Check out my review of Assassin's Creed Mirage! This is exactly what the franchise needed, despite its shortcomings : ukposts.info/have/v-deo/imOehIKAqoSWlas.htmlsi=NMoJjqPRjJEcWy9w

I can't wait for Valhalla to get 5 years old so everyone can start appreciating it.

Been a hardcore Assassin's Creed fan since 2010. Played every game multiple times to 100% Sync, read most of the novels and comics and watched all the movies... And Valhalla is my third favourite Assassin's Creed game. A beautiful, emotional, spectacular, multilayered, rich and pure Assassin's Creed experience that brings in so much new lore, does more for both the ISU element and the Modern Day than any game since Assassin's Creed III and ties into EVERY prior game in seamless and exciting ways.

I love how they put dungeon parkour courses for the armors to be obtained. I felt like playing the old ac games.

Acknowledging his own mistakes is a rare quality. You get a new subscriber.

Finally somebody who sees it. I love Valhalla because it has many great things about it but they are more subtle and the graphic details really capture me . It has many flaws ( freaking longship always pointing wrong direction when I call it) still love Valhalla and Odyseey

I bought this game on sale like 4-5 days ago and I’ve lagged 24 hours so far. The story is fun, combat is great, and the graphics are sublime. Honestly it might top origins by the time I beat it, and I absolutely adore origins. I think there are flaws, but Ubisoft did a really good job in my opinion.

I loved Valhalla since the very first minutes. Finished the game, got the platinum, played all dlc and put 200 hours in it

Valhalla as a game is fantastic. What I find most people have issues with is the fact that it doesn't feel like an Assassin's Creed game. Which is true. Although there are trace elements that give you the option to play that way, it doesn't feel like an AC game at all. You play as a screeching regal viking raiding villages. So I can understand peoples frustration, especially the fact that they marketed it as an Assassin's Creed game. But most reviewers are biased to that fact and give the game as a whole a bad review. Which I think is unwarranted. The story is still great, combat is amazing, visuals are stunning, the world is vast. I feel like if they would have marketed Valhalla as it's own game and not intertwined it with the Assassin's Creed series, it probably would have gotten a much more positive response in general. So long story short: if you go in with the mindset that you're just playing a viking themed open-world RPG, and not another Assassin's Creed game, you'll have a great time. Just imagine the game is simply called Valhalla, and pretend the "Assassin's Creed" part of the title doesn't exist lol.

I can totally see the criticism for this game. A lot of it is deserved and I think there is a lot of stuff Ubisoft can fix with their games. But I love this game. It was so much fun, raiding monasteries, sneaking through cities, the open world, and the story to some extent just worked for me. I love this time in history so I feel like I have a little bit of bias. Not my fav AC but it's definitely up there. My main complaint is how big it is. Trying to 100% it and I'm at a 150 hours and the end is nowhere in sight.

This is why I simply don't buy new games. I bought Valhalla on sale 6 months after it came out and then didn't play it for 6 more months. By the time I started it, the bugs were fixed, patches made, content added and the game flowed like butter. I'm enjoying Valhalla :)

Honestly the amount of lore in every crevice of this game is insane. The Assassin bureaus, the animus anomalies, the clues in the main story, the puzzles in the world etc. have a lot of classic ac infused in them. A UKposts channel called access the animus did an entire 10 part series breaking down the minute details and whatnot. This was a great video and i am glad i am not the only person who enjoyed the game haha!

The flyting, the mysteries, the combat, the weapons, the raids, the stealth and combat! This game is amazing

My only complaints were: A. Unless someone is a history nerd like myself, all of the side-quest easter eggs would go completely over their heads. B. The story didn't go far enough into the history of why the Norse were migrating south, why they marched on Lindisfarn, and the overall cultural motivation. Kind of the same complaint I had with Odyssey, where it's set in the middle of a very important war, but barely touches the real history of why the Peloponnesian war was happening, and what its consequences were.

Valhalla will aged like a fine wine, just like Unity. People just hate it because many youtuber was hating it on release

I’ve always thought if origins odyssey and Valhalla were their own games and didn’t have the assassins creed name people would love them

Bro 4K60fps is a gamechanger. I know, I know - the PC elites have been "doing all that for years now" lol...I don't mean to sound like a framerate snob, but man - what a difference it made. Games like Valhalla, God of War, Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima, The Division 2...you can't go back once you've seen it and experienced it this way.

