Once I leveled up and got the right armor and weapons the valkyries were easy except for the queen. Niflheim is where you can get some great armor, ended up being the one I fully upgraded and used the rest of the game.

>When that drops next week. I tried to do some cleaning up but
>never touched the Niflhelm stuff and couldn't handle most of
>the Valkyries. NG+ with skippable cutscenes (though so many of
>them were so cool it's hard to say I'll skip many of them)
>will be a good excuse to hunt down the last crows and other
>collectible stuff on my way to the new armor sets and another
>shot at the end game.
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