Opinions follow.

So far, it's been pretty boring, there have been a couple of cool bits, like the hallucinations event thing, but mostly very boring stuff.

I'm playing the female Eivor and this may be contributing to the boredom. She is tedious. No personality, Kassandra (and Melissanthi Mahut playing her) had more personality and expression in five minutes of dialog than Eivor has had in 10 hours so far. Mahut was hysterically funny when she needed to be and could get deadly serious, exactly what Kassandra needed to be. Eivor has no range. Plus, Eivor doesn't move well, always semi-crouching it seems. I don't expect her to sashay her hips around like a courtesan, but maybe walking upright like a human most of the time wouldn't be too much to ask for.

Plus, I hate snow. Living in Minnesota and with winter coming on, I don't want to see Eivor trudging through knee deep snow just to get somewhere. And it looks cold (it's supposed to, it's Norway, but for Odin's sake, I hate cold weather - I should move). Origins and Odyssey were both in nice warm climates, except for the occasional mountaintop in Odyssey.

And there's too much sailing. Yes, Vikings. But the sea battles/sailing were totally my least favorite parts of Odyssey and I was hoping that there wouldn't be as much in Valhalla. I did read that there were no big sea battles, so that reassured me, but I should have thought ahead to how they were going to get around. My bad, this is not a flaw of the game. Though Eivor does show the most personality on board the longboat so far, so that's good.

So, as of now, I'm thinking I shouldn't have bought the game. If I don't start having more fun, I might have to go back to something else, maybe even start a new game of Origins.

But the blacksmith is funny and has a great personality. He would be a fun character to take around.

@thecosmicbob
You're complaining about game features that we have known about for months. And "supposed to look cold, it's Norway"? [REMOVED] Norway isn't always cold, we (yes I'm Norwegian) usually get periods with well over 30 degrees celcius in the summer, even in the northmost areas of the mainland.

@thecosmicbob Seeing that the other poster just want to be a racist instead, I'll add something more constructive.

I didn't like that it was all snow and miserable either. But it the setting does get better, and more visually appealing. I think you spend just enough time in the snow to appreciate it before you get something different. You should already know unless you haven't seen any trailer what is installed for you, so I'll avoid spoiling anything, and well unless you don't know your history then you'll have a fair guess of what's installed next.

Stick with it. I'm only 30 hours in and I'm disappointed with a few aspects of the story, but the gameplay is fairly solid if you like the modernisation of Assassin's Creed titles.

@netspook Hey thanks for responding with such helpful and kind comments. We get over 30 degrees in Minnesota summer too, even at the Canadian border. What part of the game takes place in the Norwegian summer? Have I missed it? Does it come later? Is it not cold in Norway in the winter? Should I amend my post to say: "supposed to look cold, it's Norway IN THE WINTER"? Would that satisfy you that I have a clue?

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