Assassin's Creed Valhalla
A Viking-era open-world action RPG from Ubisoft.
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Valhalla gets mixed marks on accessibility in Game Maker's Toolkit's 2020 review. It sets exploration, fighting and sneaking difficulty separately and shows where noises come from, but it leaves some speech and Eivor's inner monologue uncaptioned. The lesson: split difficulty into independent options and give visual cues for sound, but caption all speech, since one gap undercuts the rest.
- One setting covers all play
- Combat and stealth move together
- Exploration, fighting, sneaking set separately
- Easy combat, demanding stealth
- Or the reverse
Each part of play gets its own difficulty
From Game accessibility article on Valhalla
What was said about Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Valhalla lets players tune exploration, fighting and sneaking difficulty separately. Assassin's Creed: Valhalla lets players set the difficulty of exploration, fighting and sneaking independently. A player can make combat easy while keeping stealth demanding, or the reverse.
It is cited as an example of splitting difficulty into independent settings rather than one slider. The same source lists Hades' God Mode, Control's Assist mode and games with lives turned off as other versions of the idea.
Assassin's Creed shows where sounds come from with on-screen captions. Assassin's Creed uses a captioning system borrowed from Far Cry New Dawn to show where noises come from. This helps deaf and hard of hearing players catch information that is otherwise only audible.
Watch Dogs: Legion uses the same system. Off-screen indicators are now the default in most games.
Valhalla leaves Eivor's inner monologue uncaptioned, a gap in its subtitles. Valhalla does not caption Eivor's inner monologue. The source names it as an example of speech left out of subtitles, and argues that every line of speech should be captioned.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is named for skipping mid-combat barks. The ideal subtitles are large, contrast well with the background and name the speaker.
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Sets exploration, fighting and sneaking difficulty separately and shows where noises come from. It doesn't caption Eivor's inner monologue.
Valhalla lets players tune exploration, fighting and sneaking difficulty separately. Assassin's Creed: Valhalla lets players set the difficulty of exploration, fighting and sneaking independently. A player can make combat easy while keeping stealth demanding, or the reverse.
It is cited as an example of splitting difficulty into independent settings rather than one slider. The same source lists Hades' God Mode, Control's Assist mode and games with lives turned off as other versions of the idea.
Assassin's Creed shows where sounds come from with on-screen captions. Assassin's Creed uses a captioning system borrowed from Far Cry New Dawn to show where noises come from. This helps deaf and hard of hearing players catch information that is otherwise only audible.
Watch Dogs: Legion uses the same system. Off-screen indicators are now the default in most games.
Valhalla leaves Eivor's inner monologue uncaptioned, a gap in its subtitles. Valhalla does not caption Eivor's inner monologue. The source names it as an example of speech left out of subtitles, and argues that every line of speech should be captioned.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is named for skipping mid-combat barks. The ideal subtitles are large, contrast well with the background and name the speaker.
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