The Atlas Path asked some big, existential questions, sure. When your only task was just to keep hopping from galaxy to galaxy towards the center, there was plenty to see and take in, but you couldn’t really live in the universe because you were so busy trying to survive. The overarching subtle tale of both exploration and acceptance in the great unknown remains, but it also has quite a bit more meaning now that it’s not your sole purpose in the universe. It’s a bit of minor housekeeping No Man's Sky has needed for a while now. The missions and their objectives have a synergy now, where lines of dialogue and specific mission objectives weave narrative strands together. Direct links have been made where the next logical step in your current mission involves learning more alien language instead of just trying to get your next cell to warp to the next galaxy. Dialogue and instructions from one mission from the Atlas Path may be rewritten or tweaked to reference Artemis or some new action you can take in Beyond. All of the larger narrative pieces from the previous updates feel organically woven into Beyond. That extends into the rest of the game once the tutorials stop and the training wheels are all the way off.
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The game is much more patient and generous with the breadcrumbs that teach you how to play, guiding you into the stratosphere not only painlessly but purposefully. There’s always something you can use later, and you have the space to contain it. Once you’ve found everything, having an expanded inventory and an absurd amount of space to hold items-each block can hold thousands now-means mining constantly in your travels is worthwhile. The UI holds your hand, telling you exactly why you’re collecting these things, what it is you’re trying to do, and exactly how to find what you need. Beyond, however, brings varying kindnesses that welcome you to a new universe instead of prodding you into space with a stick. You have to repair your broken ship, gather a specific resource, create fuel, drop a refiner, and so on. Whether you’re in VR or not, many of the early mundanities of the game remain. Still, even with the new perspective and tools at your disposal, it should be said upfront that at its core, No Man’s Sky: Beyond is still, well, No Man’s Sky. It’s a simple and intuitive implementation of such an elaborate and persistent mechanic. Best of all, the menus are mapped to a little hologram in your hands that activates when you point at it. Getting in and out of your ship involves physically pulling the handles, and escaping from a hairy situation with sentinels or the local wildlife with that lightning quick motion adds an even greater layer of tension.
The Analysis visor has you pressing the wand to the side of your head, like you’re Cyclops preparing to fire an Optic Blast. With the Move, your Multi-Tool is strapped to your back, ready to be whipped out more like in Blood & Truth than an ever-present floating gun like in most VR titles.
On PS4, you can play in 2D or VR with the DualShock, something that also gives you a Smooth turning option, but two PlayStation Moves are the real way to go. It’s all beautiful before you even make the first flight into space.Īn incredible amount of additional work has gone into making inhabiting that Exo-Suit even more of an experience. Everything has a new fascination: the way the flora moves and shifts under harsh weather, the way the ground is pockmarked and windswept, the vast, unknowable vistas stretching across toxic interstellar perdition. It is breathtaking right away, waking up for the first time completely immersed in an alien world literally no one else has ever seen.
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But there’s one new factor specifically that makes the update live up to its name: No Man’s Sky is now a VR title. It feels like No Man's Sky approaching its final form, having shed a great deal of what was previously limiting and restrictive. Beyond, however, is no mere evolution and refinement. With each expansion, I spend weeks as a blissful wanderer, seeing an already vast universe become more populous, more beautiful, more capable of sustaining a home for anyone who dared to voyage within it. Three years after release, the universe of No Man's Sky continues to evolve.
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