Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: 4 Years Later
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- If you’ve been watching my videos for a while, you’d know that I'm not exactly the biggest fan when it comes to Assassin's Creed Valhalla. When the PlayStation 5 was first released back in 2020, the very first game I bought for it was Valhalla and I was so excited to play it. Even though the series usually centers around a group of Assassins, Valhalla switches this up, and this time we became a Viking.
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0:00 - Intro
2:02 - Exploration
9:28 - Raids & Sieges
12:23 - Ravensthorpe
14:12 - Assassin or Viking Story
20:12 - The Three Pillars
25:44 - Forgettable Characters
28:08 - Bugs
29:22 - Final Thoughts
Assassin's Creed is an open-world, action-adventure, and stealth game franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil and its more advanced derivatives. Created by Patrice Désilets, Jade Raymond, and Corey May, the Assassin's Creed video game series depicts a fictional millennia-old struggle between the Order of Assassins, who fight for peace and free will, and the Knights Templar, who desire peace through order and control. The series features historical fiction, science fiction, and fictional characters intertwined with real-world historical events and historical figures. In most games, players control a historical Assassin while also playing as an Assassin Initiate or someone caught in the Assassin-Templar conflict in the present-day framing story. Considered a spiritual successor to the Prince of Persia series, Assassin's Creed took inspiration from the novel Alamut by the Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol, based on the historical Hashashin sect of the medieval Middle East.
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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
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
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
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
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🙏
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
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
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.
I enjoy it but I wish it wash automatic when I forget to take it off it makes all your movements slower
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 :)
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
Imagination is key. And many forget to play games with “imagination “
if a game inspires me personally and I find myself enjoying it. My second and/or newgame+ play through is much more imaginative and it becomes a comfort game.
@@MeggaMann_theBlueLionFacts
Well you are role playing in a game
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
Odyssey has crowded cities with npcs which makes the game feel alive. The bounty hunters a reward and rank for killing them and after you geared up you just throw the spear and they're dead
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 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...
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. 😁😁😎😎💯💯💯♥️♥️♥️✨✨✨
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
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.
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.
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.
you literaly earned my sub because you said your fav are origins and 2
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.
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
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
As someone who has always been fascinated by Vikings since I was young I personally really enjoyed the game.
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
My main issue with Valhalla is the amount of puzzles the game has. Everything is a puzzle. The game would be much better without them
So true. It’s a grind to gather resources to upgrade gear, and so many times I found myself trying to loot a chest of iron and leather only to find that I needed to break a barred door to get a key so I could get an oil barrel to blow up a wall to get the chest. And that’s how it is for 80% of the chests. Like this is not what time should be spent doing in a game like this
@@romeywirtz1219 I was playing the game again to get some achievements and... puzzles! Not only chests, but literally everything else is a puzzle. Sometimes puzzles within puzzles. I spent almost one hour getting 5 cursed symbols. And there are 40 of them acroos the map
Cain stones are like another form of the mediation it supposed to help center your mind
People are gonna treat any previous AC game like it was gold when the new one came out. I remember everyone hating AC Black Flag when it came out but now everyone loved it.
Its also sorta hypocritical how people complain about Odyssey&Valhalla saying that you dont even play as an assasin, but Black Flag has the same problem but nobody complains about it
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.
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
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.
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
Thank you! 🙌
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
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.
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
Never played this game. Started it up this week and its been fking amazing.
"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?
Well said man, I totally agree with you.
(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.
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
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.
Valhalla wasy first AS game and I loved it, so much so I also picked it up on the PC and finished it again.
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.
As a viking nerd I really like this game despite its flaws. It's more of an rpg than traditional AC game, the amount of side quests is crazy
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”.
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 🙂
4 years later and I haven’t completed this game yet . I play it like once every 6 months
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.
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.
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
Great reviews on this channel origins review is the best review on you tube
I loved it because of the majestic scenery.
