![]() ![]() I built an offering shrine where I could give him my wood but the villager who was supposed to take it there kept wandering backwards and forth, but because all the logs had been placed in my woodcutters cabin a few inches away, he wouldn’t take them. So because I had so much wood I wanted to share it with Odin so he’d grant me access to his heaven (did you enjoy the euphemism there?). For instance, in order to get to the next stage I had to get through the portal stone. All of your settlers just kind of go with the flow, which is all well and good but it wound me up quite a bit. There are a few issues that I have with the game, one of the more frustrating things about this is that you can’t specifically control each individual thing. It’s not exactly a bad thing as I wasn’t expecting to hear Blink 182 rocking away on this game, but it can be a little bit frustrating when you have the same rotation of song playing over and over again. That being said the sound effects are pretty good and I can tell that the sound artists have spent time working to perfect them for this game. Without sounding too much like Lenny from of Mice and Men, I have to say the rabbits are the best and I had a lot of fun watching them run around and making my own imaginary episodes of Viking Loony Tunes. The environments are well designed, the huts and buildings are all detailed and culturally relevant and the Vikings look unique, so you can actually tell which Viking is which (+1 as there are so many copy and paste games out there). The developers went through a lot to get the graphics on this game as good as they are and they did a pretty decent job in doing just that. I’m really not sure how that is an advertisement for a building strategy game but if you watch any television channel then you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. They have an almost cartoony look about them which is strange for a building strategy game, since most of them are advertised on television 24-7 by blondes with huge breasts taking baths whilst their village is destroyed, then getting dressed in the most impractical armour I’ve ever seen but hey it’s okay because their breasts are still on show. The graphics, in my opinion, are the best thing about this game. The buildings that you unlock can provide some useful things though, and you may not necessarily need them but they can be quite useful to have when the time comes. You level up and in doing so you unlock more buildings to unlock more things so that you can level up and unlock more buildings and more things so that you can level up so th… You get the point. ![]() This really just works as your typical building game. Throughout the course of the game you’ll unlock new things such as buildings and challenges and a heap of other stuff. I mean, it would be pretty weird if you were playing SIM City: Cluedo Edition. It’s a pretty simple concept really but hey, it’s a building strategy game so you don’t really need any epic plot lines or twists in it. Your task now is to build settlements for your little minions and with that, grow them to become strong enough to force their way through the portals and into Valhalla, doing this grants you and your Vikings honour which again grants a free pass into Viking heaven by shoving your honour straight down Odin’s throat. ![]() Naturally rather than setting up a University fund for the kid to become an architect, mainly because from what I imagine Valhalla’s University prospects aren’t too great unless you want a degree in slaughtering, drinking or pillaging, Odin decides to banish his child from Valhalla, Viking heaven, and lock the doors to anyone who has spent their life doing the good and moral thing by setting fire to villages and murdering innocent people, because that’s what gets you into heaven if you’re a Viking. Turns out his little bundle of joy has taken an interest in creating things rather than just getting wasted and destroying as much as he possibly can, a bit of a contrast to my own life. Our story begins with Odin, the Viking chief god who has decided to become a huge jerk to people because he’s having baby issues. I have to say that this is a strange game to review because it has so much potential and overall was fantastic (except for a few little problems that I’ll get to below). It’s a recent release and is available via Steam for all to enjoy the pillaging and destruction that comes with Viking culture. Valhalla Hills is the new building strategy game developed by Funatics which combines the winning combination of Vikings and SIM City into one loveable game.
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