There's almost a little too much to do in Valhalla. Assassin's Creed has been a yearly franchise since Assassin's Creed 2 in 2009 all the way up until 2015 with the launch of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. After years of complaints that the series has grown stale, Ubisoft skipped a year before releasing Assassin's Creed Origins in 2017, what was its biggest departure from the series' formula to date, leaning more towards an RPG than ever before.

Ubisoft once again skipped any new Assassin's Creed release last year, but it has a lot less to show for it. Assassin's Creed Valhalla feels very much like Odyssey, which itself felt like a reskinned Origins with an emphasis on personal choice. Luckily, minor changes do impact gameplay in a big way, so it's not a complete rehash, but for as long as Valhalla's main story is, you'd think there would be more depth.