Has anyone ever realized that somehow we play as assassins and eliminate every Templar in every game yet whenever we get to the modern time somehow the templars are in charge
It’s less an organization and more of a philosophy. They’ve addressed this multiple times in fact throughout the series. And at times where yes even the assassin’s are in the wrong. The simple fact is neither philosophy ever truly dies because of Eisu’s reincarnation and artifacts stringed a cross the world Although I terms of why the Templars are in control during the modern day, it’s actually addressed in Syndicate’s lore.
The templars are spread throughout the world just like the assassins are. If one region is freed from them there will always still be another region that would send new people to take charge there. In multiple games both the templars and assassins say that their order or brotherhood will never be destroyed
The only way to stop the Templars, is to kill every Templar throughout the world, and not just the main guys, but the followers, otherwise the message will spread.
I had the same thoughts too. Back when Syndicate came out, I thought it was the perfect time to have a storyline involving the fall of the Assassins and rise of the Templars. The game took place in 1868, so I thought it would have a story with ramifications closely linked to the state of the present day Assassins. Nope. Just three Assassin's completely saving the entirety of London. I would think the Assassins would lose at least a time or two if Templars were so dominant in modern day? Each game just has a protagonist that single-handedly takes away "Templar" control.
Oh god i hate that place when i played for the first time, especially when you don't have the signpost fast travel. I still have memories of the boat rides
@@yuranabdul7081 drowners and sirens are the worst abomination. Those little pests are the only case where I would support an entire extinction of a species. When you are diving and just finished looting from the ground, you are low on air and close to the surface and then those fuckers appear and like 10 of them take turns on hitting you and you drown. Then you have to do the whole looting and locating thing again...
@@horsenuggets1018 oh yeah this is just the only one that means anything lol no worries I still love the game one of the few who is just here to ride the rivers and raid the forts
Where did halfan go for the last battle...What was the point of having an alliance with him if he is to sick To fight and make his alliance have some worth
I think the present-day plot never goes anywhere because Ubisoft refuses to let Assassin’s Creed end. So we get a story that is endlessly jerking and edging itself... never allowed to finish.
They really should have dropped the entire sci-fi animus angle a long time ago... the series would have been just fine if it was just a series of one shot plots about assassins throughout history
@@MonteCreations Nah fuck that. The modern day is the most important part of the story. Plus the apples of eden and whatnot is awesome. Personally I think 33% of the gameplay should be modern day.
@@MonteCreations The modern day plot had a nice connection to the historical plot up to 3, then you got your wish of one-offs where the modern day plot didn't matter. They should have never caved to the people who hated the modern day storyline.
@@deepvoicedude4749 The problem is that they don't do either one correct. I was enjoying the modern day until AC3. It could have been a bit more in some isntances but it was a nice connection. But from AC4 onwards, the modern day plot went nowhere and they should have either cut it or really think about what they want to achieve. Because what made the modern day plot interesting was that the games were connected through it even when you changed Assassin's. But now, even that is not the case. The modern day plot is different between AC4, Unity, Rogue and Syndicate. There is no connection between the games through the modern day plot. And even though they introduced a new character in Origins, the same is true for this one. Origins introduces Layla and rushes her arc (even Desmond had more time in AC1), then you just search for the staff in Odyssey and now the world is suddenly ending. Even Layla's plot isn't really connected by the games which makes them pointless since there is not enough time for the plot to tell a story.
@@deepvoicedude4749 I agree, it’d be nice if they couldn’t rely on corpses for recovering peoples memories and need like memories from someone they cannot find the body of so they actually have to find someone that’s from their family line to go back to how the animus was originally intended to be used and get actual bleeding effect again where they start seeing things in the modern day with the crossing of memories of their ancestors would be awesome to get to see again. I don’t like that we only really saw the modern day only at the beginning and end even though I’m glad it has an important plot point again, but it’d be nice if they still needed breaks to keep their mind intact so we can still see more of the modern day. Maybe they could do that by having the Assassins Constantly having to Flee Abstergo agents finding their locations and we could see the new protagonist learning new skills gradually where it could mirror their ancestors in that way again like in Assassins Creed 2, and kinda like what went on in 3.
My god. Over 90 seconds on the first sin, dedicated to a scathing denouncement of the game as a whole, and Ubisoft's entire development strategy. Such beauty comes rare in our lives.
@@jordandaniels1381 And also he might like the Stupid Shit from Jordan Daniels also..I don't know why anyone would like or love anything from that dude🗑.
@@mojo_joju why complain? Are you a baby? Go make your own game since your such a talented creator/game developer/writer. I would love to see your work.
I just wanna be a stealth assassin again, free running in towns with cool, subtle stab animations. If you like this game all power to ya but it’s so far from what this series is supposed to be.
The series really has fallen from grace and lost track of what it used to be. Admittedly the annual releases helped it become stale quicker but Black flag was a breath of fresh air and Unity was an incredible next gen AC game. They should have continued in the Unity style rather than give up because they ruined the launch and Syndicate subsequently underperformed
@@jessicastrike5640 i haven't played assassins creed after 3, wasn't unity the one that was memed the most because it was buggy to being unplayable? ok, i guess that means people actually played it, so it can't have been as bad as others
@@eadbert1935 Unity is like a cult classic, freerunning was great but the missions n side-content are pretty trash, it became a great AC game after it started being available for 99p
I really miss the old Assassin's Creed for real..I just want to hide in some hay or tall grass and whistle them over to kill them..now it's just feels like playing witcher 3 in various different places. Unity was actually in the right tracks and I've played the hell out of all the old games. The moment I saw damage numbers in AC origins I knew it was going to be a long grinding
As someone who has studied the viking age in school i can say this game plays as accuratly as a game based in the 1800s containing smarphones and nukes
@@saschaberger3212 Last Asscreed I bought full price was Black Flag. Didn't even get the ones after. Odyssey I got on sale, and AC Valhalla I did the Ubisoft plus sub for a month. I would have felt ripped off with just that, except I got to play Immortals: Fenyx Rising after I quit Valhalla halfway through. I didn't "buy" this one and I'm not going to buy the next either. Now stop generalizing and making assumptions, it makes you sound like a dick.
@@CataclysmDM Immortals Fenyx Rising ended being my favorite game of 2020 and eventually got into my top 5 games of all time. Nothing but positive comments on their social media for the game too.
@@sovereignsammy8528 Yeah man, I had fun with it! I think Wasteland 3 was the better game for me personally, but just looking at pure fun factor Fenyx Rising was up there for sure.
@@berry4901 Then I guess their games aren't for me any more. There are holes in your argument though, as Odyssey fulfills most of what you stated.... and yet Odyssey was, for me, a good game. The narrative worked, the combat felt more satisfying, the world felt more interesting to explore. AC Valhalla though..... game was trash, in my opinion.
Marco polo did not make Europe aware of China. Heck technically Rome was aware of China. They were aware of each other. But very little contact existed between them
Yeah but it's annoying how Ubisoft is only willing to portray Asians as somehow always being female dominant - they only show Asian women and never Asian men unless they're faceless villains. Such a pathetic creepy western thing to do
There's actual archaeological evidence of goods from Asia in Scandinavian countries at the time this game was set. We know for a fact that vikings travelled at least as far as modern day Turkey and they traded with what would later become Mongols, so it's not really that much of a stretch at all that there could be an Asian woman in England. Really annoys me when youtubers will criticise a historical point in a game when they obviously know nothing about it. Like if you are not an expert, or at least done some research into it, then just don't comment on things like that.
@@vargknight there is a difference between having chinese products and a chinese being in england, it's actually very far fetched, as there are documents of chinese who visited the roman empire, the abbasid caliphate, or medieval europe.
@@vargknight I may repeat what I've read or heard. I may even repeat what I was taught in school many many many years ago (Some so outdated it is completely wrong) But whatever I say or write is based on what I know at that moment and I don't mind being corrected because of new fact. And sometimes I just plainly misunderstood the information. Problems arise when people feel it is a personal attack on them.We need to understand that information change and it can change in as little as one day.
The thing that ticks me off is that Ubisoft constantly advertises these games using one thing then comes out and says the opposite is “what really happened”. We see Eivor as an Assassin and as a male, and they say Eivor was actually a woman and wasn’t an Assassin. It feels like they just advertise one thing cause that think it’ll sell, then retcon it in the lore so that they can get brownie points.
Ubisoft games are trash and nothing but sjw historical revisionism. The amount of gay vikings and female "warriors" is anachronistic and false and just plain pandering. Dont even get me started on the stupid giant anime fantasy weapons. Noy a single weapon was realistic. They were all 2x to 3x bigger and fatter and heavier than their real life historical counterparts. 90% of the weapons would be impossible to wield in combat in real life. Not to mention making every peak upgrade a golden weapon. The original AC games had actual realistic period weapons.
@@Im__Andy-f6xwith the way women are written and handled now a days it makes sense they trick people to play a sjw feminist dream , because they refuse to make a good story.
@Hideri Chan he was clearly meant to be a man since hes a reincarnation of Odin who.is also.a man. All.the other reincarnations match their original God's gender. Regardless, Ubisoft clearly only.cares about virtue signaling than telling compelling stories.
I enjoy playing female only games , like Lara croft series and horizon zero Dawn . But here what I hated was the fact that despite giving u the option to chose male Eivor they constantly tease u if u have chosen male Eivor . reflected by several times , my character getting referred as "she" , "her" in the dam* game (when i chose male), and few weird cutscenes and dialogue options.