I love the way your express your opinions. you are very humble. Loved your video!!

I've been playing the game almost from launch on my ps4 pro, and have actually had a really smooth experience overall. The graphics are still beautiful, the 30 fps cap is nearly almost consistent, and I have surprisingly only encountered one bug that had me stuck falling from a fort. I am happy that you enjoy the game!

Trust me just like Unity and odyssey in 5 years or so people are going to be talking about how awesome or how good this game is.

I agree with the lack of sidequests point. I also thought it was random filler, but honestly I'd take those over a bunch of sidequests anyday. As far as your point on the gear... that's the entire point. They made it that way specifically so we as players can choose to keep a favorite weapon all game if we want. And that's how I play. It even makes sense because protagonists typically have their favorite swords deigned specifically to suit them. Not running around picking up what random dudes drop, never keeping a sword. Witcher 3 forcing players to switch weapons because our last favorite one became irrelevant by being level locked is absolutely the dumbest most trash decision I've ever seen made. I fucking love the Witcher series but whoever designed that was off crack. Literally forcing me to waste my money dismantling gear I only used for an hour and some change after I put runes in it just because I "found" something better. A random axe on a random enemy somehow scales higher than my enchanted shit because lEveLs lmfao no. The weapon "upgrading" from Witcher 3 is absolutely atrocious too. Gotta run around and find level-locked pamphlets for gear, just for you to find some common item that's better on a thug an hour later. That's how you end up with everybody using the same shit because there's only 1 or 2 really good weapons in a game. I'm glad they dropped that mess.

I felt the same! Playing on PS5 and after all updates and bug fixes, the game is way better.

I played this game like 2 hours and was so disappointed that wanted to forget about AC forever, it just ruined it for me, but recently found AC odyssey and wow, that's a freaking good game.

for me the fun has been lasting for 230 hours. and I just finished the campaign and started wrath of th druids. which Im loving!

The entire main campaign of conquering England is made up of "side quests"... and none of them are memorable, none of the conquests have a careful or emotional narrative, the misdirection combined with the robotic and poorly acted characters cannot be improved by the beautifully created open world nor by the infinite content of the game. And besides, that campaign of conquest consumes all your time, the story about the assassins is brief, uninteresting and despised by the main character. And the actual plot of the game, the Isu plot, is convoluted, brief, and doesn't quite fix the bad taste of much of what the game offers ad nauseam. It is a good game in general, but everything that is poorly planned, directed and written is not solved with better definition and frames. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed it, I'm happily enjoying Mirage, and I hope that in the future Ubisoft really surprises us with a magnificent AC.

Just couldn’t get into the first time trying to play, but your updated review has encouraged me to try it again. Currently re-downloading it!

Recently I got this game with season pass on 50%-off. Although not everything in this game is doing great, I can see Ubi brought quite a number of elements on top of the AC formula. I completed half of the game so far and I think it worth this price.

A nice redemption review! Nice, i like it! I actually felt the same as you at realease, and quickly gave up after 20h. But this renewed review has made me want to give it another try. I've played all the other AC games, and loved all of them. So why not give it one more chance before i play Mirage. Thank you brother!

I loved it as a Viking Game with a bit of AC in it. Started to listen to Wardruna because of it. Beautiful Game.

Same here man I was like 40 hrs in and got bored finally picked the game back up a couple days ago and I’m loving it again, maybe next time I should just take my time with it more if it takes me 2 yrs to finish then fuck it 🤷‍♂️

It’s best to play Valhalla as a Viking game that take place in the Assassin’s Creed Universe and has a massive amount of new lore, you’ll have more fun that way. Not to mention, there was a bunch of people in Assassin’s Creed lore who was trained by assassins and never joined the Brotherhood, Eivor is just another addition to that group. For example, Gabriel Laxart was a French man who was given basic training by Assassins to protect Joan of Arc. Afterward, the Assassins gave Gabriel offer to join the brotherhood but declined because he don’t think he has the dedication.

bought the complete edition for 24usd. 100 hours in now and i have not played siege of paris and dawn of ragnarok yet.

