“You can go into the Animus layer of our game,” he said. “There's an option to change the memory stream. To explain why would spoil a long-running secret, but I will say that the whole reason for why you can switch [Eivor’s gender] back and forth fully embraces the often overlooked science fiction nature of our series.”
“We've got this thing that's called genetic memory, and we've got this Animus,” he added. “What are all the ways you can play with that? And how could we leverage that to make a character that you could choose male or female? We found a way that we think is pretty satisfying.”
Oh geeze.
ANYWAYS. Now I don't really want to pre order this game for a couple of reasons...but my GOD the more I see it the more I want it! *insert Steven Culbert gimme gif here* This game looks like it could be the start of something special. And I don' notice anything too janky with the stuff. So my impressions o the deep dive post show gameplay...
So first of all a lot of stuff has been made of the ability to duel wield all the weapons in the game.... all weapon types and well this has always seemed himmicky and roll eye worthy too me. Just...ugh 'look what we can do we got the ability to use TWO weapons now'... just stop.
I do rather like it that my 'cognitive dissonance' line from earlier has proven, at least in theory, to have a little more nuance and depth with this. In the questline they showed off you have A. Good Englanders B. Bad Vikings. Obviously we will have to wait until the full game is out before we know for sure but it is nice to see we will be getting some nuance and this could indicate a sort of Andromedian type plot where some people will want to just coexist and farm...and others will want to conquer and rape and pillage and then some people will be able to ally with you and some will want you gone. Also Ubisoft really does like doing cross gameplay polenization the 'ally' thing does remind me a little of some of the stuff I have seen for WDs Legion. Also also forgot the existance of the wartable looks super sick.
As I have mentioned again the idea of 'fewer weapons that mean more' is very appealing to me. (Even with the dueal wielding of them)
And it is doubly interesting because I had no idea this was going to be a thing, obviously, but over in the DA 4 wishlist thread I have been speculating over the desire to have your abilities to be learned throughout the game rather then just all given to you. Via books, companions, out in the world, etc...low and behold that is exactly what they are doing for Valhalla so that is one of the big features I am looking forward to.
Combat is going to be interesting in this game. Health does not seem to be quite as regeneratable and you have to...use hearts the heal up...but then they also seem to have STAMINA and ADRENALINE. I think in my experience it is usually one or the other...but on the flip side giving you more to do in combat and keep track of tends to make it more epic, so I am excited for that.
I like it that the choice had such an immediete consequence in the quest. Though this is going to be something that could just be for the demo and may not show up in the game. As a double plus...trying to figure out how to explain it without spoiling it...but it seems like there could be some nuance to these decisions. If you did the opposite and pissed off your allies you would still get your alliance, but maybe they aren't as enthusiastic and you have to keep your allies in mind and balancing out all the factors.
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I'd be quite happy if they got rid of the modern day stuff, Layla, the animus, the Isu, genetics, the whole kit and kaboodle, and just had a simple RPG assassin game.
As for the whole thing with the Modern Day, eh I don't really like how that sounds.
I personally just hope there aren't too many of those "Layla puzzle in ancient Britannia".
and yet, I was super intrigued by whom her "handlers" might be considering how her story ended in Odyssey.
Not just that. But the whole "swap genders at a whim" makes it feel too gamey.
But as for her "handlers", I imagine it's the teammates she didn't murder to get her fix plus maybe a couple others (the MD campaign of the boardgame coming out this year that's apparently canon has Rebecca in it for example).
I'd be quite happy if they got rid of the modern day stuff, Layla, the animus, the Isu, genetics, the whole kit and kaboodle, and just had a simple RPG assassin game.
I agree but would still include the Isu. Really the animus stuff should just be a framing device.
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I'd be quite happy if they got rid of the modern day stuff, Layla, the animus, the Isu, genetics, the whole kit and kaboodle, and just had a simple RPG assassin game.
I agree but would still include the Isu. Really the animus stuff should just be a framing device.
My only experience of them was in Atlantis. Thought they were a bunch of knobs, tbh.
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Can you pet animals in #AssassinsCreedValhalla? Yes, you can!
AccessTheAnimus @accesstheanimus With this tweet we are going to start a series of video snippets of some of the features/activities that we have tested in the game.
Can you pet animals in #AssassinsCreedValhalla? Yes, you can!
Oh thank god, I was gonna cancel the entire franchise otherwise.
Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jul 12, 2020 21:21:45 GMT
Unless they show more or answer things before release that really wins me over, I don't know if I'm getting this game and definitely am unsure if I am getting it in November when it releases.
What I saw was... so, so. I'll wait for more gameplay and info to decide if I'll get it day one.
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I just can't wait for them to explain more details about the animus and genetic memory. I mean, even if we take genetic memory as a given, something that is passed down the family tree with every new generation... how come that we can access memories that happen after a given assassin's offspring is born? After all, said offspring can only inherit memories that have happened up to his/her birth - anything that happens afterwards cannot be embedded in their genes unless there's a weird genetic wifi going on between the generations of assassins. For example, Kassandra's/Alexios's memories should have ended just before their kid was born. Anything that came afterwards cannot be in that kid's genes, and therefore cannot be passed down the line.
Also yay, more Layla. AC fandom breathes a collective sigh of relief... right?
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