This is how to make collectables fun:
Step 1: have a unique dialogue for each collectable like marvels spiderman and the ability to see it in 3D in the menu maybe hide secrets in some of them you can rotate and click on it retrieve.
Step 2: don't have 200 of them, make different kinds of collectables that are marked on the map but able to be changed so you can't see them.
Step 3: once you collect a quarter or half give a unique quest and when you get all of them give a big unique quest that isn't just kill this or fetch this.
Step 4: like ghosts of Tsushima, make it an interactive little game or activity where you do something fun that isn't too easy or too hard and make it unique for each type of collectable.
Step 5 when you complete the unique quest for getting all of them, make the reward something worth collecting, not some ugly cosmetic item no one wants.
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.
F-ing level gating. That makes me never touch certain games...or that: never completing them.
skill issue bro
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
the fact valhalla is almost 4 years old gives me a life crisis 😭
The thing with Dag is in his character profile he was Sigurd's second in command till Eivor
I love norway more than anything in valhalla
Odin?
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 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.
I platinum the game, it’s great if you play slow and let game come to you & use CZcams 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’ve just passed the 100hr mark in this game, there’s so much to explore in this game - it’s an excellent world. Definitely the best looking in the series without a doubt, mind blowing views and detail in the world.
The combat is meh up to a certain stage though, but that’s AC games for you I guess and I’m playing on hardest difficulty, only customised by drawing down energy damage output by one click.
The different areas and countries the game gives you definitely feels like it has massive amounts of longevity :)
I never finished this game. Good to see I wasn't the only one underwhelmed by it. So much potential unrealized.
I actually really liked this game. It CERTAINLY has its flaws but after odyssey this was a big breath of fresh air to me
For me this game is at simple as it presents itself. It's a viking era rpg with assassin's creed cameos
I had a ton of fun playing valhalla. But I think I only made it 70 maybe 80% through the story. I got bored as every city was the same exact things. I know previous AC are notorious for that but this one seemed so big that I saw no end and never went back to finish it.
But I did have a blast playing it up to that point. It was really fun to explore and do sieges
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
When a game has twice as much gear in the MTX shop then the game itself, no, we weren’t too harsh.
I've been playing this game over the last couple of months and a lot of these mission-breaking bugs are still in the game. I sympathize with QA and the coders trying to fix what must have been hundreds of these kinds of bugs in such a massive game, but I can't deny it was annoying at times. It also crashes fairly frequently, despite running on a high-spec PC.
I got a theory that fulke is a recalcitrant of Fenrir she takes sigards arm and Fenrir takes tyrs arm also and we know sigard is tyr reincarnated
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
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
First 30-40 hours was pretty good! But then it just keeps going and going without anything new
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've been replaying it recently, the only major glitch i can remember is in boss fights, like with Fenrir, the cutscene right before the animation is all janky. or in others like with Balor at the end of the Ireland dlc at the beginning of each phase he would just stand there, and even cower like a civilian if i aimed my bow on him, allowing me a couple free hits before he fought back. but other than those as of 2024 the glitches are pretty minimal. i should add this experience in on xbox series x so other people may have more or less issues
I waited so long for a setting like this (and I play AC since the first game), but after Origins and Odyssey, I lost my will to finish a holy-long game with the same stuff over and over again. I really like the world design of Ubisoft, but there was nothing hided in the world, everything was seeable as a point and you was able to show whats behind that point easily. Then Mirage came out and I loved it.
I hate this game as an assassins creed game, but i love this game as a Viking game.
Valhalla is visually beautiful but criminally boring
I feel exactly the same way ! I enjoy much more Odyssey and can't wait for Red as it is the same team who worked for Odyssey
Watching a four years later video four months after release.
I played it when it first came out. Got 10 hours in and put it down. The stealth was utterly broken, and as a big fan of Origins, I was not having fun. 4 years later, I started playing it again, and it turns out they fixed the stealth. So now, it’s actually fun again and feels like an updated version of Origins (to a degree).
