The downloadable content of Odyssey went too closely to what “actually” happened, but sadly lost itself in the process by making the Isu, who are at best long-lived people with amazing technology, to appear as though they were actual gods in spite of all previous stories. However, one element that is much better handled in this game versus Odyssey is the use of the Isu, the pre-human humanoids that went extinct thousands of years ago in the Toba catastrophe of roughly 75000 years ago, also known as “Those Who Came Before” or the “First Civilization.” There is a lot more emotional weight to the interactions between Eivor and Sigurd than Kassandra and Alexios, yes, though I do think that Eivor isn’t as well-acted as the Eagle Bearer (at least the canonical options for both, anyway). Greg: The main story of Valhalla seems to be at once quite long (for good or ill) and in-depth.

That said, Eivor and Sigurd’s story had a lot more emotional weight to it than that of Kassandra and Alexios, and the way Norse mythology opened up the universe gave us the best present day storyline since Assassin’s Creed III.

I kept shaming myself thinking they would ever get easier: I think I’ve used YouTube to find the solutions to a sidequest more times than any other Assassin’s Creed game. Eivor was Odin, Sigurd was Tyr, and Basim was Loki - and after being awakened from centuries in suspended animation, Basim/Loki is back, searching for a way to bring his “family” back together with the help of his lover, Aletheia, who he had put into the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus in the first place.Ĭhris: To begin, I really enjoyed Valhalla, though not as much as Origins and Odyssey - everytime the story got going, my experience got bogged down by needlessly complicated nearby puzzles that I thought I would “just” clear out to earn some loot and XP.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is wild, revealing its core cast of characters - the Viking Eivor, her adoptive brother Sigurd, and the Hidden One Basim - were reincarnations of certain Isu, the ancient, advanced beings who became worshipped as gods.

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