Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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  1. BigKidPlays
    Sep 9, 2023
    5
    I just can't with this game... I love AC and enjoyed the newer titles in Odyssey and Origins, but this game is just to freaking long. There's basically no side quests and every quest is mandatory. Despite the cool setting and interesting story, I just can't keep playing it knowing that it took me 30 hours to complete like 25% of the game. I just can't do it... Each area has it's own storyI just can't with this game... I love AC and enjoyed the newer titles in Odyssey and Origins, but this game is just to freaking long. There's basically no side quests and every quest is mandatory. Despite the cool setting and interesting story, I just can't keep playing it knowing that it took me 30 hours to complete like 25% of the game. I just can't do it... Each area has it's own story and they are just not interesting enough to keep me engaged for 150 hours.… Expand
  2. Tylerwynn18
    Sep 7, 2023
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Played every assassin's Creed game love the original assassin's creeds. Also I like the RPG ones assassin's Creed Valhalla was good. I just wish they were focused on more about the assassins instead of Vikings. And I wish they kind of calmed down on the fantasy a little bit. But overall the combat I love hope they keep the brutal combat. And future assassin's Creed games also keep the stealth. An want the developers to never forget what made assassin's Creed games unique. I like the Valhalla. But it seem like it struggled what it wanted to be I hope you read this Ubisoft. I like the RPG ones and the OG assassin greed games. I just hope you stick to what it means to be an assassin. And keep the assassin's Creed games unique. I don't really like the fantasy stuff that much it kind of ruins it I like you Ubisoft to make an RPG assassin's Creed game that focus on assassin's and Templars. Please stick to what make assassin's Creed special I played all of them I like the originals and the RPGs ones just don't mess this franchise up.… Expand
  3. lazyssj
    Sep 3, 2023
    7
    Wait for a sale, but worth giving a shot.

    AC Valhalla being the latest installment of the AC franchise sees great graphical and performance upgrades in the next-gen variation of the games and is very impressive. The combat is fun and engaging and the inclusion of the feature to allow instant assassinations allow you to focus easier on stealth. The map is also vast with tons of areas    Wait for a sale, but worth giving a shot.

    AC Valhalla being the latest installment of the AC franchise sees great graphical and performance upgrades in the next-gen variation of the games and is very impressive. The combat is fun and engaging and the inclusion of the feature to allow instant assassinations allow you to focus easier on stealth. The map is also vast with tons of areas with beautiful scenery to explore.