I waited till now to play Valhalla and am positively surprised how much I have enjoyed the game so far. 32 hours in and havent been bored even one second while playing it. I expected it to be boring already because its lenght but its very engaging and I like the Nordic vibe in the game. Something different than previous games. Loved Syndicate too because it was different from others.

I didn't watch your first review but when you said how the combat lacks weight, animations are sloppy, etc. while saying it was different in Origins and Odyssey, it seemed a bit counterintuitive to say the least. That feeling of playing an MMORPG where hits don't have any impact and just push up numbers, having no weight in most animations, transitions from one animation to another being way too quick, ragdoll going all over the place with enemies flying after dying and the overall movements of the character feeling unnatural WAS there since Origins. I personnally don't see any difference in the previous entries, I would even say Odyssey looks even more amateurish than Valhalla so I'm not sure where this argument came from in the first place. I hope they fine tune their combat system to get both a "soulslike" system and decent animations along with a good overall feel when hitting opponents. When comparing the combat to AC3 animationwise, it really looks like we're playing a mobile game now. I'd like them to return to a more down to earth system where enemies don't fly away in a cartoonish way and combat looks more "realistic" (no magic abilities and so on).

I bought this game immediately after seeing your first review of this game, knew it was cap from the start.

You were right... didn't expect this video at all! Gotta love when reviewers criticize themselves. Shows you're legitimate 😁

I bought this game 1 year after release just becaus of the bad reviews but it turned out to be one of my favorite AC games

I like the new games a lot and I’ve played through and enjoyed the old ones. I’m getting a masters degree in history and the historical details in the new games are mind blowing. The workers at Ubisoft deserve a lot of credit for making these games so detailed. Odyssey is still my favorite because looting and using Ikaros to find loot and objectives was awesome.

See here’s my deal. I’m a big fan of all 3 recent assassins creed games. Origins had a lovely story and beautiful animations and setting was sublime but had a bit of an issue combat animation style it felt a little too fast, not carrying much weight. Odyssey was absolutely breathtaking. Great story with characters you grow to really connect with, lots of amazing settings, fun combat style and immersive world. My gripe with this one however is a big one….. I hate the spear of leonidas. I get it that it plays a massive role in the story and it’s a part of our characters but…. It’s the combat. The spear is present in two of the weapon types, one of which I use most frequently in any AC game which is the one handed sword. I’m not allowed to wield just a sword or just a dagger, it must be accompanied by that stupid spear. It’s not fun. It also doesn’t feel like a good replacement for the hidden blade when it comes to assassinations. The animations are over the top and annoying to watch, it’s supposed to be discreet. As for Valhalla, it’s very apparent that this game requires some help but aside from the bugs and technical issues, it’s fun. I think the combat is acting far better only because it doesn’t take 15 minutes to kill one enemy even with abilities. Weapons also feel like the have weight and I love how you equip them. I also love the setting more than origins, it feels more varied than desert, desert, and more desert. The return of the hidden blade was a big big plus because we’re back to discreet kills. Story was great though felt slow in some areas. My issue lies in one annoying issue….. ALL OF GLOWECESTRECIRE IS ANNOYINGLY SCREWED! It all stems from one stupid issue that they refuse to fix! The god damned mari lwyd costume just shows up whenever you enter that area. It makes the entire region almost unplayable just because I can’t be my character in that one area!

Starting from 2 years ago I've played every single ac game since AC3 and with every single one I had the time of my life. The first one was rogue which I used to play on my PS3 back in the day but officially I'd say it's Origins, and man did I fucking love that damn game. The amazing setting, the graphics, the story ( which is still the best story out of every game I've played till this day, besides rdr2), the DLCs ( which are also the best I've ever played) and just the overall gameplay is amazing. Anyways, since I played all of those games I kinda wanted to play Valhalla, but every single video I watched bashed so hard on that game that I didn't even want to try it out, even random comment sections in ac videos were constantly ranting about Valhalla. But there's something to it that keeps me coming back to find reason as to why I should buy it. After this video and the current steam sales... Maybe I will. Though I've been also thinking about buying the Witcher 3 so I'm still deciding

Gotta admire the honesty here - it's a rarity. I just started it on PC and after 50 or so hours I'm absolutely loving it (black Vikings aside.............. get stuffed Ubi). I've never understood all the hatred directed at this game so I decided to give it a whirl myself after completing Odyssey. Say what you will about Ubi - Valhalla is a remarkable achievement and I expect to sink a lot of hours into it. Money well spent, at the end of the day.

