Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is Amazing, and Here's Why
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- Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is Amazing, and Here's Why.
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0:00 Introduction
1:24 PANACHE DIGITAL GAMES
3:58 Concept
12:58 A Meaningful Skill Tree
17:20 Evolving
21:22 Controls
24:05 Combat and Communication
28:17 Survival Mechanics
31:29 Traversing the Map
34:23 The Journey - เกม
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Coming back to this video a year later, it's so refreshing for someone to see this game the same way i had. I loved this game with my soul, from the progression to the exploration, and it just felt so demoralizing to see others judge it so harshly. Im glad that there's at least 1 good analysis in it on youtube. Thanks.
I feel you
I had this on my Wishlist b4 it came out, Because its release was so harshly Judged I lost my excitement for the game, And kind of forgot about it. Stumbled upon it being on my steam wishlist, at the same time I stumbled onto "Fooster" who is doing a playthru RN. watched 40 min episode, and said I have to play this game before I watch too much and know too much. Not knowing anything about this game Is the way to do it, and dont understand why people didnt enjoy that aspect
This game is so special to me too, I know where you’re coming from. Hitting the next evolution after grinding to learn and discover as much as you can is a rewarding experience like I haven’t had in a longggg time with a game
Game is 🐐
@@kimberlyshamaa6899game is 🐵
Finally, somone gives this game the attention it deserves!
I love this game
@@B-Roll_Gamingsame
Forget problems, return to Monke
Ape together strong
Ooooooh aaaaaah ah ah uuuuaaaaaahhahahahaa!
- Nog
My lineage is called Monke lol
Oha boga
Literally why I love this game
I love this game so much. I hope they make the two planned sequels!
Sequel were confirmed to be amazing seeing this game lead up to modern times!
This. Game. Is. AMAZING. I love this game more than any game in the world it's so amazing I can't even express it!!!
@@seb6226 the sequel is all done on paper... but the games publisher's( I believe its the publishers) "Private Division" have yet to approve it for development & release. Im worried The mixed reviews have given them pause on releasing the next one. But the actual Developers seem eager to continue the trilogy.
I just got this recently on sale for like $10. I been wanting to try it and honestly didn’t look much up other than trailers and just didn’t want to spend the $40 but if I realized how awesome it was I would’ve just bought it a while ago to support them more. I’ve spend 100hrs just exploring every inch of the jungle before leaving lol
I enjoy thoughtful respectful games, and thoughtful respectful commentary. This is both. Easy visuals, excellent subs for the voice, nice progression through the presentation. IF I ever end up buying a game, this will be it, based on this vid. Well done.
There's another great video about this game by Super Bunny Hop where he interviews the studio
Man oh man, it plays so much like AC, but it's way better too. I've read eons ago from one Nintendo dev. The story in his games has to do with gameplay. It's there to prod the gameplay. This one is a perfect example. It's all gameplay beginning to end. The only thing is, it's extremely addictive. Be ready for it. You save by building a nest and laying down to open skills. That lets you save in the wilds anywhere. The game doesn't explain it, so I thought I should.
My favorite part about this game is that it is only the beginning. This is the start of a trilogy, and I am so exited to see how the game evolves
Are we sure they will be made though? Getting kind of concerned for the next 2 games actually getting made. I get why it would take awhile though. I just hope
It’s being worked on.
A lot of the people who didn’t like it were just impatient, this game really shows how evolution happened. A lot of the reviewers expected to be done with the game in the span of a few hours and move on, but they were disappointed when they found out that’s not how evolution works, it takes time. I completely agree that the game was treated unfairly and I hope it gets more respect.
*Exactly, the game even says "We're not going to help you However", meaning we have to figure it out and use our brain.*
Best evolution game i know of.
Even against Spore. Spore, bore.
Germers: EVERY NEW GAME IS A COPY AND A CLONE, GIVE US SOMETHING FRESH AND NEW!!
Also Germers: THIS IS SO WEIRD. IT'S SO BAD.
