So here is my continued opinions (see earlier in the thread for my opinions after 3 hours)...
I've now played 7 hours and am still in Norway but I have to say that the more I play the more I am clicking with it. The combat is becoming really rather enjoyable and you can string together some pretty awesome looking combos. Getting a little tired of the snowy landscape but I suspect I must be nearing the end of Norway now so I can get on to the bread and butter of the game, England. Valhalla has definitely been a slow burner for me, I was almost instantly hooked with Origins and Odyssey but its taken me several hours (and getting used to the combat changes) to feel the hook with Valhalla but now that I am feeling it I'm very much enjoying the game. Its janky and yes, its rather buggy, but you know what, I'm still enjoying myself and having fun. At this point I would still rate the current AC trilogy as Odyssey > Origins > Valhalla , but Valhalla is closing the gap on Origins and there are some mechanics in Valhalla that I really wish we had in Origins and Odyssey. I'd still rate it as an 8/10 after 7 hours, but its moving up the decimal places on that 8 score.
A general way to look at it is that this is Ubisoft and AC (as AC is now) , frankly if you didnt like the recent AC titles nothing about Valhalla is going to alter your mind and you wont like this either. If you did like Origins and Odyssey then you will probably like Valhalla, though perhaps with some caveats, and if you loved Origins and Odyssey (as I did, over 400 hours in the two games combined, which as I work to a £ per hour method of rating value for money was FAR more than the £s spent) then you're likely to also like Valhalla. Bottom line is, I spent £65 on the game or thereabouts , for the gold edition, and I will easily get 65 hours of fun out of it, so its a hit for me. All that remains now is to see how much of a hit and whether it can move up in my estimations from being rated 3rd in the "trilogy" to being 2nd. I say 2nd because I dont think it will exceed Odyssey, which was a very special game for me. I expect that reaching England will gain Valhalla some additional plus points in my thoughts.