![]() Procreating is as simple as finding a suitable mate, giving her a bit of a back rub and then inviting her over to your sleeping place (if only it was that simple in real life) next minute you are having hot monkey sex as the camera pans tastefully up in order to spare us of what that actually looks like and then a baby is born, each female is only capable of giving birth twice so you really need to be sure that you protect those cute little buggers, especially when carrying them with you on missions outside your camp. There are also special generational traits that pop up from time to time and these are carried forward by making sure you keep certain apes alive before evolving. You gain experience from most of the actions you perform from using your senses to discover knew items, creating new tools or even eating new foods, and it is best to always carry around a baby ape from the tribe around with you as this increases your experience gain.Įxperience is then spent by browsing a skill tree and choosing new skills such as being able to swap items from hand to hand whilst moving or being able to use your senses better in order to discover items further away, bear in mind you can only carry forward a certain amount of your skills each time you choose to evolve and this is determined by the number of children currently in your tribe, this causes you to really spend time thinking about what are the most useful skills to carry forward to the next generation of your ape family. I really enjoyed the control system for crafting in this game as it involves you swapping stuff from left hand to right in order to use objects in the correct way, the way you use the shoulder buttons on the controller to swap items from hand to hand feels natural and when crafting you have to listen out for a chime in order to work out the perfect time to release one of the shoulder buttons in order to craft the item or else you fail. This can be as simple as bashing two different types of rocks together in order to create a sharp rock for cutting things or stripping a branch of leaves to make a stick and then using the rock on it to turn it into a spear like stick used for hunting and self-protection from the various horrifying giant snakes, sabre tooth tigers and other beasts that litter the absolutely huge map. Aside from the normal tasks in survival games such as eating and drinking in order to stay alive you are also taksed with learning how to use the environment around you to create weapons and tools in order to hunt and basically make your daily life as an ape easier. With Ancestors : The Humankind Odyssey being a survival game your basic tasks from thereon in are to survive the brutal, harsh and cruel world, evolve and procreate in order to keep your lineage alive. You are then rescued by an adult ape and become part of a new tribe. You are thrown straight into the Ancestors : The Humankind Odyssey after viewing a brief cut scene showing your ape dad being utterly eviscerated by what I can only describe as a lethal flying death machine, you thought swooping crows were bad, try surviving against a bird that is the size of a 3 bedroom house, before you even get time to shed some ape tears you are given control of a baby ape and tasked to find a hiding place in order to prevent yourself from becoming the utterly horrifying flying death machines next snack. The Earth 10 million years ago was a wild and untamed place and is certainly a very different environment than what we are used to today, no smart phones, game consoles and 4K TVs here kiddies, just harsh conditions and danger around every corner. Ancestors : The Humankind Odyssey (hereafter referred to as Ancestors : The Humankind Odyssey, because I am lazy and can’t be bother continually typing out the full title) is set in Africa back 10 million years before humans ever existed. ![]() We are about to go back, waaaay waaaay back, the kind of waaaaay back that would even cause Dr Who to have to make several stops to refuel his TARDIS in the process of getting there. ![]() ![]() “MONKEY MAGIC!!! MONKEY MAGIC!!” Ever since hearing the chorus of this song from the iconic TV show Monkey blaring out my TV back when I was still in primary school I’ve always thought about how awesome it would to be an actual monkey that could also smack the bejeezus out of people utilising crazy Kung Fu moves, maybe I just had a strange childhood, in fact wanting to be a monkey is probably just utterly strange in itself but thankfully now you can be (sans crazy Kung Fu moves) thanks to Panache Digital Games and their new release Ancestors : The Humankind Odyssey.
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