Assassin's Creed Valhalla - Making The Most of a Broken Mess (My Review)

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Also, the fact that Eivor can't perform a leap of faith until learned from the Hidden Ones.

i just really hope we get to play an actual assassin in the next game. I would love a 60+ hour main story of actually playing an assassin from novice to master.

I think social stealth is almost useless, most of the blending spots are stationary, sitting on a bench or table, pretend to do some work or something like that, that would be really useful if you had to avoid patrols, but most guards and enemies are stationary, so...

"THE NARRATIVE HAS A CONCISE DIRECTION" I REMEMBER WHEN THE SERIES DID.

How the 4 pillars will review this game George: negative Ethan: try’s to be positive Tyler: It’s decent James: Loves it

This is the first time in a while where an AC story actually impressed me

Dude that one cutscene in cent i think where you sit down with basim by a fire and he talks about loss is so good you can see the emotion in eivors face

We may have not gotten our Bayek sequel, but at least he was given his fair acknowledgment via a tearful letter 😭.

I am really hoping the next gen AC will be less RPG focused and more story focused

24:03 aged poorly lmao. They added EXP boosters to the Helix store with Title Update 1.1.0 on 15/12/2020.

Ok, the most anticipated review is here.

first 16 seconds are my exact thoughts

That trailer at the end was great, I miss when the trailers were really exciting and interesting.

Oh man, the confession room assassinations felt so disappointing compared to the ones from origins. The origins ones were so theatrical and great. Also, the facial animations were great, unlike in odyssey and valhalla where the characters seem like they are forcing themselves to be expressive.

Some of my thoughts after completing the game (if anyone cares).. -The story its ok imo, way better than Odyssey, but i have to say i was more immerse in Origins than in Valhalla. Bayek and Aya left a bigger impression on me than Eivor. I remember playing Origins and i couldn't wait to know what was gonna happen with the story, in Valhalla i felt that at specific times, but overall i felt the story was much longer that it needed to be. Some secondary characters didn't make me care enough to even remember their names at the end of the game. -Sound and music its at the same level than Origins (very good). -Graphics.. well it's the same engine so not much difference there (they really need to improve draw distance, distant terrain textures looks very flat and unappealing). -The combat its a little bit heavier and with more weapon customization, but its the same essence than Odyssey (some people like it, others don't). -They downgraded the level of grind (which is much appreciated). -Stealth its still secondary and bad implemented imo, same as Odyssey, the game is clearly focused on combat and stealth is just a choice you can take (still there are a lot of missions that force you into combat). Social stealth is there but i find myself almost never using it, there's really no need even in max difficulty. -Order members are too generic and easy to kill (except for a couple that are story related and have more work put into their missions). Just discover their location and kill them like any other target like if they were a contract from Reda. Small confession cutscenes, sometimes interesting (story related members) others not so much. -Regions and cities are better designed and different between each other (something that Odyssey did very badly but Origins did very good) -Parkour is awefull, just that, not much else to say. It's true that cities are better designed to parkour but the mechanic is to buggy. -Character animations, some are ok, the rest very bad (lip sync, facial expressions, body expressions) -PC optimization, same as always, not the worst but far from the best. The game consumes to much for what delivers. Anyway those are my opinions, if have to say it in only one sentence it would be :"Valhalla is a step forward from Odyssey"

The only "bug" i got was my game crashing 6 times in one day, so that brings my total number of crashes to 15 and the one where you assassinate an enemy but he switches places with Eivor and it looks like the enemy is assassinating Eivor

I love this game but the bugs annoy me even tho I've encountered very few game breaking ones

I thought the intial conversation with Ceobelrt was strange because he knew more information than he should, for instance he didn't know that Norway existed but somehow knew that King Harald was 6 years older than him. It made no sense

This game doesn’t feel long like odyssey which I’m so grateful for I’m 90 hrs in and Sigurd just got took by Fulke