You fucking expressed my feelings on this series perfectly. I love it and I just wished Ubisoft put actual care and passion to make not only AC but all their games. Somewhere in that mess I can see good ideas for possible great games but they insist on copying mechanics that don’t make sense in their games, rushing development and trying to make the “biggest” open world despite it having no meaning for the game. We don’t need game every 3 months Ubisoft. Just make them good.
The problem is the studio is more interested in making PC statements than just solid consistent writing, then writing based on how pissed they are you don't like their version of "Rey (not) Skywalker"
I will keep saying this. Get the money people out of the way. Let the creative people do what they do best. Example; I write a story you and a few others write the program. If things are not going the way you like you come to me and I do a rewrite where the problem is, or maybe cause of your problem or suggestion I change a section. The art department gives you a drawing of the Boss and you work with it. What I am see now is the money people see something so they tell you, :Hay in RDR II they had this wonderful shootout on the side of a cliff and players loved it, add it." But But But RDR II is a western we are set in the middle of London during the time of Elizabeth the First." They tell you to shut up, tell me to rewrite. I have you do it on the side of a castle and they get mad because it's suppose to be a cliff and oh yeah don't forget the Indians, we need indians with ray guns going pew pew. That's where I feel part of the problem is. I don't know if you know anything about writing program and while I can write a novel (suck at short stories) I bet we and a group could do a halfway good game. Granted the characters would be stick figures ad my dialog might be "Ezio. Why .... do we. Speak...... like that... actor we watched.... on the what they call ..... a TB"
@Marius Basim is the reincarnation of Loki and Sigurd is the reincarnation of Tyr, hence why they also have the same voice actors, also if you do the Valhalla story they show Sigurd losing his arm which is a foreshadowing of Sigurd losing his arm in the main storyline
I killed an order member accidentally after a battle since he was just walking around in the market and the option to assassinate him popped up. I just did it out of reflex. The game lost me right then and there. 30 hours of playtime felt pointless.
@Alex Pokrandt It doesn't work like in the Odyssey though. In Valhalla, you can't kill the member of the Order, until you actually unveil him (her). User above simply did so, and forgot about it. If you load a save from before unveiling some member, and go to give location - he won't be there.
@@pothkan yes you can. I've killed order members before you've gathered the clues and they've been revealed. There was one you needed to win one of those boring dice games for a clue. I didn't want to do that so I googled who it was and where to find them. I went to the location and killed them.
@Hoyt Volker I hate to agree with you, but I do. I also hate the fact that I found this video a year after it was put out and you made your commonet. You most likely saw my alert on notification and went "What the hell is this idiot talking about? lol
@Moha Idk if you played the game, but I'm not talking about annoying bugs here and there. I had bugs to a point the game wouldn't progress, I had to contact the support 3 times and was always on Reddit looking for solutions. They eventually got fixed yes, but my point was basically that, ubisoft, being the company they are (giant and rich) releasing games with that amount of crashes and bugs is just ridiculous
Seems ridiculous that there’s 2 hidden ones in this game and yet they leave the hunting down of the Order of Ancients to basically a stranger, because...reasons, I guess? Felt such a waste to have Eivor turn them down at the end but makes me think she might join in the DLC
Let's just say it like it is. Assassins Creed games aren't really about Assassins Creed anymore. Scratch the Assassins Creed parts. The one game would be called Odyssee and this one just Valhalla. Scratch the like 10 seconds of attemtped AC content. You won't really see a difference. This is just bs by now. I don't watch the games anymore or play them. I watch the first one or two parts so I at least slightly know what it is about. And then watch the sin video for it. It is too long and has nothing to do with AC anymore. Which is what I liked in the original trilogy. Also the Ezio trilogy was just the best. And Ezio is easily the best Assassin in all games. He actually actively tried to find out about the past and we see him from his birth until almost his end where he find Edens Apple and leaves it there for someone else to find it because he is too old for it. That is some epic content right there. Here it was just included like an easter egg. As well as Desmond. Yes whatever. It is there. It exists. What is even the point of including something like what if Desomnd hadn't saved the world. He did. Point end. But it serves no actual purpose or adds to the plot although the first 5 games were literally all about it. That is sad. Also what happened to the First Civilization? Ubisoft just glosses over everything that made AC good in the first place. And the good series that it was. I wish they would remove the AC from the title. This is just clickbait so people buy it. Nothing else. And it is an insult in my opinion! Also wtf dlc? As with Odyssee... Why? You should get your full experience for the full price you pay for these games. And they aren't even good.
Surprised he hasn't. Sometimes I don't fully agree with his sins because games aren't meant to be realistic or some other reason why I personally think sinning it is a bit unfair, but assassin's creed has become too predictable and focuses on making you spend more time playing it than enjoy the story. I honestly think he shouldn't continue the series because quite a few AC fans aren't happy with the franchise anymore and there isn't much good writing in the series anymore imo
@@beardedfool5865 the early days of AC games had a bit of a grounded in reality aspect to it, you only had to fight humans and it wasn't easy (although it is because of the bad combat system) and even the Isu stuff wasn't too out of realm of belief It's different now, it's almost high fantasy, hack n slash, rpg with lots of magic mumbo jumbo
@@frostb1041 I feel like they went too hard into the RPG trend and kinda lost the aspects of the series that drew ppl in. For me it was the historical periods that act as ur playground
The story in this game reminds me of being a kid and using a self-serve soda fountain for the first time. You think that if you mix all of the sodas together you'll have this amazing swirling concoction where it's a nonstop sensation-fest. But then you're faced with the cold reality that mixing everything together makes it taste like something you shouldn't taste.
Let's be honest the fact they thought vikings bloody VIKINGS would be a good idea for a Assassins Creed game is worthy of 100 sins alone no lol They didn't do stealth 😂
If ubisoft abandoned the AC name and just made time piece games with their own original stories, it could be something. But they're clearly scared to abandon the name
@@RedHoodFH Social Stealth , Hoods , Robes , Hidden Blade , Assassins , Templares , Dense Cities , Fantastic Modern day , Memory Corridors , Assassins bureaus , Assassin Letters ... If You Really think about it VALHALLA'S is the most AC since Black flag ! I think ACV has more than enough to be cool considered an AC game
@@mrmeme2917 mmm no black flag was the last assassin creed style game even then it wasn’t much but this game is more focused on Vikings and raiding the most assassin stuff you’re doing is hunting down the order of the ancients and they leave it up to a stranger essentially who hasn’t even joined so you’re welcome to that opinion tho
The whole thing in Vinland should've been some epilogue sequence that takes place after the main story, but oh wait.... we're still waiting for ubisift to milk the rest of the story via DLC
Apparently it is supposed to be done late in the game because it doesn't make sense to do it straight after sigurd is taken or around that time but they didn't make that clear
3:34 Don't forget that this series has gotten farther and farther away from actually being about being an assassin after the first game. AC2 had more parkour, Brotherhood and Revelations had gang management and Evil Genius' world map mission system, AC3 and AC4 had ship sailing and ship combat, and finally peaking with Unity's classes, Origins' Destiny inspired weapon scoring system, Syndicate's Batman aping, and finally Odysee's Medusa fights.
3:39: Technically, the reason you would stop following these characters after they became parents was because the children born in these scenarios were the ancestors of Desmond Miles. However, in Assassin's Creed 4, Edward Kenway had not fathered Haytham yet. In Assassin's Creed Origins, Khemu died before fathering any children of his own.
Right the dna line would only end when the person who was descended from whichever child you got it from was conceived. So, for example, if someone's many times great grandmother was the third child of the person whose memories you were receiving, you could be in a situation where they already had two kids just not the third yet. Also all this was a limitation of the OG animus anyway, now that they're using primary source DNA for Layla's, it can in theory go all the way up to the time where they get the sample from, with Bayek it's from his mummified body so it could cover his entire life.
huh, you're right, the ending at the theatre is never shown to be an Animus sequence rather it seems to be a little nod towards the expanded universe of what happened to Haythem and Caroline
witcher 3 with dlc takes longer to complete everything. But in this case its a plus cause everything is good and meaningful and thats why no one complains. Valhala is 150 hour soulless journey.
Christ. I thought that Juno storyline being resolved in a comic was a rumour. That's the whole series pretty much invalidated for me then. I was really looking forward to the day when Juno might take over Asbstergo's systems and use the Phoenix Project to give herself a new body, and the modern Assassins would do the same for Desmond so he and Juno can go head to head. 😒
@@nobody2996 It's in the comics. I'm not a fan of "Important plots in the video game series are resolved in a novel/comic". If it's so important, put it in the damn game
@@nobody2996 In the comics, it's actually explain what Sage are, how reincarnation kinda work and what was Juno and Minerva endgoal, not only that but explain more about the assasin's and templar conflict
Or Juno. That Juno who first started talking in AC2 (or 3?) and was sabotaging and threatening the entire humanity until Syndicate... Only to be killed by someone before unknown who will never show up again. Pathetic.
The first game that I gladly bought but can't finish... I've never been that bored in more 15 years of gaming. I don't even know how I managed to have more than 68 hours in it
I just find it hilarious how this game came out within a year of Ghost of Tsushima and the Vinland Saga anime. One is a GORGEOUS period piece that kicked AC's butt in terms of mechanics and the other is an epic Viking story that turns the standard revenge plot on its head, both with fun and interesting characters
I liked PARTS of the story, and even a handful of characters (though most were forgettable). Also enjoyed building up the settlement whenever I could - I like having a home base in games, especially ones with even a little bit of life. It’s just nice to have a location to go and chill.