    The story, however, is incredibly long and stretched way further than it needs to be. Several arcs feel incredibly repititive in story structure and poor pacing affects different storylines in the game. The actual characters are not super interesting despite some solid voice acting. The best being Eivor who still feels a bit bland but still badass. but the side characters fall flat more often than are actually interesting. The game also feels very shallow the further you get into it with side quests that get less and less interesting over the course of the game.    … Expand
  4. M1sfiT
    Sep 3, 2023
    9
    Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamessss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! val
  5. PanchoRedFalcon
    Aug 31, 2023
    10
    Great game for those who like games of the genre, I had a lot of fun with Eivor and his adventures!
  6. redbutnotdead
    Aug 29, 2023
    6
    This game is good. Though.. It is worse than Odyssey in all and i mean all aspects. I compare it with Odyssey cause they are the latest assa games. Weak pop corn story, rough graphics, worse music, worse mechanics, ridiculous stealth. Just climb to a high point in Odyssey and Valhalla day and night and make your own decisions. Just try to break a box in a corner with Eivor. HecticThis game is good. Though.. It is worse than Odyssey in all and i mean all aspects. I compare it with Odyssey cause they are the latest assa games. Weak pop corn story, rough graphics, worse music, worse mechanics, ridiculous stealth. Just climb to a high point in Odyssey and Valhalla day and night and make your own decisions. Just try to break a box in a corner with Eivor. Hectic movement, slower and way worse in battles. Stealth i think its the worst in all assassin games. I don't know why but i think this took 2 steps back. On the other hand it's a big, rich game, with multiple things to do, plenty of side stories etc. Its a 6/10 game while odyssey was easily a 9. Thats why it's way behind origins and odyssey in all player's lists as i saw on the net too.… Expand
  7. poudigne
    Aug 22, 2023
    5
    Running around and killing stuff is probably the only thing that is good about this game. And the ending. The story is weak, the story is all about finding your brother and conquering provinces and rallying people to your cause, fighting your enemy. The game loop is reminiscent of AC1. Enter a new zone, kill stuff, kill more stuff, kill leader, rinse and repeat.
    The world is too big for    Running around and killing stuff is probably the only thing that is good about this game. And the ending. The story is weak, the story is all about finding your brother and conquering provinces and rallying people to your cause, fighting your enemy. The game loop is reminiscent of AC1. Enter a new zone, kill stuff, kill more stuff, kill leader, rinse and repeat.
    The world is too big for what it is, empty, filled with a checklist of useless collectibles. The few city that you'll visit are boring, the rest of the time you'll fight your way in strongholds.    … Expand
  8. RogerioAlexandr
    Aug 21, 2023
    0
    Este jogo é tão bonito quanto divertido. A história é boa. Adoro a personalização e a capacidade de alternar gêneros sem problemas. Os tempos de carregamento no PS5 são rápidos. O que estou tentando dizer é que o jogo parece um jogo entre gerações. Gamesrgo
  9. Gosi
    Aug 11, 2023
    10
    بهترین بازی آفلاین دنیا بهتر از این بازی نیست دیگه و بعید میدونم که بیاد
  10. pmrooter
    Aug 8, 2023
    6
    It's kinda hard to write a mixed review on a game that you played for 130+ hours.
    Probably it's the biggest time spent by me on single player game. For a single run, for sure.
    And yet, if I had to describe AC Valhalla in one word, it would be - "mediocre". Even the best of the missions can be called quite good at most, the rest are rather average or completely boring and repetitive.    It's kinda hard to write a mixed review on a game that you played for 130+ hours.
    Probably it's the biggest time spent by me on single player game. For a single run, for sure.

    And yet, if I had to describe AC Valhalla in one word, it would be - "mediocre".

    Even the best of the missions can be called quite good at most, the rest are rather average or completely boring and repetitive.
    Unfortunately, there wasn't a single moment in the game that could be called awesome or masterpiece.

    Even the final twist wasn't a twist at all, since we were spoiled a lot in Eivor/Odin memories and just waited when it happens in main quest already.

    However, here we will have one ending, and then another, and then another and another. It’s hard to even say how many "final quests" the developers have included in this game. Probably it suits to the size of the game itself.

    In addition, even for "Ragnarok" we have a fantasy version scene and the same scene in a sci-fi futuristic style, close to the first games in the series.
    So we spend all those dozens of hours traveling through 9 worlds, with all their magic, creatures, potions, spells, Scandinavian lore and close to 0 scientific explanations of all what's happening. The game says that this, although not completely accurate, but still the memories of Odin.
    But then the game shows Aesir is much closer to Isu in terms of technology, costumes, culture etc.
    For me, this is sincerely incomprehensible.

    Yeah, yeah. Perhaps this is explained in more detail in comics, books, etc.
    But if you not able to properly connect the fantasy and scientific parts of the story in 100+ hours of gameplay, where did you even get the idea that I'd have any interest to know about it from your cross-selling products?

    The trend began with the Odyssey I suppose, where Isu stopped looks like people of the future with flying cars, skyscrapers, urban cities, etc. and rather turned into ancient gods with shiny sword, shields, spears and so on. The same thing happened with Valhalla.
    By the way, with such a scale of the game, writers could tell at least a little whether all the Isu were a single people or they also had some kind of "nationality" with their differences in culture, technology and mentality.

    England is a separate disappointment. Despite the scale of the map, all locations feel very same. Yes, some places are greener, others are greyer, some are more foggy, others are more snowy.
    But overall, you feel like you're traveling around several of the same places in circles, but spending a huge amount of time moving from one to another that looks quite like the previous one.

