’ll feel like a chore/bored and you’ll never finish it…
@@samii7192 I played all of them during their launch but never finished one of them. I‘m almost done with Black flag, the I‘ll take on Rogue and then finally Unity, where I remember how much I liked the parcour.
About the stealth. Most people think parkour in AC Valhalla is for moving around, just like in Syndicate or Unity. But very few people understand that AC Valhalla only added parkour so that you can better attack fortresses or something similar in stealth mode. The focus in the game was never on parkour And if you only think about that point, Assassin's Creed Valhalla was never a bad game.
As someone who actually builds Cairn stones when I go on hikes it isn’t just stacking rocks, it’s meditative. Acknowledging that this creation won’t last forever, accepting that as my own fate, and building it anyway either as a trail marker or at points of interest or in places you can find drinking water. They’re useful for navigation on a short time frame but there’s something spiritual about it.
I'm sure there is a spiritual and mediative reason in real life for it but from a video game pov, there is 0 chance it can be anything remotely interesting
People in general were too harsh with this game. Elden Ring is a +100 hours long game and has a lot of recycled content, like recycled enemies, bosses, locations, dungeons, weapons (yea, for each type you have like 30 weapons which pretty much 90% of them feels the same), etc and still, it won the GOTY in 2022. But one game is from Ubi and the other one is from From Software. Theres the true explanation why one game got (and still gets) so many free passes…
Comparing Elden Ring to Valhalla is like comparing a chefs signature dish to a McDonald’s happy meal. One is the culmination of years of refinement, a product you can feel the passion that was put into it. The level design, the boss fights, the unorthodox story, character progression. It’s a work of art. The other is slop churned out on a consistent schedule to appease the masses. It’s generic, formulaic, and uninspired. Happy meals are high in calories but completely devoid of nutrients; it’s junk food. Comparing the two is just disrespectful to Elden Ring lol. Edit: and this is coming from someone who didn’t even particularly like Elden Ring but can respect what it is and what it does.
Valhalla was my first full assassins creed game. It was leaving PS Plus when I subscribed so I decided to play it. I really enjoyed it at first and had a month to beat it. I played every day and finished Oswald’s arc, then the insane level spike grinded my enjoyment into the ground and I wasn’t able to finish the story. I later played every AC game except the first game and now it’s my favorite game series. Origins, Unity, AC 3, and Odyssey are my faves. Maybe one day I’ll buy Valhalla and give it another shot. Update: Got a lot of notifications so wanted to check in and say I resubscribed just to play the game; right now I’m lvl 200 in Lunden. I’m having a lot of fun but good god, this game has wayyyy too much content. Multiple realms to explore as Odin, a rogue like mode, the Kassandra arc, the endless things to do. I stg it feels like I’ll never finish it lmaoo. Update #2: I finished it. Finally. I stg if AC Red is this long I’m gonna chest bump a speeding car.
I was just watching the show Vikings when this game dropped back in 2020 and I was so fucking hyped to played. I spent 200 hours in my first playthrough.
Okay this is my two-bit, since I saw you comparing it with RDR2 and I just had to put it out there cuz its something that coincidentally happened to me. I began by absolutely hating RPG games. I didn't even wanna touch origins. I decided to play Origins in a negative mentality that I wouldn't like it, but despite that I fell in love with it. I'm more of an Orthodox AC players that preferred pre-Syndicate games. After Origins I tried and tested Odyssey, and I dropped Odyssey the third time retry. I wanted to give the game a fair chance similar to Origins, but Odyssey was the game that I felt more empty over Valhalla. The massive world, the plotline being shit, I just couldn't tolerate Odyssey at all it was infuriating playthrough. I tried to play through Valhalla but I felt it was more filling than Odyssey at least. I still dropped though, and moved on to RDR2. Now RDR2 to me felt similar to Valhalla. I loved RDR2, and its cuz of that I sort of built tolerance to Valhalla environment, and with a new mindset my opinion for Valhalla is a 180. I absolutely loved Valhalla (there may be bias cuz I love medieval european kingdoms). Though there are still things I really wish they involved more, like Eivor to be an actual Hidden One, for once. I mean this is the 2nd game where the protagonist isn't an assassin. Why is Ubi moving away from the very thing that the franchise is supposed to be about?
I think the answer is that they are capitalizing off of name recognition when having Assassin's Creed in the title. IMO it's nothing more than a marketing decision and in the long run they'll make more $ by slapping AC on the box versus not. Either way that doesn't take away from Valhalla being a good game. I recently grabbed the base game and first two expansion packs last month when they were on sale. I'm still in the middle of my first playthrough of the base game and enjoying it but really look forward to diving into the Wrath of The Druids. Have you played The Witcher 3 yet? If you only recently got into RPGs then I'd definitely add the complete edition to the top of your list. It is available everywhere but by purchasing it on GOG is best because you actually own the game with full installer (assuming you are using a PC). Cheers
I've tried to play Witcher 3 but I feel like there's something missing. I feel like I need to play older games in order to enjoy Witcher 3 since some of the dialogue options felt like they're REALLY important and are related to what happened in previous games. Like the one when he's taking a bath before a meeting and a man comes and interviews about. That's why I dropped Witcher 3 at least for now till I get a definite method of enjoying the game. I don't like loose points like that where I can't follow the plot. Still thanks for recommendation. As for Valhalla, I'm on my first play through as well and I genuinely love it. Cheers mate@@ForeverConsciousResearch
idk if it's them just being willing to 'deceive' and take in money by using the AC brand. I mean, for sure that's been the consequence and they were able to risk it and go the rpg route thanks to that, but plot-wise, to me honestly it makes sense that not all people, especially in the distant past, who got involved with the manufacts and the conflict between the 2 at-the-time-fresh factions had to be members of one of them. There were just allies too, and we got to play their pov. + i really liked the idea of demigods having existed at the time and the whole idea of the rpg trio games showing how it all slowly started and got formed, the actual Precursors. I love all 3 of them and have yet to finish them, but despite that, i can't deny that stealth got heavily nerfed and stunted, in mechanics, aesthetic and usefulness, and that is essentially blasphemy for an AC title. I think they could have emulated something SIMILAR to a rpg rather than actually doing one. Instead of life and levels, it could have been cooler and more immersive to have enemies with varying degrees/quality of armors or something like that that you could gradually and/or partially scrape off or destroy more or less efficiently depending on your weapons and abilities or the adversary's skill, etc. Or enemies with bigger consitution taking more hits to kill, but still in realistic measure. This could have still allowed assassination to actually kill a mf no matter their "level" and stealth to be a very rewarding route to take. Hope in the next games ubi will redeem and bring that aspect back :(
@@dainpiagne4636 I would still prefer the og games tho. Sure its sci fi and stuff but historically it was still a little more grounded than well being a demigod. I'd prefer fighting french revolution over thor is all I'm saying
@@ricinquill i think they'll return to those settings eventually. like we're playing as demigods because the focus of the story now are the isu. we were playing as assassins before because we were looking for isu artifacts, thenn= now we're playing as demigods because we're trying to learn more about the isu themselves. but (SPOILERS)------now that basim is in the modern day, i think we'll move on from the demigod era since theres no more need to learn about the staff and isu for now.