Wow! Everything you said was exactly the oposite of my experience. The only thing I didn't like about Valhalla was the story and the characters. I absolutely loved the gear system (many seperared pieces so you could mix and mash more than most games)

I find this 100 times better than oddesy rather than having to grind menial quests to get gear levels to be effective but the power levels feel much more fleshed out and the infinite respec and auto assign it makes it so much less stressful, and they definitely did change art style, it kind of seems more like a story book painting or scroll of sorts the start also doesn’t seem as boring as oddesy or one of the later segments of origins and so far it doesn’t seem to pay to win or anything and the ability times are so much more rewarding and make exploration much less tedious and much more rewarding also they got rid of the boats, well the navel battle boats I also like the raiding aspect albeit I don’t like shouting alalalalala and slamming an axe into someone’s skull rather than sneaking around and shanking my way around, but the game seems to be pretty solid in its current state, it turned into a rise of kingdoms ad for a minute and it was great, and one of the guys looks like a standard nord from Skyrim I’m definitely buying the season pass

I’m just finished watching Vikings and currently watching last kingdom this game is everything I needed

My issue with the 3 AC rpg games are that they force you to do the same thing 100000000 times in order to level up just to continue the main story. The bloat was so bad that they literally tried to get people to pay for XP boosters. That is the most blatant anti consumer tactic I have ever seen. Massive AC RPGs could be amazing, but everything is so damn shallow and soulless. The best part of each game is the first 5 hours when you're just getting used to the new paint job, and then the feeling of "ive been here before 10000 times" sinks in soon after because Ubisoft do so little to innovate. With origins, I had a lot of fun for 20+ hours and then got insanely bored of the bloat forcing me to do the same thing over and over just to level up. The same goes for Odyssey, but by the time Valhalla released it took me 5 hours before I got to the "this shit sucks"mindset. Still forced myself to play over 20 hours but by god was it a bad experience.

I’m glad I waited to buy the game until I had a next-gen console (the Series S). Playing at 60fps is awesome and the game runs beautifully. I got Valhalla on sale but I would’ve happily paid full price for it.

I fell out of gaming so long ago, I never got an xbox one or ps3 even. my wife got AC3 on the Wii U... yes... Wii U, but I loved that game, and have been playing the ones I can recently on xbox 360, and switch... Rebel collection, Ezio Collection, AC3 remastered. and I really really want to move up in consoles to play more AC games. But, I'm an "old man" and probably will never have time to do all that. this type of review is cool, because it shows that there was care put into the game, and if you just take your time with it, it can be really enjoyable.

Just purchased this game on PS5 right before I go to sleep. I will play it when I wake up.

You are still wrong. Compare this to Odyssey and Valhalla comes across as incredibly boring. The problem is the people you meet you don't really forge any connections with as you may only ever meet them once or twice meaning you are not invested in anything that may or may not happen to them. Also who thought it was a good idea to make a map this size but make everything within it disjointed, pointless and painstakingly repetitive? The worst part is even though its called Assassins Creed it actively discourages you from using Stealth or Assassination mechanics. Once again this is Ubisoft not wanting to spend money on a new IP as they did the same with The Division tacking Tom Clancy onto the name but by doing that it meant they couldn't make it interesting with for example creatures, powers even zombies. Just empty streets and buildings only now being populated by other people who had become outlaws. And it's a real shame because I actually think Valhalla could've worked as its own IP considering how much time they put into it. Not every game has to be Assassins Creed IP UBISOFT!!! DLC did try to address this but why would you be trying to use DLC to justify the namesake?

