Face to Face
N.E.ì Lyrics
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Mas me ama
Com amor de Pai
Sou pequeno
Me ensina
Como caminhar
Apenas me rendo a ti, Pai
Dependente sou
do seu perfeito amor, Pai
Face a Face
A sós
Eu quero desfrutar
De tudo que me entregou
Sua graça
Sua voz
Ao meu coração
Trazendo paz
Não mereço
Mas me ama
Com amor de Pai
Sou pequeno
Me ensina
Como caminhar
Dependente sou
Apenas me rendo a ti, Pai
Dependente sou
do seu perfeito amor, Pai
Face a Face
A sós
Eu quero desfrutar
De tudo que me entregou
Sua graça
Sua voz
Ao meu coração
Trazendo paz
Face a Face
A sós
Eu quero desfrutar
De tudo que me entregou
Sua graça
Sua voz
Ao meu coração
Trazendo paz
No dia mal sua paz vem aqui
Eu posso confiar, eu sei
No dia mal sua paz vem aqui
Eu posso confiar, eu sei
No dia mal sua paz vem aqui
Eu posso confiar, eu sei
No dia mal sua paz vem aqui
Eu posso confiar!
Face a Face
A sós
Eu quero desfrutar
De tudo que me entregou
Sua graça
Sua voz
Ao meu coração
Trazendo paz
Face a Face
A sós
Eu quero desfrutar
De tudo que me entregou
Sua graça
Sua voz
Ao meu coração
Trazendo paz
The lyrics to N.E.R.D's "Face to Face" paint a vivid picture of street life and the hustle to make money by any means necessary. The first section of the song talks about the evolution of movies from regular screens to HD, Imax, and now 3D. The lyrics then transition into a story of a man who started from play fights with his friends and moved on to become a hustler who has connections in different cities. He brags about his Pyrex vision and propane gas before reminiscing about his days of hustling with his friends under the boxers and stashing weed in all-out top rockers. He ends his verse by reminding others that they cannot go to war with a boss while their paper is in their right hand and their crew hat is off.
The second section of the song is more random and disconnected from the first. It references Marvin Gaye, fountains flying, and pimping hoes on a yacht. The verses switch off between different rappers as they talk about the street life, gang violence, and the hustle to make money. The lyrics provide snapshots of this lifestyle, one full of danger, uncertainty, and the constant threat of violence.
The lyrics in "Face to Face" make commentary on how people start from small fights and grow to become tough guys on the streets. It also reflects on how people in this life have to deal with threats to their safety, the constant risk of violence, and the need to hold their own at all times. Overall, the song paints a picture of the dangerous and risky world of street life.
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Aline Oliveira
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@AndyGilleand
If any of you need more of an explanation of the ending, read below. Obviously, this comment will contain spoilers.
SPOILER WARNING
Throughout the story, Eivor has visions, and so does Sigurd. These visions show stories from Norse mythology, including characters like Odin, Thor, Freyja, Loki, and Tyr, as well as many others. While Eivor never fully understands the truth behind these visions, Sigurd and Fulke do. These are indeed not dreams or visions of the future, but memories of a life lived long ago. The characters we see in them are in fact Isu, or "Those who came before". We see these visions through the interpretation of Norse mythology, as that is how these characters understand those stories.
If you aren't familiar with the Isu (and you should be at this point), they were an ancient technologically advanced precursor race who were the creators of humanity. They lived over 75,000 years ago, and died out when a great catastrophe happened, a coronal mass ejection, killing off the Isu and leaving only the humans. In past games, we saw that the Isu worked hard to try to avoid this catastrophe, either by stopping it directly, by preventing its effects, or by finding ways to preserve their consciousness and be reborn later on.