    In addition, fast travel implementation in the AC maybe the worst comparing to any other open world game.
    If in most games, after icon discovery, you can travel to fires, camps, cities, often even to mini-quests and all sorts of similar icons, there are just towers, the opening of which is itself tedious.
    It feels like the game wants you to spend even more time on it, even despite the insanely huge amount that it already requires to complete it.

    However, I continued to play the game until I finished it, why?

    I think the best comparison I can make is the experience of playing some kind of MMORPG or any other multiplayer game when you just spend some evening nights on something basic and familiar while waiting for the release of a new cool AAA game like God of War or Spider-Man.

    Funny, but AC Valhalla it's some kind of single player analogue of multiplayer gaming for people who don't like multiplayer that much. Just a time killer.    … Expand
  11. xxxsssjjjk
    Aug 7, 2023
    6
    Decent game but not a very good story. Never felt very engaged. Graphics and draw distance weren’t very good either.
  12. nnevill
    Jul 19, 2023
    10
    It's the best part of the Assassin's Creed series so far. I played them all so I am able to judge here. I've beaten Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla in 3 months. I thought it will be too much of Assassin's Creed but due to each game being better than the previous, I was not tired of all of this. But even so, Valhalla is much better than the previous parts. It's an almost perfect action RPGIt's the best part of the Assassin's Creed series so far. I played them all so I am able to judge here. I've beaten Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla in 3 months. I thought it will be too much of Assassin's Creed but due to each game being better than the previous, I was not tired of all of this. But even so, Valhalla is much better than the previous parts. It's an almost perfect action RPG game - good story, plenty of quite interesting OPTIONAL side activities, the best combat system in the Assassin's Creed series etc.

    Drawbacks are quite standard for Ubisoft: the game is too long. I've beaten the main story with plenty of sides in about 60 hours and about 20 hours more are needed for DLC and about 10-20 hours I guess for finishing with Order and other side quests. 100h is too much. People mostly like changes in their lives :) 100h in a single game is toooo damn much. Sony makes ideal-length games: Last of Us 2, GoW 2 and Horizon 2 are about 20-30 hours. It's the best length - not short not long.