Just picked this one up yesterday and having a blast so far. Great video!
that baby monkey at the start was literally me...wondering were my minimap was and my arrow guide :) i loved this game so much and i don't mind that it never got a follow up because it was an experience that i always will remember a real hidden gem
Still plenty time for a follow up, Panache are working on other things at the moment but they've got a solid foundation with Ancestors!
@@AyeForScotlandVideoEssays I really hope that's true. I felt quite disheartened thinking there wouldn't be a sequel :(
Only had the game a few days and it’s taken me so long to figure out how to not get my apes killed but now I’ve figured it out i bloody love this game!
Enjoy!
You sold the game for me. I had my eye on this game ever since it came out and it was always in the back of my mind whenever I'd play other games, but I was never sure about getting it because of the reviews. I thought the majority of the reviews on Ancestors all said the same thing and I found myself looking for information that only people who had played through it and truly experienced it had. Your video was so informative to me that I bought it right after it ended.
That’s awesome! I really hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
I'm desperately hoping they haven't changed plans to make more games in this series. This deserves to be more than a one-off.
I just bought this game on sale and I’m so angry at myself for listening to reviews. It deserved full price 😢
No no, it was flawed at launch. 1 game breaking flaw1 for anyone with average hearing. Just trust me. Took them months to patch. Like any newer games I guess, internet makes for lazy devs.
Too bad they didn't see success because now we get NO dlc or updates because they know it's not popular
*Two Narcissistic in a reply section not knowing what good criticism is.*
@@Crustacean4 I'm not sure if you know what narcissist or criticism means.
I play the game but just never evolve and just chill with my Chimp Clan lol
Finished it 3 times, best game I’ve ever played
Omg the first time you enter the savannah and you are like “I wanna go back, but i also want to explore this new world”, it’s so human, I felt that🥲
I remember when I first played this game and I treated everything as a threat. I think it might have had something to do with my natural instincts or not but after learning how to defend myself in this game thats when I felt powerful and like I could take on anything. Then I got destroyed by a boar after I made a sharp stick.
for me, I was a bit bummed that I couldnt discover fire in the way we theorize early hominids could've acquired it first, visiting a lightning strike and taking tree limbs or branches that have been set on fire
however the lack of fire did not detract my enjoyment at all, in fact I've played this game 5 times from start to finish, I've likely seen every interaction with every animal and tool at least one time in my playthroughs. And honestly I've probably missed a couple obscure ones (like having an Otter fight a Elephant) but that's why i fell in love with this game, I always felt like there was something for me to discover and something for me to do. Nothing was ever a waste of time, and you could always come out on top if you were perceptive and understood the world well enough to defend yourself
A GREAT example, tools/weapons have range! Sticks and Bones have long range, rocks have short range. These ranges only really effect if the target animal is likely to hit you and break your limbs, cut you, or poison you. Longer weapons, way less likely to get hurt. However, Sticks break but deal a lot of damage and are capable of killing animals. But bones never break but cannot kill animals. However, rocks cannot break but they _can_ kill animals!
So what I did is carry a basalt chopper (they sharpen sticks faster than obsidian scrapers in my experience) and a sharpened stick. So anytime a tiger would attack me, I counter attacked with my stick, if they lived, I chased them down with my rock until I eventually killed them. And heck, wounding an animal makes them flee slower! So if you used a stick to injure them, theyre not likely to get away from you and your chopping rock, eventually theyll succumb to being chased down, and your repeat assaults will easily land you a whole banquet for your clan 😁 (assuming you can consume meat without getting sick)
This has things I was missing as I completed Farcry Primal. Now I hope they make a stone age survival/crafting game, but with focus on civilization/village life. I don't know if that makes any sense. I just mean: not another city builder and not another action/shooter game.
