– After numerous public allegations of sexual assault and harassment within the company, Ubisoft promised a 'structural shift' to deal with its issues, and multiple executives have left the company. Finding new loot to make incremental upgrades to my own character bores me after a while, but upgrading my followers and leading them into battle? That I can get into. I'm a sucker for a base-building minigame, and I also love the idea of having my own squad of Vikings I can call on to raid towns across England. I didn't get to see one of the things I'm most curious about in Valhalla, which is the settlement you'll return to over the course of the game, upgrading with the riches acquired through conquests. But they do mean that if you've played enough Assassin's Creed games, or open-world games in general, you'll find a lot of what you're doing in Valhalla pretty familiar. You may even find an ocean of repetitive tasks soothing. There are points of interest on your map, vantage points to climb, completion bars to fill up by collecting treasure and finding secrets, ore deposits to break open for materials, bits of loot from enemies you can use to upgrade your weapons. I can tell it's a giant open world, with plenty of the tropes you'd expect from the genre. Three hours with Valhalla was barely enough to get a feel for this new Assassin's Creed.
But not exactly like that one, because 'bloodthirsty nun' is the kind of card you can really only play once.
As Ubisoft continues to turn Assassin's Creed into an RPG series, more focused on story and character-building and thoughtful narrative choices, it needs many more moments like that one. Completing world events is one way Assassin's Creed Valhalla rewards you skill points to level up your Viking assassin Eivor, alongside story missions and sidequests. After a short cutscene I learned this encounter was a "world event," shorter and simpler than a sidequest, but also more fun, because I had no idea it was coming. It was a short, vicious fight, with the nun deciding my show of strength meant I didn't need killing after all.
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