    But even though I can't assess the game less than 10 of 10 because the amount of work done is terrifying. I played the game in 2023 so missed almost all bugs - good for me, LOL.    … Expand
  13. Gaebora
    Jul 12, 2023
    9
    The story is fantastic, yes the game is long, yes it has loads of content, but also yes all of the side quests are some of the best in the series, especially from the two games prior. I hated it the first time i played, then put out 180 hrs the second time. Honestly just adjust the damage values and you will enjoy it.
  14. Mirror006
    Jul 11, 2023
    3
    Juego en PC y la experiencia es PÉSIMA el juego se cierra inesperadamente de forma recurrente y eso que tengo un hardware aceptable (RTX 3070). Lo peor de todo es que incluso en los diálogos de misión se cierre siempre en el mismo punto. UBISOFT NO LO ENTIENDO y eso que ha pasado un tiempo desde el lanzamiento. Me hago a la idea de porque están atravesando malos momentos. Voy a dejar deJuego en PC y la experiencia es PÉSIMA el juego se cierra inesperadamente de forma recurrente y eso que tengo un hardware aceptable (RTX 3070). Lo peor de todo es que incluso en los diálogos de misión se cierre siempre en el mismo punto. UBISOFT NO LO ENTIENDO y eso que ha pasado un tiempo desde el lanzamiento. Me hago a la idea de porque están atravesando malos momentos. Voy a dejar de jugar y me tendré que pensar mucho si volver a confiar en ellos. Por cierto, me pongo en contacto con ellos y parece que me responde el becario. No me dan confianza para el futuro. GENTE NO COMPREN EL JUEGO GASTENSE EL DINERO EN OTRO PRODUCTO.… Expand
  15. Polandplayer
    Jun 12, 2023
    8
    Najlepszy asasyn dla mnie, ponieważ nie przypomina klasycznego asasyna, a daje action rpg'a z dużym światem.
  16. NyanFish
    Jun 11, 2023
    6
    Ох, как де это было долго
    84 часа весёлого и не очень гейплея, что могу сказать вначале было слишком нереально аж до бреда, особенно все первые боссы, потом когда одупляешь и собираешь нормальную снарягу становишься попкой нагибатором и анстапбл машиной для нарезки мяса, но всё же боссы вафли или ваншотные атаки или груша для битья
    6 из 10    Ох, как де это было долго
    84 часа весёлого и не очень гейплея, что могу сказать вначале было слишком нереально аж до бреда, особенно все первые боссы, потом когда одупляешь и собираешь нормальную снарягу становишься попкой нагибатором и анстапбл машиной для нарезки мяса, но всё же боссы вафли или ваншотные атаки или груша для битья
    6 из 10
  17. tanonero
    Jun 4, 2023
    5
    Unethically bloated. I will fulfil the 75 characters requirement to repeat it. Unethically bloated.
  18. Nekoking698
    May 26, 2023
    6
    bien mais beaucoup trop de bugs qui gâche le plaisir du jeu sinon graphiquement il est très beau
  19. Mickey123
    May 24, 2023
    10
    Amazing game best graphics best music awesome story one of my favourite games on my second run through.
  20. Daniel_Lourenco
    May 21, 2023
    8
    Boa história, gráficos muito muito bons e excelente jogabilidade. Sendo um jogo muito longo, as missões não são monótonas e sempre com algo a desafiar a nossa mente.
    Gostei bastante e recomendo.
  21. danilogan7
    May 19, 2023
    7
    É um jogo com conteúdo massivo, muitas horas de gameplay, contudo há muita repetição nas estruturas das missões e até grinding, o roteiro não é muito profundo. Já a gameplay e a exploração são o foco principal do jogo.
    Mesmo com as suas 50 horas, aproximadamente, para completar a linha principal, o jogo tem pressa para contar a história. É até compreensível, mas tira um pouco da imersão.    É um jogo com conteúdo massivo, muitas horas de gameplay, contudo há muita repetição nas estruturas das missões e até grinding, o roteiro não é muito profundo. Já a gameplay e a exploração são o foco principal do jogo.
    Mesmo com as suas 50 horas, aproximadamente, para completar a linha principal, o jogo tem pressa para contar a história. É até compreensível, mas tira um pouco da imersão. Histórias secundárias possuem missões simples e roteiro bem superficial.
    O ponto mais alto de Valhalla é a liberdade para completar as missões. Stealth, Incursão, limpar uma área sozinho com confronto direto, as possibilidades são diversas, e ainda por cima é possível mesclar as abordagens para cada desafio.
    A gameplay é boa, a adição do vigor confere mais desafio. Muita variedade de estilos de jogabilidade. Tipos variados de arco, machado e escudo. Adagas e lanças. Além da personalização de todos esses elementos. Só recomendaria a quem já é experiente na franquia jogar um nível acima do "normal", pois o jogo continua bem fácil como o Assassin's Creed anterior.
    Os desafios como coletar colecionáveis, repente, orlog e muitos outros são situações mais pessoais, vai do gosto de cada um. Particularmente gostei muito do orlog e do repente.
    As competições de bebida são bacanas, mas poderia haver mais possibilidades de desafio, mais combinações de botões a medida que o adversário é mais forte, por exemplo.
    O tutorial aparece praticamente no jogo todo, mas no início sempre chega atrasado. A maioria das coisas aprendi a fazer antes de ser mencionado.
    Os gráficos são bons, a Ubisoft conseguiu extrar bem esse quesito mesmo com a imensidão do mundo criado.    … Expand
  22. sajalhsn13
    May 2, 2023
    2
    Honestly speaking, if I missed the game I would miss NOTHING. This is one of the most tedious and garbage games I have ever played. There is no good story, and the gameplay is very repetitive. From this game, I enjoyed NOTHING. Total waste of money and valuable time.
  23. Macintosh1001
    Apr 25, 2023
    4
    Uhg...seems so cliche to say, but just another open world Ubisoft game...