No New Game Plus really REALLY discourages me from ever picking this one back up. Valhalla's *okay*, but some of the region's stories seemed like filler. It also took too long to get one-handed swords and wearing the hood when not incognito. Dual-wield the Gungnir and Gae Bolg spears and Eivor's unstoppable. Those two together can even take any boss down within seconds.
Have you ever tried to attempt a pc 100% runthough because the controls are different and changes some of the mechanics and ac1 has some completely different missions
Yes, and a lot of other details you find in both vinland and in the mythological arc. The isu hidden truth lore in this game is underrated af, something that darby mcdevitt made well (among other things of course). The problem is tho, it's a lil bit enigmatic and kinda difficult to understand the first time u play it
@@MPR0930 YES. someone gets it! the main point of the rpg/ancient era games are to flesh out isu lore!!! cause we already had too much "look for this isu artifact" stories!! and now the modern day story can progress cause theres now a literal isu in the modern day.
Visually, the game is impressive and I love it. It's a good game too if you don' think about the franchise. But it's too much repetitive for me compared to the previous two RPG ACs.
It’s a bad "viking" game. It’s just another Hollywoodified version of the already inaccurate Vikings tv-show, and it’s obvious the game takes more inspiration from that and even makes it more aggressive, than actual real history.
Why are people so stuck on whether you are literally an assassin or not? It's still clearly the same universe and it's tied in with it. You have a modern character and you're playing ancient characters through an animus, and there is a story in both the past and present. You also CAN climb and jump all around cities in the new games, and you CAN stealth. People keep acting like you can't. Yeah they are more open and sometimes you have to land, there is still a ton of responsive climbing in the games.
If im playing Assassin's Creed. The LEAST i'd expect is to play as what the game was always about. I don't care about evolution from linear to open world or rpg or whatever. I love that. But the actual protagonist MUST always be an assassin.
@@TheHiddenOne690 In black flag he already kind wasn't right? Why does everyone accept that one and dislike the new ones? Maybe I'm just not invested enough in the overall story and should finish the first couple. For some reason 1 and 2 and BF lost me back in the day but the improved combat and side quest narratives of Origins has improved the series for me, so I think I'm actually going to finish it. If they remake BF I'll be sure to give it another chance too.
@@TheHiddenOne690 I didn't see AC fans collectively writing it off as unworthy for not being about an assassin. But I see those kinds of thoughts about the new ones a lot. I'm not even saying your videos are this one-sided, I just see this opinion a lot and I find it surprising when the series was already doing that earlier. It seems AC fans still love Black Flag and embrace it fully. That's my point. To be fair, I didn't finish it but my understanding is that Conway isn't a full on assassin technically either?
I did enjoy odyssey but I agree. It went too heavy with mountains of loot and gear you just instantly sell and having to have multiple classes to even play the game. Want to assassinate? Well you can’t kill a boar. Want to fight tough enemies? Well you can’t assassinate a basic enemy
@gu5a886 it's stupid how u have max out your assasin damage for one shit kills in stealth, the stealth was stupid and there lots of times where stealth was completely useless in that game since you're basically a spartan God. The loot system was cool, not like valhalla, where it's pay to win with boosters and gear.
No it is not better than odyssey. Side quests( world events, pillars, drengr fights) in valhalla are boring and worthless. Side quests in odyssey were much more interesting with better stories behind them. Plus greek world is ten times more interesting to explore than boring, peasant like england.
Am I the only one who feels really old when hears that Valhalla is now 4 years old?
3 years and 3 months
Yes. Yes you are
I do XD
Feels like yesterday :/
Yep
One thing i really liked about Ac Valhalla is all those dialogues. I agree that the cutscenes are clumsy but eivor's straight up witty quotes are impressive
Better than odyssey that's for sure
What dialogue? 😂
The writing with his voice acting is fantastic
The sad thing about Valhalla is it had so much good that was ruined by Ubisofts greediness, laziness and cheapness, the scene where Eivor and Basim sit around the campfire is unironically one of the best scenes in the series because it had actual care and wasn't there just to bloat the players time.
"A Man you trust with anything can take everything"
Not even mentioning the naval battles and bigger raids that were taken out all because of Skull n bones (which was a sole naval game).
Sigh…what is Ubi doing?
@@andrewog3516 didn't luckily, got it from a friend and still felt scammed lol
Yeah I remember that scene sticking out like a sore thumb, in a good way. It was one of the only parts where the dialogue felt real. Game would have been amazing if more of it was done that way.
Your name is funny af lmao
This game had unironically good modern day, raids and sieges were fantastic, graphically its beatiful. But story, the bloated map and long story with forgettable characters really put it down. First DLC was okay, second DLC was great, third DLC was garbage. Enjoyed my time with it for most of the time. But it is not memorable as Odyssey or Origins.
It was on par with origins if it were a bit more condensed
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@@aqracy1055be fr Orgins story and world are way better, i know it's cool to hate on orgins but it's not close vahalla is trash
I don’t know the siege’s and raids were so buggy and just exasperated the terrible ai. The combat also didn’t feel very impactful going from comedic to tedious (heavy’s sending enemies into mars then watching the same finisher for 100hrs). The cutscenes were awful and their presentation bar 1 or 2 ugly. Dark age Britain was completely wasted as the game had no direction and didn’t know whether to be serious (like a dark age saga should be) or a poorly designed fever dream designed to sell micro transactions. No one was left happy unless you played the game completely high.
I like the longer story gives you more to do. After the story and the dlcs im like what do i do
Im in COMPLETE AWE with Valhalla. Im playing right now and totally addicted mostly because of the dazzling beautiful world.
I just finished the main story and I feel the same. Absolutely stunning and I loved the gameplay.
