It was an honor. Great review Big Dan

The male Eivor voice actor is hands down my favorite part of the game. His voice actor does such a good job at portraying this more leader-like Viking and fits the game's narrative more imo. Also flyting with him is just perfect.

The most interesting part of the raiding in this game is that... if you kill civs you are disconnected from nexus (even if they are wandering in the middle of a big fight), bc vikins never did such things like killing innocent ppl. Makes sense...

9:19 and upgrading your gear chances its appearance. For example weapons get extra engravings and beautifully carved handles each time we upgrade them. Its so cool. I didn't really see than in other games

People say Valhalla isn’t very “Assassin’s Creed” but I’ve been able to play the majority of it silently and strike from the shadows. Yes, there are mandatory combat sequences and raids…but I haven’t seen a military encampment yet I couldn’t stealth.

the biggest mistake i did was to focus on leveling up my character that made the main storyline boring and easy. This happened mainly when I hunted all zealots in the beginning. I think I was at level 120-200 when I killed the last zealot. When I was at level 270 something, there was still level 20 areas I had to play.

I kind of missed the part where in Witcher 3 choices matter that much. Because they don't, especially compared to Witcher 1 and 2 where your choices had huge impact.

I am a very patient gamer, I love games I can sink 40, 60, 100 hours into. But ACV took 90 hours to get to the credits and I wanted my time back. Just a bloated mess.

Currently at about 85 Hours into the Game, love it so far, and the Norse Depiction fills my Viking loving and Norse Mythology knowing Heart really good to see that they did their research. Having a Big Blast

I'm currently on my first playthrough and around 90 hours in. I stuck 200 into odyssey and I hear this one is longer. While it's not as good as the other two, the assassin part is pretty much gone, it's still a great game and the graphics are superb.

You AC OG’s got the stiff end because they changed the way AC was. But us time period lovers and Warband / Crusader Kings roleplayers also got the stiff end because of how they chose to make armors. They had the chance to showcase amazing armors… but they gave us Red Dead Online bounty hunters with fiery eyepatches.

People say that main missions are disconnected. I dont think so, your allies come to help u later in game and u can go to meet them in their regions after u become friends with them. Not every character has to stick around the whole game anyways for them being meaninfull.

As a open world viking rpg its great. What you have to look at, is the price conpared to the possible time you can spend on it. I got it on sale and i paid roughly 10 US cents pr hour in my first playthrough.. compared to the last star wars game i played where the campaign cost me 4-5 US dollars an hour. My point is, on sale you get GREAT value for the money with Valhalla., even if its not on sale you will be able to spend less than a dollar for each hour of the main story.. something alot of games cant match. I feel robbed paying full price for a game with a 15 hour campaign..

I'm on hour 344. I have yet to play the last paid dlc and the 2 free dlcs. I like to wander around a complete stuff. To each their own. I'm glad it took long to complete. Keep in mind that I haven't done a second playthrough like AC Origins or AC Odyssey.

Easily my favourite game! I discovered brought this during the lockdown and it was 2 years of constant gaming. Very addictive

I’m at around 150 hours in the game. I have two territories left in England to do, and I haven’t touched the dlcs except the River Raids. I’m enjoying it, yes it can be a grind but I don’t think it was as bad as Odyssey. One feature other than the raids I really enjoy is the fortress assaults, both are a big step up from the battle system in Odyssey.

I waited till Ragnarok, and holiday price cuts to play Valhalla. So far I've sunk about 450hrs into 3 playthroughs. Absolutely worth the money I paid, compared to the 20 hr 70$ games they release these days.

World events might be my favorite quest system in any game. It removes the endless backtracking of Origins.

I sank way over 300 hours into this game. It is overstuffed with repetitive side stuff to cover a fairly uninteresting story. I played as female Eivor for the most part but swapped to male at the end, and the male character works so much better overall for the story and immersion. Why did I bother playing so much of it? Because I have OCD and can’t leave any quest marker unfinished. AC Odyssey was a much better and more fun game. This is a copy and paste grind fest in comparison. You gave a very balanced and accurate review, Dan.

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Hey man, great review. I didn’t end up buying the game after watching but you did a good job providing a thorough overview

Odyssey was just so well done. There was much more variety to the landscape, and ocean combat was awesome. I do love Valhalla, though. If you’re a 100% completion geek, it’s a solid game. I would give Odyssey a 10 and Valhalla a 9.

