In practice, almost all of these attempts at Mesolithic realism lead to an experience that feels, paradoxically, much more arcade-like and artificial than other Far Cry games. Like any Assassin’s Creed, the game is ostentatiously and impressively devoted to period detail: everyone speaks variants of an actual prehistoric language called “proto-indo-European” outfits and environments look like they were ripped straight out of a diorama in a natural history museum your arsenal is limited to a bow, a spear, and a club. UNAPOLOGETICALLY AN EXERCISE IN PROJECTION The lines are drawn pretty clearly, without much in the way of nuance or narrative variation. And then there’s your tribe, the Wenja, who aspire only to make a comfortable home in the land of Oros without having to fend off threats both human and not. There’s the “fire-wielding” Izila, the blue team, somewhat enlightened-they sort of discovered agriculture-but held back by a crazy religion. There’s the Unga Bunga-like Udam, a bunch of unregenerate cannibals who have barely mastered tool use and look suspiciously like Neanderthals. The game places you in the middle of a three-sided conflict between tribes of cave people circa 10,000 BCE. Which is to say it often feels enormously, almost amazingly stupid. But you give them dirty hamburgers from WitchyWorld and it becomes clear that they, not the Unga Bungas, will be the inheritors of the earth.įar Cry Primal is basically everything I just described, without a whole lot of irony. Banjo and Kazooie find the Oogle Boogles starving to death in a dark cave, blockaded by their tyrannical rivals. The Unga Bungas are a warlike people, barely more than sentient beards with clubs they get very mad when you try to sneak into their cave and routinely administer “big beatings.” The Oogle Boogles, by contrast, are meek and civilized, aspiring not to rule Terrydactyland but to “share” its primeval abundance.
Those who remember Banjo-Tooie (2000) with great fondness, as I do, may remember the ceaseless, bitter conflict between the Unga Bungas and the Oogle Boogles.
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