11:08 This si so true the warning message does not even say "Eivor did not kill civilians" as OG -real- Assassin's Creed games used to say. For all its faults at least Assassin's Creed Odyssey was more honest about this approach, letting you kill as many civilians as you wished while increasing your Bounty Level. The fact a _misthios_ had more freedom to kill civilians than a *Viking* is too telling: Ubisoft avoided to vilify Vikings to avoid alienation from a part of the Public thus to *keep sales high.* The endgame is the cliché reason *Money!*
Also sugar-coated vikings because of the whole "immigrant" angle they pushed with them. This whole "oh, vikings are migrants that are coming to England to find a home and we're here to work together with the natives".
I had to stop playing after 17 hours and feeling like I hadn't done anything of note. I can't imagine having to play the whole game while critiquing it
I am right there too. I think I am about 19 hours in and I had to stop playing it. I was seriously so bored. So I decided to play Days Gone again for the third time and seriously loved every moment of it.
@@splinterborn Yeah I agree. A bit more polish would have been nice but for how good it was I was willing to overlook some of those faults. Now Valhalla on the other hand, Ubisoft is such a big company and yet the facial animations and lip-syncing as well as the awful RPG elements need serious improvement. I expect so much more from Ubisoft and they seem to always under deliver on their AAA games.
It's just another ubi game tbh, like the combat is really shit. The voice acting compared to the OG acs are shit (again) the world it self seems so empty and you genuinely do the same shit over and over that it just becomes so fucking boring
3:34 Ikr! Ubisoft completely destroyed their own lore in regards to the genetic memories. First they established that you can only get the memories from still-living descendants of the relevant ancestors. Then Origins suggested that Bayek's & Aya's memories could be obtained directly from their mummified corpses, under the pseudo-scientific explanation that their bodies were so well-preserved from mummification that you could still find usable DNA samples. But then Odyssey somehow made it so you could grab a DNA sample off the Spear of Leonidas... somehow. There's no mummy explanation here; you just grab what's presumably a blood or skin cell sample right off the spear, perfectly preserved. And now you grave-rob Eivor's corpse--which isn't mummified at all--to take her perfectly preserved DNA. Ubisoft just completely stopped giving a shit about internal logic and consistency.
To be fair they didn't destroy the lore, they very clearly describe the change in technology. Animus 1.0 tech you needed DNA from a descendant, with newer animus tech you just need any DNA sample and you can follow the line. Layla isn't even related (that she knows of anyway) to any of the protagonists of the Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla trilogy. Also if you don't think we can get DNA from long dead remains you haven't been paying attention to technology over the past couple decades. We can; why do you think every few months you'll read some article about some thousands of years old remains showing evidence of human migration we hadn't accounted for?
@@ironwolf56 I never said we can’t obtain DNA from long-dead remains, only that we can’t get perfectly preserved samples. DNA samples degrade significantly over time, after all. Things like decomposition, weather, etc. can eat your sample away bit by bit. You could probably identify a few genome strands here and there from an ancient uncovered corpse, depending on the preservation conditions, but it’ll never be 100% IRL. Now, as I said earlier, Origins at least tried to justify that the mummification process preserved Bayek & Aya’s corpses so that Layla could obtain their samples to sequence their memories (obviously not accurate to real life, but whatever, this is the rule they created for their world and I’ll observe it for the sake of argument). And again, Valhalla contradicts this rule because Eivor is clearly not mummified, so the internal logic Origins created is thrown out the window. How am I supposed to believe a previously established rule when it is blatantly not followed in a later game without explanation? Something simple like, “Eivor was preserved in some Isu temple or her body got partially reanimated by an Isu artifact” would’ve been more consistent within the established lore.
It's a shame they never incorporated actually having to eat and show beard growth over time if you had clean shaven. I know it's a Red dead thing but even fallout new Vegas had hydration survival options and MGS snake eater had bandages (I know they didn't exist back when) so much of the map is unused but has place markers for no reason.
I agree with all of these sins but Ælfred defeated the Vikings and Guthrum after being deposed and hiding in a village called Athelney. He retook Wessex after guerilla fighting and drove them back to Chippenham. Guthrum then converted to Christianity and was baptized. Ubisoft didn’t get it entirely correct but it is one of the things they got almost right about the historical accuracy of this game.
To add a sin (or sort of): Aletheia, the Isu inside the Staff of Hermes who guide Kassandra and Layla in the DLCs of Odyssey is actually the wife of Loki/Basim, the DLCs of Valhalla maybe will explore the later life of Eivor in Ireland and France, but the future main title of the series surely will focus on Loki and Aletheia and their misterious plans. Splinter Cell next please, I would love to see some good old Ubisoft games.
The reason we still played as Edward after he had a kid is because Desmond was part of Haytham’s bloodline. Therefore, the perspective would’ve switched to Haytham’s at his conception and not his older sister’s. Overall I do agree that Ubisoft has pretty much abandoned or retconned their lore a lot recently
Well yeah. Because despite streamers and statistics that SWEAR the gender of gamers is 50/50, men make up the vast majority of people that play games like this
Wow, I didn't think things were this bad, glad I stopped really caring about Ass Creed games a while back, too much busy work for very little in return.
3:34 Dart...we went over this in your stream. You were still able to play as Edward at that point in his life because it was before Haytham’s conception as Abstergo was using Desmond’s blood in those Animus machines at Abstergo Entertainment. As far as Bayek is concerned, Layla used the DNA from Bayek’s mummy in Origins, and could therefore explore his entire life, if she so chose.
@@deepvoicedude4749 What's the point? Edward could have had 50 children. The important part is that his memory transfer to Desmond only ends at the point when Haytham is born, because this is Demond's ancestor. You could nitpick the fact that there is an after credit scene where you see Haytham and Edward, but first of all, that's just a bit of fan service and has nothing to with the story and secondly, you could say that the person is reliving Haytham's memories.
wen we got to England i didn’t like Sigurd at all to me he was more worried abt doing things to benefit himself rather than the things to benefit Ravensthorpe and although Eivor does become Jarl at the end s/he should’ve been Jarl from the begging
Time was it was easy to play an Assassin's Creed game and complete it. Only reason a game should be 60+ Hours is when you can choose your adventure like Skyrim or something
@@deathstroke8021 Absolutely. RDR2 was a great longer game. Having said that apart from the Guarma Act, I found to be the right length for Arthur's story. Such an amazing gaming experience in my opinion.
With this game it's clear that the writers had a vision, the devs were excited to help and the higher ups at ubisoft said no we want another RPG. The only reason I enjoyed this game was because I looked past the viking stuff and saw the Story Darby wanted to be at the forefront
If I may, your comment on AC: 4 doesn’t hold up since the DNA came from Desmond, who was not related to Kenway’s daughter, but to his son Haytham. Haytham wasn’t conceived until AFTER the events of the game. That’s why you can play as a dad in that game. And Origins does it since it’s Bayak himself they got the DNA from.
@@legitscoper3259 I feel you on that. I’m a fan of the old school AC formula. When they changed it, I wasn’t really feeling it. It eventually grew on me though.
these past few AC games can only be described with the phrase "wide as the ocean but deep as a puddle" its just a huge map with copy paste quests and locations spread around with 0 character and passion. comparing these open worlds to something like RDR2 is night and day.
Sigurd being able to speak Isu is due to the fact that Eivor, Sigurd, and Basim all have different levels of “synch” with their Isu counterparts. Basim is so in synch with Loki that he IS Loki. Eivor can only see and hear Odin and Sigurd is somewhere in between.
I actually love Valhalla. I’ve probably put like 100+ hours into it. It’s a godawful AC game, but it’s a fun Viking game on it’s own. Valhalla could’ve gotten the flowers it deserved if Ubishit didn’t slap the hopes and dreams of millions on the title.
I've watched many lore videos, and I'm happy that this game explored more of the Isu story and even made connections with the older games. Too bad I didn't finish the game and only got to the part where Sigurd was taken away. I really wish the story was more focused without all the constant detours. If only the game had the same concept as AC Brotherhood where you could re-visit certain memories to play, but have them all accessible from the start. Maybe tag some as "main story", so I can just play the non-filler missions like I'm watching an anime with a non-filler episode guide...
The Zealot system was different to how I think they planned it to be, almost implying they are like bounty hunters in the story. But, instead, they just roam about England, not really pursuing you at all. Some literally just chill out in bizarre locations not doing anything. One of the higher level ones is just chilling in a meadow! I didn't even realise you could burn the note until I watched a video of the spare/kill Leofrith fight, to see the consequences of both (I Killed him). Even then, It doesn't seem like burning or not burning the note does anything.
I don’t know if it was because I was so brain dead when I played through the ending, or if I just didn’t notice, but until you brought it up I had no idea that “Dr. Manhattan” was Desmond.
Actually when you said that Alfred defeated the Danes and Guthrum, that was the battle of Edington. But before that battle the Danes surprised him and drove him out of Winchester and into the swamps of Athelney, which is why he is there at the end of the game. So that sin shouldn’t count because it’s actually historically accurate
In AC 4 it is possible to continue playing as Edward even with his daughter as the genetic line goes through Haythem who is born after the events of the game.
This^. Also, when you're playing after beating the game, you're playing memories that occurred before Edward sailed back to England with his daughter. And ever since Origins, Layla isn't relieving Desmond or any other character's genetic memories, they're extracting the memories directly from the historical figure's DNA itself.
That and these newer games use newer Animus technology that can get things from primary sources and bypass those limitations. There's a whole lot of lore issues you can complain about in these games, but how the Animus follows life tracks is actually one of the few things they've been pretty careful to explain in-universe.
