We’d definitely love to see more of this kind of thing, be it events, quests or simply thematic items. Hopefully this doesn’t mean the collaboration is at an end. Turns out it’s just a quest and some trinkets. The Assassin Festival set the bar pretty high, with new activities, items and a complete makeover of a large city, so we expected something along those lines here as well.
It’s a cool way to spend half an hour, and the rewards are nice, but we kind of hoped for more. It’s easy to love an elaborate or subtle Easter egg in a game like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, but there’s something to be said about a simple nod to a modern-ish piece of pop culture.Once you’ve solved it, you’ll get the Ultima Blade (a sword which heals you when you land critical hits), the Ziedrich (a shield which causes bleeding in enemies when you block), and the Kweh mount (the Chocobo camel). That concept seems to echo the gameplay design of Kojima’s infamous “delivery simulator.” The Prodigy You’ll have the option of delivering the items to these customers yourself, but doing so is a surprisingly slow process complicated by the weight of the items. If you build a trading post in the village you take over early in the game, you’ll find a list of items that some customers apparently never picked up. Death StrandingĪ tipster alerted Kotaku to one of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla‘s most intricate Easter eggs: a clever tribute to Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding. In fact, there’s a chance that all but the most knowledgeable Tolkien fans will miss a few of the references along the way. That alone could obviously be a reference to Lord of the Rings, but it turns out that the entire quest is actually an elaborate tribute to several key moments from those stories. One of the game’s quests tasks Eivor with finding a ring. It’s not exactly a surprise that Valhalla features a Lord of the Rings reference (it is, after all, a fairly popular fantasy franchise), but the extent of the game’s tribute to that franchise is undeniably impressive. Is someone on the team just a fan of the character, or is there more to these shoutouts than meets the eye? The Lord of the Rings Quest There, you’ll hear Reda read to a group of children about a desert land and a story concerning The Protector” and “The Scholar.” The story largely echoes the adventures of Bayek: a character who first appeared in the novel Assassin’s Creed Origins: Desert Oath.Īctually, this is just one of at least a couple of references to Bayek that have been found in Valhalla so far. One of the deeper cut Assassin’s Creed references in Valhalla can be found in Ravensthorpe. This Easter egg is fun enough on its own, but this reference to one of Assassin’s Creed‘s most beloved characters is actually a testament to the ways that Valhalla cleverly pays tribute to the other entries in the series.
The audio file is seemingly even voiced by Nolan North himself. If you’re thorough, you may find an audio file featuring the voice of legendary Assassin’s Creed protagonist Desmond Miles. A Desmond Reference in the Audio Filesĭuring one of Valhalla‘s modern-day sequences, you’ll have the chance to explore the contents of Layla’s laptop.
This appears to be a callback to the infamous chickens in many Zelda games which will group up and attack Link if the player “accidentally” strikes one of them. This bizarre scene will suddenly make sense if you try to attack the chickens and watch in horror as they swarm upon you. In Valhalla‘s Dunwic area, you may stumble upon a prison cell that houses a skeleton and several chickens.