In Assassin's Creed III, humanity was facing yet another extinction level event, and Desmond followed the advice of an Isu called Juno to activate a device which shielded the world from the magnetic forces from the solar flare. In exchange, Juno's consciousness was released. Shortly afterwards, we learned about "Sages", which turned out to be a reincarnation of another Isu, called Aita, who was Juno's husband. His consciousness was preserved through human lineage which allowed him to be reborn over and over again throughout history. In Eivor's vision, we see the Jotnar called Hyrrokin. This is actually Juno, reinterpreted through the lens of Norse mythology. We see that she helps Odin track down the "mead", which she says she will modify to bring back the ashes of her dead husband. In actual Isu history, what she did ended up preserving Aita's consciousness through the sages throughout history.
Odin's mead handled things a bit differently. Instead of being reincarnated over and over again, he planned to bring back a select group of Isu all at the same time. Odin, Freyja, Tyr, Thor, and some others were all part of the core group. Eivor sees Odin in her visions because Eivor is a reincarnation of Odin. However, Odin has not been able to fully take over Eivor's body. Unlike Aita, the process is different. We see Eivor and Odin often talking to one another, because Odin is trying to convince Eivor to basically "let him out" and take over, allowing him to live once again. By the end, however, Eivor rejects Odin, and Odin is lost forever.
Sigurd on the other hand is a reincarnation of Tyr. Like Eivor, he originally just had visions that gave him some clues to his past, but he was more open to finding the truth in them. Through the torture he sustained at the hands of Fulke, and the loss of his arm, he was able to understand more about his past life, and that pushes him to wanting to explore the Isu temple at the end of the story. That temple was in fact the "tree of life" location we see in the Ragnarok vision Odin has. In the movie, I've also included the "real world" version of the scene, which shows how that location was actually an Isu temple full of technology. In this temple section we also learn that Valka's mother Svala was a reincarnation of Freyja, but there is one other reincarnation that is incredibly important, and that's Basim.
Basim is a reincarnation of Loki. As we see in the real world depiction of the Ragnarok vision, Loki was able to infiltrate the meeting of the 8 Isu Odin wanted to preserve in the "life tree". He killed one of the Isu in that chamber, and used the machine to preserve his consciousness, which allowed him to return as Basim. Basim is fully aware of his Isu past when we first meet him. He is able to recognize that Sigurd is a reincarnation of one of the Isu he knew, but at the start, he assumed Basim was a reincarnation of Odin. He wanted to push Sigurd to awakening his memories so that he could get his revenge on him for the way Odin treated Fenrir, Loki's son. We see this in the campfire scene, where he talks about how a man he trusted with everything, took everything he had from him. Eventually by the end, Basim learns Eivor is Odin reincarnated, and tries to take his revenge, but Eivor traps him in the "tree of life" machine.
When Desmond saved the world in 2012 and freed Juno, he activated the machine at the Isu temple Eivor, Sigurd, and Basim all visited. This protected the earth from the solar flare, but caused other issues that the Assassins needed to solve by turning the machine's power down. This was all part of Basim's plan. When the machine's power was turned down, he was able to escape, and take the Staff of Eden, which we were introduced to in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. If you recall, in the visions Eivor had, Fenrir was the son of Loki and Angrboda. It turns out, Angrboda is in fact the Isu called Aletheia, which we saw in Odyssey and Fate of Atlantis.
The Staff Layla is given in Fate of Atlantis holds the consciousness of Aletheia. It turns out, Kassandra and Layla were being played. As yet another way to try to escape the catastrophe, Loki placed the consciousness of Aletheia in the staff, and the trials that Kassandra and Layla had to go through were all designed to get the staff to the tree of life Isu temple, so that Loki could be reunited with Aletheia, as Basim. At the end, we see Basim pledge to Aletheia that he will work to find their children, and reunite their family. he will be using the Animus to help him gather enough skills through the bleeding effect to do this. Supposedly, this implies that we will play as Basim/Loki in a future game, and that will be the goal of his character arc.