Wait really, the whole new disaster the modern plot has in this game was because the electromagnetic field Desmond turned on in AC3 is still active? Didn't Abstergo find Desmond's body in those ruins, did they not think to try and turn it off, or was I missing something? Edit: also damn the view count is pretty low only 35K, is it because Valhalla is a late topic now or because of the 10-30 sec videos breaking the algorithm again
You can not just turn it of, they would need to build another one which could destroy the "shield" again. Probably technically possible for the Isu, but not for mere humans. Who knows what Abstergo is doing at that point, maybe they are actually trying to find a way, maybe they are to busy fighting the Instruments, or maybe they are still dominated by the Instruments influence (which is unlikely since they actively worked together with the Assassins to kill Juno) who would probably even prefer a new post apocalyptic world order, since a "new beginning" would make it a lot easier dominating humanity. Who knows, we only really know one Assassin teams perspective on the whole situation, everything else is speculation on topics the lore-writers probably did not even define yet.
You left out the parts where the game got so buggy quests straight up broke and became uncompletable prematurely ending my playthrough because i would have lost 50hours of playtime due to one save file when a crucial npc died before the quest would begin.
I couldn’t even finish the game it was so broken. One of the final quests would not let me finish. But I had played for such a long time I didn’t care at that point. There were fish that you supposedly could catch that never ever spawned after hours of searching from the shore and in a little boat. Every time I talked to the hunter about turning in my legendary animal trophies resulted in an immediate crash. The list goes on. And then it crashes into a dump truck full of wet cow shit on a 90 degree day
Probably has something to do with the fact that Loki is half giant? Or I guess in Isu terms, one parent is higher class and the other is lower class. That’s why in the game he’s Brown while everyone else is White. Just a thought
Ho, that long ass sin for number 1. Lol And that bullshit excuse of why you can't skip to the climax of the search for X is synchronization. Don't blame you for forgetting: they forgot about it in Assassins Creed 2 AND 3, so... yeah. And I like how they cast Magnus as the male Eivor (the actor that played Cnut in Last Kingdom, ie one of the *main* antagonists) but some nobody voices the canon Eivor. Waste of talent imo
In AC 1 the animus glitched out and almost fried Desmonds brain because it wanted to pack all the recent memories into his brain at once, they then decided to apoach from a more stabil point. Everything was purposefully glitchy and bugged looking. In the recent games they just show you how the family member(s) die and that's it.
4:40 to be fair Ubisoft released a "Discovery Tour" mode for both Assassin's Creed Origins and Assassin's Creed Odyssey, even sold them as standalone "games" (at some point past year both "Discovery Tour" were made available to get for free for a limited time). I won't be surprised if the game happens with Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
My biggest problem with the entire game is how much I have to grind just to fight a single person, in odyssey I could go to kill people at least 5-7 levels above (though it took time) but in this game I can’t even do anything until I get a specific power or else I’ll just immediately die so
That is literally the opposite of odyssey, in Valhalla it’s easy to kill enemies who is a higher level then u wise in odyssey it’s hard to kill enemies above u
@@ahnv1891 hey, we all have different experiences I guess, I’m just not much into grinding at all and at least side quests in odyssey weren’t “follow this person to this specific location “ and you actually got to fight
dude we want the witcher 3, we wanna know what you're gonna sin about it ? NB: It's not because I hate, I absolutelty love it, but I wanna hear what you'll have to say
Ghost of Tsushima knows how to scale enemies. The harder enemies don't have much bigger health bars, they're just better at fighting, making it feel fairer when you get your arse kicked.
The reason you can’t fast forward to the part that they’re looking for is because the DNA is never fully synchronised, so this actually is the closest they could get without the data either being corrupted or rejecting them. So yeah minus 1 sin for lack of knowledge.
@Mcheetah The male Eivor funny enough is actually much better performance wise and was pushed in all the marketing even though the female Eivor is canon 🤨
They are technically. Eivor is a sage of male ISU. It's full explained in the comics but she does feel like a male sometimes mainly during the confessionals cause Odin is with her
@Mcheetah women in gaming do sell though. Look at the tomb raider series. Ubisoft is just scared to out a woman on the box art. They went as far as to put Evie in the shadows on syndicates one
At 5:15, you said the scar left by the wolf was on Eivør's other cheek, but the scar he was showing was the gnarly bite mark on his neck. You can see it much more visibly if you choose female Eivør, or if you happen to take Eivør's beard off in the tattoo parlor in your settlement. I understand it's a very easy thing to miss, as I was also confused as all hell during that part in the game. Keep up the good content, man. Much love 🤍
Has anyone ever realized that somehow we play as assassins and eliminate every Templar in every game yet whenever we get to the modern time somehow the templars are in charge
It’s less an organization and more of a philosophy. They’ve addressed this multiple times in fact throughout the series.
And at times where yes even the assassin’s are in the wrong. The simple fact is neither philosophy ever truly dies because of Eisu’s reincarnation and artifacts stringed a cross the world
Although I terms of why the Templars are in control during the modern day, it’s actually addressed in Syndicate’s lore.
The templars are spread throughout the world just like the assassins are. If one region is freed from them there will always still be another region that would send new people to take charge there. In multiple games both the templars and assassins say that their order or brotherhood will never be destroyed
The only way to stop the Templars, is to kill every Templar throughout the world, and not just the main guys, but the followers, otherwise the message will spread.
Well don't worry... they'll have that fixed with this alternate time-line garbage......................God kill this series please
I had the same thoughts too. Back when Syndicate came out, I thought it was the perfect time to have a storyline involving the fall of the Assassins and rise of the Templars. The game took place in 1868, so I thought it would have a story with ramifications closely linked to the state of the present day Assassins. Nope. Just three Assassin's completely saving the entirety of London. I would think the Assassins would lose at least a time or two if Templars were so dominant in modern day? Each game just has a protagonist that single-handedly takes away "Templar" control.
Whoever made this game really enjoyed the part of witcher 3 when you go to skellige
😂 *Bruh*
Oh god i hate that place when i played for the first time, especially when you don't have the signpost fast travel. I still have memories of the boat rides
When uu on the boat and then the Sirens wreak ur boat when uu far shore..and uu already saved was pure anger
💀 😂lol
@@yuranabdul7081 drowners and sirens are the worst abomination. Those little pests are the only case where I would support an entire extinction of a species. When you are diving and just finished looting from the ground, you are low on air and close to the surface and then those fuckers appear and like 10 of them take turns on hitting you and you drown. Then you have to do the whole looting and locating thing again...
"The game is not over, the game is NEVER over!!" Perfect and appropriate for this game.
This verifies my decision to not buy it. I didn’t even finish Odyssey because it was so long, and this one is longer?!? Absolutely not
Ubisoft: "NOTHING IS OVER, NOTHING!!! YOU JUST DONT TURN IT OFF!!!"
@@Man_Of_God_Q nah odyssey was longer, felt longer at least.
@@FootieFan1886 How long did it take you too finish ACV?
(Me who has over 2400 hours in conan exiles) " Yeah, its never over."
Imagine how pissed off I was when the favours I had gathered ended up mustering a grand total of 10 people for the epilogue battle
Lmao damn hell of a spoiler thanks tho
@@billcutting2681 this video is spoilers galore bro
@@horsenuggets1018 oh yeah this is just the only one that means anything lol no worries I still love the game one of the few who is just here to ride the rivers and raid the forts
Where did halfan go for the last battle...What was the point of having an alliance with him if he is to sick To fight and make his alliance have some worth
@@master_chief723 he was dead by then
I think the present-day plot never goes anywhere because Ubisoft refuses to let Assassin’s Creed end.
So we get a story that is endlessly jerking and edging itself... never allowed to finish.
They really should have dropped the entire sci-fi animus angle a long time ago... the series would have been just fine if it was just a series of one shot plots about assassins throughout history
@@MonteCreations Nah fuck that. The modern day is the most important part of the story. Plus the apples of eden and whatnot is awesome. Personally I think 33% of the gameplay should be modern day.
@@MonteCreations The modern day plot had a nice connection to the historical plot up to 3, then you got your wish of one-offs where the modern day plot didn't matter. They should have never caved to the people who hated the modern day storyline.
@@deepvoicedude4749
The problem is that they don't do either one correct. I was enjoying the modern day until AC3. It could have been a bit more in some isntances but it was a nice connection. But from AC4 onwards, the modern day plot went nowhere and they should have either cut it or really think about what they want to achieve. Because what made the modern day plot interesting was that the games were connected through it even when you changed Assassin's. But now, even that is not the case. The modern day plot is different between AC4, Unity, Rogue and Syndicate. There is no connection between the games through the modern day plot. And even though they introduced a new character in Origins, the same is true for this one. Origins introduces Layla and rushes her arc (even Desmond had more time in AC1), then you just search for the staff in Odyssey and now the world is suddenly ending. Even Layla's plot isn't really connected by the games which makes them pointless since there is not enough time for the plot to tell a story.
@@deepvoicedude4749 I agree, it’d be nice if they couldn’t rely on corpses for recovering peoples memories and need like memories from someone they cannot find the body of so they actually have to find someone that’s from their family line to go back to how the animus was originally intended to be used and get actual bleeding effect again where they start seeing things in the modern day with the crossing of memories of their ancestors would be awesome to get to see again. I don’t like that we only really saw the modern day only at the beginning and end even though I’m glad it has an important plot point again, but it’d be nice if they still needed breaks to keep their mind intact so we can still see more of the modern day. Maybe they could do that by having the Assassins Constantly having to Flee Abstergo agents finding their locations and we could see the new protagonist learning new skills gradually where it could mirror their ancestors in that way again like in Assassins Creed 2, and kinda like what went on in 3.
My god. Over 90 seconds on the first sin, dedicated to a scathing denouncement of the game as a whole, and Ubisoft's entire development strategy. Such beauty comes rare in our lives.