So many people dislike this game for not feeling like your typical AC. However the game is fun and keeps you entertained in an extremely cool and interesting world for 100s of hours. If ubisoft want to make another game just like this in like a old Japanese setting or something else just as cool. Then I will be more than happy to go on another journey and explore such a fascinating world

As a huge AC fan since 2008, I got the game for sale a week ago fully expecting to hate everything about it after seeing what many of the og fans/critics thought about the game(last game I liked was origins, still prefered the originals). Lo and behold, 45 hours later I'm pretty much in love with this game, this is the first time since The Witcher 3(coincidence?don't think so) that i've put so many hours in such a short time span without getting tired of playing the game at all. Yes, this is still not the AC i wanted, but hell is it the rpg i didn't know i wanted. I've had this hole in me since i completed TW3 and it's DLCs and somehow this game is the only one that managed to move me in the same way(still not as good as TW3 of course!). I liked most of the arcs so far, the raids, looting etc have been satisfying because they have a purpose for me(village), and although not my favourite ac char by a long shot I do quite like eivor(the male voice actor did an A+ job imo, love his tone). I also really appreciate the lack of clutter on the map compared to the other rpg AC's and i feel like their questing aproach works really well for me although it could always be better. Overall i feel like the game whilist having it's issues(lack of ac lore and main character, parkour/stealth could be much better of course) I feel like the game has gotten way too much flack just for being a Ubi game in 2022, I legit think it would be praised if it was made by a different/less known company. Feeling like this will be another Unity case, with people hating it at launch and loving it years later. P.S. even the modern day seems to be the best it's been since ac3, although that doesn't say much, enjoying the animus glitches or whatever they're called. P.S.P.S Huge props to you for admitting you were ""wrong"", very few people would do that and even fewer reviewers.

You've convinced me. I'm gonna get this game on my PS5.

I bought the game having seen all the negative reviews and still enjoyed like I thought I might, but I honestly hate how most of the weapons feel, the spears feel too slow or did too little damage, great swords felt too weak for how slow they were and oh. My. God. Why can I not mute the metal clang on my footsteps when I have a shield equipped, even if I had a wooden shield all I’d hear is clang clang clang as I explored, I love shields but can’t stand that noise so I never used them. I did really enjoy the game however, just wish there were more weapons and the skill tree was better

i enjoyed the game very much , unique combat and brutal combat

i AM pretty new to gaming on pc(many years since gamed at all untill covid that is in 2020). But i actually loved this game more when it was new compared to today(mayby due to graphics being something amazing for me in this game compared to old school playstation 1+2 and amiga+c64 i played on before) Many changes and stuff i think i liked more at launch compared to now(or it might be that several 100s of hours of gaming in this world made me sick to play more due to getting a overdose of same views in england+irland+paris dlc,Still have the dawn of ragna....dlc to play and heard great things about it so might still get 100+ hours onto the 2-300+ hours already played during the years in ac.Valhalla) Sorry if english n so is bad!! Thanks for a great review and video again

i got like an hour into it and deleted it..just couldnt get into it.. for some reason i feel like now i would like it. im giving it another shot

I managed to get hold a Ps5 at RRP few week's ago and picked up a couple of £20 game's this being one of them... and I'm really enjoying it I find myself getting sidetracked looking for armor, gold ect and then do a story mission... what i'm saying is I think this game has quite a lot to offer... go play it 😀👍..⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.. really

Got a new sub bro. Love the commentary and editing.

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I love AC Valhalla, it was my first game on my ps5 and I really enjoyed it, I have played almost all the AC games and Valhalla is one of my favourites

I currently play the game in the base ps4 and it runs good, except the long waiting times. I have almost 70 hours in the game and rarely have I found glitches. I guess this is the advantage of playing a game a couple of years after its release 😂😂

What I like about this video is that you didn’t just say you were wrong, but that you also went back and did some self reflection regarding why you had those original opinions.

Will the fun last for a 100 hours? I dunno. But all I know is that right now I'm actually having fun with the game. Hope you enjoy the video :) Don't forget to like the video and subscribe, I really appreciate it.

AC Valhalla is my favorite AC game. I love everything about it.

Very similar experience... played day one and I wasn't impressed. Shelfed it for almost a year. Then came back and played on series x. Def way better. Put in around 200hrs.

I haven't played Valhalla yet but I definitfly want to. I love Nordic Vikings

Tbh the first time i played this game for an hour and never touched it again....until 3 months later i started playing again for more than 5 hours one day and it has me hooked for a whole week+ now😂😂idk why

Me personally it's one of my favorite AC I have problems with it yea the game is way too long and iv encountered a few glitches (only one is really major) but I'd say it was a good game overall if it was a spin off I don't think it would be as hated as it was by old school fans.