Just got done playing for the first time and I love it. I have never experienced something like this and it is a shame this game didn't get more praise. I'm not gonna lie though, my first like hour ish I wanted to be 100% immersed so I tried for the first time with no HUD and no tutorial at all but I just couldn't figure out how to do things. Like I knew what I had to do and the materials needed but without the HUD for the button prompts I just could not for the life of me figure out how to do anything lol. I started over with the entire HUD and no tutorial and now I figured it all out. I had no idea how in depth something like having to switch a cut stone to the other hand to make the stick in the other hand sharp just to make a pointy stick hahaha. Once I learned what the buttons actually do I turned the HUD back off completely. I love this game. Only played about 3 hours of it so far and I'm hooked. Before the make someone mates task I just couldn't stop grabbing things and studying everything it's so addicting and satisfying when you figure something out on your own. I can't wait to figure out a fire lol but don't spoil it for me. Awesome game and awesome review.
I now very badly wish to play this. Ook ook.
It's very good
Ook ook , is my lineage name.
Well done indeed. Thanks for taking the time to make this excellent review of what Ancestors has to offer.
It's 2024 and im still playing this because it's so unique and i love It so much, cant wait if there Will be another update or something new about It 😍😍😍😍😍
I love that I found this channel. I bought the game yesterday for sale and I’m quite enjoying it. I hope I get the same feeling you got when I end it
My friend convinced me to buy this game… I was up for the next 72 hours playing this game. It’s meditative and addictive. The scenery and music just draw you in. Not having a map forces you to immerse yourself in the environments and after a few hours you begin to remember landmarks like trees, rocks, hills, etc naturally. You truly evolve while playing this game.
Sounds like the main issue is that this game wants the player to think and watch a creature evolve to think.
Which is the antithesis to the modern gamer, a creature which has evolved to stop thinking.
What an amazing video! I've been looking at this game for a long time now and because of you just picked it up this morning. Can't wait to finish work and play! Thank you!
Thanks very much, you’ll have so much fun!
Really can't wait. Kind of board of all the AAA games that all play the same and do t seem to come up with anything new. This will be a breath of fresh air 😂
Wow, what an excellent video, sir! Hands down, the BEST review of this game on TH-cam. Thank you for evolving your brain so well, haha. I bought the game (on sale currently) after watching this. Subscribed too for sure. I appreciate your effort.
As someone fascinated by anthropology and prehistory in general, I bought this game for that aspect alone. I haven't played yet (still downloading) but I am pretty excited.
how have you found it so far
Updates?
@@Alphae21 Loving it! It is different to be sure, and not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but I am enjoying it very much.
@@mrcooltrex Enjoying it a lot, very unique, and different, and not going to be to everyone's liking, but I love it.
@@ashwinnmyburgh9364 good to hear, enjoy
I enjoyed listening to your well thought out breakdown on this game. I do feel this game went way under appreciated. But that’s unfortunately the case when some game devs actually create a new experience instead of another game.
Just found your video and I loved it I've played this game since day on on ps4 and have restarted it way to many times but each time it plays differently and I still have fun booting it up for a few hours a month even in 2021 it's still a good survival game for people who like this kind of thing.
A part 2 would be nice to see, cavemen days let's get it!
One of the most underrated and ignored games out there. I bought this when it came out and still boot it up at least once a year for a playthrough. They just don't make enough blind go have fun and figure it out games anymore.
They do. There's tons of em. They just aren't mainstream. It's one of my favorite genres.
I started playing the game for a little bit. I was gonna quit because of how times I have died to a tiger or something. I motivated myself to keep playing and now I deeply enjoy the game. Hands down my favorite open world game
I loved this game. I definitely notice a theme with it, about facing your fears to discover something new. I shouldn’t get too specific so as not to spoil it for people, but certain tools are difficult to create without destroying their base materials at first, but they are pretty effective and satisfying to discover once you pull it off. I had a fairly easy time with “fear of the unknown” as a game mechanic, but I still had my own hesitation to experiment in certain ways because of the cost of messing it up and not knowing what to do. But it was very satisfying when I finally got over myself and figured out how to do those things. I also really like trial and error gameplay in general, especially when it comes to survival games like this and Rainworld. One thing this game does have on Rainworld, which is still a pretty good game in my book, is a lighter penalty for messing up. It does still penalize you since losing too many of your apes can cause certain evolution progress related consequences to happen, but it’s possible to breed/recruit more and make up for lost progress. You also have more chances to mess up or succeed before your ape dies too in many situations. This makes it safer to experiment, explore and learn from failures and mistakes, while still having enough punishment to make it a tense experience to do so. That’s probably one of the most important parts of making a good Trial and Error game, survival or otherwise. I also love how it ties so much of it’s mechanics into a timing mini-game, to tie it all together and make it feel coherent and similar. The combat cutscenes also feel pretty cool to watch.
