The biggest thing working against Assassin’s Creed Valhalla right now is the timing of release here. It feels weird sneaking around when you can just walk through the front door and yell a challenge to the nearest five guards who you then hack to bits. Things like crowd blending have returned, yet I constantly find myself being easily spotted by guards no matter what I do, plus the game throws endless amounts of missions at you that are quite literally raids where you blow a horn and storm the gates of a fort or monastery. This is another system that just feels weird and off to me in Valhalla. So far in my playthrough, stealth has been non-existent. Only when you venture into higher level zones do enemies really pose a challenge on normal, so you might consider upping the difficulty.

If you are “on level” for your zone, combat is extremely easy and it’s nearly impossible to die except to maybe bosses. I constantly feel staggered and unable to put my shield up in time, so eventually I just switched to two axes and hey, no more blocking required at all. Something just feels wrong with parrying in this game in that I can never quite get it right, even though it’s not a problem in any other game that has it, or even past Assassin’s Creed games. I’ve been at it for all this time and I still do not really have the hang of it. Most valuable treasure too is some sort of puzzle, where you have to find a key or break the right wall or go down the right tunnel to find it, though that’s more similar to past games.Ĭombat is…confusing in this game. Sometimes this can be disorienting when you truly have no idea how to solve something, but it’s at least an interesting spin on the concept of sidequests, making them more puzzle like than following rote steps. Rather, you see a pack of wolves nearby, kill them, leave one alive and lure it over to him so he has to face off against it. After this, there will be no quest indicator, no spelled-out step for what you do next. For instance, you might find a guy who complains about not being able to prove himself to be a real warrior, and he’s hoping you’ll help him practice on something easy nearby.

Valhalla doesn’t really have sidequests, it structures them all as puzzles. But there are some tweaks to the formula.

This is…very Ubisoft Game Mode here going forward, as you do a main quest in each region to secure an alliance with that area, and then a bunch of mini side quests and treasure hunting to “complete” each zone.

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