Of course, with the news of AC Infinity, it's hard to say whether that plan is likely to play out as intended. In the past, Ubisoft finished the Juno storyline in a comic rather than in the games, and the new "live service" style of Infinity could potentially change the way stories are delivered in the series. So it's hard to say. Overall while I have my issues with the way the storytelling is handled in Valhalla, I'm quite happy with the level of lore that the story develops, although I was a bit disappointed that in the end, Eivor and Sigurd seem to dismiss Basim as crazy, never recognizing that Basim was Loki, and Eivor never really understood that she was a reincarnation of Odin either.
@AndyGilleand
If any of you need more of an explanation of the ending, read below. Obviously, this comment will contain spoilers.
SPOILER WARNING
Throughout the story, Eivor has visions, and so does Sigurd. These visions show stories from Norse mythology, including characters like Odin, Thor, Freyja, Loki, and Tyr, as well as many others. While Eivor never fully understands the truth behind these visions, Sigurd and Fulke do. These are indeed not dreams or visions of the future, but memories of a life lived long ago. The characters we see in them are in fact Isu, or "Those who came before". We see these visions through the interpretation of Norse mythology, as that is how these characters understand those stories.
If you aren't familiar with the Isu (and you should be at this point), they were an ancient technologically advanced precursor race who were the creators of humanity. They lived over 75,000 years ago, and died out when a great catastrophe happened, a coronal mass ejection, killing off the Isu and leaving only the humans. In past games, we saw that the Isu worked hard to try to avoid this catastrophe, either by stopping it directly, by preventing its effects, or by finding ways to preserve their consciousness and be reborn later on.
In Assassin's Creed III, humanity was facing yet another extinction level event, and Desmond followed the advice of an Isu called Juno to activate a device which shielded the world from the magnetic forces from the solar flare. In exchange, Juno's consciousness was released. Shortly afterwards, we learned about "Sages", which turned out to be a reincarnation of another Isu, called Aita, who was Juno's husband. His consciousness was preserved through human lineage which allowed him to be reborn over and over again throughout history. In Eivor's vision, we see the Jotnar called Hyrrokin. This is actually Juno, reinterpreted through the lens of Norse mythology. We see that she helps Odin track down the "mead", which she says she will modify to bring back the ashes of her dead husband. In actual Isu history, what she did ended up preserving Aita's consciousness through the sages throughout history.
Odin's mead handled things a bit differently. Instead of being reincarnated over and over again, he planned to bring back a select group of Isu all at the same time. Odin, Freyja, Tyr, Thor, and some others were all part of the core group. Eivor sees Odin in her visions because Eivor is a reincarnation of Odin. However, Odin has not been able to fully take over Eivor's body. Unlike Aita, the process is different. We see Eivor and Odin often talking to one another, because Odin is trying to convince Eivor to basically "let him out" and take over, allowing him to live once again. By the end, however, Eivor rejects Odin, and Odin is lost forever.
Sigurd on the other hand is a reincarnation of Tyr. Like Eivor, he originally just had visions that gave him some clues to his past, but he was more open to finding the truth in them. Through the torture he sustained at the hands of Fulke, and the loss of his arm, he was able to understand more about his past life, and that pushes him to wanting to explore the Isu temple at the end of the story. That temple was in fact the "tree of life" location we see in the Ragnarok vision Odin has. In the movie, I've also included the "real world" version of the scene, which shows how that location was actually an Isu temple full of technology. In this temple section we also learn that Valka's mother Svala was a reincarnation of Freyja, but there is one other reincarnation that is incredibly important, and that's Basim.
Basim is a reincarnation of Loki. As we see in the real world depiction of the Ragnarok vision, Loki was able to infiltrate the meeting of the 8 Isu Odin wanted to preserve in the "life tree". He killed one of the Isu in that chamber, and used the machine to preserve his consciousness, which allowed him to return as Basim. Basim is fully aware of his Isu past when we first meet him. He is able to recognize that Sigurd is a reincarnation of one of the Isu he knew, but at the start, he assumed Basim was a reincarnation of Odin. He wanted to push Sigurd to awakening his memories so that he could get his revenge on him for the way Odin treated Fenrir, Loki's son. We see this in the campfire scene, where he talks about how a man he trusted with everything, took everything he had from him. Eventually by the end, Basim learns Eivor is Odin reincarnated, and tries to take his revenge, but Eivor traps him in the "tree of life" machine.
