Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has been enjoying a fairly regular influx of new content ever since its late 2020 release. The Last Chapter will round out the game’s vast selection of DLC, which was last expanded with The Dawn of Ragnarok earlier this year. Unlike its previous expansions, however, The Last Chapter will be a more contained experience that won’t be sold separately from the base game. Instead, Ubisoft is adding it for free as part of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1.62 update, which is set to release on December 6.
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The glowing object seen in the newly shared screenshot from The Last Chapter is one of five memory fragments that the DLC will add to the game. Discovering and synchronizing all of them will provide players with “new perspectives” on Eivor’s story, Ubisoft said. While other narrative details on the DLC remain scarce, the developers recently revealed that The Last Chapter will reexamine Eivor’s relationship with Havi.
Since Ubisoft is poised to once again use memory fragments as a narrative framing device, the upcoming expansion will seemingly bear some resemblance with the mechanics of discovering The Truth video in Assassin’s Creed 2, one of the most universally beloved installments in the long-running franchise. But while that particular game had a fairly well-received conclusion, Valhalla’s final chapter is a daunting task for Ubisoft since some fans believe the developers still have a lot to do to provide Eivor with a satisfying ending.
Speaking of long checklists, accessing The Last Chapter won’t be easy, as the DLC comes with a fairly large number of prerequisites that are likely to take over a hundred hours to complete. While the last three mainline games were largely targeting a demographic that’s generally receptive to large amounts of content, Ubisoft’s decision to cater to RPG aficionados alienated some of the series’ core fandom, so it remains to be seen whether next year’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage will manage to do enough to appeal to both.
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