The combat is fun, the world is beautiful, and the story, so far, is interesting. Biggest gripe is and always will be the lack of parkour and free running. Would it make sense for a 9th century Norseman to be vaulting over rooftops? No, but it didn’t make sense for 11th Century or Renaissance Italian Assassins to be doing it either.
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
I actually really enjoyed the main story, I mean the “main” main story, travel to England for your clan’s survival, be a Viking, remove the Orders, fight Alfred’s army, and while doing this find the secret of your Isu life. The problem is that between those interesting main stories are numerous chapters that are just meaningless. I can see the main story being just as fine, even better, without for example the Lincolnshire story. I think only half of all the shires’ stories are really connected and necessary for the main story line.
Even the whole game is like this. There are actually plenty of very well made moments in this game, for me I really love the last talk with Alfred and the long ride after. But between those enjoyable moments are just plain boringness. The game is unnecessarily large and that really destroys most of the fun of this game
Yes I got burned out as well from playing this game. I had a lot of fun with this game and was really enjoying it. But I finished the main campaign and conquered all of England, but not any of the DLC’s or extras. I just stopped playing months ago and have been meaning to pick it up again but I just don’t have the motivation to do so. I don’t even feel like play Mirage - maybe I just need a break from the series.
Also a tip for river raiding - go in solo, stealth kill or use range to clear it out. Then blow your horn and start the raid. It’s much less frustrating than going in with your entire crew.
Strangely enough, I came to appreciate mirage after completing the story, I picked up Valhalla partially to see where Basims story goes
I actually really enjoyed Valhalla but my biggest issue is that the game starts with the A Plot (Plot with Sigurd) and it really does a great job at grabbing the audience’s intrest. People want to know where the relationship between Eivor and Sigurd goes. But once the B Plot (Plot of uniting Viking clans in England) starts, you have to wait FOREVER to get back to the A Plot. The A Plot is the most interesting but its only about 16% of the main story. People will get impatient with the B Plot and either quit the game or try to rush through it just to get back to the A Plot for about 20 minutes, just to get thrown back into the B Plot for about 15 hours
I've already beaten this twice and will probably at some point play again.
Currently doing another play through of Valhalla and it's one of my favorites, I get everyone has different opinions but I don't agree with the forgettable characters. Eivor forms strong bonds with several characters and you can feel that through the missions, Soma's and coelbert (the kid I forgot spelling) fate always makes me sad. There's plenty of sync points to reduce having to move through the dead lands on map to make the map smaller as far as getting to points of interest so the empty farm areas don't bother me. Finish artifact and world event finds and continue to cities.
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
It will be cool to be an actual assassin again
I really liked it, the mainstory was rlly good but it got so crippled by the blockage of having to get all the land in england and do all the sidequests.
I think they should have had replayable battles and siege’s including pitched battles, there are very few in the game and none of them use a shield wall. Also what if you could be attacked at Ravensthorpe like this guy says or build an army and fleet and invade Wessex over and over again but have to assassinate key targets to trigger the battles. I mean you could raise the Raven Clan’s personal army not just their allies like in the game and put them on the ships and set up a small camp somewhere and go raiding from that while also taking people out with the hidden blade or ambushing patrols. There could have also been a mechanic where Alfred sends more soldiers to fight you.
I felt so old the minute i saw the title. 4 years... it felt like it dropped last year lol.
Valhalla makes my video card feel old even though I got it in November 2022.
Watching this video sometimes feels like you played a different game
I just played it without theorizing and loved 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.
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.
Does anyone else wish that Assassin's Creed 2 got a full, modern-day refresh and looked like Valhalla? The refresh that they DID do (10 years ago?!) wasn't quite up to today's graphical standards - But AC2 still is one of my favorites in the franchise.
Holy shit…it’s been 4 years?!
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.