Hear me out. This would have been an absolutely amazing game, one that I found comparable or even more enjoyable than the other RPG titans out there e.g. Skyrim / Witcher 3. It made me feel like a true Viking, that I belonged in that wild environment and crude settlement, drinking mead and swinging axes, which provided a good escape from reality, for a while.
"For a while" referring to the multiple bugs you WILL DEFINITELY ENCOUNTER over the course of the game. There are numerous smaller bugs that are mildly annoying or even amusing (depending on how you view them), but we're gonna focus on the major, game-breaking bugs.
I'm about 12% progress into the game and I've already hit one - the Valka bug. Apparently the online suggestions are to reload the last manual save before that bug happened, which would be many, many hours ago (as I am a completionist and was doing many other side quests etc in the meantime).
Ubisoft please fix these bugs, do not let this amazing game go to waste. The graphics, story and combat are too good to throw away.