It’s actually amazing how was viewers on you to read peoples reviews and we ultimately are influenced by that person’s review watching this video this man did nothing but say everything good about the game rather than state added everything negative about the game thus making me wanna play the game, even more, realizing it being grateful for what the game has the offer rather than what I wish I could have
What an inspiring and thorough review. Great material, wish you had more vids of the kind
30:43 I recently learned that that’s why the inspect button is still there, but I was never frustrated by the fact that it’s there. Except for the time I thought I could inspect an ape to see what they wanted, but it was actually just the item I was holding in my hand. lol
I want to see a sequel, hope that they get Yuval Noah Harari as a consultant and approach the second with the discovery of fire, agricultural and cognitive revolutions, the creation of myths, who know, maybe ancient civilizations.
your story with this game is the exact experience i had. I'm glad i gave it that chance
I'm engaging the youtube algorithm.
I was curious about this game at launch but then forgot about it until I just seen it on the PSN store for really cheap. I'm buying it bc of your review. This is a great review and I know in going to enjoy this game. I love the idea of everything you described in your review. Definitely subscribing and I hope you have plenty more awesome content like this. Cheers!
Same with me. I saw it in the store and got it because of this review
This game kind of reminded me of my first open world sandbox game fallout 3 and then later fallout New Vegas it gave me that freedom and kind of imagination to be something that I want to be to go out and explore and see the world in a way I never thought I could even though ancestors is not exactly like fallout 3 or fallout New Vegas it really does make you want to come back for more and honestly I really do hope there will be a part two to this game if not at least an added DLC it deserves it! 💕💕💕💕💕💕
Just dropping back by to say that I just beat the game, and I absolutely love it! I’m starting a new game with a single monkey in the ocean region. That should be quite the challenge 😁
How could u start in the ocean region? Im currently at the first monke about to Evolve soon tho
@@theefootballdude31 its a gamemode u start alone somewhere on the map for extra diffuculty and he happend to start at the ocean
Found this game recently and decided to give it a try, despite comments like 'clunky controls'. I'm so glad I didn't pass on this gem, even if it is a bit clunky. :) I would sooo love a sequel, if it keeps the same formula.
You should do more videos, really enjoy watching your videos mate keep it up 👍
I really want to! Just struggling with time - going to start using TH-cam Shorts a bit more but will hopefully be able to do some longer ones soon.
What sort of videos would you like to see?
I don't put much stock in the opinions of today's game reviewers. This game caught my eye a while ago, but I only just picked it up when it went on sale last week. Loved it.
i been playing this game for hella long n i beat it like 4 times, it got really boring past a certain point but after a short break i coudln't stop playing it again
awesome documentary! thank you!
Fantastic video dude!
Reject humanity, return to monke
*Completes game
Reject Monkee, Become Human.
I sincerely hope this game gains some sort of cult classic attention. I respect the creators for going hard on the "fucking try and die" method but it has alienated many (especially youger) gamers from appreciating how great it truly is. Perhaps in a sequel they should include a "hold my hand" options or atlease give advice and drop hints when the game murders all your tribe sans one adult male and a baby. My son and I nearly gave up a couple of times when it all seemed so hopeless and we didn't know how we could recover. It's brutal, and I think that level of brutality should be optional for people who are willing to forego the gratification of figuring it all out on their own. Key word...optional.
NGL, the end credit scene where Homo ergaster looks back at all the hominini that came before him and starts walking away with his family is absolutely fucking metal.
