Things are spaced out a bit more than I usually expect from an Assassin's Creed game. The longship is little more than a truck, and the rivers are little more than roads between raids. Players can get around the English countryside just as effectively on horseback. The key selling point of Valhalla, the longship, is nothing more than a glorified truck, and the rivers that run across England are basically just roads. In fact, you don't even use the longship to sail the seas around England you only use it to sail up and down rivers looking for villages to raid. The Norway map has a few islands, but the England map has virtually none. There isn't even much in the way of islands to discover out in the open seas, so even the exploration incentive is gone. Worse yet, there is absolutely nothing to do with the longship except use it as a vehicle for moving about the empty, sterile seas and rivers. It tries to copy the one thing that Black Flag did so well, and which inspired all future sailing mechanics for every Assassin's Creed game that followed, but it actually somehow manages to remove that thing! That's right, there is no naval combat in the game at all. You had one job, Valhalla! And you couldn't even get that right!Īssassin's Creed: Valhalla is a tedious, repetitive, drawn-out, copy-pasted, glitch-laden, slog of a game and story. And even then, I did not even come close to completing the game because it's just too damn long, and I have much better things to do with my time. I only came back to it later (after she had finished) to see if the game had any redeeming qualities. I played a little bit, hated the early hours, and stopped playing it so that I could work on other projects. She played through the entire game, and liked it just fine. Several months after release, I finally bought a cheap, used copy for about $30 from someone who claimed to have played the game and got bored of it, so that my partner could kill time while stuck at home during the ongoing pandemic in 2021.
Buying a sealed copy from an eBay scalper is the same as buying a new, retail copy, as far as I'm concerned. I specifically filtered for "used" copies - none of that "new, sealed" wholesale scalping nonsense that is all over eBay. I wasn't going to give that company a dime of my money, so I waited and watched eBay for cheaper, used copies to show up. So fuck Ubisoft and its executives, who (if these allegations are true) should all be in prison, and the company's ownership should be given to the employees who were wronged. Even the company's HR department has been accused of being complicit. Like the Catholic Church, Ubisoft may have systematically hid these alleged transgressions and protected the executives who were committing them. I've been hoping for a viking-themed game ever since Black Flag.įor starters, I refused to buy Assassin's Creed: Valhalla at its release because I did not want to give any money to Ubisoft, which has had ongoing legal issues regarding multiple sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations against high-level managers and executives. Well, it turns out: almost everything could go wrong. Black Flag was so good, it seemed like a sure-fire, slam-dunk idea! What could possibly go wrong? I felt that the open-ended sailing and naval combat would work well in a viking setting, complete with raiding coastal villages as an extra way of obtaining wealth and loot (in addition to plundering trade ships in the open sea). One of the thoughts that dominated my playtime with Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag was "Oh I hope the next game is a viking-themed game!". Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol ( < indicates platform I played for review) (via retail disc or XBox Live digital download).
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#Valhalla hills impressions Pc
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Not even remotely the Assassin's Creed: Vikings Load screens before and during cutscenes?.River raiding is a completely separate, resource-sink of a grind.Recruiting other players' vikings onto my crew.
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