I put about 90 hours into it and I enjoyed very little of it. It just felt like a chore for everything I did. Not sure if it is factually bigger than Odyssey, but it felt that way. It felt like everything was so spread out and uninteresting and traveling felt more difficult. Odyssey felt to me like everything was some place I wanted to explore with very little wasted space. It also kept me more engaged and the scenery was so much prettier to look at.
Maybe it was also the format of it. Instead of one flowing direction it was like conquer this region conquer that region conquer the next region over and over. And there were so many it took fucking forever and I didn’t find the side stories interesting at all and they all had to have a raid on some fort which made it so repetitive and formulaic. I just got so tired of it I couldn’t wait to finish it.
I tried to do some of the side stuff but I only ended up doing the anomalies and the artifacts or whatever they were so I could get the best set of armor.
They really need to make these games smaller. They aren’t even pure RPGs so why try to make it like the Witcher when it isn’t The Witcher. It’s still an action adventure game at its core, it’s kind of a hybrid now.
And can AC games in future please stop the bullshit where wherever you go there’s always someone chasing you? For fucks sake, it’s annoying as hell especially if they’re open world. How about this. Making it smaller with each area more interesting and less bland with more places to visit and buildings to enter and not have every fucking guard chase after you when they see you. It would make it so much better. AC games are so damn frantic, while at the same time wanting you to run around and find shit with guys chasing you all the time, it’s a horrible combination.
Also I’m not sure why they continue to make climbing s significant aspect of the game. It was important in the originals because you didn’t have this massive arsenal of weapons to kill enemies with, in fact you were kinda supposed to avoid them. Now you can wipe out loads of a enemies, so it hurts the stealth aspect of the game it’s not even stealthy anymore. So why continue the climbing portion of it? It’s such a chore. They put a million towers in the game to climb and for some reason in Valhalla a bunch of them didn’t have obvious things to do the leap of faith to so I ended up jumping to my death way more times than any other AC game.
Either make the game stealthy again or eliminate the damn climbing all the time, it’s such a chore.