Especially interesting knowing that the entire AC lore, has Adam and Eve has part of the First Civilization's human slaves, who then stole an Apple of Eden and ran away using its power in order to start the rebellion that eventually set humanity free.
A few from Origins: 1) If you visit the cave that Layla has set her self up in while playing as Bayek through the Animus he’ll talk about himself and Aya 2) In the lake north east of Letopolis there’s a stone TARDIS from Doctor Who 3) One of the messages in the Isu buildings suggests Layla’s Animus can actually affect events and not just relive them, foreshadowing how Odyssey introduces branching dialogue trees and storylines. From Odyssey: The lead up to the Fate of Atlantis DLC involves Alexios/Kassandra going to specific tombs, where the gameplay shifts to Layla exploring the tombs looking for a specific symbol. If you’ve already gone through them as Alexios/Kassandra then any damage you’ve done or chests opened will be reflected in Layla’s visit. Both the first and third chapters could be foreshadowing plot twists in Valhalla, the Fields of Elysium where Persephone and Hecate try to influence Alexios/Kassandra like how Juno and Minerva are with Desmond, and the appearance of Juno and Aita in Judgment of Atlantis hinting that storylines may be repeating especially since we see an Assassin fall under the influence of a Piece of Eden to unintentionally kill an ally (and another Isu and Isu Sage relationship where resurrection is the goal, sacrificing someone to The Grey).
Ezio didnt discover the Colosseum vault in brotherhood randomly. If you read the letters you collect when completing lairs of romulus it actually becomes an account of Brutus encountering the vault and meeting the Isu, he is also the one who told Ezio how to open and close it.
Thats a cool little detail right there... thanks for reminding me, played AC2 and Brotherhood ages ago and completely forgot about the Brutus diary you could read through in those lairs
@@AndrewMitchell123 yea its been a while for me too, but it seems ur not alone, even ubisoft forgot about this...I was looking forward to brutus wearing this armor in ac origins, but clearly ubisoft forgot
@@AndrewMitchell123 I wouldnt say they have fallen because tbh the games arent half bad, but putting that aside, I hate that they no longer reference previous games in newer games...it kind of used to give it a sense of continuity and one-ness
Another cool detail similar to the Leave Her Johnny one, when you’re exploring the Kenway mansion you need to play a tune on the piano to open a secret passage. The tune you play is Lowlands Away from AC 4
When you arrive to Alexandria for the first time in AC Origins, you can find Aya's home. There, you will find the murdered victims of the 2 members of the Order of the Ancients that she killed (Actaeon and Ktesos), along with an Order member mask on the floor. You have to go to the house before you meet Aya, I think, as if you go after, it won't be there. I could be wrong on the timing, but I know for certain that it does disappear after a certain point. It's a really cool detail that I don't think most see - I never did on my first play through, only later ones.
There's a note in a little house in Valhalla that will show you a list of the Horcuxes in Harry Potter. I have a screenshot, but I don't remember where the house is.
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Worth mentioning are references to character of "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred from works of H.P. Lovecraft to be found in AC: Mirage. One book that Basim can find in the ruins of Seleucia is nothing other than Necronomicon itself.
In Valhalla, if you go into the tattooist's hut you can find a note detailing ideas for new tattoo designs. One of them is "A dragon, breathing fire, with the wings of a bat and arms of a man" and then "Note also: The dragon's arms are very muscular" this is a reference to Trogdor the Burninator
There's interesting historical fact about AC3 ship Aquilla. During American revolutionary war every British captain is told to not have any direct combat against American frigate ship (Aquilla is frigate) since they're are much powerful than average British ship. This historical story actually present in AC3 since Aquilla is always superior against every ship in the game
In black flag, there's a ship called The Hollander and Holland = Dutch so it could be referencing the flying dutchman from pirates of the caribbean. And in Dutch, the flying dutchman is De Vliegende Hollander so it seems the ship we help as an ally in AC Black Flag is the dutchman which seems to be a reference to the flying dutchman that Davy Jones captained in Pirates of the Caribbean.
oooh and in ac bf, there's that cheat that turns your crew into skeletons which may be a nod to potc 1 where Barbossa and his crew are cursed to turn into skeletons at night.
