Ubisoft’s announcement of the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Valhalla crossover was unprecedented. While the franchise has featured insane character-defining and meeting moments in the past, such as when Ezio speaks to Desmond while in the same room as Altair’s corpse in Revelations or when Layla and Kassandra first met face to face, this is the first time two living Assassin’s Creed main protagonists from different time periods have met.
The premise alone is insane, and it works well enough in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. However, this is something Ubisoft shouldn’t give up—this first crossover is basically begging for more in the future. After all, Kassandra manages to live for 2400+ years and, as Odyssey is the earliest in the franchise, she could have appeared in any number of areas in the world. This could somehow benefit AC Infinity if Kassandra is heavily involved, but single crossovers are good too. MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE CROSSOVER STORIES AHEAD.
Assassin’s Creed Origins x Odyssey Crossover
At one moment in the Odyssey quest of the recent crossover, Kassandra finds herself in the Library of Alexandria. This was an important location in Origins, and many may have held their breath just to get a glimpse of Kassandra’s child or even Aya. Nothing came to pass, however, instead honoring Herodotos in the best way possible. This doesn’t mean something can’t come of Kassandra traveling to Egypt, though.
Perhaps she returns later, but if Ubisoft were to feature a free new AC Origins quest where players can interact with Kassandra as Aya, that would be mind-blowing. It may require a little more work to make Aya, at her strongest point as a founder of the Hidden Ones truly playable, but it would be worthwhile. After all, the two are related, Kassandra shows a little interest in heritage when she asks Eivor about her parents in AC Valhalla, and she has had “friends” who are Hidden Ones.
What’s clear, though, is that Kassandra doesn’t really have friends. She’s traveled alone for a long time, and so she could be referring to an Egyptian adventure. Either way, after this crossover, AC Origins needs one badly.
Other Assassin’s Creed Games That Could Feature Fun Crossovers
Other Assassin’s Creed games wouldn’t likely benefit as much ahead of AC Infinity, but free updates, new quests, and tie-ins to some of the other games would be truly interesting. Ubisoft would probably be better of not messing with the Altair or Ezio games, but Assassin’s Creed 3, Black Flag, Unity, and Syndicate would all be good options for strong crossovers.
Seeing Kassandra interact with Connor, Edward, Arno, and the Frye Twins wouldn’t necessarily build on a story more, but it could. Kassandra is tracking Isu artifacts—they’ll likely play some role in AC Infinity. Perhaps someone is carrying on Kassandra’s work in AC Infinity, and Ubisoft markets the game smartly but slowly bringing Kassandra’s exploits into other games as free updates.
Returning to the aforementioned games would be well worthwhile, but meeting Edward and dealing with pirates to later meet Edward’s grandson in Connor, learn of the Native Americans’ plight, and help them with a new artifact would be a blast. The same goes for AC Unity and Syndicate, and while it’s unlikely Ubisoft takes these crossovers too far if it even did them…one or two more would certainly be welcome.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.