    Big empty world with a lot of heights to climb, stuff to collect and grind, and a story that just has no weight. Gameplay is the same as its predecessors , with little innovation. I will say that Eivor can be a compelling character at times, but the eye-rolling story trying to connect it with the Assassin's Creed    Uhg...seems so cliche to say, but just another open world Ubisoft game...

    Big empty world with a lot of heights to climb, stuff to collect and grind, and a story that just has no weight. Gameplay is the same as its predecessors , with little innovation. I will say that Eivor can be a compelling character at times, but the eye-rolling story trying to connect it with the Assassin's Creed story was jarring. I can't help think this would've been better if it was just, and only a viking game.    … Expand
  24. greenbeard
    Apr 1, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Too long. No saving available. In Chapter 3 they set up a trap unexpectedly where you lose magically all your all the arms (Bug?/ stupid plot)and your are meant to fight or flight. He kills me. Just lost before more than 1 hour of exploring and collecting items in this city. 1 hour as an adult is all I can get average to play during a week. Following this unconsiderate system that does not allow for more freedom, I give the good news 4 out of 5. If there was a better save system it will be 7 out of 10. Enough for me to play. Ed… Expand
  25. Gpeterson1
    Mar 28, 2023
    7
    Homosexuality?

    This game has been amazing the detail, story line and graphics. It lacks in NPC behavior but one aspect that bothers me considerably is the amount of in game moments where they insert homosexuality. Once maybe twice okay but countless times they put you in situations where homosexuality would be a norm obviously they're not going for any kind of historical accuracy. They    Homosexuality?

    This game has been amazing the detail, story line and graphics. It lacks in NPC behavior but one aspect that bothers me considerably is the amount of in game moments where they insert homosexuality. Once maybe twice okay but countless times they put you in situations where homosexuality would be a norm obviously they're not going for any kind of historical accuracy. They insert homosexuality situations where they would not fit or absolutely makes no sense here is a brief description on Vikings view and beliefs in regards to homosexuality