I know right!, they shot it outa the water
The first sin is absolute irony seeing that he later states “too boring to sin”. Bet you love the stupid shit from CinemaSins too.
@@jordandaniels1381 And also he might like the Stupid Shit from Jordan Daniels also..I don't know why anyone would like or love anything from that dude🗑.
That's just the tip of the iceberg for Ubisoft's deteriorating "cookie cutter" game developments.
@@mojo_joju why complain? Are you a baby? Go make your own game since your such a talented creator/game developer/writer. I would love to see your work.
I just wanna be a stealth assassin again, free running in towns with cool, subtle stab animations. If you like this game all power to ya but it’s so far from what this series is supposed to be.
The series really has fallen from grace and lost track of what it used to be. Admittedly the annual releases helped it become stale quicker but Black flag was a breath of fresh air and Unity was an incredible next gen AC game. They should have continued in the Unity style rather than give up because they ruined the launch and Syndicate subsequently underperformed
@@jessicastrike5640 this game legit had me repurchase unity all over again 😂
@@jessicastrike5640 i haven't played assassins creed after 3, wasn't unity the one that was memed the most because it was buggy to being unplayable?
ok, i guess that means people actually played it, so it can't have been as bad as others
@@eadbert1935 Unity is like a cult classic, freerunning was great but the missions n side-content are pretty trash, it became a great AC game after it started being available for 99p
I really miss the old Assassin's Creed for real..I just want to hide in some hay or tall grass and whistle them over to kill them..now it's just feels like playing witcher 3 in various different places. Unity was actually in the right tracks and I've played the hell out of all the old games. The moment I saw damage numbers in AC origins I knew it was going to be a long grinding
As someone who has studied the viking age in school i can say this game plays as accuratly as a game based in the 1800s containing smarphones and nukes
its an alternate timeline
@@hydrogenmissle doesn't like a good idea for the assassin's creed saga
Fuck "doesn't sound like" *
It's a video game....
@@cmagtpose2792 your a video game
This game was horrendously tedious and boring. It was actually okay at first, and for a few hours, and then it just got..... exhausting.
What did you expect? You're going to buy the next assassin's creed and you're going to complain again.
@@saschaberger3212 Last Asscreed I bought full price was Black Flag. Didn't even get the ones after. Odyssey I got on sale, and AC Valhalla I did the Ubisoft plus sub for a month. I would have felt ripped off with just that, except I got to play Immortals: Fenyx Rising after I quit Valhalla halfway through. I didn't "buy" this one and I'm not going to buy the next either. Now stop generalizing and making assumptions, it makes you sound like a dick.
@@CataclysmDM Immortals Fenyx Rising ended being my favorite game of 2020 and eventually got into my top 5 games of all time. Nothing but positive comments on their social media for the game too.
@@sovereignsammy8528 Yeah man, I had fun with it! I think Wasteland 3 was the better game for me personally, but just looking at pure fun factor Fenyx Rising was up there for sure.
@@berry4901 Then I guess their games aren't for me any more. There are holes in your argument though, as Odyssey fulfills most of what you stated.... and yet Odyssey was, for me, a good game. The narrative worked, the combat felt more satisfying, the world felt more interesting to explore. AC Valhalla though..... game was trash, in my opinion.
Several streamed rages and regrets later and this video is finally done. Got to leave a like.
Was it that bad?
What? What even is this comment?
@@dr.chungusphd108 Dartigan streams the gamed he sins. That is probably the context for this comment
@@sebastianriz4703 It is. Saying he wasn't the biggest fan while streaming would be putting it lightly
lol , i remember watching the streams before new years eve , this game took forever to finish , and the vid took forever to get done
Marco polo did not make Europe aware of China. Heck technically Rome was aware of China. They were aware of each other. But very little contact existed between them
Yeah but it's annoying how Ubisoft is only willing to portray Asians as somehow always being female dominant - they only show Asian women and never Asian men unless they're faceless villains. Such a pathetic creepy western thing to do
There's actual archaeological evidence of goods from Asia in Scandinavian countries at the time this game was set. We know for a fact that vikings travelled at least as far as modern day Turkey and they traded with what would later become Mongols, so it's not really that much of a stretch at all that there could be an Asian woman in England. Really annoys me when youtubers will criticise a historical point in a game when they obviously know nothing about it. Like if you are not an expert, or at least done some research into it, then just don't comment on things like that.
To not say that the Silk road exists.
@@vargknight there is a difference between having chinese products and a chinese being in england, it's actually very far fetched, as there are documents of chinese who visited the roman empire, the abbasid caliphate, or medieval europe.
@@vargknight I may repeat what I've read or heard. I may even repeat what I was taught in school many many many years ago (Some so outdated it is completely wrong) But whatever I say or write is based on what I know at that moment and I don't mind being corrected because of new fact. And sometimes I just plainly misunderstood the information. Problems arise when people feel it is a personal attack on them.We need to understand that information change and it can change in as little as one day.
The thing that ticks me off is that Ubisoft constantly advertises these games using one thing then comes out and says the opposite is “what really happened”. We see Eivor as an Assassin and as a male, and they say Eivor was actually a woman and wasn’t an Assassin. It feels like they just advertise one thing cause that think it’ll sell, then retcon it in the lore so that they can get brownie points.
Ubisoft games are trash and nothing but sjw historical revisionism. The amount of gay vikings and female "warriors" is anachronistic and false and just plain pandering.
Dont even get me started on the stupid giant anime fantasy weapons. Noy a single weapon was realistic. They were all 2x to 3x bigger and fatter and heavier than their real life historical counterparts. 90% of the weapons would be impossible to wield in combat in real life. Not to mention making every peak upgrade a golden weapon. The original AC games had actual realistic period weapons.
Pretty sure the reason for that is cause execs at Ubisoft think female protagonists in marketing material won’t sell.
@@Im__Andy-f6xwith the way women are written and handled now a days it makes sense they trick people to play a sjw feminist dream , because they refuse to make a good story.
@Hideri Chan he was clearly meant to be a man since hes a reincarnation of Odin who.is also.a man. All.the other reincarnations match their original God's gender. Regardless, Ubisoft clearly only.cares about virtue signaling than telling compelling stories.
I enjoy playing female only games , like Lara croft series and horizon zero Dawn . But here what I hated was the fact that despite giving u the option to chose male Eivor they constantly tease u if u have chosen male Eivor . reflected by several times , my character getting referred as "she" , "her" in the dam* game (when i chose male), and few weird cutscenes and dialogue options.
You fucking expressed my feelings on this series perfectly. I love it and I just wished Ubisoft put actual care and passion to make not only AC but all their games. Somewhere in that mess I can see good ideas for possible great games but they insist on copying mechanics that don’t make sense in their games, rushing development and trying to make the “biggest” open world despite it having no meaning for the game. We don’t need game every 3 months Ubisoft. Just make them good.
The problem is the studio is more interested in making PC statements than just solid consistent writing, then writing based on how pissed they are you don't like their version of "Rey (not) Skywalker"
I will keep saying this. Get the money people out of the way. Let the creative people do what they do best. Example; I write a story you and a few others write the program. If things are not going the way you like you come to me and I do a rewrite where the problem is, or maybe cause of your problem or suggestion I change a section. The art department gives you a drawing of the Boss and you work with it. What I am see now is the money people see something so they tell you, :Hay in RDR II they had this wonderful shootout on the side of a cliff and players loved it, add it." But But But RDR II is a western we are set in the middle of London during the time of Elizabeth the First." They tell you to shut up, tell me to rewrite. I have you do it on the side of a castle and they get mad because it's suppose to be a cliff and oh yeah don't forget the Indians, we need indians with ray guns going pew pew.
That's where I feel part of the problem is. I don't know if you know anything about writing program and while I can write a novel (suck at short stories) I bet we and a group could do a halfway good game. Granted the characters would be stick figures ad my dialog might be "Ezio. Why .... do we. Speak...... like that... actor we watched.... on the what they call ..... a TB"
The speech at the beginning perfectly explains everything with this game
Kassandra's character model is used like 3 times in this game
It's Ubisoft after all the masters of cookie cutter games and ripping off popular trends.
I FELT THIS! They reuse character models so much that when it became apart of the plot I didn’t even realize
@Marius no the game actually has a Canon reason for that
@Marius Basim is the reincarnation of Loki and Sigurd is the reincarnation of Tyr, hence why they also have the same voice actors, also if you do the Valhalla story they show Sigurd losing his arm which is a foreshadowing of Sigurd losing his arm in the main storyline
@@chillzgmz8550 Yeah, yeah "it's not a bug, it's a feature"...
I killed an order member accidentally after a battle since he was just walking around in the market and the option to assassinate him popped up. I just did it out of reflex. The game lost me right then and there. 30 hours of playtime felt pointless.
@Alex Pokrandt It doesn't work like in the Odyssey though. In Valhalla, you can't kill the member of the Order, until you actually unveil him (her). User above simply did so, and forgot about it. If you load a save from before unveiling some member, and go to give location - he won't be there.
@@pothkan yes you can. I've killed order members before you've gathered the clues and they've been revealed.
There was one you needed to win one of those boring dice games for a clue. I didn't want to do that so I googled who it was and where to find them. I went to the location and killed them.
@Hoyt Volker I hate to agree with you, but I do. I also hate the fact that I found this video a year after it was put out and you made your commonet. You most likely saw my alert on notification and went "What the hell is this idiot talking about? lol
That Eivor going for a diplomacy victory joke killed me. It's so true lol
You forgot to mention the CONSTANT crashes and bugs in the game, it was honestly ridiculous.
Ubisoft: It’s just the animus glitching not the game!!
