Under rated game alert. Viking: Battle for Asgard manages to tread the fine line between simplicity and being too simple and manages to deliver a hack and slash experience that is a lot of fun. You play as some random viking dude hacking the shit out of orcs as you fight to reclaim your lands. It's a simple story, with simple gameplay mechanics and it works great. Being completely sick of these repetative open world games which are made artificially longer by repeating pointless tasks, Viking gets straight to the point. There are 3 islands that you have to reclaim, each being fairly small without a great deal of filler. The gameplay is a simplistic but nice take on god of war, mostly hack and slash but including some blocking and dodging which add to the variety. The best part of the game is the epic wars that you find yourself in. Hundreds of enemies on each side, just slicing limbs off of each other. The game does have some bugs. I found that every so often it would stop for a second or two. This wasn't game breaking, but was very annoying. If you can get past this, it's a great little game, which I highly reccomend.

Reviewed on Dec 14, 2023


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