Your deluded then
@@anotherhappylanding4746 uhh why? because a bunch of racist and homophobic guys are hating on Ubisoft? 😂
@@anotherhappylanding4746or you could just let people enjoy things....?
Deluded because they're enjoying the game? Never understood comments like these, you have to be pretty sad and pathetic to say that when someone shares how much fun they're having @@anotherhappylanding4746
I always loved how Eivor looks when you go on 'stealth mode'. How the entire cape and hood looks and how he walks
Like one eyed Odin himself walking, which he really is atleast his persona.
you guys did ? ..i hated it.,
The disguise mode? Yes I felt like being able to switch between that and combat was a cool feature
lol that's all people care about now, "how your character looks in h1z c00l 0utfit
Played it a couple of months ago, finished it with 130 hours, now starting the 2 main DLC-s. I can understand those who are into the AC universe and don't like this game, however for those who want a great action RPG with vikings and a solid but not amazing AC lore, it is a remarkably good game. Loved it from start to finish, same with Origins and Odyssey.
i agree, ppl say map is empty... the games are based on history and during this time period this is how it wouldve been lol. its a great game
Same, same.
First AC game I’ve played. It’s a good game. I got Excalibur and Mjolnir and Gungnir. It has cool armors and the DLC were all good. I have Odessy and the Egypt one to play. Are they worth the time.
I haven't played Origins, but Odyssey was a great game yeah.
They went for quantity over quality unfortunately
I mostly loved background music in this game and songs while in our longboat. When horns resound is my fav. Background music in Norway is just Great
I have 100% completion. Now only doing weekly logins for free item. And always staying in Ravensthorpe for few minutes to hear perfect background music :) It always gives me this "i would like to live here" vibe :)
"So much for the historical accuracy, right" bro come on man, the first game in the series featured the apple of Eden and the Isu, almost every game in the series featured an overpowered Isu weapon which had fantastical powers, how is Thor's hammer any different?
Exactly
This hipocriscy Made me start to like Even Odyssey too
I know right? They were more focused on historical accuracy in regards to the environments themselves, and the story of the older games was almost entirely fiction.
@@Ribcut
Yea Fiction is Fiction so they shouldnt cry about it
Since day one my point of view on ac valhalla was
"It's an amazing viking game, however it isn't a great assassins creed game"
Yep, I played the game with that mindset and I enjoyed it more. Unless forced to do otherwise, I just ran into battle.
@@jeypi__ exactly, it's way more fun that way.
Nailed it.
Odyssey and Black Flag are my favorites. Mostly because I absolutely love the historical setting of both games, and the historical accuracy found within. (For the most part).
I feel like I haven’t given Valhalla a fair chance. I’m going to go back and play it again, because I think post Roman Britain is extremely fascinating.
I liked those games for their ship combats which were better than their predecessors
I've recently fell in love with this game. I revisited to try and calm down the excitement I have for Shadows, and I'm really enjoying it in a "turn my brain off" kinda way
It's just over 3 years old - pls stop making me feel old 😅
I was about to say “it’s been four years?!” 😭😭😭 where tf does time go
i had to look up the release date cos i was like aint no way this game is four years old lol
Damn, time must really be in a hurry!
Yup I am old 😂
@@dreameazy8873Well technically still 3. Barely 3 1/2. The game came out in November of 2020 but still feels like yesterday lol
Ironically enough, I found my 2nd play-through way more enjoyable by actually role-playing.
With the “hood always on” feature, I equipped Basim’s robes and sword after leaving Norway (Having this equipped, it reduced a lot of time spent looting for gear). My head canon was that Eivor joined the Hidden Ones, and acts as a representative/diplomat for the Hidden Ones and Ravensthorpe every time you pledge to a territory. That’s why Eivor is involved in all politics of the game.
You said a Viking climbing the walls of a castle, and breaking the wood pieces that block the gates was dumb, and it’s true. But, having Eivor in Basim’s robe and climbing the walls to do the exact same thing is actually cool and feels more satisfying imo. Reminds me of Unity intro when the Assassins capture Jacques de Molay.
This is so good
I did something like this but I ran and found all the hidden one armor pieces asap. If you look at it like you’re playing a person sympathetic to the assassins like the factions from 2-revelations that were in business with the assassins but not really tied to them it lowered my guard a lot
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The fact that you HAVE to use your imagination for this game to be enjoyable in its lore and setting is hilarious😂😂
I enjoyed Valhalla, and I still can't believe I 100% completed everything in it. I also got it for the series X along with an HDR 4k tv and the game looked incredible considering it's size.
My only real issue is a way too long campaign. Once Sigurd returns about halfway through, nothing happens in the story until you complete the remaining regions.
That my issue as well. I'm currently playing for the first time and they make getting Sigurd back such a huge deal and then when he's back you don't talk to him or Basim for so long you almost forget about them. And they're main characters! The regional arcs are so long and there are so many of them it just feels like a chore to complete them all just to get to the important parts of the story.
@@jordangreen7191 It didn't bother me when I first played it because I always do everything anyway but when I replayed it it absolutely sucked to have to complete all the regions. In a way it was worse than level gating from previous games because I could always use NG+ for the replays so I wouldn't have to do the side quests again.
Crikey this world is like everything's too long to everythings to short game companies can't please anyone these days and it's true
The story is long as hell
@@recur9245bros aloud to critique the length, especially one that pads out the length.
I kid u not. As soon as you mentioned the hikous in ghost of tsushima I was actually doing one of them in the game. This is so surreal
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Amazing video my friend!!! I love Assassin’s Creed Valhalla so much because it feels like Skyrim but much better looking. It took me a couple years to really get into this game but within the last few months I’ve finished almost everything in the game. I also love Mirage very much, I’ve just started playing it recently and it’s a fantastic game to me. 😁😁😎😎💯💯💯♥️♥️♥️✨✨✨
Biggest issue I had is we never get the question answered why eivor is buried in North America
Oh wow just started a play through and I was hoping they’d answer that. Now I’m annoyed
Evior says they want to go back to North America eventually later in life
It comes in a DLC. Years later (889 or 890) Eivor wants to reconnect with Odin and gain more knowledge and insight. So they go and say goodbye to everyone (King Aelfred, King Harald, King Guthrum, Hytham and Valka). They want to go far away because most won't understand. So Eivor goes to Vinland and spends the rest of their life with Odin and talking about Isu tech, Solar Flares and stuff until they're dead.