Man I’m on the same boat rn. Just started playing again after not touching it for however long. (I literally only played half of the prolong and found it boring). It’s such a fun and immersive games, despite its clunky animations and gameplay

Im Swedish and a history and viking age nerd, always been a gamer but never tried any assasins creed game for whatever reason but bought this today on sale i like it already altough would prefer it more realistic but i guess this is the way ac games are

I think I've been playing too much AC keep getting random adverts about templar knights and the history of them. They are on to me 😂

I enjoyed Valhalla quite a bit while I was playing the main game, but a lot of the post launch content has been hit or miss. The river raids are honestly quite boring to me, most of the time. The tombs of the fallen were a lot of fun, the mastery challenges were okay, and the siege of Paris was surprisingly well done

I just came back to it with all the updated content (River raids, Tomb of the Fallen, Mastery Challenge, and Isle of Skye) and the first Season Pass and they addressed most of what made it ok except for 2 things 1- Still no Assassins in the game, which sucks 2- Clipping issues are on galore

I’m glad I’m not much of a fan for Assassins’s Creed Franchise so I easily enjoy these new directions the franchise went without feeling pain or hurt from over-nostalgic

I find this quite funny. All in all AC Valhalla is actually a good game till first 30ish hours and then its just the same thing repeated again and again. The best one can rate valhalla as is a decent game just a slight bit above average and the reason is very very apparent. Just take imaginary scenario - What will you remember about the game say 5-10 years down the line? - NOTHING. There is nothing iconic about this game. All the cities (I would prefer to call them village by how small they are) look just like a copy paste and why not as there possibly couldn't be anything interesting in them going by the timeline. There is literally no meaning to any of the services be it merchant or stables or anything as there is nothing EXCLUSIVE. When did it happen - Oh! A new merchant, let's see what he has. When did it happen - Oh! A new equipment marker, let's see what it is. (probably part of some set, don't know what it will look like? Oh let's not forget the astronomical cost to upgrade it.) When did it happen - Oh! I have enough silver, let's buy that cool - thing. ( its soo sad that I have to write THING cause there literally isn't anything that will make you excited or save your silver so that you can get it) When did it happen - Damn! I will come back to this place cause it has this unique ..... ( no place has anything unique ). I can keep writing but all this is after my 40ish hours or gameplay. The one and the only thing that this game does write is its GRAPHICS and ENVIRONMENT. Although the setting / time period is super bad for a AC Open world title cause there is nothing ICONIC about it. Please enlighten me if I am wrong as I really really want to be wrong. I bought this game for a huge sum and I feel sad to see my money wasted. I don't want to just blatently critisize it as I have given significant money and time to the game so please understand where I am coming from. TO VIDEO CREATOR: If the game made you give up once then its the failure of the game itself. (This happened for a pretty playerbase). They certainly didn't design the opening in a good manner.

For ACV, you really need to take it slow. The game is very long and rushing it gonna be pain. For the combat also, I feel it better than both origin and odyssey. While origins combat animation feel very basic how bayek swing the sword and few animation, skill he can use. Odyssey combat is extremly floaty, barely feel any contact at all.

I’m not surprised the same studio that made this game also made Origins. Origins was so freaking good. IMO Origins is the second best AC game behind AC2. People love Odyssey, but I think it was too big and felt randomly generated. Valhalla is incredible. It’s world and soundtrack surpasses Odyssey imo. I still struggle with countering and finding a use for my bird though. Not sure why I can’t mark enemies with my bird. Can’t figure out how

I think an issue with peoples enjoyment of the game is skill as well …a lot of people didn’t take time to realize how crafty Evior was

I appreciated Valhalla when it was released, now I understand it is not the typical Assassin's Creed game, but the game was still mad fun with so much content. I was not bothered to buy the DLC because... it was actually worth it to play, each DLC had a great story attached to it and amazing gameplay. I know why people hate it, but I would still recommend people to at least try out the demo because it can be really fun

I don't own Valhalla, but from what it looks like I still prefer Origins and Odyssey. That's just my opinion. Besides that I really liked the video, your voice is really calm and entertaining, honestly I though you were gonna be one of those review UKpostsrs with a few million subscribers. Your content is high quality and I want to thank you for that!