@Moha Idk if you played the game, but I'm not talking about annoying bugs here and there. I had bugs to a point the game wouldn't progress, I had to contact the support 3 times and was always on Reddit looking for solutions. They eventually got fixed yes, but my point was basically that, ubisoft, being the company they are (giant and rich) releasing games with that amount of crashes and bugs is just ridiculous
Cyberpunk?
i only had it crash two times which was annoying and maybe 3 bugs which didnt change anything
Still is 😕
They at least could’ve had him join the brotherhood to make it more assassins creedy
Wait for the dlc or maybe Darby is gonna do the best he can to be allowed to make a sequel
Seems ridiculous that there’s 2 hidden ones in this game and yet they leave the hunting down of the Order of Ancients to basically a stranger, because...reasons, I guess? Felt such a waste to have Eivor turn them down at the end but makes me think she might join in the DLC
@Hideri Chan the idea that you have to pay extra to make the story remotely decent is abhorrent
Let's just say it like it is. Assassins Creed games aren't really about Assassins Creed anymore. Scratch the Assassins Creed parts. The one game would be called Odyssee and this one just Valhalla. Scratch the like 10 seconds of attemtped AC content. You won't really see a difference. This is just bs by now. I don't watch the games anymore or play them. I watch the first one or two parts so I at least slightly know what it is about. And then watch the sin video for it. It is too long and has nothing to do with AC anymore. Which is what I liked in the original trilogy. Also the Ezio trilogy was just the best. And Ezio is easily the best Assassin in all games. He actually actively tried to find out about the past and we see him from his birth until almost his end where he find Edens Apple and leaves it there for someone else to find it because he is too old for it. That is some epic content right there. Here it was just included like an easter egg. As well as Desmond. Yes whatever. It is there. It exists. What is even the point of including something like what if Desomnd hadn't saved the world. He did. Point end. But it serves no actual purpose or adds to the plot although the first 5 games were literally all about it. That is sad. Also what happened to the First Civilization? Ubisoft just glosses over everything that made AC good in the first place. And the good series that it was. I wish they would remove the AC from the title. This is just clickbait so people buy it. Nothing else. And it is an insult in my opinion! Also wtf dlc? As with Odyssee... Why? You should get your full experience for the full price you pay for these games. And they aren't even good.
pfft he will join in the seige of paris 2 dlcs from now
THE GAME IS NEVER OVAH!!
Watch Valhalla DLC Gold medal Mastery Challenge ruclips.net/video/Fokb0BXjIC4/видео.html
This is where the real game begins Paul mitten squad
"Everything is wrong with Assassins Creed Valhalla"
There... fixed the title for you.
It should be everything wrong with the assassin's creed series.
Im not gonna be surprised if he goes insane from reviewing too many Assassin's Creed series
Surprised he hasn't. Sometimes I don't fully agree with his sins because games aren't meant to be realistic or some other reason why I personally think sinning it is a bit unfair, but assassin's creed has become too predictable and focuses on making you spend more time playing it than enjoy the story. I honestly think he shouldn't continue the series because quite a few AC fans aren't happy with the franchise anymore and there isn't much good writing in the series anymore imo
@@beardedfool5865 the early days of AC games had a bit of a grounded in reality aspect to it, you only had to fight humans and it wasn't easy (although it is because of the bad combat system) and even the Isu stuff wasn't too out of realm of belief
It's different now, it's almost high fantasy, hack n slash, rpg with lots of magic mumbo jumbo
@@frostb1041 I feel like they went too hard into the RPG trend and kinda lost the aspects of the series that drew ppl in. For me it was the historical periods that act as ur playground
@@beardedfool5865 it was the grounded aspect for me
@@frostb1041 mfr’s will act like they love ‘grounded’ stories then tell you how the next Final Fantasy game is the best thing they’ve ever played
The story in this game reminds me of being a kid and using a self-serve soda fountain for the first time. You think that if you mix all of the sodas together you'll have this amazing swirling concoction where it's a nonstop sensation-fest. But then you're faced with the cold reality that mixing everything together makes it taste like something you shouldn't taste.
Let's be honest the fact they thought vikings bloody VIKINGS would be a good idea for a Assassins Creed game is worthy of 100 sins alone no lol They didn't do stealth 😂
Agreed. I think they just opened a book of popular subjects, closed their eyes and pointed randomly on a page and landed on Vikings.
I think it was made to milk the popular TV show off the history channel, Eivor even looks like Bjorn 😂
Funnily enough, this game has the best stealth of the "RPG" AC games
I'll be frank I gave up on the series after 3 but that's hilarious if that's the case 😂
I mean, everyone has. Lete's be honest, there's not a group of people that haven't stealthed it up at some point.
If ubisoft abandoned the AC name and just made time piece games with their own original stories, it could be something. But they're clearly scared to abandon the name
It's really weird. They want to keep the name but then make games that are so far detached from the brand.
@@unc54 mhmm. It's sad tbh, they could make really good standalone games. Look at bloodborne. Standalone game, they didn't call is dark souls: village
@Moha mhmm exactly.
@@RedHoodFH Social Stealth , Hoods , Robes , Hidden Blade , Assassins , Templares , Dense Cities , Fantastic Modern day , Memory Corridors , Assassins bureaus , Assassin Letters ... If You Really think about it VALHALLA'S is the most AC since Black flag ! I think ACV has more than enough to be cool considered an AC game
@@mrmeme2917 mmm no black flag was the last assassin creed style game even then it wasn’t much but this game is more focused on Vikings and raiding the most assassin stuff you’re doing is hunting down the order of the ancients and they leave it up to a stranger essentially who hasn’t even joined so you’re welcome to that opinion tho
Surprised this isn't in three parts.
The whole thing in Vinland should've been some epilogue sequence that takes place after the main story, but oh wait.... we're still waiting for ubisift to milk the rest of the story via DLC
Fucks sake they could have made a better game basing it off the Life of Thorfiin Karseofonie .
Apparently it is supposed to be done late in the game because it doesn't make sense to do it straight after sigurd is taken or around that time but they didn't make that clear
3:34 Don't forget that this series has gotten farther and farther away from actually being about being an assassin after the first game. AC2 had more parkour, Brotherhood and Revelations had gang management and Evil Genius' world map mission system, AC3 and AC4 had ship sailing and ship combat, and finally peaking with Unity's classes, Origins' Destiny inspired weapon scoring system, Syndicate's Batman aping, and finally Odysee's Medusa fights.
3:39: Technically, the reason you would stop following these characters after they became parents was because the children born in these scenarios were the ancestors of Desmond Miles. However, in Assassin's Creed 4, Edward Kenway had not fathered Haytham yet. In Assassin's Creed Origins, Khemu died before fathering any children of his own.
Right the dna line would only end when the person who was descended from whichever child you got it from was conceived. So, for example, if someone's many times great grandmother was the third child of the person whose memories you were receiving, you could be in a situation where they already had two kids just not the third yet. Also all this was a limitation of the OG animus anyway, now that they're using primary source DNA for Layla's, it can in theory go all the way up to the time where they get the sample from, with Bayek it's from his mummified body so it could cover his entire life.
huh, you're right, the ending at the theatre is never shown to be an Animus sequence rather it seems to be a little nod towards the expanded universe of what happened to Haythem and Caroline
Props to you for spending almost 100 hours with an Assassin's Creed game.
I'm at 130 and still not done. Platinum trophy requirements are giving me a hernia.
he's brave, i couldnt make it past 25 hours
92 hours is insane lol
@@lyndonbauer1703 the game is soulless
witcher 3 with dlc takes longer to complete everything. But in this case its a plus cause everything is good and meaningful and thats why no one complains. Valhala is 150 hour soulless journey.
Christ. I thought that Juno storyline being resolved in a comic was a rumour. That's the whole series pretty much invalidated for me then. I was really looking forward to the day when Juno might take over Asbstergo's systems and use the Phoenix Project to give herself a new body, and the modern Assassins would do the same for Desmond so he and Juno can go head to head. 😒
That was actually solved years ago together with Desmond son sub-plot
@@centurionzo1228 Well, after Juno's appearance in Syndicate that there'd be more gravitas to her Endgame than a comic.
@@centurionzo1228 When did Desmond get a son?
@@nobody2996 It's in the comics. I'm not a fan of "Important plots in the video game series are resolved in a novel/comic". If it's so important, put it in the damn game
@@nobody2996 In the comics, it's actually explain what Sage are, how reincarnation kinda work and what was Juno and Minerva endgoal, not only that but explain more about the assasin's and templar conflict
i just can't get over the fact how bad lip syncing is in this 2020 game...
I mean this is Ubisoft we are talking about.
@@sebastianriz4703 true that
Remember how they assassinated Genghis Khan in a comic? Genghis Khan! One of the most powerful people ever? Died in a comic?
Or Juno. That Juno who first started talking in AC2 (or 3?) and was sabotaging and threatening the entire humanity until Syndicate...
Only to be killed by someone before unknown who will never show up again. Pathetic.
Aelfred actually does not defeat the vikings initially. Wessex is initially overrun before countering the vikings and defeating Guthrum.
The first game that I gladly bought but can't finish... I've never been that bored in more 15 years of gaming. I don't even know how I managed to have more than 68 hours in it
I just find it hilarious how this game came out within a year of Ghost of Tsushima and the Vinland Saga anime. One is a GORGEOUS period piece that kicked AC's butt in terms of mechanics and the other is an epic Viking story that turns the standard revenge plot on its head, both with fun and interesting characters
I liked PARTS of the story, and even a handful of characters (though most were forgettable). Also enjoyed building up the settlement whenever I could - I like having a home base in games, especially ones with even a little bit of life. It’s just nice to have a location to go and chill.