You're welcome.
something interesting that I found in my game is that you can find random dead bodies in random places its usually in enemy territories but the dead bodies are where players had died before and then you can go kill the enemy that killed those players I got mostly xbox players probably because I'm on xbox but I did get a few PlayStation players
I don't however like that Canon Eivor is female as the male character gave a much better performance. It was opposite in Odyssey so it made sense there.
I totally agree with you about Eivor, although with Oyddsey I would say it's a tie. Actually, both brothers are perfect as protagonists.
@@rafiuski9559 Agreed. I actually really like Alexios’s voice actor. I’m not sure where people say he was bad. As the main character version, he made Alexios witty, confidant, strong (not a muscle-head like people say), and even emotional at times with family interactions or even those with Phoebe. I even think Alexios’s connection to Phoebe was a lot better than Kassandra’s. I think he just decided to go for a deeper, more stoic voice, and people immediately thought “meathead.”
@@darkforremancer5039i miss alexios..
Technically that's not a problem with the character being female, that's a problem with the voice casting.
@@darkforremancer5039 same thing happened with connor, just because he wasn't cracking jokes and charming women like ezio, every false gamer bashed him despite the fact he is one of the best written characters in the series.
For me this is my favourite assassins game, next to origins and blackflag. As a fan of the vikings series, it really felt like i was a part of that. You get to meet the famous sons of ragnar (which for me was so awesome), they implemented the nordic mythology in a fantastic way. I actually liked the landscape. It felt cold and dark and mysterious. I had so much fun playing and exploring in this game. But i agree with you, if you are to really enjoy Valhalla, go in with the mindset that you are a viking, trying to reach fame and glory to be welcome into the halls of, well Valhalla.
I feel like Eivor is very much inspired by Ragnar lothbrok aswell, especially the depiction of him in the Viking series.
If you havent played it and you are a fan of the RPG genre, i'd strongly recommend you to give this one a try!
Thanks for another great review The Hidden One.
Not really, nothing about this game felt Assassin's Creed, it was a good viking game but its a trash AC game, that along with the unrealistic microtransaction armors and weapons made it worse, the story was also bogged down and saturated, along with the stealth mechanics being almost nonexistent.
100% agree, I find Valhalla relaxing and peaceful to play, and its so immersive with no HUD, graphically the world is one of the best games Ive ever played.
@@bruh4628 It's meant to be a viking exploration game, which it does incredibly well.
As someone who has always been fascinated by Vikings since I was young I personally really enjoyed the game.
I love Valhalla. I rediscovered it and have been playing the last few months. I didn’t like it the first time I played it, but love it now. Black Flag was my favorite, the Odyssey.
I’m familiar with The AC line and have dibble and dabbled with them only playing them for a couple hours. But Valhalla was the first one I actually purchased for myself and I played it in increments and I enjoyed every minute of it. A breathe of fresh air to me so that’s probably why I liked it so much
So I am that type of player who wants to achieve 100% in every game… And I can say that I play games for the fun, not because something is accurate or fits in a story line. And for me Assassins Creed is just perfect. Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla have so much to offer in the worlds, not just events, Discoveries oder Items to collect, but also beauty and Amazing landscapes that I can enjoy and look at for a moment or two. Of course, the thought of an assassin being silent and a killer got lost in the latest games, however, there still is plenty to enjoy in the games🙏
Valhalla was great because it wasn’t over saturated with horrible side quests and copy and paste armor and weapons like odyssey. And the towns feel more unique in Valhalla. Most importantly we didn’t have those stupid bounty hunters that took hours to kill the previous game.
I'm past halfway in Odyssey, lvl 62, and I just go and knock them, then hire them
I'm past halfway in Odyssey, lvl 62, and I just go and knock them, then hire them
@user-ch8rzyeah
This has to be ironic or satire.
Sarcasm?
I really enjoyed this game. Odyssey is my favorite but I liked this one alot too.
Also, it’s impossible to compare pretty much any game and rdr2. That game is the extremely rare masterpiece. Lol
@@MRFIKSIT31Facts Rdr2 is a masterpiece and words cant describe how much I love it.
I've always been into Valhalla, just like Odyssey. Yeah, they're not your typical Assassin's Creed games, but I still have a blast running around and exploring these open-worlds. Ubisoft nails it with the details, making these worlds come alive. I haven't tried the Valhalla DLC, heard it's not great. But the main game? Totally enjoyable, even if it's not your typical Assassin's Creed stuff. I ditched stealth and just went full Viking, raiding every time that prompt popped up - felt like a proper warrior XD. The story and length could've been better, but for the exploration, combat, and overall vibe, I'd give it a solid 7.5/10.
Could you give an example of some details that make the world feel alive?
@@SolaxerRight? The world was extremely empty. We need cities to come back
@@stimswwolf7867 The world never felt empty to me. Just very large and spread out. Historically accurate.
I have played every Assassin Creed game ever and i can say that Valhalla on my ps5 is my favourite...The graphics are amazing and the games is so big that keeps you playing for weeks or months...Lets respect the time Ubisoft spend to make this game and stop loving games just because they are old and give us nostalgia...
lol you live the game cuz of the graphics 😂
I agree brother this game is pretty impressive
@@mikesmith145 and wrong part is?
Very long its not about quality. I played Origins, it was good, but would be much more better if was more compact, now I am in Odyssey and this is looks like eternity...
What outfit is that from the fight with drag?
I had a "little" bug in valhalla. I was going for the platinum and after 200hours of gameplay and completing every activity in the map I did not get the trophy for it. At the time I did my research and I was not the only one with that problem
did you find out why?
Cain stones are like another form of the mediation it supposed to help center your mind
(LIGHT SPOILERS ALERT!)
I personally feel that this game's narrative, modern day and isu/ hidden truth lore is probably the best from the RPG trilogy (although the mythological filter is kinda enigmatic and difficult to understand it the first time you play it imo). The problem tho, is that darby mc devitt's excelent writing gets diminished by the forced long length of the storyline, which forces you to play this kingdom arcs that, although fulfills the viking fantasy, kills the flow and focus on the odin's, tyr's and loki's fight for reincarnation after the ragnarok/toba catastrophe.
The idea of eivor not joining the hidden ones, although going against the game's title, it's still interesting because eivor still has a position in the long lasting assassin/templar philosofical conflict: helps hytham in killing the order of ancients, while also unknowingly helps king arthur in paveling the way of a christian based organization: the poor soldiers of christ, known in the future as the templars.
