Discovery isn’t just about places either stopping and either listening or smelling can lead to something you’ve never seen before. The only way to stop this is to get investigating, check out the local flora, pick up rocks, familiarise yourself with the environment and eventually you’ll calm down and then you can get on with finding a new settlement and expanding the amount of places you can call home. Being somewhere unfamiliar causes your vision to grey out and the screen flashes with images of dangerous creatures around you. Hysteria is an odd mechanic in Ancestors. Step away from the safety of your settlement and you’ll find waterfalls, swampland and rocky outcrops, but discovery comes with risks as there are lots of things out there that want to kill you, and sensory overload because the constant stream of new things can see your hominid become hysterical. In the dense forest the sun sends shafts of light through the leafy canopies, large trees punctuate the vast expanse, vines hang tentatively waiting for you to swing from them to another tree this is probably the most amazing jungle you’ve seen created in a videogame and it’s just so big. There are no quest markers here, no minimap and no hand-holding, the environment is yours to explore and by god is it a gorgeous world to look at. The world in which our distant ancestors made their home was cruel and full of danger, and it’s here, millions of years ago, where you find yourself controlling a hominid with no real goal except to continue your lineage and evolve. Somehow I manage to escape and run, I’m tired and hungry, I stop, pick a berry and eat it, but it was rotten and because of all that went before I now die. After a dodge that can only be described as clumsy I now find myself poisoned. Because of my blurry vision I can’t see where the attack is coming from and my broken leg has completely dulled my reactions. I can’t remember where my settlement is despite memorising it over and over again, it’s raining, my vision is blurry and suddenly my senses are heightened – I’m being attacked.
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