11:08 This si so true the warning message does not even say "Eivor did not kill civilians" as OG -real- Assassin's Creed games used to say. For all its faults at least Assassin's Creed Odyssey was more honest about this approach, letting you kill as many civilians as you wished while increasing your Bounty Level.
The fact a _misthios_ had more freedom to kill civilians than a *Viking* is too telling: Ubisoft avoided to vilify Vikings to avoid alienation from a part of the Public thus to *keep sales high.* The endgame is the cliché reason *Money!*
Also sugar-coated vikings because of the whole "immigrant" angle they pushed with them. This whole "oh, vikings are migrants that are coming to England to find a home and we're here to work together with the natives".
I had to stop playing after 17 hours and feeling like I hadn't done anything of note. I can't imagine having to play the whole game while critiquing it
I am right there too. I think I am about 19 hours in and I had to stop playing it. I was seriously so bored. So I decided to play Days Gone again for the third time and seriously loved every moment of it.
@@J.F.331 Days Gone was a really good game. Just needed abit more polish.
@@splinterborn Yeah I agree. A bit more polish would have been nice but for how good it was I was willing to overlook some of those faults. Now Valhalla on the other hand, Ubisoft is such a big company and yet the facial animations and lip-syncing as well as the awful RPG elements need serious improvement. I expect so much more from Ubisoft and they seem to always under deliver on their AAA games.
It's just another ubi game tbh, like the combat is really shit. The voice acting compared to the OG acs are shit (again) the world it self seems so empty and you genuinely do the same shit over and over that it just becomes so fucking boring
I stopped playing the series after ass creed IV, because I saw the writing on the wall as far as the rest of the series will go.
3:34 Ikr! Ubisoft completely destroyed their own lore in regards to the genetic memories. First they established that you can only get the memories from still-living descendants of the relevant ancestors.
Then Origins suggested that Bayek's & Aya's memories could be obtained directly from their mummified corpses, under the pseudo-scientific explanation that their bodies were so well-preserved from mummification that you could still find usable DNA samples.
But then Odyssey somehow made it so you could grab a DNA sample off the Spear of Leonidas... somehow. There's no mummy explanation here; you just grab what's presumably a blood or skin cell sample right off the spear, perfectly preserved.
And now you grave-rob Eivor's corpse--which isn't mummified at all--to take her perfectly preserved DNA. Ubisoft just completely stopped giving a shit about internal logic and consistency.
To be fair they didn't destroy the lore, they very clearly describe the change in technology. Animus 1.0 tech you needed DNA from a descendant, with newer animus tech you just need any DNA sample and you can follow the line. Layla isn't even related (that she knows of anyway) to any of the protagonists of the Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla trilogy. Also if you don't think we can get DNA from long dead remains you haven't been paying attention to technology over the past couple decades. We can; why do you think every few months you'll read some article about some thousands of years old remains showing evidence of human migration we hadn't accounted for?
@@ironwolf56 I never said we can’t obtain DNA from long-dead remains, only that we can’t get perfectly preserved samples. DNA samples degrade significantly over time, after all. Things like decomposition, weather, etc. can eat your sample away bit by bit. You could probably identify a few genome strands here and there from an ancient uncovered corpse, depending on the preservation conditions, but it’ll never be 100% IRL. Now, as I said earlier, Origins at least tried to justify that the mummification process preserved Bayek & Aya’s corpses so that Layla could obtain their samples to sequence their memories (obviously not accurate to real life, but whatever, this is the rule they created for their world and I’ll observe it for the sake of argument). And again, Valhalla contradicts this rule because Eivor is clearly not mummified, so the internal logic Origins created is thrown out the window. How am I supposed to believe a previously established rule when it is blatantly not followed in a later game without explanation? Something simple like, “Eivor was preserved in some Isu temple or her body got partially reanimated by an Isu artifact” would’ve been more consistent within the established lore.
It's a shame they never incorporated actually having to eat and show beard growth over time if you had clean shaven. I know it's a Red dead thing but even fallout new Vegas had hydration survival options and MGS snake eater had bandages (I know they didn't exist back when) so much of the map is unused but has place markers for no reason.
I agree with all of these sins but Ælfred defeated the Vikings and Guthrum after being deposed and hiding in a village called Athelney. He retook Wessex after guerilla fighting and drove them back to Chippenham. Guthrum then converted to Christianity and was baptized. Ubisoft didn’t get it entirely correct but it is one of the things they got almost right about the historical accuracy of this game.
To add a sin (or sort of): Aletheia, the Isu inside the Staff of Hermes who guide Kassandra and Layla in the DLCs of Odyssey is actually the wife of Loki/Basim, the DLCs of Valhalla maybe will explore the later life of Eivor in Ireland and France, but the future main title of the series surely will focus on Loki and Aletheia and their misterious plans.
Splinter Cell next please, I would love to see some good old Ubisoft games.
She wasn't his wife , but actually his lover (he had an affair with her), they tell u that in the Animus anomalies stuff
You're correct.
The reason we still played as Edward after he had a kid is because Desmond was part of Haytham’s bloodline. Therefore, the perspective would’ve switched to Haytham’s at his conception and not his older sister’s. Overall I do agree that Ubisoft has pretty much abandoned or retconned their lore a lot recently
The last sentence for this vid makes absolute sense: “The game isn’t over, the game is never over!”🤣🤣🤣🤣
One vote for Splinter Cell, I'd like to see you sin some older games.
First line in, and I already know I'm going to love this video.
This video is perfect. It describes how I felt about Assassins Creed Valhalla on a nutshell. Well done!!!
Female Eivor is canon? Oh what the hell Ubisoft. Don't stick the damn male version that's the reincarnation of Odin, a male god, on the cover then
I think they took the song "God is a woman" too seriously
Jokes aside, Odin *is* called the Allfather.
Dartigan is right, it's because women don't sell. I think I saw a stat that 75% of Odyssey players chose Alexios even though Kassandra was canon.
Well yeah. Because despite streamers and statistics that SWEAR the gender of gamers is 50/50, men make up the vast majority of people that play games like this
Wow, I didn't think things were this bad, glad I stopped really caring about Ass Creed games a while back, too much busy work for very little in return.
That intro line was pure fire, loved it
3:34
Dart...we went over this in your stream. You were still able to play as Edward at that point in his life because it was before Haytham’s conception as Abstergo was using Desmond’s blood in those Animus machines at Abstergo Entertainment.
As far as Bayek is concerned, Layla used the DNA from Bayek’s mummy in Origins, and could therefore explore his entire life, if she so chose.
Except the last memory of AC Black Flag includes Edward's daughter on the boat. Haytham had an older half sister.
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What's the point? Edward could have had 50 children. The important part is that his memory transfer to Desmond only ends at the point when Haytham is born, because this is Demond's ancestor. You could nitpick the fact that there is an after credit scene where you see Haytham and Edward, but first of all, that's just a bit of fan service and has nothing to with the story and secondly, you could say that the person is reliving Haytham's memories.
wen we got to England i didn’t like Sigurd at all to me he was more worried abt doing things to benefit himself rather than the things to benefit Ravensthorpe and although Eivor does become Jarl at the end s/he should’ve been Jarl from the begging
good god please fix your grammar
Add another sin because the cloaking aspect was utter bullshit.
Never put my hood up once
can you do Mafia: Definitive edition? Could be lot easier that these long games
Time was it was easy to play an Assassin's Creed game and complete it. Only reason a game should be 60+ Hours is when you can choose your adventure like Skyrim or something
@@TheHufflepuffSaint or if it is done well...like Red Dead Redemption 2. Love that game
@@deathstroke8021 Absolutely. RDR2 was a great longer game. Having said that apart from the Guarma Act, I found to be the right length for Arthur's story. Such an amazing gaming experience in my opinion.
With this game it's clear that the writers had a vision, the devs were excited to help and the higher ups at ubisoft said no we want another RPG. The only reason I enjoyed this game was because I looked past the viking stuff and saw the Story Darby wanted to be at the forefront
Lol yeah, but the RPG has ruined this franchise. Sure it sells well but jezus qtleast make the combat somewhat okay and beautiful.
@@verbon47 yeah. They're forced to hid the good stuff under an RPG
If I may, your comment on AC: 4 doesn’t hold up since the DNA came from Desmond, who was not related to Kenway’s daughter, but to his son Haytham. Haytham wasn’t conceived until AFTER the events of the game. That’s why you can play as a dad in that game. And Origins does it since it’s Bayak himself they got the DNA from.
I came looking for this comment, thank you.
This is the first AC game that I’m just completely not interested in.
This, and the one in Egypt
@@legitscoper3259 origins was good tho
@@legitscoper3259 What? Origins is awesome
@@legitscoper3259 I feel you on that. I’m a fan of the old school AC formula. When they changed it, I wasn’t really feeling it. It eventually grew on me though.
these past few AC games can only be described with the phrase "wide as the ocean but deep as a puddle" its just a huge map with copy paste quests and locations spread around with 0 character and passion. comparing these open worlds to something like RDR2 is night and day.
Also Halfdan is Thor so he got reincarnated too at the same time
Excuse you ,what
Yep the very first scene he appears in his hammer gets thrown to him but it looks like thor summoning mjolnir
Sigurd being able to speak Isu is due to the fact that Eivor, Sigurd, and Basim all have different levels of “synch” with their Isu counterparts.
Basim is so in synch with Loki that he IS Loki.
Eivor can only see and hear Odin and Sigurd is somewhere in between.
Three minutes in, I am already showing sign of regressed mental health and severe psyche fatigue.
"It keeps getting longer and longer" Dartigan says, 1:30 into his first sin.