I'm late to the party, but to me the absolute biggest improvement over the other 2 rpg games is that the side content actually tells some stories and aren't just fetch quests. In Odyssey pretty much every quest and side quest involves "go here, kill or steal, come back", while in valhalla you actually have conversations with people, walk with them, and have objectives that go above just killing someone.
It's a huge step away from Odyssey and towards Witcher 3, a change i enjoy a lot.
Also helps that Eivor isn't as over the top in terms of trying to be funny or emotional as Kassandra.
Yes! You're the only other person I know of who admitted to actually enjoying the storyline. The twists and how the Isu sages were implemented were extremely intriguing for me, but I feel like it took too long to get to those pivitol moments, which took out the impact of the narrative.
you literaly earned my sub because you said your fav are origins and 2
Wasted potential. this sums up the whole franchise.
The unique concept of the first civ
the twist on adam and eve and slavery
secret wars lasting thousands of years
the assassins the templars
pieces of eden
the message through time
characters being prophets and sages
the world order and illuminati
A pile of amazing concepts and ubisoft still shat on the whole pile
As a norwegian, I really thought it was fascinating to explore places I knew. Some spots were spot on when it came to landscaping which was extremely cool
That’s something that Ubisoft has always excelled at
@@Jay3up yes! Was so cool exploring known landscapes
I played this game during lockdown and i wasn’t familiar with Assassins creed but this game was really enjoyable to me and i now finished some AC games like origins, Mirage, AC 3 and now playing AC Black Flag
Loved black flag
I played this game again recently and loved it. Wayyy more than the first time when it came out. I loved the stories and all the content
Weird how female Eivor is considered canon, yet the majority of people prefer male Eivor.
male eivors voice actor just gave a more interesting performance, female eivor just feels too aggressive and angry, while male eivor feels a lot more diplomatic and calm
@@xvadmins5689disagree, i played with both through the entire story each and i think female eivor pulls off this „intelligent, collected yet savage warrior“ alot better. Its prolly my fav female voice performance ever
Male Eivor was the one shown in the reveal trailer, he's the one most people we're sold on and he's also the one who makes the most sense story wise.
Edit: and beards are cool
@@Anonymous-fn8nj not gonna lie, she sounded like she smoked 5 packs of menthols a day. It was annoying.
Male eivor was far more composed and showed far more emotion.
@@GraceAlone614 i think they were just very different. I understand why ppl prefer male eivor, i just really think the voice and the performance really suited the character and how her personally adapted with the along story.
The game was good but had extremely poor level design. After a main quest I was lvl 90 and had to be lvl 120 for the next main quest, which is no fun at all and that's why I never finished it
This is one of those games that you enjoy the first 15 hrs and after you finally finish it, you don’t to play it again 🙂
Personally I like that feeling of emptyness in the open world. It is more realistic and it gives you a moment to take a breath. I understand why people may dislike it but I think it's kinda beautiful
How is it 'more realistic'? You don't have animals where you live?
@VitchAndVorty I've been living in the country for my entire life so far, surrounded by nothing but green hills and natural forests, both I know very well, as well as a few farms here and there. I guess that answers your second questions.
To your first one, I think the Open World in AC Valhalla is not that unrealistic because while you can easily spot certain wildlife like deer, foxes, rabbits and birds the nature is not crawling with them. Actually I'd say the devs even increased the spawn density, just take the foxes. I live near a forest, one where I have played, took walks and helped my dad out with woodworking countless times and I've always been told that foxes live in our forest but in almost 25 years I've never seen a single one, closest I got was when I saw paw prints that looked like from a fox. But then in Valhalla I feel like there are foxes everywhere I go. But I think the spawn rate of deer and rabbits is pretty accurate to what I am used. At home you can often see deer in the forest or close to it or hear them running, same goes for rabbits, we often see one or two at once in the plains around our house. But still, AC Valhalla is pretty nice with players, in reality wild deer would run away before you even have the chance to get closer than a 100 meters and wild boars are so shy you can barely see a few.
So yeah, actually I feel the spawn rate of animals in AC Valhalla is a bit increased for some animals and they are a bit less shy, a bit less wild, presumably so that the player can take a closer look (or shot).
But I need to add, that's all in comparison to where I live wich is in the north/north-west of Austria, where the climate, flora and fauna are similar but still different from england and I don't know where you live. Population density and shyness of certain animals might vary, depending on the country and regions within countries. All I can do is confirm that the world of AC Valhalla feels very familiar for me in terms of wildlife.
19:56 Yep. I was extremely fatigued playing this game despite having numerous breaks. Worst part is i didn't even remeber what happened in most of the region arcs/storylines
I usually see everything an Assassin's Creed game has to offer, but i chekced out before the last DLC
I liked Valhalla. I don't understand some people say that it was too long. It was perfect. Ubisoft will not gonna make such a big game anymore.
we get a new assassins creed basically every year Red dead redemption was made under 8 years... so yeah no comparison at all. Assassins creed is the kebab of games you can enjoy it whenever you want always provides a solid experience and RDR2 is like a fancy restaurant you go once every decade to have an extraordinary experience.
Trying to 100% this game made me realize how dull, repetitive, and tedious the world and activities could be. Still enjoyed my time playing though. England was beautiful, story was okay, liked the Valhalla sections also.
your ost picks are amazing for the video, the soundtrack is so dam good being done by the 3 major composers of games past
It is. Shame rest of the video was not so proper for it.
5:02 The Wild West back then was also an empty desert, forest, mountain, etc with few small towns or whatever here and there. But Rockstar made those areas really vast, lonely, "far from civilization feel" but engaging and not plain, boring, empty area.
While in Valhalla, it's just f*cking plain, empty, boring and tedious to be there, not engaging, almost nothing to do at all.
For me my rank for RPG Assassin game
1.Odyssey
2.Origin
3.Valhalla
Open world game need not only need good story, but the felt of the world.
Valhalla just felt empty, too bloated.
Now Odyssey on the other hand, felt so much alive.
Origins has the most boring combat ever and odyssey is goofy Valhalla goes 1 30
Odyssey is most boring actually xD Too many small islands, which look exactly the same, not mentioning that 60% of world is water
Same for me, and I would even put Mirage before Valhalla. Odyssey is the best in my opinion. :)
I never finished this game. Good to see I wasn't the only one underwhelmed by it. So much potential unrealized.
I can say this from the bottom of my heart. The absolute worst part of Valhalla for me was those god damn rock stacking games. Never have I seen something so “harmless” and “peaceful” induce such a deep rage in me that lasts into the next day.