When Desmond saved the world in 2012 and freed Juno, he activated the machine at the Isu temple Eivor, Sigurd, and Basim all visited. This protected the earth from the solar flare, but caused other issues that the Assassins needed to solve by turning the machine's power down. This was all part of Basim's plan. When the machine's power was turned down, he was able to escape, and take the Staff of Eden, which we were introduced to in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. If you recall, in the visions Eivor had, Fenrir was the son of Loki and Angrboda. It turns out, Angrboda is in fact the Isu called Aletheia, which we saw in Odyssey and Fate of Atlantis.
The Staff Layla is given in Fate of Atlantis holds the consciousness of Aletheia. It turns out, Kassandra and Layla were being played. As yet another way to try to escape the catastrophe, Loki placed the consciousness of Aletheia in the staff, and the trials that Kassandra and Layla had to go through were all designed to get the staff to the tree of life Isu temple, so that Loki could be reunited with Aletheia, as Basim. At the end, we see Basim pledge to Aletheia that he will work to find their children, and reunite their family. he will be using the Animus to help him gather enough skills through the bleeding effect to do this. Supposedly, this implies that we will play as Basim/Loki in a future game, and that will be the goal of his character arc.
Of course, with the news of AC Infinity, it's hard to say whether that plan is likely to play out as intended. In the past, Ubisoft finished the Juno storyline in a comic rather than in the games, and the new "live service" style of Infinity could potentially change the way stories are delivered in the series. So it's hard to say. Overall while I have my issues with the way the storytelling is handled in Valhalla, I'm quite happy with the level of lore that the story develops, although I was a bit disappointed that in the end, Eivor and Sigurd seem to dismiss Basim as crazy, never recognizing that Basim was Loki, and Eivor never really understood that she was a reincarnation of Odin either.
@icarusgaming6269
Shaun and Rebecca's relationship with Basim also feels unresolved. If Basim exits the Animus, he's always alone? He seems more like the next villain to me, and that we'd have to stop him from trampling even more lives on his path to immortality
@AndyGilleand
@Icarus Gaming I agree he feels like a villain, but we're also playing as him at the end, so idk. Like I said, I think with the direction Ubi is going with Infinity, who knows if Ubisoft will even explore this properly, but it does feel like they're pushing for him to be the next protagonist to me, even if you're playing as a darker character.
@MagnusVonBlack
The whole story was real, real awesome until the end of Black Flag, then it got real, real fucking stupid. Fuck Assassin's Creed at this point, it's confusing and boring.
@virtualpigmaster
That's a brilliant explanation, of a very confusing plot. Thanks! And I was glad to be able to watch your movie, instead of play through it!!
@laviniasnow4494
Thank you for this thorough explanation. By the way, this comment should be pinned. 🙂
@thatladmerai
Man there's no one better than you at making games into a movie, I have always enjoy your vids more than anything else on YouTube giving me the opportunity to enjoy this legendary game in the best way possible. You definitely deserve more subs(1m+) and more views for your vids. Keep it up mate👍👍
@maxanderson6108
For the sheer amount of content this game has, your editing and result is impressive. Even down to orienting flyover shots, it all made watching the ending of this game the best it could be. Great job
@chriskkz
Thanks for this great masterpiece Andy! Really love your work.
@assassinscreedislife7636
Valhalla is truly a master piece, though I really hope that they can finish its story off really well. I thought we’d seen the last of Odin, but now Eivor’s having visions of him again. There’s the Last Chapter coming out soon, so hopefully that will resolve everything, but I really loved the way the main game ended with Eivor rejecting Odin and getting to lead her clan with her brother. If they double back and make her go crazy because of Odin after that ending, I’m gonna be really upset.