    Homosexuality was not regarded by the Viking peoples as being evil, perverted, innately against the laws of nature or any of the other baggage about the concept that Christian belief has provided Western culture. Rather, it was felt that a man who subjected himself to another in sexual affairs would do the same in other areas, being a follower rather than a leader, and allowing others to do his thinking or fighting for him. Thus, homosexual sex was not what was condemned, but rather the failure to stand for one's self and make one's own decisions, to fight one's own fights, which went directly against the Nordic ethic of self-reliance. (Sørenson 20). Being used homosexually by another man was equated with cowardice because of the custom of sexual aggression against vanquished foes. This practice is documented in Sturlunga saga, most notably in Guðmundar saga dýra where Guðmundr takes captive a man and his wife, and plans for both the woman and the man to be raped as a means of sexual humiliation (Ok var þat við orð at leggja Þórunni í rekkju hjá einhverjum gárungi, en gera þat vi Björn prest, at þat þaelig;tti eigi minni svívirðing.) (Sørenson 82, 111; Sturlunga saga, I, 201). In addition to rape, defeated enemies were frequently castrated, again testified to in several places by Sturlunga saga. Grágás records that a klámhogg or "shame-stroke" on the buttocks was, along with castration, a "major wound" (hin meiri sár), ranked with wounds that penetrated the brain, abdomen, or marrow: the klámhogg was thus equated with castration as "unmanning" the victim, and classed with wounds that cause major penetrations of the body, strongly suggesting that the term refers to rape or forced anal sex such as was inflicted on a defeated combatant (Sørenson 68). It is not known how widespread the practice of raping defeated foes actually was, or if it existed before the advent of Christianity, but in other cultures which have had as strong an ethic of masculine aggression as existed among the Vikings, the rape of defeated foemen was obligatory. The attitude that homosexual usage of an enemy was a means of humiliation in turn would have weighed heavily against men in homosexual relationships: if it was a shameful humiliation of an enemy, performing intercourse with a beloved friend would have been regarded as a the worst sort of betrayal or lack of loyalty (Sørenson 28). Since all the references in literature and especially insults indicate that to be sansorðinn, ragr, níðingr or to be accused of ergi is to be a man who is the passive recipient of anal sex, we do not know if the Vikings regarded oral sex between men unfavorably or not (or, in fact, how they regarded oral sex in general, no matter who, male or female, was doing it, or to whom, male or female, it was being done). It is interesting to note that the Vikings considered that old age caused a man to become argr. A well-known proverb stated svá ergisk hverr sem eldisk, "everyone gets argr as he gets older." This possibly could point to an increasing acceptance of homosexuality after a man had raised a family and grew older (Sørenson 20), although a man such as the chieftain Snorri goði who fathered 22 children, the last at the age of 77 (just before he died), certainly proves that a man never was really too old to father children! (Jochens 81). For a man who could not have children (whether due to impotence, sterility, age, etc.) homosexual relations may have been acceptable. One slang term for such a man seems to have been kottrinn inn blauði, or "soft cat" as reported in Stúfs þaacute;ttr, an epilogue to Laxdæla saga, in a conversation between the Norwegian king Haraldr harðráði and Stúfr, the son of Þórðr kottr (Þórðr the Cat): puzzled by the unusual nickname, Haraldr asks Stúfr whether his father Þórðr was kottrinn inn hvati eða inn blauði, "the hard or the soft cat." Stúfr declines to answer despite the implied insult, but the king admits that his question was foolish because "the person who is soft (blauðr) could not be a father" (Jochens 76).    … Expand
  26. FFirefly
    Mar 20, 2023
    7
    this game mid bro idk if yall wanna buy this game lol. Way too long for an ac game.
  27. HeitorCampos
    Mar 15, 2023
    4
    Bleh. Nothing in this game feels good to do, it feels lazy and unfun. I know it's not a very in depth comment, but this game is just a waste of everything that went into it.Leave it to AC to make a viking game boring. Pretty impressive to make something this mediocre at everything. Not to mention this is just too bloated and grindy.
  28. klausfiedler8
    Mar 15, 2023
    7
    o jogo nao me conquistou. depois de umas 20 e poucas hrs larguei. mas é bonito e tal. nota 6,8
  29. Sekur
    Feb 13, 2023
    0
    Worst game I've ever played in my whole life...............................
  30. TheSashi
    Feb 9, 2023
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Honestly was not that great and barely an Assassin's Creed game. If they just released this as "Valhalla" then I wouldn't have a problem with it but it being an Assassin's Creed game just is not right. Story is just boring and repeats itself over and over as well as the modern day story simply not making any sense. How the hell can Basim be a Norse god when he is an assassin from Jerusalem? It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

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  1. Gaming Nexus
    Dec 15, 2020
    80
    There are two competing experiences here: that as as Assassin, and that as a Viking, that either on its own feels like it might have been a triumph and better than this good but not great Assass-king hybrid we have.
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  2. TheSixthAxis
    Dec 3, 2020
    80
    Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla effortlessly plants its banner as the best open world RPG available for the new consoles. This Viking epic flexes its gore-soaked, tattooed muscles when it comes to world-building, and medieval England wows with its enchanting untamed vistas. It’s also portioned out at a steady pace and, if not for the repetitive, limited combat, Valhalla could have ranked even higher among our favourite games in the series.
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  3. PlayStation LifeStyle
    Nov 27, 2020
    90
    Is Assassin’s Creed Valhalla the best entry in the series yet? Some would be tempted to say so. While the map size might overwhelm some players, it remains an easy game to mainline with the right navigation mode turned on. In fact, the quick load times help to make this an even easier task than in previous generations. This is an iteration of Assassin’s Creed that has a bit of everything from the previous games, as refined as we have seen to date.
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