When you start you know as much about the controls, as your ape knows about its environment. If you get out of your comfort zone, you get better at controls just like your ape gets better at handling its environment.
You're evolving along with your ape. I like to see it this way that the people who didn't have the patience and left the game early on actually didn't have what it took to evolve, just like the many apes who died and couldn't survive to evolve.
This game is amazing, thank you for giving it the credit it deserves in this video
It’s sad to see this channel died. This review was really well made & I was hoping you’d have more.
I know, I’m afraid life got in the way, I’d love to have the time but not super feasible at the moment. Started doing Let’s Plays this year on my other channel, you’d be more than welcome over there!
@@AyeForScotlandVideoEssays what channel is it? Yeah man it’s surprising how few subs you have on this channel. If you kept going I have no doubt it would’ve grown massively. You can tell you have a passion for this type of content & it comes naturally for you. Hope you get back into it!
@@oklywright8886 Aww thanks very much, that's kind of you to say. This is the Let's Play channel: th-cam.com/channels/MTvYxbdwa4LIRFYZRDChiw.html
Might be a little different to what you're after, but I'm playing a good mix of games and having fun!
@@oklywright8886 That's kind of you to say. Hope I have the time to pick it back up at some point.
I'm doing Let's Plays over on www.youtube.com/@AyeforScotland
Its an instant classic in my book. And the music is fantastic.
Ok so you know the sound and effect that happens when you alter and fight, well, the sound that plays now was different before and it didn’t have the effect. The alter mechanic wasn’t different before the new click sound but the fighting mechanic was, based on which animal you fought you had to hold down the “action” button to strike them or you would fail the attack and I remember the time you had to wait before letting go of the action button was really long when especially fighting the miocene pelican so I would always get the feeling that I was about to die making me let go of the button to just fail the attack and have to leave the area to wait and come back to try again. Ahhhh, good memories...
got around half way through this review and bought the game.
You will have an absolute blast! Enjoy it!
It's going to be a real experience. Not to mention parts of the soundtrack are easy to vibe to
@@ShukakuTheCrazy1 That seaside theme on the beach is soooo good!
@@AyeForScotlandVideoEssays oh yeah, and some stuff around the woodlands and near the savanna (I remember bits and pieces of the song rather than which song) and they just get right to my core
@@ShukakuTheCrazy1 hurry up has a great playlist filled with almost all soundtracks go check it out
This is a game that truly epitomises what it means to be monke. The tree climbing. The ooh ooh ah ah-ing. The chest beating.
It will always be close to my heart.
I’m still holding out for a sequel
I have a new rig now, and I can play this game. Last night I started without any tutorial help, bcs i like this type of games, and after 1 hours my brain collapsed. I started again this morning , with a fresh mind set. And man, this is a gem. Ty for your review, a love letter for this game 🥂
I jumped into this game feet first without any prior research and after many many many hours of playing I am still nowhere near finished. It's brought me out of a gaming slump and taught me again how to simply play and explore instead of "completing" or "finishing". I love the soundtrack, it's an under-appreciated part of the game and evokes a massive feeling of curiosity and wonder, similar to how I felt watching Jurassic Park for the first time as a child. 10/10 would double dip into this game if it ever gets released for the Switch and would definitely buy any future releases from the studio just for going against the flow of current video game industry trends and staying original. Fuck the reviewers. This is an important game that is actually quite educational. Can't stop thinking about it even when not playing.
I’ve been playing finished and completing games for so long it’s so hard to get into this game even tho I’m trying
I really can’t make my mind up about the skill tree in this game. I’ve never been so conflicted. On the one hand I think it genuinely can be somewhat boring or off putting as a lot of the skills are just smallish improvements in what you already have available (obviously right, I’m not expecting to evolve fire breathing and wing). On the other hand tho I absolutely love it. Because you’re not handed a crazy new mechanic every other time it’s unbelievably refreshing and exciting when unlocking something like bipedalism. Essentially everything you can unlock you can already do from the start, you just get vastly better at it which I think is so much better than say spider man for example, heres your electric webs, and now your sticky webs. It just diminishes how great it is to be able to do something new.
just got the game a few days ago for 15 bucks on steam, ny old laptop gets quite hot but im loving the game, i should be finished by the end of the day or tomorrow
After doubting watching other reviews, yours just sold me. Buying the game right now and will try it out. Hopefully I can get the same feeling as most others that have enjoyed the game. Thanks bud 😃
Happy playing!
