Horsetail can also be eaten without processing it, but it has less of an effect. This will either stop their bleeding or make them resistant to bleeding for a time. Players can alter the plant using their hands, and then further using a grinder. If a player is bleeding, they can make medicine out of Horsetail plants, located along the water source.Now, its milk can be drunk, and the player will be healed. If this happens, climb to the top of a coconut tree to harvest coconuts, and then bring it back down to alter it with a rock or chopper. If a player has eaten red berries to heal an injury, there is a chance that they may eat too many and be poisoned. Coconut milk is an important resource. This will make it much easier to scrape objects than it is to do it by hand. Players can make an obsidian scraper by altering an obsidian rock with another.This will allow them to make pastes out of plants, to be used for medicine or other purposes. Players can make a grinder by altering a granite rock with another.The chopper will also come in handy if a player has killed an animal using their sharpened stick. Using this on a branch will sharpen it at least twice as fast. Find a piece of basalt and alter it with another piece of basalt. A basalt chopper is an item that makes sharpening different objects much faster.Using the sharpened stick in a body of water will also allow players to fish. Players can hold obsidian, basalt, or granite rock to sharpen a stick. Players can also alter branches to pull twigs off of them to make a stick. At the beginning of the game, players can collect branches to use as weapons.Eventually, the difficult trial & error gameplay reduces the fun you have. I feel that Ancestors crosses the line with the complexity, there is only so much that a player can learn and the game literally throws you in the jungle and even finding water that isn’t poisonous is a colossal mission. Fun fades away by complex gameplay: Learning how to play a game can be a fun thing, look at Dark Souls.I don’t really understand why they had to make this so difficult, like almost everything with Ancestors it lacks any decent explanation and guiding. Even to this date, I haven’t nailed down how to do this mechanic, making it a little frustrating. When I had to use it for the first time, trying to make a baby-monkey feel safe, it took me minutes before I could accomplish the task. Rhythm and sound mechanic: Making others feel safe, grooming and other typical primate routines are done with a rhythm mechanic that requires timing.It is a shame that clipping through trees and the ground happens so frequently, eliminating the impressive visuals and believability. Weird glitchy movements through objects are common and things do get even weirder when you are carrying little ones. Animations: While there were many times that I was impressed by some animal animations, alligators or simply moving around as your character it does have some issues too.It manages to surprise you and seeing things change when you evolve your clan and skipping million of years remains impressive, even after playing it for hours and hours. Exploring and discovering new places is one of the addictive parts of the game. You don’t have a map-option so you are forced to use landmarks and plain old memory to find your way around. Beautiful open world: By far the most realistic, dense and visually stunning jungle environments.Comparing this to God forbid Minecraft isn’t that far-fetched, crafting tools, for example, a comfortable place to sleep is done by collecting and crafting with things you find in the world. I honestly respect the time and effort that the devs did for giving us this unique game. Inventive and original: How does one come up with the vision to implement a smelling mechanic? Panache Digital Games has some creative designers, that’s for sure! While designing playing as primates might seem like an easy thing, it is far from that. Ancestors is very complex and a hard to learn game but with enough motivation and time, this one-of-a-kind experience becomes something very special. In this game you control primates and your tasks are evolving and… trying to survive. It required so much devoted time, so much learning effort and much patience because everything in the freaking jungle kills you. Luckily the game got many changes for the console release! I’ll be brutally honest, Ancestors from Panache Digital Games was a pain in the ass to review. Ever since I saw Ancestors at Gamescom I was very excited and impressed, to my surprise the game got some really bad PC reviews.
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