This game is the only ac game that I really loved!!. I approached it as viking rpg and fell in love with the world and characters. The overall feel of this game worked for me way more than the others. Combat improved, less loot was great. Music is wonderful. I even loved the puzzles. Loved figuring out how to get into all the locked houses even . I understand and appreciate all the negative criticism its not perfect but most of this game just hit right for me

My main issue with Valhalla is that I don’t care for the secondary characters. So the story feels long, I have not finished the game at all. In the very beginning just finished Mercia and decided it wasn’t worth my time. The main story is about me betraying Sigurd, yet I barely spend time with him. I don’t feel like I should even be loyal or feel bad about the choice. Is just the story l, I guess, is too slow.

I still haven't beaten Orgin or Odyssey. Until I do I wont buy another Assassin's Creed Game. Unless its 80% off.

Giga Chad?? Hahaha.. Eivor is a 100% female name in Scandinavia. Historically as well. Female Eivor all the way baby! =)

I'm amazed at how the best decision they made in making AC successful, has been to take the AC out of the games. They should really just give up on the "Assassins x Templar" "arching plot" and just focus on what they do well. creating experiences in historical settings, and just make a damn fun game. (I'm personally completely just done with the assassins and Templars, because ever-since Black Flag, that sub-plot has been slowly but surely declining to actual fun content.

I just finished oddessy and now it was like to be continued in vahalla but oddessy looks like it was actually better

This game took me 92 hours. I put it down once I got Thor’s Hammer. Eventually I’ll pick up up the DLC and continue. This game was a real time investment and, despite its pacing issues, it was a fun ride!

I had never played a game that had such a big investment in the development, that was so beautiful, with so many systems and yet, so utterly boring due to how repetitive and utterly inconsequential everything feels. Ironically I recently went back to playing the very first Assassin's Creed game and it actually felt so refreshing on it's simplicity and realistic representation of a medieval world.

U r absolutely right bro this game is made for unemployed people like me😂😂😂

I started playing the game last week ive been having fun. Grinded out exaliber right away and loved using the weapon

Play it slow, and don't grind or be a completionist that just want all those cluster icon on the map dissapear by playing this game for like 6-8 hours in one sitting.. That's what i learnt from my rush first playthrough during the pandemic.. It was punishing Currently playing it again, really taking it slow. it's been about four months and i barely made it to 50% But just taking time to enjoy the scenery, complete just one or two quest per day, and try to immerse to the world, gotta say i kinda enjoyed it Still, F Ubisoft for making so many ugly mythical gear rather than the more grounded one

I dont get how people complain when a game is over 100 hours if you buy it on special comes out to like 10 cents an hour to play, vs buying a game that only has 20 hours of stuff and paying over 5$ an hour for it. I find it hilarious actually

I love Valhalla one of my favorite games.. I loved making alliances, taking territories over and so on. I’m not one of the huge OG AC fans. I like Vikings and that time period I can care less about the ISU and all that jazz 🤷🏼‍♂️ 👍🏻👍🏻

I love the game. Im taking my time, the graphics are awesome, exploring, discovering stuff, putting attention to the quest and the storyline and playing it in the hardest difficulty, im alreay at 100 hours and cant get enough

Once I gpt the Blazing Sword, I annihilated the Order and all of the Zealots in a couple of days. Getting the Blazing Sword was very annoying

Out of playing all the AC rpg trilogy fully with about 100+ hrs in each of them dlc included, no question AC origins is the best of if the 3 and it’s the best AC Ubisoft had made since revelations hands down. Odyssey was fun just cause if the Demi god abilities I like how it really dove deep into the isu and with Valhalla I just appreciated how they connected all the AC games together, you see the crystal ball in Vinland arc that’s soon to be used by Conner in AC3 and you hear Ezios voice in the Odin visions. And most importantly some closure on what happened to Desmond now I can finally say after the whole thing with “AC died when Desmond died” has been officially over they can finally move on now and move onto live service title with AC infinite lol

I commented quite a bit the last time you reviewed this, so won't repeat myself. This is a good review of the game. I learned quickly not to treat it as an AC game and smash around like a drunk Viking instead. Made it way more fun! Thanks Dan🙂

I got Valhalla with all dlc's on xmas sale. So far I spent 150h and haven't seen it all. It's really fun and breath taking beautiful. Would play ot again.