Much love and respect from a Chickasaw Native living in Indian Territory Oklahoma, USA 🇺🇸 ✌🏾 🪶
Helluva video there ya red coat, keep it up
Love the review ... thoughtful, insightful, and funny. I also love the game for pretty much the same reasons you've outlined here. I'm sick to death of the dumbed-down, hand-holding, "follow-this-bouncing-ball" approach to questing and video games these days. Ancestors is a breath of fresh air on that score. And the payoff is amazing, because once you start to figure things out, you have a sense of accomplishment that is extremely rare in other games. For my first entire day of playing this game, I was scared out of my wits of that big green "starter snake," as any good primate should be. But when I eventually got good enough to dodge, and counter-attack, it did feel like a world-changing victory for my little primate.
Loved this game! Just finished and i'm already missing it.
This game was everything i imagined for. I like apes monkeys and all that stuff and here we are a survival game were u play as an ape. Then another reason why i loved this game was IT WAS ABOUT HUMAN EVOULTION. I love studying human evoultion even tho im not in high school yet. They even added austrilopithecus afarensis playable and that was one of the most famous species! Im really young to be playing this game and to be learning about human evoultion. But nothing can stop me from playing this beautiful game! I looked at the reviews and i was like SKIP THIS. Then i decided to buy it with the remaining allowance i had and what an experience this game was!
I got this game and had zero expectations and I think that's why I enjoyed it so much.
I particularly enjoyed that there was no hand holding. Also, I love games where the skill tree progression depends on the player doing certain actions that would realistically increase their skills in a particular discipline/field.
I think prior to Ancestors, Skyrim did this. You could totally pick up a bow or twohanded weapon and you would suck at it for a while. But the more you used it then more XP and perks you'd get in that particular discipline. I think it adds a level of realism because that's how we learn anything.
For 10 bucks? You his review was all the reassurance I needed, I’ll buy.
I love this game. I hope the sequel releases
This game very much gives you the choice of the forbidden fruit. I’m at about 7 million years now, and Jesus fucking Christ, my journey has led me away from that luscious green Eden I started from, to a stark, rocky landscape, scarce of food and water, and teaming with life as desperate as mine. The human odyssey is one full of struggle and suffering, while coming out on top against colossal odds. This game, while not perfect, really captures that continuous struggle to survive and adapt to the environments that human curiosity has cruelly destined us.
I know one thing for sure, if Humankind was up to me, we would still be living in caves, lmao. Great game and Cheers for review.
I guess it's for gamers with an attention span, thank you! I have wishlisted and subscribed, it's a great review.
These are not 'deserts' as you called it, but savannas.
Spectacular review of the game, I must say! I only have a few hours put into the game, but this is exactly the feeling I get. Thank you for making such a thoughtful review of a game this isn't like any other, and was never meant to be!
I’m gonna buy it because of you..thanks, I wanted to buy it but was never sure, but I finally have my mind made up
They will make more games moving into the more evolutions, this game is the start of something amazing
When he started talking about all the emotions and overwhelming I was like that’s okay I’m not there yet, for now I’m worried about eating fruits and jumping around on trees
Keep playing, they’ll come！
@@AyeForScotlandVideoEssays Planning on posting any new videos?
Have been swamped with work and a few things but yeah I’m keen to get back to making videos - I have more than a few ideas! What would you like to see first?
Maybe some kind of game review, I really enjoyed this one.
Or, if you have any information, something about Ancestors 2. Any information about that would be appreciated.
(Sorry it took me so long to see this comment btw.)