In AC Odyssey as well there was a really similar looking place to where T'challa fought M'baku and then later against killmonger for who becomes Black Panther. There's even two people fighting there when you come and people are watching.
One thing I really like about valhalla is that the game is PACKED with Easter eggs. There is a Bloodborne reference in valhalla. There is a cassette with a label "Fear the old blood" and the hunters mark.
Love the Adam and Eve comparison for Unity prologue scene! great spots, I remember Valhalla's Honey mission, but missed the Winnie the Pooh reference! Thanks for sharing, and if you have more, looking forward to seeing them! Great job, and excellent video!
I’ve a theory about the identity of the entity. It could possibly be the spirit or ghost of Ymir. I know it’s a bit of a stretch and the antlers do suggest otherwise but considering its size, demeanour and spooky presence, it might very well be the ghost of Ymir haunting Odin/Havi all those centuries ago.
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In Dawn of Ragnarok DLC from Valhalla there is a world event called Hyrrokin's Gift that is a nod to Lord of the Rings where you help a dwarf name Frodri get rid of a ring that he claims is bringing him bad luck. There is also the world event in the Valhalla base game called Alisa in Wunderlandscire that is referring to Alice in Wonderland. Lastly, with The Last Leaf of Fall world event you can find Mae's father in Lincoln with a note.
also in syndicate you can sometimes find a guy singing heres a health to the company and blow the candles out which might is probably a reference to black flag
10:09 that sounds like Nils Brown! He also did work on the shanties in AC3, 4, and Rogue and is friends with Sean Dagher, the one who sang the lead part of Leave Her Johnny in AC4
As for "the entity" , as soon as i saw it in this video it made me think of the tv show called "yellow jackets" which the story of the show is a high-school soccer team was on an airplane traveling for a game when the plane crashes and the girl soccer team is stranded. One of the girls talks about "the spirit" who she says demands basically a sacrifice so they can all live. One of the memebers dies from an accident which the spirit is satisfied with and the girls all end up eating their friend. Over time as they eat more and more of their friends, they act less human to basically cope with what they are doing and they all start to dress oddly. The leader (chick who "hears" the entity) wears like a metal vale over her face with big antlers (resembles your entity in this video). During the show before they end up killing for the first time there are antler symbols everywhere, a dead stag etc. It sounds like the entity u described that influences people to become cannibals and or supports it. The girls all end up being rescued and the story goes back and forth of the girls as adults and how they are trying to forget the things they did to survive and flash backs to them as teenagers and being stranded. Fantastic show
If you dont catch the kids friends calling him Hytham, im pretty sure the subtitles called him Young Eagle, which is the name translation for Haytham, Connors dad. and i think i saw a theory that kenway named his kid after one of the most prominent assassins in england history, right at the turn of hidden ones to assassins, Hytham.
Not sure how well known this is, but the 3 witches you fight in for the sword keys in AC Valhalla are named after 3 princesses in Shakespeare's King Lear play. Reagan, Gonril, and Cordelia
The Valhalla entinty is actually a spirit that protects the Woodlands of Norse Mythology, it's basically like Swamp Thing from DC Comics that protects the swamp and all wooded areas across Earth.
I don’t like the wendigo theory because that’s a piece of Algonquian folklore and Valhalla takes place roughly 200 years before Viking travelers even visited North America
12:55 *"is this a valid comparison to make(to adam and eve)"* considering the secret video file of adam and eve stealing the apple of eden from the precursor people/Isu in AC2, i think you're right on the money. always wished they continued that story hook, in the early games they loved tying into famous conspiracies, and i was expecting that Adam and Eve video to lead to a sort of "Origin" story game set in babylon/sumeria and talking about the annunaki gods, IE the Isu. in the mesopotamian creation myth, Enki/Ea creates us to be servants, but can't get it right til he adds the dna of all the other gods, which the other gods are not too keen on but agree, so long as we don't have the potential for immortality or enlightenment. when it's made known that we DO have at least one of those, the other gods are not pleased about it, and eventually the god Enlil causes the Flood/Deluge (the babylonian version of the Noah myth from the bible) in order to try and destroy us because we are "Annoying and noisy". Enki warns a human man and tells him to build a boat to survive, just like the biblical version. considering the later additions to the lore about "Sages" with Isu DNA and stuff like that, i was expecting Ubisoft to circle back to that concept, but they never did. this easter egg was neat, but also sort of felt like salt in the wound to me, teasing something they hinted at earlier and know they haven't and do not intend to give us a conclusion to. now that they did AC:Origins and went in a different direction, that story hook is no longer convenient and sort of just a loose end, an ugly hangnail on the series. i think they did this intentionally, so as not to alienate the judeo-christian demographic or create a scandal by hitting that core mythos. sad, really, that idea had a lot of potential.