So I just picked up this game because it was on a deep sale on ps5. I have a couple thoughts. 1. I avoided this game because reviews and the AC community were pretty negative toward it. But now that i sit down with it im seeing its pretty fun. Not perfect, but I dont think ANY AC game is perfect. 2. I get that this probably isn't what people wanted from an Assassins Creed game. These new game definitely veer away from traditional AC games. But honestly this isn't bad. (Odyssey writing is pretty lazy and cringe however) Desmond, Ezio, Connor and Altair all have excellent games that you can still play and enjoy on most modern consoles. If you want that just go play those. 3. People that are fans of the older games have this toxic expectation that these games will achieve the greatness of the Ezio trilogy and I think that's really an unfair expectation. You can't Demand innovation AND expect things to feel like they used to. The whole point is to have a new experience. 4. Ubisoft microtransactions are garbage and I hate them. I know they can be ignored but it really does detract from what feels like a mostly competent open world action game.

I just wish I could pull the camera in closer during combat.

Then only thing I really wish is that they would have dropped the Assassins Creed title and make it a full historical RPG, without all that science fiction

I like Valhalla but it has too much filler type content and it's unnecessarily big. Combat isn't challenging at all. Once you level up your character enough then even on the hardest difficulty the game is very easy to play. Also during the story the facial animations don't look that good you feel less attached to the emotions of the characters. I have sunk 100 hours into the game and I have only reached until Lincolnshire. The game is unnecessarily big. More than half the armor and weapons in the game are useless. Everything good is locked behind a paywall.

Man I'm still trying the game out, 130 hours played and it still feels like a chore playing it every time - don't know why but still giving it chances

i bought this game on my ps5 and i really love it

TBH, the England (Angle Land) depicted in Valhalla is pure fantasy. Cathedral building on this scale was as yet a few centuries away, and the Romans sure as Hell did NOT invest time and $$$$$$ in building all the magnificent stone structures and statues that Ubi has saw fit to litter the landscape with. So it's as realistic as, say, Elden Ring lol. Still, I enjoy exploring it.

Does some of the bugs were already fixed in ps4?

How is the PS4 version today? I can only play it there.

how is valhalla ancient story compared to odyssey? I don't like Odyssey ancient story ending but I like the Layla story. How is valhalla? I'm still deciding whether to buy this or not. I have bought and had fun with Immortals fenyx so I was interested when you are talking about puzzles in the video. I don't have PS5 or PS4 pro, only PS4 slim, will it be bad?

i played this game on the ps4 aswell frame stutter and the loading time is insanly long

I’m hooked on this game and the first time I tried it I didn’t like it at all it took a handful of other open world and different games to make me praise Valhalla

I played it once hated it and uninstalled, months later I reinstalled it and fell in love with it.

I think the direction they took the series doesn’t appeal to the original player base at all. I love an easy game that holds me by the hand. I want all the development to go to the story and graphics. I don’t care about side quests and puzzles. Some people do and that’s fine. But when I play AC Valhala or odyssey I have to download cheats just so I can play with main story in peace and enjoy the graphics. I only want to see one thing on the map and that’s the quest objective.

This game is great. Its just ridiculously long like I still haven't finished it. Eivor is the only reason ive enjoyed most of it.

I spent an hour in the menu changing the settings at the beginning to what I like like guaranteed assasination changing the damage settings to feel less rpg like and more realistic getting slashed and bashed so many times is realistic not only to me but to the enemies who previously ate every single attack like I was a mosquito.

I’m sort of new to the current generation of assassins Creed games, so Valhalla was the first RPG one I’ve encountered. I have to say that I’m playing it on PS5 and I am loving it, I’m currently 68 hours in, and while that’s been spread over some time, I’ve really enjoyed it so far. I wasn’t planning on 100%, but I’ve come this far so I might as well! The only thing I could do without is all the key hunting.

It is a grind for the couple first hrs to get into the good stuff

Going to give this another bash on the pS5

The game is great. It stands atop the shoulders of giants. Enjoy the game if you own it, because you have one life and if you play video game and you don't enjoy it, better swap this activity for something else fast.