What
Im so lost now. Glad i stopped playing at black flag
No sin off for what I think is the only clever game mechanic where to escape Odin you have to unequip the axe? Maybe I’m setting the bar too low
It’s innovative but yeah it’s setting the bar so low, you can feel the heat of earths core.
I actually love Valhalla. I’ve probably put like 100+ hours into it. It’s a godawful AC game, but it’s a fun Viking game on it’s own.
Valhalla could’ve gotten the flowers it deserved if Ubishit didn’t slap the hopes and dreams of millions on the title.
I've watched many lore videos, and I'm happy that this game explored more of the Isu story and even made connections with the older games. Too bad I didn't finish the game and only got to the part where Sigurd was taken away. I really wish the story was more focused without all the constant detours. If only the game had the same concept as AC Brotherhood where you could re-visit certain memories to play, but have them all accessible from the start. Maybe tag some as "main story", so I can just play the non-filler missions like I'm watching an anime with a non-filler episode guide...
Last Chapter update: It still makes zero sense, except now, they did almost nothing to account for players who chose male Eivor.
The Zealot system was different to how I think they planned it to be, almost implying they are like bounty hunters in the story. But, instead, they just roam about England, not really pursuing you at all. Some literally just chill out in bizarre locations not doing anything. One of the higher level ones is just chilling in a meadow!
I didn't even realise you could burn the note until I watched a video of the spare/kill Leofrith fight, to see the consequences of both (I Killed him). Even then, It doesn't seem like burning or not burning the note does anything.
"sometimes something is too boring to sin"
I'm so glad I waited for reviews and didn't buy this one. games should be fun and exciting, not a chore.
I don’t know if it was because I was so brain dead when I played through the ending, or if I just didn’t notice, but until you brought it up I had no idea that “Dr. Manhattan” was Desmond.
Actually when you said that Alfred defeated the Danes and Guthrum, that was the battle of Edington. But before that battle the Danes surprised him and drove him out of Winchester and into the swamps of Athelney, which is why he is there at the end of the game. So that sin shouldn’t count because it’s actually historically accurate
In AC 4 it is possible to continue playing as Edward even with his daughter as the genetic line goes through Haythem who is born after the events of the game.
This^. Also, when you're playing after beating the game, you're playing memories that occurred before Edward sailed back to England with his daughter. And ever since Origins, Layla isn't relieving Desmond or any other character's genetic memories, they're extracting the memories directly from the historical figure's DNA itself.
The lore is still fucked and most of the stories make no sense now, but that part at least has *some* explanation in line with the lore of the series.
That and these newer games use newer Animus technology that can get things from primary sources and bypass those limitations. There's a whole lot of lore issues you can complain about in these games, but how the Animus follows life tracks is actually one of the few things they've been pretty careful to explain in-universe.
Wait really, the whole new disaster the modern plot has in this game was because the electromagnetic field Desmond turned on in AC3 is still active?
Didn't Abstergo find Desmond's body in those ruins, did they not think to try and turn it off, or was I missing something?
Edit: also damn the view count is pretty low only 35K, is it because Valhalla is a late topic now or because of the 10-30 sec videos breaking the algorithm again
You can not just turn it of, they would need to build another one which could destroy the "shield" again. Probably technically possible for the Isu, but not for mere humans. Who knows what Abstergo is doing at that point, maybe they are actually trying to find a way, maybe they are to busy fighting the Instruments, or maybe they are still dominated by the Instruments influence (which is unlikely since they actively worked together with the Assassins to kill Juno) who would probably even prefer a new post apocalyptic world order, since a "new beginning" would make it a lot easier dominating humanity. Who knows, we only really know one Assassin teams perspective on the whole situation, everything else is speculation on topics the lore-writers probably did not even define yet.
I've played every ac game from start to finish but valhalla I don't even want to and that's sad because I love Vikings and their culture
Same here, I'm playing through the games right now (playing AC 4) & I'm debating whether or not if I'm going to buy Valhalla.
You left out the parts where the game got so buggy quests straight up broke and became uncompletable prematurely ending my playthrough because i would have lost 50hours of playtime due to one save file when a crucial npc died before the quest would begin.
I couldn’t even finish the game it was so broken. One of the final quests would not let me finish. But I had played for such a long time I didn’t care at that point. There were fish that you supposedly could catch that never ever spawned after hours of searching from the shore and in a little boat. Every time I talked to the hunter about turning in my legendary animal trophies resulted in an immediate crash. The list goes on. And then it crashes into a dump truck full of wet cow shit on a 90 degree day
This franchise needs to reboot itself. Hard.
That's what Origins was. 2 games ago!
I liked the video before it started because I know this was going to be a near-perfect critique. I am not disappointed.
i paid 60$ for a game that i didnt even like
Also another thing, everyone except Basim were reborn in Norway.
Probably has something to do with the fact that Loki is half giant? Or I guess in Isu terms, one parent is higher class and the other is lower class. That’s why in the game he’s Brown while everyone else is White. Just a thought
You know, since Dartigan uses Metro: Last Light as his boob measuring stick, how about a sins video on that game???
I was just thinking about that
Or on Metro Exodus.
I support your opening statement 100%. Origins was the last AC game I played. The series has nothing to offer for me any more!
Ho, that long ass sin for number 1. Lol
And that bullshit excuse of why you can't skip to the climax of the search for X is synchronization. Don't blame you for forgetting: they forgot about it in Assassins Creed 2 AND 3, so... yeah.
And I like how they cast Magnus as the male Eivor (the actor that played Cnut in Last Kingdom, ie one of the *main* antagonists) but some nobody voices the canon Eivor. Waste of talent imo
Yeah I would have tried to get the woman who played Lagertha to voice female Eivor
Agree
The actor for female Eivor is terrible.
In AC 1 the animus glitched out and almost fried Desmonds brain because it wanted to pack all the recent memories into his brain at once, they then decided to apoach from a more stabil point. Everything was purposefully glitchy and bugged looking.
In the recent games they just show you how the family member(s) die and that's it.
New Dartigan Video?
Gods Be good! Skòl🍻
4:40 to be fair Ubisoft released a "Discovery Tour" mode for both Assassin's Creed Origins and Assassin's Creed Odyssey, even sold them as standalone "games" (at some point past year both "Discovery Tour" were made available to get for free for a limited time). I won't be surprised if the game happens with Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
My biggest problem with the entire game is how much I have to grind just to fight a single person, in odyssey I could go to kill people at least 5-7 levels above (though it took time) but in this game I can’t even do anything until I get a specific power or else I’ll just immediately die so
That is literally the opposite of odyssey, in Valhalla it’s easy to kill enemies who is a higher level then u wise in odyssey it’s hard to kill enemies above u
@@ahnv1891 hey, we all have different experiences I guess, I’m just not much into grinding at all and at least side quests in odyssey weren’t “follow this person to this specific location “ and you actually got to fight
That's the opposite in Odessey enemies wreck you if they have higher level than you. It takes a thousand years to kill because they are bullet sponges
@@Legion849 ok bro sure
@@sushilampa8287wdym sure, what did you do??
"Having a dead relative is a requirement for an assassin"
He's clearly talking about Fenrir here, he fully understands that he is Loki
dude we want the witcher 3, we wanna know what you're gonna sin about it ?
NB: It's not because I hate, I absolutelty love it, but I wanna hear what you'll have to say
I’ve been binging your old videos all week can’t believe I’m early for one, let’s get this sin counter going😂
When he finally releases this “WWOOOO ya badly that s what i am talking about”
He a lil confused but he got the spirit ^^^^^ lol
Ghost of Tsushima knows how to scale enemies. The harder enemies don't have much bigger health bars, they're just better at fighting, making it feel fairer when you get your arse kicked.
I want an actual assassin's creed game. Is that too much to ask for?
Garbage rpg ac go brr
@@huskytzu7709 I must correct you.
Garbage rpg go brr
Without the AC in it.
#backtoitaly
The assassins defeating Alfred with Guthrum did happen. Then, only after Alfred’s self imposed exile, did he return and defeat Guthrum.
After watching this. I'm glad I don't remember the plot.
The reason you can’t fast forward to the part that they’re looking for is because the DNA is never fully synchronised, so this actually is the closest they could get without the data either being corrupted or rejecting them. So yeah minus 1 sin for lack of knowledge.
Also this is the glitchiest game I have ever played......it was horrible.....I’m a patient person, but it was driving me crazy....
You should play Sonic 06, Valhalla will still have bugs (annoying bugs) but Sonic 06 make Valhalla a perfect game without glitches.
You didn't have to pay for the DLC to get a proper ending... you just had to wait two years for a free update.
I'm aware this is about as bad.
Remember when Ubisoft said both genders were canon 😂
Cowards
I mean i like the choice but why not just settle onto a female main then... But i mean who had hopes for this game anyway?
@Mcheetah The male Eivor funny enough is actually much better performance wise and was pushed in all the marketing even though the female Eivor is canon 🤨
They are technically. Eivor is a sage of male ISU. It's full explained in the comics but she does feel like a male sometimes mainly during the confessionals cause Odin is with her
@Mcheetah women in gaming do sell though. Look at the tomb raider series. Ubisoft is just scared to out a woman on the box art. They went as far as to put Evie in the shadows on syndicates one
At 5:15, you said the scar left by the wolf was on Eivør's other cheek, but the scar he was showing was the gnarly bite mark on his neck. You can see it much more visibly if you choose female Eivør, or if you happen to take Eivør's beard off in the tattoo parlor in your settlement. I understand it's a very easy thing to miss, as I was also confused as all hell during that part in the game. Keep up the good content, man. Much love 🤍