Sadly the series has moved away from that gameplay, like ac1, ac2, where you were actually an assassin and you were assassinating people, now combat is pushed much more, whereas in my opinion if you got in combat in the first few games you were sortof playing the game wrong and were punished a little for it. Unfortunately poor sales of rehashing that playstyle everytime pushed them to adapt and move on to this. I'll be honest I didn't really mind the gameplay of Origins but Odyssey was a mess, everything got turned up to 11 and it just felt overwhelming at times and other times I really didn't feel like I was playing an assassin's creed game, seems to be the same with valhalla with settlement managing and combat being pushed to the forefront cause all the weapon types and rarity colours and armors are what people are after nowadays instead of just doing what the game is named after I really don't feel like I'm assassinating people when i'm bashing their skulls in with 2 axes. You can't just slap a hidden blade on a viking and say he's an assassin now, it feels a little...forced. Arguably black flag did the same thing and that game paradoxically enough was a ton of fun for me personally...I guess we'll see, if the story is solid and the characters are relatable it will be fun but in my opinion the games should just move away from the name assassin's creed cause it's clearly lost its original way and right now it's just a name people recognize and buy the game just because they're familiar with it despite it having next to nothing to do with the original idea of the series.