Viking: Battle for Asgard



Described by the Other Wiki as an Action/Adventure and Hack and Slash hybrid Viking puts you in the shoes of Skarin a Badass Viking. Having died protecting his village he is given a second chance at life and another chance to earn his place in Valhalla by Freya. Skarin accepts and starts his quest to defeat Hel and her campaign to conquer Midgard and Asgard.

Narrated by Brian Blessed! who gives an unsurprising performance stacked to the brim with Large Ham.

This game provides examples of:


 * Action Commands: Natch, for a game that is basically God of War IN NORSE MYTHOLOGY!
 * Arrows On Fire: There don't seem to be any arrows that aren't on fire- espicially in Hel's Army.
 * Badass Normal: Every single member of your army is one of these, that is what happens when you recruit Vikings.
 * Beef Gate: Major locations, and some wilderness areas, need to be cleared of large enemies through staged ambushes or sieges in game's plot, or being spotted by them leads to painful death pretty quickly.
 * Brian Blessed!: He narrates the hell out of this game. If you look close enough you can almost see where he was chewing on the landscape.
 * Combat Stilettos: Hel sports a pair of these.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: Hel's Army didn't have too much real competition before Freya buffs up Skarin into her champion.
 * The Dog Bites Back: Quite literally in this case, as it turns out.
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu: Skarin has definitely earned the right to answer yes to this question.
 * The Dragon: Rakan is Hel's and you serve this role for Freya.
 * Dual Wielding: Done with a variant, Skarin wields a sword and an axe.
 * Elemental Powers- Runes can be applied to Skarin's weaponry, causing elemental damage for a period of time.
 * Playing With Fire- The Fire Rune.
 * Shock and Awe- The Lightning Rune.
 * Exactly What It Says On the Tin: it's about a viking and a battle for Asgard
 * First Episode Resurrection: Skarin gets one of these at the beginning of the game when he agrees to help Freya defeat Hel and regain his chance to enter Valhalla.
 * The End of the World As We Know It:
 * Face Heel Turn: Freya, . It doesn't end well for her.
 * Fire Ice Lightning
 * Foreshadowing:
 * Gameplay Ally Immortality: Averted- the soldiers you bring into battle will die as easily as the mooks they face, making Skarin's need to kill major targets like Shaman much greater, to keep the battle in the Viking's favor.
 * God Is Evil:
 * Heroic Mime: Skarin doesn't have much to say.
 * Hoist By His Own Petard:
 * Hollywood Tactics: Skarin's battle strategies are mostly "charge enemies with lots of vikings".
 * Homage: The last battle against Hel is played very much like a more properly mounted assault on Mordor.
 * Insurmountable Waist High Fence: Averted, unlike so many other games in the genre- Skarin simply leaps over top of them without pause.
 * Love Makes You Evil: Rakan,  Hel's champion and leader of her armies who is now quite bestial in nature.
 * Magnificent Bastard:
 * Mighty Glacier: Drakan. Skarin too, though he gets a little better with various upgrades that give him some speedy attacks.
 * A Mythology Is True: Norse, natch.
 * Mook: You, to Freya.
 * Off With His Head: The combos in this game tend to leave every enemy in Skarin's way missing a number of body parts, and nearly every finisher takes performs a decapitation at some point.
 * One Man Army: Skarin easily qualifies.
 * One Winged Angel: Hel pulls one of these in your final fight with her.
 * Personal Space Invader: The Assassins will leap onto your head and start stabbing at your back until you can pull them off.
 * Physical God: Because
 * Proud Warrior Race Guy: These are Vikings we're talking about...
 * Rewarding Vandalism: Money is earned for shattering random urns throughout the world.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Rakan goes on one when he is spurned by Freya. Skarin gets one too,  Come to think of it, this game is just one long case of these to the point where they just start colliding with each other.
 * Scrappy Mechanic: While the combat was good and commanding your army worked well, the stealth sections where you have to infiltrate enemy strongholds are particularly annoying. There's no real stealth mechanic, you just have to sort of run from cover to cover hoping the enemies can't see you. If they do spot you (and they will, many times) every enemy in a very large radius will be alerted to your presence and confront you. Did we mention this was a game that could support hundreds of enemies, and they can all run faster than you? Mook Chivalry also does not apply to them, making detection certain death.
 * Sliding Scale of Linearity vs. Openness: A type 4.
 * Stealth Based Mission: See above, though only a few missions really require noting but stealth, and there's some breathing room for errors.
 * The Undead: Hel's army is solely made of these.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: Skarin wears parts of armor, but is still mostly topless the entire game.
 * Well Intentioned Extremist:
 * Warrior Heaven: Naturally, for a game about Norse Mythology, this is mentioned.
 * Zerg Rush: Attempting to bypass a Beef Gate is...not recommended. This also seems to be Hel's go-to tactic on the battlefield.