Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök Review — Did it Need to be a DLC?

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Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarök is just another expansion pack, or is it? We'll get to that in a bit. At first glance, it does seem to be just a plain, boring expansion pack but once you start playing the game — sorry, expansion — you realise you're actually Havi-ng fun. Dawn of Ragnarök is the third expansion for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and granted I haven't played the base game, the expansion kind of didn't seem that enticing to me in the beginning, until it did.

Dawn of Ragnarök is essentially a story about a father — Havi, or Odin — trying to rescue one of his sons, Baldr, from the clutches of the vile Surtr, the leader of the fire demons. Sounds like a cliche, right? Thankfully, only this bit of the new DLC's story felt uninspiring. The rest of the expansion pack seems quintessentially Assassin's Creed Valhalla but that's kind of obvious.

I am not going to talk about the storyline of Dawn of Ragnarök since many have already covered it in their reviews. What I am here to talk about is, can you play the game with no prior experience of Assassin's Creed Valhalla? A short answer would be: Yes, you can. For the longer version, read on. To be honest, there wouldn't be a point to introduce a DLC if new players can't enjoy it.

As I mentioned earlier, I haven't played Assassin's Creed Valhalla before this, so I thought of offering a perspective of someone who hasn't played the base game and decided to dive right into the DLC. Ubisoft advises that this expansion pack is for players who have somewhat completed the original story, but fret not, newbies like me can still enjoy the expansion pack.

Dawn of Ragnarök starts with a lot of back and forth between Havi and Frigg while they're trying to locate and rescue