Just bought it for $10 holiday sale on ps. Gonna try it out (:
I've been on the fence with this one, but you you just sold me. 🐒
Oh yea. This was a great game. I like how AAA game devs sometimes drop cool one off games like this.
to me this game is as perfect as it gets with the resources it was made with. The guttural feeling i get just seeing it makes up for all of the flaws in its gameplay
Lol I can honestly say I didn't even bother to finish AC Valhalla or even AC Odyssey... But holy s*** did Ancestors get me hooked. Really enjoyable game and a game that I enjoyed far more than any of the latest AC games xD I even finished the game with all achievements. I really regret not buying this game on release because it's actually REALLY good.
Crossing my fingers for a sequel in the coming years.
I played this game first time it took me 3hrs to where i could get good at jumping tree to tree and I figured out how to do alot of things quick. I just learn too quickley when I find a new game .
I love this game so much too but I love your humour and accent where in Scotland are you from? speaking out of airdrie Coatbridge area ahaha
after a failed engagement and setting on to work on my self and my psychological challenges of OCD, BPD, ADHD and DID/OSDD, i spent years of my life shut in learning philosophy and psychology and i found myself extremely frustrated. thousands of years ago ppl thought these things and founded schools of thought about how to think, how to do science, how to communicate effectively and how to cope with difficulties. yet humanity hasn't still doesnt use any of it systematically and it's not even part of our education. if i were taught these things, i'd have grown up with so much less trauma and pain and caused even less to the ones i loved and failed to protect. it frustrated me and it felt like my efforts were meaningless.
thats when i found this game and it opened my mind wide open to my place in the chain of events in this cosmos. im only one ape in a long line. im only here to do my part and evolve as much as i can and trust the coming generations do the same and eventually, we evolve together into a species of pure brilliance and intelligence and compassion. with the power to love and protect all things. this game changed my life and my philosophical journey. that's precisely what all art aims to do is to be something ppl learn from something meaningful. and by thhat, this game is a masterpiece that did something special that no other piece of art could ever do in its place. i really hope it's sequel comes out. i cant thank panache games enough for the INCREDIBLE work they've done with this game
That bit at 33:15-33:45* yes this. Very much so.
Thanks for review... Im about to get this and this was very helpful.. need break from elden ring lol
this game missed a great opportunity for a legendary ending if the had put a monolith at the end of the game to find
The only thing i like to change is combat, it get very dull of being sound quick time event. They could use the fear meter as a tine limit of how long we can fight before succumb to fear.
Would have love a evolution update that allows us a bigger clan and fight other clans. Since as apes we have fought others for animal like warfare.
As for combat again they kinda ignore our Ancestors punch alot too fight which is how we got these big knuckles.
Completely agree, the game is underrated. It's AMAZING. But I do understand why it's not for everyone - in the beginning, it can be a bit slow and difficult to get the hang off and I could see how you would just give up. I had a few moments of frustration in the beginning too :) That said, I don't think you need to start as many lineages as you said - after my first one died I tried again and took that one to the end 😊
This game looks a lot like what i wanted far cry primal to be. I think im going to enjoy this. Have you played the long dark?
It does a similar thing. No map or markers. Just an open world u have to survive hunt and fish and craft in. Like minecraft survival for proper adult men.
Ur basically trapped in the snowy wildnerness of canada. U can drop into any map and randomly spawn. There are caves that connect the maps so u can travel to another if u can make the trek. Its basically earth after a climate emergency. You have no one else. Just occasional animals. Some u can eat, some that will kill you.
U can break ur leg. U can bleed. U can fish. U can learn skills by reading books. U can chop firewood and make fires if the wind isnt too bad.
One guy on reddit survived several in game years before finally dying.
I love this game I hope they make a sequel!
First time I was hit with the credits I just wanted to continue evolving my clan in ways it felt incomplete while the credits rolled hoping they make a sequel in some way
The best games leave you wanting more, I hope they make a sequel someday too
5:52 Woah! That giant centipede must've migrated from the Silurian period! Or did those exist during the Neogene?
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Great game, should get more recognition for sure!