When the sun goes down, the world becomes even more dangerous as your visibility lowers and predators like wolves are out hunting. Arrows and clubs can be lit on fire to provide extra damage, set enemies and brush ablaze, and provide light to see in the darkness – an important function given Primal’s day and night cycle. Your primary tools of destruction in Primal are most effective by hitting your target in the head, usually resulting in a one-hit kill. Gone are rapid-firing guns with spread and area damage-dealing grenades. It’s an arsenal that requires more accuracy than the lineup of weapons players were given in past Far Cry titles. With firearms nonexistent, the weapons in Primal are of the primitive sort and include bow and arrows, clubs, and spears. Once I had all the proper resources and produced a bow, I was ready to hunt for meat to heal Takkar’s health. You are able to craft multiples of a weapon and upgrade it as you progress through the game. You can activate Hunting Vision by pressing R3, changing to a grayscale-filtered view with only resources highlighted in yellow or animal and human foot prints in red. Resources are a crucial necessity in building and upgrading different things in the game such as weapons, equipment, and later your village huts (more on that later). Takkar needs a weapon and so Primal teaches you how to gather resources to make a bow and arrow. You are now all alone and must start from scratch. Dalso’s last words urge you to find the land of Oros, where other Wenja live. Takkar awakens to find his friend dying and covered in blood.
Takkar and Dalso leap off a ledge, rolling down a large hill and hitting trees and debris. The successful hunt of the wooly beast attracted the attention of a saber-toothed tiger, catching us hunters off-guard. The tribesman use spears, so taking down a mammoth requires a lot of hits while being cautious of its running charges. After a brief narration by the shaman Tensay (whom you meet later), the opening scene placed me in the shoes of the protagonist Takkar hunting a mammoth in Central Europe with his friend Dalso and their Wenja tribe brethren. Primal established its wild and cruel world right from the get-go.
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