Bro it was better if Ubisoft make new game + but I don’t know why not make
The first time i tried doing the stones i just ragequitted (this was in ireland)
Biggest annoying bug is the glitch where the walking in grass sound plays twice and doubled up and also starts playing when walking around everywhere on rock etc after it happens until you reload
Are you sure that the Female Eivor is the canon one? It's the male Eivor that is on all the box art and in the CGI trailer. The canon Odyssey character was Kassandra but I'm quite certain that the canon Valhalla character is the Male Eivor.
Eivor is a nordic female name. Never felt right playing the game as a male Eivor.
A tough male viking warrior named Eivor, is the same as calling him Karen or Susanne
Female Eivor is canon. If you let the Animus decide, it gives you female Eivor & Ubi has confirmed it. Never mind how that completely destroys any trace of historical accuracy.
@dqverify6797 it also destroys biological sense. Since they get the DNA for the animus from Eivors corpse. Even amateurs with basic medical knowledge are know that there is a difference in Bone structure and DNA between males and females. Yet somehow the animus, a device that is supposed to read memories from DNA, forgot about that.
This game is for sure one of my favorites, if anything top 5! I’ve played a couple AC games in the past but was never fully invested. I mainly got this one because of all the Viking shows I’ve been watching for the past 2 years. I think they did a great job making it a true Viking game, I truly enjoyed it. I get the reason why people hate on it but from someone who mainly wanted a Viking game, I’m satisfied.
I have played every AC game and got this game on PS4 as a christmas gift when it came out. I had no hype for it and even waited until I got a PS5 about a year later. I ended up loving the game and it has become my favorite AC game, which was Origins before. I just had a blast with it and ran through the game and both DLC's. I shouldn't love it as much as i do since there are better worlds and better main characters, but I just found the game fun. I loved how brutal the combat was and dual wielding any 2 weapons.
I know that's an unpopular opinion though.
One part about the game that I agree about is that I wish there were more dense populations in the game but the game seems to be somewhat accurate historically with the population size since during this time period there seemed to only be around 1 million people in Britain at most.
Valhalla is one of my favorite games 🎮 that I can easily want to replay 😍
yay another person that enjoys Valhalla like I do 🫂🙂🖤
@@trellanaxoxo 👍
Odyssey is my favourite overall, Syndicate is a guilty pleasure, I loved Valhalla for the scenery (even though, as a Brit, it wasn't accurate) the building a settlement (which I wish we could've expanded more on) and the fact that male Eivor was hot as hell. 😂
Never played this game. Started it up this week and its been fking amazing.
Just got back into the game at the beginning of this month after taking a break for a few years and I’m looking forward to finally beating the game, I enjoy it for what it is, sure not every AC game is perfect but I like Valhalla because it’s unique and special to me.
I love norway more than anything in valhalla
Odin?
AC Valhalla is the best AC game I've played. Can't wait for Shadow and Hex.
The definition of Quantity over quality. So much bloated content, it’s overwhelming
I had the game for a while and today I finally dug into it. So far I’m enjoying the exploration and side quests. Don’t really care for the raid quests but everything else is good
Actually, the middle choice is canon Eivor since it has you playing as a male in the Valhalla hallucinations
Dag literally spends the whole first 1/3 of the game questioning your choices that hurt the clan. Then he turns on you. They spent the whole first act prepping him turning on you
First 30-40 hours was pretty good! But then it just keeps going and going without anything new
I love this game. It’s graphically beautiful, full of interesting historical info and sites and so intricate and involved that you can really become immersed for hours. I love games like that.
2:10 Have you forgotten about Unity?
I was power level 513 something,after 115 Hours grinding,I didn’t even knew what’s going on,i was grinding the DLC druids or something and Dawn of Ragnarok. By the time i back to main game,i was overpowered and felt like using trainer or cheat to go through the game. I quit playing it,and never went back. Valhalla is really insane. Everytime game threw a whole new game,insanely big map,a total new gameplay mechanics. I even remember going Paris. But the main story was not soo gripping.
Note : I did play AC Odyssey for 169 hours,level 99( only main story) the game was “fun”.
AC Valhalla suffered from the same issue Halo 5 did, its namesake. If Halo 5 was called "Super Space Marines," people would have loved it. If AC Valhalla would have been called "Warrior of Valhalla," it would have been a decent game, but comparing it to what it was supposed to be killed most people's enjoyment. I play Halo to be Masterchief and fight the Covenant in traditional Bungie era art style, not to be a random new guy that feels disconnected with the world of Halo. I play Assassin's Creed to be a stealthy Assassin, not a brutish warrior who doesn't even become an Assassin. Halo 5's multiplayer was fun of you forget its supposed to be Halo, AC Valhalla is fun at times of you forget it's an Assassin's Creer game.
It’s funny to hear people who’ve played all the ac games versus my perspective since I’ve only played Valhalla. This game is so much fun to me and super addicting. I love how I can follow the story or just go hunt gear and treasure
I platinum the game, it’s great if you play slow and let game come to you & use TH-cam guide for some mystery, animus, stone building, shards in Asgard & Jotunheim and you’ll be fine.
If you rush you’ll feel like a chore or bored you’ll never finish it.. relax and conquer game.
I enjoy Valhalla cinematic story, I like raiding and helping kings conquer, it’s like Viking movies.
I also platinum Origins Odyssey and I feel like Valhalla plat is more accomplished, it was hard to get.
I found that by adjusting the damage output and input in the setting to 200 percent for both eivor and enemy's, and changing scaling enemies to constant, provided a better assassins creed experience. Also speeds up the pace of combat which in turn speeds up the 100 hour run time of the game making the game more digestible over time.
There's just so much padding and level gating that it took like 5 attempts between a span of 2 years before I finally forced myself to beat it. Never buying a RPG Assassins Creed at full price at launch again.
skill issue bro
Bro, you could do kingdoms while 100 levels under leveled with ease.
Valhalla wasy first AS game and I loved it, so much so I also picked it up on the PC and finished it again.
The only AC I did not finish.
For me it was the first AC I finished after AC Revelations and it made me return to the older games at the end of last year.
I‘ve already finished 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, 3, Liberation and I‘m currently working on 4.
Played and enjoyed every AC game (not including the arcade titles)since the first one and Valhalla was the first game in the series that was a chore to finish
I platinum Valhalla, it’s great if you play slow and let game come to you.. just relax. Don’t rush or you’ll feel like a chore/bored and you’ll never finish it…
@@OnlyRealmatze did play play the kenway games from blackflag to unity ?
