Assassin's Creed Valhalla giving me that quality 2020 Mood, which is a butch lesbian viking dual-wielding axes sailing her longboat onto the shores of a monastery and screaming "TAKE CHRIST'S GOLD, AND BURN HIS HOUSE!"
@hystericempress Okay, I'm feeling more positive about this game now.
@hystericempress Those are all some pretty nice takes, honestly. I think I think of the game a little better.
@Soreth Like I'll be real: anything that deals with Norse culture, in the modern era especially, is gonna have to work real hard not to come off as white supremacist. But it actually does quite the opposite and goes harder in the paint on the multiculturalism and particularly the global history of Danish sailors than most works I've seen; hell, it even talks about the history of viking raiders working as mercenaries in Constantinople.
@hystericempress It's really cool how connected the ancient world was, there was trade and commerce and people moving around everywhere. :)
@Soreth it's doing a lot of things that endear me to it.
1) Fairly authentic portrayals of norse pagan religious ritual and observance.
2) Actual exploration of the reality that the Danes of the 800s, while definitely invaders, were also welcomed as political tools by local rulers in many, many cases, often as a tool to covertly dislodge church wealth.
3) Hewing strongly to the anthropological reality that the Danes of the era were VERY egalitarian about gender, particularly in raiding crews.