It’s always a treat to have the endless green pierced by flashes of brilliant colour from an animal visitor. The wildlife, in particular, is a real highlight. Green Hell’s Rain Forest is lush, and vibrant, and all the other words people usually use to describe very nice trees. To me, this indicates confidence on Creepy Jar’s part that the environment - and in story mode, the, um, story - is worth experiencing on its own terms.
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Among Green Hell’s many custom difficulty settings, there’s an option to play with survival mechanics switched off entirely, so you’re free to just explore the jungle and build settlements. With the genre, I find the tension of survival mechanics can sometimes act as a smokescreen - everything feels exciting and interesting because you’re under threat, but remove these harsh mechanical consequences, and the world often lacks coherence or beauty or any real sense of place. So, between the variety of illnesses and wounds, the constant hunt for nutrients, and the occasional wild animal or tribesperson attack, there’s about 10 squillion ways to get deaded at any one time. I recommend consulting a handy crafting guide. Many other items are similarly versatile, although crafting recipes often tend to strike a balance between intuitive real-world solutions and slightly obtuse adventure-game logic. You can drink the coconut water, open the coconut, either eat the flesh raw or cook it, use the empty coconut shells as makeshift bowls to collect rainwater or make soup in, or tie a rope around the coconut to make a flask.
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After you’ve cracked it, a world of coco-possibilities await you. Wild coconuts have a green shell you’ll need to hit with something to open. One of the best things about the crafting system is the multiple uses some objects have, and probably the best example of this is the humble (but secretly arrogant ) coconut. It’s just one example of an overall attention to detail that makes performing even the most mundane actions far more enjoyable than they should be. This diegetic UI job extends to your inventory, where you’ll open a backpack that has its own compartments for sticks, weapons, herbs, food, and ropes. Not only is it tangible and cogent but, if you’re like me, and get squeamish about the way arm bones move, really uncomfortable.
Or, if you prefer, ludonarrative dysentery. So, what we’ve got here is a system that simulates the consequences of horrible illness through a tactile UI.
Need I also remind you that this, mate, is the jungle, not one your millennial ‘Boots’ shops, so you’ll need to be craft both the bandage and the medicine from the appropriate plants. Nuanced!Ī snake bite might inject you with fever and slow acting poison which, depending on the difficulty level, will possibly kill you unless treated with a medicinal bandage. You can restore your sanity by doing opulent, coddled things like eating canned cheese and sleeping on real beds, but if it gets too low, you’ll hear disparaging voices and the screen will go black and white. Leeches tend to latch onto you when you walk through water, and slowly drain your sanity meter, an effect I was not aware leeches had, so you’ll need to manually pluck them off. The second UI menu is a sort of quartered vitruvian man icon where you can inspect both your arms and legs, twisting them around to check for leeches, bites, and other wounds you get for being rubbish at nature. Also, the watch is quite swish, I suppose, if you’re the sort of person who owns an Elon Musk body pillow that tracks how many times you scream in your sleep.
Hydration, naturally, tends to deplete quicker than the other three. Let any macro fall too low, and you’ll suffer health penalties. The tracker has colour-coded quadrants for proteins, carbs, fats, and hydration, all of which are gained in different quantities from scarfing various foods.
First, there’s a watch which triples up as a compass and a macronutrient tracker. You’ll be monitoring your vitals with the help of two nicely diegetic UI elements. So: survival in Green Hell means micromanagement.
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