I chose to let the animus decide and what is did was that “Eivor” was female but “Havi” was male. So you get to play with both

You can't say that the new Assassin's Creed model is here to stay when Assassin's Creed Mirage is taking cues from the older titles.

I really enjoy the game but there is a point when a game becomes to big that it over stays it's welcome especially when you have other games to play.

Is it perfect no but I get to play a viking in one of the craziest story I have ever herd so I just make my own shit up as I go

I'm a completionist so i go after every marker on the map and do everything. I have about 80 hours into my game and ive fully explored about half the map, and im on chapter 9 of the main story. And power level 200 or so. Ill probably have 200+ hours into it when i finish. More if I buy the expansion.

Female Eivor is actually pretty fun because she sounds like she's from a completely different game most of the time. I like to lean into that with more fantasy looking weapons/armor/mounts.

Let the Animus decide means female Eivor, male Odin.

Personally I enjoy the game for its gameplay and looks. I recently played the Witcher for the first time which was more amazing and it’s a masterpiece. Before the Witcher I thought ac Valhalla was amazing, but my opinion has been downgraded to say that Valhalla is good. Not great, not bad just good. It’s not awesome like the Witcher 3 but I still enjoy for what it is

I played like 40 hs and got bored. Very repetitive and bloated. Also the combat is really bad. No weight at all. One thing that i liked are the sidequests because there are not the typical ubisoft fetch quest. They tried to do original things with these.

Male eivor is a boss love him I picked kassandra though in odyssey

What can I say, Odyssey was easy to level up fast, and even by taking out all the bosses. I’ve beaten it 3 times.

I really enjoy it. One thing that bugs me are the roads. They have the strip of grass in the middle, and ruts on either side made by cart wheels. That only happened when cars replaced horse and carts 😂

Kind of funny I got this yesterday and today you come out with this XD

I dont care about old assasin creed fans this game is one of the best open world games out as fan of anything viking related i had the time of my life on this game and new one is just going to be even better

Does age matter? I Just played Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 this year and found it more fun than Horizon Forbidden West . Mass Effect must be over 20 years old . They did get the free 4k/60fps patch for Ps5 so that was nice . Better than 1080p/30fps on a Ps4 .

went the piracy route just to try it out and even if this was given for free I wouldn't even bother playing this. took me 50+ hours for basically a 8-10 hour storyline. the only thing that kept me engange is what the hell is happening on the modern day. I am excited for Mirage since they are teasing it as a return to form for the series. Sank in 700+ hours in Odyssey testing out different paths thinking there would be different outcomes on the choices and it just felt flat. AC Origin was a perfect balance. I love the OG AC games, was skeptical when Origins was introduced but grown to like it, but after Odyssey I am passing up on AC games with this formula.

I haven’t played assasins creed since black flag, but I actually fucked with valhalla heavy. i thought it was really good (until the very end because it got repetitive). The Vikings setting is the best one they could’ve chose

If you want combat & content I say it's a solid game to get with it's dlc's, but if you a more classic AC game it's not really that.

If you’ve got game pass, you are good to go. I might be the weird one here but all of the stuff that I didn’t like about early AC games seem to be gone from this one lol this is the first one that I’ve enjoyed this much. But then again, I’m much more casual and love an open world RPG. It took me 10 hours to get to the intro and 70 hours later. I am well less than halfway done. Haven’t gotten bored yet. The general consensus I got from the video was that this is kind of AC lite. I think that’s the word I would say as well. But it’s not even expensive if you have to buy it anymore and it’s fun.

I heard ac vahalla used to have a lot of corrupted saves I had no issues with it on orgins or odyssey I even looked to make sure my saves weren’t corrupted in odyssey or orgins vahalla is the worst out of the 3 but odyssey was better people can argue all they want but I’m telling them now there wasting there time against me you won’t change my mind I’m too stubborn to think vahalla is better when it’s not true t7 pdm even thinks vahalla sucks

After playing elden ring, I wanted something to play while waiting for the expansion, it's OK, I like the combat, but i kept hitting circle to dodge accidentally out of habit, and the parry timing is strange.

