The director behind Assassins Creed Valhalla has touched base on how the the game is balanced in comparison to the notorious bloat of its predecessor, and the good news is it sounds like players wont be burdened by excessive grinding.

Speaking with Press Start, Ashram Ismail, who also worked on the critically acclaimed Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag, revealed that players wont be restricted whether they wish to follow the main narrative or venture off and build their settlement or explore.

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With Valhalla, with the balancing of the game, our goal is to just let players play the content they want. Again we built a really intriguing world that takes place in Dark Ages England and Norway. By the way, when you leave Norway to England, you can always go back to Norway, so we built these really beautiful breathtaking living worlds, and we want players to play the content as they wish to play it. Thats the way the game is being balanced.

So, people want to focus on narrative, theres no issue there, people want to focus on their settlement, again, no issue there.

Its really up to players to decide how they want to consume the content. Thats always been our angle and again, this, were showcasing Eivos personal journey, were really focused on that. So again, if people want to focus on that

Assassins Creed Valhalla is scheduled for release on PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One in holiday 2020.

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Assassin's Creed Valhalla Is Balanced To Allow You To 'Play The Content You Want' - PlayStation Universe