A story written by AI generator.
I am enjoying Valhalla, but I empathize. Dan is the kind of guy who has the philosophy that if someone is trying to portray something real - like vikings - they should do it as accurately as humanly possible, otherwise why bother, might as well make up fantasy nonsense. So he gets pissed off when others take historical periods and proceed to bastardize them. And it is true that most of the stuff in Valhalla is just fantasy. As is the show Vikings. Last Kingdom was significantly better though.
Another point, both Valhalla and Kingdom Come have similar story opening on paper (you play young person, your village gets invaded, your dad gets killed by the bad guy, you swear revenge). But KCD is much more emotional and higher quality despite infinitely lower budget that Warhorse had. Because KCD actually gave me some extended interaction with my dad and mom before the invasion, and because the cinematography and music during the invasion scene was much better.
Kinda his fault tho, i never bought an ac game for the writing...it's like buying an uncharted games for challenging climb sections...
AC games don't have great writing historically (and Ubi games in general), but they are still storydriven and it is a large focus, so it deserves criticism. That said I don't find Valhalla offensively bad so far, just..average.