@@samii7192 I played all of them during their launch but never finished one of them. I‘m almost done with Black flag, the I‘ll take on Rogue and then finally Unity, where I remember how much I liked the parcour.
About the stealth. Most people think parkour in AC Valhalla is for moving around, just like in Syndicate or Unity. But very few people understand that AC Valhalla only added parkour so that you can better attack fortresses or something similar in stealth mode. The focus in the game was never on parkour
And if you only think about that point, Assassin's Creed Valhalla was never a bad game.
As someone who actually builds Cairn stones when I go on hikes it isn’t just stacking rocks, it’s meditative. Acknowledging that this creation won’t last forever, accepting that as my own fate, and building it anyway either as a trail marker or at points of interest or in places you can find drinking water. They’re useful for navigation on a short time frame but there’s something spiritual about it.
I'm sure there is a spiritual and mediative reason in real life for it but from a video game pov, there is 0 chance it can be anything remotely interesting
Sassy Pants McGillicuddy 🤣@@TheHiddenOne690
im on my second play through. about 100 hours in. going to play the DLC towards the end. this is my fave assassins creed due to the setting.
People in general were too harsh with this game. Elden Ring is a +100 hours long game and has a lot of recycled content, like recycled enemies, bosses, locations, dungeons, weapons (yea, for each type you have like 30 weapons which pretty much 90% of them feels the same), etc and still, it won the GOTY in 2022. But one game is from Ubi and the other one is from From Software. Theres the true explanation why one game got (and still gets) so many free passes…
The game is their highest selling game. It was insanely popular. Trying to rewrite history because some vocal minority didn’t like it is ridiculous
This take is so outlandishly ridiculuous that you can only be trolling.😂
@@davincisama Oh look, another Elden Ring-tarded offended by a fact about their praised game.
Comparing Elden Ring to Valhalla is like comparing a chefs signature dish to a McDonald’s happy meal. One is the culmination of years of refinement, a product you can feel the passion that was put into it. The level design, the boss fights, the unorthodox story, character progression. It’s a work of art.
The other is slop churned out on a consistent schedule to appease the masses. It’s generic, formulaic, and uninspired. Happy meals are high in calories but completely devoid of nutrients; it’s junk food. Comparing the two is just disrespectful to Elden Ring lol.
Edit: and this is coming from someone who didn’t even particularly like Elden Ring but can respect what it is and what it does.
@@Solaxer Ok, now say it again without crying.
People wanted a more fleshed out AC game, got 3 bangers in a row then cried about it
The online gaming “community” is full of whiny clowns who absolutely love to bitch and complain lol
Valhalla was my first full assassins creed game. It was leaving PS Plus when I subscribed so I decided to play it. I really enjoyed it at first and had a month to beat it. I played every day and finished Oswald’s arc, then the insane level spike grinded my enjoyment into the ground and I wasn’t able to finish the story. I later played every AC game except the first game and now it’s my favorite game series. Origins, Unity, AC 3, and Odyssey are my faves. Maybe one day I’ll buy Valhalla and give it another shot.
Update: Got a lot of notifications so wanted to check in and say I resubscribed just to play the game; right now I’m lvl 200 in Lunden. I’m having a lot of fun but good god, this game has wayyyy too much content. Multiple realms to explore as Odin, a rogue like mode, the Kassandra arc, the endless things to do. I stg it feels like I’ll never finish it lmaoo.
Update #2: I finished it. Finally. I stg if AC Red is this long I’m gonna chest bump a speeding car.
Since you played it via PS Plus you should be able to just redownload it from your library, you don't need to buy it again.
Pov: it's returning on the game catalog on the 20Feb
Yep it's back, go finish it
Good luck trying to download it!
@@B-A-L what u mean, I'm playing it right now
I have tried and tried to get into Valhalla but I remember I was running through the countryside thinking....what am I doing
This is my favorite AC game and I played most of them.
Those who said its a bad game they dont know about vaikings
@@Renma57You clearly don't know about them either since you can't even spell the word lol
I was just watching the show Vikings when this game dropped back in 2020 and I was so fucking hyped to played. I spent 200 hours in my first playthrough.
Okay this is my two-bit, since I saw you comparing it with RDR2 and I just had to put it out there cuz its something that coincidentally happened to me.
I began by absolutely hating RPG games. I didn't even wanna touch origins. I decided to play Origins in a negative mentality that I wouldn't like it, but despite that I fell in love with it. I'm more of an Orthodox AC players that preferred pre-Syndicate games. After Origins I tried and tested Odyssey, and I dropped Odyssey the third time retry. I wanted to give the game a fair chance similar to Origins, but Odyssey was the game that I felt more empty over Valhalla. The massive world, the plotline being shit, I just couldn't tolerate Odyssey at all it was infuriating playthrough.
I tried to play through Valhalla but I felt it was more filling than Odyssey at least. I still dropped though, and moved on to RDR2. Now RDR2 to me felt similar to Valhalla. I loved RDR2, and its cuz of that I sort of built tolerance to Valhalla environment, and with a new mindset my opinion for Valhalla is a 180. I absolutely loved Valhalla (there may be bias cuz I love medieval european kingdoms). Though there are still things I really wish they involved more, like Eivor to be an actual Hidden One, for once. I mean this is the 2nd game where the protagonist isn't an assassin. Why is Ubi moving away from the very thing that the franchise is supposed to be about?
I think the answer is that they are capitalizing off of name recognition when having Assassin's Creed in the title. IMO it's nothing more than a marketing decision and in the long run they'll make more $ by slapping AC on the box versus not.
Either way that doesn't take away from Valhalla being a good game. I recently grabbed the base game and first two expansion packs last month when they were on sale. I'm still in the middle of my first playthrough of the base game and enjoying it but really look forward to diving into the Wrath of The Druids.
Have you played The Witcher 3 yet? If you only recently got into RPGs then I'd definitely add the complete edition to the top of your list. It is available everywhere but by purchasing it on GOG is best because you actually own the game with full installer (assuming you are using a PC).
Cheers
I've tried to play Witcher 3 but I feel like there's something missing. I feel like I need to play older games in order to enjoy Witcher 3 since some of the dialogue options felt like they're REALLY important and are related to what happened in previous games. Like the one when he's taking a bath before a meeting and a man comes and interviews about. That's why I dropped Witcher 3 at least for now till I get a definite method of enjoying the game. I don't like loose points like that where I can't follow the plot. Still thanks for recommendation.
As for Valhalla, I'm on my first play through as well and I genuinely love it.
