Brown, brown, and more brown. Opening up one's base game armor menu in Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a thoroughly bland experience, revealing a closet stuffed with furs and leathers in various shades of mud. I'd have given anything for Baldur's Gate 3's comprehensive array of armor dyes when I finally finished the game two years ago, but alas, Eivor's path was not to be a glamorous one.
I get it. Viking fashion is not known for its daring silhouettes – who cares if you look boxy when you're dodging flying hatchets, after all? – but I would have happily seen Ubisoft allow a little creative indiscretion if it meant that Eivor had a sense of style and basic grasp of the color wheel. It's long bugged me, and now, it speaks to perhaps my biggest wish for Assassin's Creed Shadows. Please, Ubisoft Quebec: follow in the footsteps of the best Assassin's Creed games and show the chic side of feudal Japan.
