This sort of casual massacre will happen constantly in Humanity the game tells me that over 478,000 participants perished over the course of my playthrough. Instead of walking toward their goal, they turned and without hesitation plunged off a cliff. