

Soon it becomes apparent that so much out there is tied to the past of this world and is intertwined with Horatio’s own history.

You traverse the game world looking for a new power source and the robot that took your lifeline. From there on, the game becomes part hunt and part mystery. The two characters live in a broken down airship in the middle of the wastes and are soon robbed of their ship’s power core. The normal actions taken by an adventure game protagonist become a part of Horatio’s character. As a result, it makes sense to pick up all the random junk and scrap that you do. Horatio is a builder and a tinkerer whose purpose is to somehow fix and reconstruct the world one piece at a time. 5, who is followed by his plucky, sarcastic sidekick Crispin Horatiobuilt. Primordia is an evolution of the genre as it is leaps and bounds more interesting because its ideas are more complex and intricate than others of its ilk. However, this structure also serves as the mere skeleton of the game. It moves into the smooth interactive fiction area as well as streamlining puzzles into that fiction, while still keeping the classic feel of the games from the golden days of the LucasArts/Sierra era. Primordia serves as a middle ground between classic point-and-click adventure games and those titles that are among the resurgence of the genre this year.