Here is a random nice detail In ac 1 if you knock out someone with your fists and dies after or sleeps but pretty sure they die the guards won't care or none will comment on it
In assassin creed valhalla there's a very fun easter egg it's from Robin Hood men in tights it the tune that's played by the Sheriff of Nottingham troops playing the trumpet but in the game most towns you can hear peasants humming or whistling the tune
1:26 when i first played ac3 i thought that the ship was the ship from the starting of prince of persia: warrior within as that was the game ubisoft focused on before ac
This was great I knew 4/10 thank you for pronouncing Aquila right Faulkner(Gibbs for pirates) says it wrong like akilla. Also I thought right away of beast in the woods from over the garden wall that’s my interpretation. Also like the Adam and Eve one at the end
it may not be as much a detail as in this video but at the end of rogue we can have shay lsiten to the conversation of arno and elise after the apple is stolen, where is in unity we have a cutscene without shay present. Basicaly AC Unity cutscene in rogue plays out as two child NPCs having a chat.
Might as well say it... but when you do the soundtracks/Music/Main theme video(es) don't forget Chronicles, Liberation, Freedom Cry... they have music (not much but show some love for the smaller AC games)
there is the one about the sages in ac4 and the final boss in unity being one and also meeting him in the begining of the game when chasing the cart before the party when elise's father die
I have a weird memory of coming across the giant cake in unity and fighting the guy and being happy about the money but I know I didn’t go and do all the cakes unless I somehow did it by complete accident but I know I fought him
In syndicate there is also another reference to a sea chanty in mission where evie has to infiltrate edwards estate. She has to open a secret door by playing a couple of notes on the piano and the notes resembles another sea chanty from black flag.
Im 99% sure young hythem does indeed take the jump, i remember a line from basim asking if he was okay or whatever Also just how adam chose to follow eve andcaused a spring of consequences Arno chose to follow elise and in the split second where his father was looking for him distracted his father long enough for shay to kill him, just like if adam didnt go with eve bad things mostly wouldn't have happened, if arno chose to stay in his seat and wait for his father, shay probably wouldn't have had a chance, as i dont believe shay would've willingly kill his father infront of him
Who else here killed Winifred the Bear when they played Valhalla? I know I did. I felt a little bad about it afterward, the child was very sad I killed their friend
I never realized that Adam and Eve reference. Plus throughout the story Elise is constantly tempting Arno and encouraging him to do stuff. Man, Unity's story could have been so amazing if they had developed it more...
The giant squid if that was the Kraken then it’d need to be in Valhalla because the kraken is a Norse mythical creature so why would it be in any other game except for Valhalla and tbh it isn’t even in Valhalla nether is the Midgard serpent I feel those are the only things that Ubisoft should’ve put in Valhalla and the kraken doesn’t have to be in the Asgard sections they could just put it in the ocean near east anglia
@@TheHiddenOne690fun fact the most accurate depiction of the Wendigo is very similar to the Wendigos from Until Dawn. The antlers one comes from a movie from I think the 2000’s; the director had no real knowledge of the creature just a surface one plus a liking to its name. Plus the spirit in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary is a wendigo too
My favorite small details comes from Arno's movements, he overflows with inexperience, he stumbles when falling while still trying to run, he flails his arms mid air, he puts too much weight in his sword attacks, and everything fits his character very well, he feels the most believable assassin, in spite of his ridiculously long jumps