This is exactly the review I was looking for. I’m an “OG” AC game player and miss the old play style. I guess I will continue to wait until they make something similar again. Thanks for the review

Bought the disc on ps4. Got a digital ps5 lost the disc after doing about 40% but I bought the game again for 15 bucks. So now I'm back to going a viking

Brought day one ultimate edition on ps4 still playing but on ps5 now I love everything about it except the ultimate should have come with everything for the $150 price tag in Australia and I'm playing assassin's creed odyssey on PC love it too loads fun but the fucking sharks 🤣

I really struggled with Valhalla, especially in comparison to its predecessor Odyssey (which I loved). The combat is nice, but the story goes nowhere for massive swathes of playtime as you push through the same arc with new faces, and exploration isn't nearly as fulfilling when your reward is a metal ingot or another roman mask more often than it is a new piece of kit. I also found myself less inclined to explore the overcast hills and fields of England (where I live anyway) than I was the glorious sun-soaked islands and seas of ancient Greece. Valhalla never has a moment like climbing up an enormous statue of Zeus and getting the panorama of an entire island below. Likewise, the fantasy of running around in gleaming hoplite armour and a spear was far more potent than just being a viking again -- played too much Skyrim and moved on to Valheim too soon for that, maybe.

i wish u had the option to be a viking to become an assassin that would give u different options on how to complete the story... trying to play like an assassin rn is painful at times at just 13h in

I loved this game as a fuck around you're a Viking game when I was just relaxing after work, took months to actually beat it, cost me like 45 bucks thanks to Uplay + 😂😂

This game was sick af

Odyssey was my absolute favorite, if a bit repetitive. Valhalla fell flat for me, not sure why.

I enjoyed your outro. :)

I had fun. I still am, 130 hours in. There are certainly painful parts, but I wouldnt say its any worse than other games I played in the past. I actually hated my time more in the MW2 2022 campaign. But its the little things like the unpatched bugs that have existed for 3 years or the stupid missions that make it hard to love. I just got my quiver and ration upgrades wiped and for some reason a bag of rations cost thousands of iron to upgrade, while im spending 500 iron an upgrade on my weapons to upgrade them. I have to hunt for iron, and that is incredibly boring and painful. There should be a patch to this shit by now. And for gods sake, why no ng+???

about the dlc the game and dlc are on sale for 25 dollars should i buy it ?

Other than black flag absolutely in my top three favorite

I'm curious about the current performance of this game on the original Xbox one. I can't seem to find much out that's not from back in 2020

Over 120 hours in and still can’t finish it. Had its moments, but just couldn’t focus due to bloat. Might try it again one year. Good vid Dan!

Went after AC Valhalla again last week. Somewhere close to 60 hours......and just did one main quest. Been all over the place having a hella good time with it.

I am thinking of going back to playing Valhalla my first Assassins creed game , I stopped playing once I reached The story with Kassandra , And now have the urg to pick female Eivor and get immersed again , nice review

It just dropped on Game Pass. I played it for two hours before I realized that I just didn’t care and uninstalled it.

September 2023; I’m over 300 hours in. I’ve deliberately been dragging my feet to make this game last as long as possible. Huge mistake. I’ve finished Siege of Paris and Wrath of Druids, I’m almost maxed out at power level, and there’s still TONS of stuff all over the map I haven’t touched. Just play the main story and be done with it.

I still play it cause its a actually a good viking game and I like to call myself a god as eivor because I bought a good pack, went for my special abilities that i use, and I leveled up fast cause i bought a booster. Now im powerful

Just bought this game today , gonna start it tonight ! Any tips for first time playing assassins creed game ?

When respeccing, you can just choose the abilites you want to quickly use the points instead of doing all 200 points or whatever one by one.

I loved assassins creed Valhalla for a couple weeks after launch. I bought it the minute it was released. After playing 20-30 hours the gameplay loop became the same for every single area. Got very boring. Comparing that to oddesy where I played through the full game 2 times and never really got boring. And I enjoyed grinding levels in oddesy. While in Valhalla grinding just felt like a chore

I don't care about a few bugs, its vikings :) ....."FOR VALHALLA!!!!!!"....

Just made it to the part where Sigurd and basim are held up in a fishing house, his personality pulled an almost 180

I live 2 miles from Ravensthorpe and five miles from Crowland . I so wish the countryside was the same as the game lol. It's flat , very flat 😁.

