To explore different plants in the wild, you must go to your senses, smell them, mark the smell, walk over to it, press X to grab some of it, stand completely still, and hold the Square button again to examine/eat it. You then direct the camera toward what you're interested in, hold Triangle again, and rapidly press it to create a marker on your screen. While they employ creative measures to fulfill humanity's base survival and social instincts, it still feels off to have "emotions," "intelligence" and "senses." For example, to use the intelligence control, you have to stand still and press the Triangle button, which allows you to focus on your surroundings. Perhaps this is a translation issue, but the controls are inadequately explained and have incredibly vague descriptions.
The screen is dark and hazy, and it's covered in ghostlike, roaring faces of predators as the game shows you the controls and focuses on discovery and survival. As you start the game, you watch the circle of life play out - admittedly less inspiring than The Lion King, but I digress - resulting in many animal deaths, including the ape you rode in on. On paper, it's an interesting concept to have confusing gameplay illustrate the chaos of the world of an evolving ape millions of years ago, but the implementation is less stunning. The messiness and confusion of our species is explored in an interesting way, although it lacks some follow-through. Titles like Pokémon, Spore, and others depict the concept in a fun, cartoony way that appeals to younger children in tone and gameplay, while Ancestors aims to tell a truer narrative, highlighting the grossness and realism of our ascent from animals to humanity, and how blurred those lines can be. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey plays on evolution in a deeper, more profound way than most other games that touch on the subject.
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