Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Best: The Side Quests: With Valhalla, an Assassin’s Creed game felt for the first time like it had a ton of great and diverse side content to play. The way you discovered this content by just finding it out in the world, plus how organically many of the quests were built around people and their unique stories, really improved upon how boring past games could feel when you stopped doing main quests and poked at the filler content. I still remember many of the side quests in Valhalla,like Axe Head, the guy covered in poop, and the deadly war nuns you help save.

Worst: Too Damn Big: While I loved much of the side content in Valhalla, I’ll be the first to admit that the game is too damn big. And with multiple paid expansions adding dozens and dozens of hours to the already massive title, it’s hard to see anybody complaining about Valhalla being too short. In fact, most people, myself included, would prefer the next game in the series to be much, much smaller. I don’t need every future Assassin’s Creed game to be 200+ hours long.