I'm a fan of the old action-adventure AC games. The Ezio trilogy are my favorite games of the past generation. Unity and Syndicate were fine in my book. I was excited about visiting Egypt when Origins was announced but I found the game waay to long and the grind sucked. Didn't finish it. Same thing with Odyssey. I keep trying to find reasons to try Valhalla but I suspect if I didn't like Origins and Odyssey, I'll probably hate Valhalla. I am excited about AC Mirage. Hopefully they'll make it shorter (30 Hrs) with memorable supporting characters and a variety of action sequences.

I am experiencing major buggy and clunky gameplay on my ps5. Anyone elms having this issue?

odyssey > origins> valhalla just because I think Greek and Ancient Egyptian mythology is more intersting.

Bro i get 100 hours on assassins creed origin and i'm so tired to play assassins creed game againnn😭

The next version of AC, you will be a tailor for the AC clan. Not one person killed in the whole game. You just get custom needles and thread to patch holes in outfits until you find the "perfect design". Occasionally, you have to settle squabbles with other tailors, fighting for the same contracts. By fighting, I mean, just some yelling and sabotage to thwart them from obtaining materials from the supply-chain of raw fabrication supplies. Using stealth to obtain that royal-silk, and swap it for purple stained burlap, from the traders. Bonus, you get to play in all the maps from every past game, and hear the actual assassins' stories about all the assassination's he did. Maybe a couple side-quests with the weapons-expert, who makes the various assassin-specific weapons... I mean, weapon. Which is the exact same weapon in every game. But apparently it has to be "reinvented" every time. (Such a horrible concept for a "creed". DIY-Assassin, without an actual group or faction or order. Other than, by secrets, so secure, other assassins' don't even know about them, until they do!)

Story wise it isn't the best but I really liked eivors storyline with Sigurd and I REALLY like the isu stuff but the gameplay is extremely well made in my opinion with weapon types combined with runes

What turned me off was just how annoyingly easy the combat was…highest difficulty ofc and i could just ability spam down the on level bossfight without taking it even serious… (not even maxed out, mixed gear and some levels)… the same with all the hunters and bosses in between… played origins again to check and that kept it real til the end… really sucks as setting and world are awesome…

The let animus decide option picks female for the england parts and male for the asgard parts.

Stopped at 60hrs.Hard between two full time job but I like Vikings era so I'm not deleting atm.

Great review but some constructive critisism would be to have you try and keep the things containing spoilers to the end of your video, I was relaxing and didnt even get to pause before you had warned me and began to spoil part of the story

If you dont think of it as an assassin's creed game, its pretty dope

Default sex option runs with canon eivor im pretty sure... Also idk about your statement that the rpg style will stick especially since mirage was stated to return to previous games styles... Dont get me wrong itll probably have some rpg elements but unity was the 1st game with skills to a basic degree but no one considered it an rpg and i very much preferred the old style games and the last game i actually really liked was origins mostly because of it's really strong story and not absurd length (it couldve even been a tad longer as the ending felt rushed to me)... also just cos it made a billion i wouldnt grade that as a success element... The viking genre was a popular option that it failed to perfect imo, the story was pretty horrid and i had such high hopes but ive always been realistically critical of these games... Ive bought every special edition since 2 but doesnt mean i think theyre all perfect but this game is the 1st ive still not completed... By normality with all of them i finish the story very quickly after release and then do a 2nd thorough playthrough, this game i never finished and it only ever felt like a chore of a game... A real let down which i wished it wasnt and luckily the dawn of ragnarok dlc didnt interest me otherwise id be pissed about more dlc being charged for on top of the expensive edition i already ordered... My fav games are 2, 4 and origins... Odyssey had a good story but again felt like a chore and the dialogue options are tedious when you essentially go through them all to finish a conversation and the story impact element just ruins any potential for a better tighter story for this series imo... I hope they change things otherwise theyll probably end up losing me as a long time fan and ritualistic special edition buyer which would make 11 year old me inside very sad 😭

I'm very late to the party I just bought the game last week and I been locked in since I love the game but I wish the fighting was better

I bought this game and Elden Ring at the same time. I wish I wouldn’t have played ER first, played ACV for about 10 minutes, shutting it off because the graphics blew compared to ER.