Cheers mate@@ForeverConsciousResearch
idk if it's them just being willing to 'deceive' and take in money by using the AC brand. I mean, for sure that's been the consequence and they were able to risk it and go the rpg route thanks to that, but plot-wise, to me honestly it makes sense that not all people, especially in the distant past, who got involved with the manufacts and the conflict between the 2 at-the-time-fresh factions had to be members of one of them. There were just allies too, and we got to play their pov.
+ i really liked the idea of demigods having existed at the time and the whole idea of the rpg trio games showing how it all slowly started and got formed, the actual Precursors. I love all 3 of them and have yet to finish them, but despite that, i can't deny that stealth got heavily nerfed and stunted, in mechanics, aesthetic and usefulness, and that is essentially blasphemy for an AC title.
I think they could have emulated something SIMILAR to a rpg rather than actually doing one. Instead of life and levels, it could have been cooler and more immersive to have enemies with varying degrees/quality of armors or something like that that you could gradually and/or partially scrape off or destroy more or less efficiently depending on your weapons and abilities or the adversary's skill, etc. Or enemies with bigger consitution taking more hits to kill, but still in realistic measure. This could have still allowed assassination to actually kill a mf no matter their "level" and stealth to be a very rewarding route to take. Hope in the next games ubi will redeem and bring that aspect back :(
@@dainpiagne4636 I would still prefer the og games tho. Sure its sci fi and stuff but historically it was still a little more grounded than well being a demigod. I'd prefer fighting french revolution over thor is all I'm saying
@@ricinquill i think they'll return to those settings eventually. like we're playing as demigods because the focus of the story now are the isu. we were playing as assassins before because we were looking for isu artifacts, thenn= now we're playing as demigods because we're trying to learn more about the isu themselves. but (SPOILERS)------now that basim is in the modern day, i think we'll move on from the demigod era since theres no more need to learn about the staff and isu for now.
Needed a NG+, I don't want to grind all those damn skill points again...
No New Game Plus really REALLY discourages me from ever picking this one back up. Valhalla's *okay*, but some of the region's stories seemed like filler. It also took too long to get one-handed swords and wearing the hood when not incognito.
Dual-wield the Gungnir and Gae Bolg spears and Eivor's unstoppable. Those two together can even take any boss down within seconds.
Have you ever tried to attempt a pc 100% runthough because the controls are different and changes some of the mechanics and ac1 has some completely different missions
We went to Vineland to find the Apple of Eden which was then gifted to the same tribe that Connor Kenway was from.
Yes, and a lot of other details you find in both vinland and in the mythological arc. The isu hidden truth lore in this game is underrated af, something that darby mcdevitt made well (among other things of course). The problem is tho, it's a lil bit enigmatic and kinda difficult to understand the first time u play it
@@MPR0930 YES. someone gets it! the main point of the rpg/ancient era games are to flesh out isu lore!!! cause we already had too much "look for this isu artifact" stories!! and now the modern day story can progress cause theres now a literal isu in the modern day.
I knew their language sounded familiar
Visually, the game is impressive and I love it. It's a good game too if you don' think about the franchise. But it's too much repetitive for me compared to the previous two RPG ACs.
Its a good Viking game but a bad Assassians Creed game
Stop saying that people
@@shadowjester5513it is tho 😂you could be having fun raiding a place and remember you’re supposed to be an assassin
Meh I don't care got to play as a viking
It’s a bad "viking" game. It’s just another Hollywoodified version of the already inaccurate Vikings tv-show, and it’s obvious the game takes more inspiration from that and even makes it more aggressive, than actual real history.
a good viking game ? it is not even that.
I tried to replay to play it again on Ps5 before Mirage release. I couldn't finish the Prologue.
Why are people so stuck on whether you are literally an assassin or not? It's still clearly the same universe and it's tied in with it. You have a modern character and you're playing ancient characters through an animus, and there is a story in both the past and present. You also CAN climb and jump all around cities in the new games, and you CAN stealth. People keep acting like you can't. Yeah they are more open and sometimes you have to land, there is still a ton of responsive climbing in the games.
If im playing Assassin's Creed. The LEAST i'd expect is to play as what the game was always about. I don't care about evolution from linear to open world or rpg or whatever. I love that. But the actual protagonist MUST always be an assassin.
@@TheHiddenOne690 In black flag he already kind wasn't right? Why does everyone accept that one and dislike the new ones? Maybe I'm just not invested enough in the overall story and should finish the first couple. For some reason 1 and 2 and BF lost me back in the day but the improved combat and side quest narratives of Origins has improved the series for me, so I think I'm actually going to finish it. If they remake BF I'll be sure to give it another chance too.
whats black flag gotta do with this conversation?
@@TheHiddenOne690 I didn't see AC fans collectively writing it off as unworthy for not being about an assassin. But I see those kinds of thoughts about the new ones a lot. I'm not even saying your videos are this one-sided, I just see this opinion a lot and I find it surprising when the series was already doing that earlier. It seems AC fans still love Black Flag and embrace it fully. That's my point. To be fair, I didn't finish it but my understanding is that Conway isn't a full on assassin technically either?
I hate this game as an assassins creed game, but i love this game as a Viking game.
Im one of the view that loves isolated atmospheres in games i love and prefer exploring forests and countrysides etc over towns and cities
Me too, do you have some games to suggest with this kind of settings and atmosphere?
@@christianveiga4441Red dead redemption for sure.
Unpopular opinion: I enjoyed my entire game play, but this is the first time I’ve played AC as an adult
It's better than odyssey thats for sure. Odyssey was a side quest grindfest with 500+ missions and over the top RPG system
I did enjoy odyssey but I agree. It went too heavy with mountains of loot and gear you just instantly sell and having to have multiple classes to even play the game. Want to assassinate? Well you can’t kill a boar. Want to fight tough enemies? Well you can’t assassinate a basic enemy
@gu5a886 it's stupid how u have max out your assasin damage for one shit kills in stealth, the stealth was stupid and there lots of times where stealth was completely useless in that game since you're basically a spartan God. The loot system was cool, not like valhalla, where it's pay to win with boosters and gear.
No it is not better than odyssey. Side quests( world events, pillars, drengr fights) in valhalla are boring and worthless. Side quests in odyssey were much more interesting with better stories behind them. Plus greek world is ten times more interesting to explore than boring, peasant like england.
Loved the video, Also please can u tell me which song was used during 28:09 it sounds beautiful
It's called 'The Tree of Life' and its an AC Valhalla soundtrack.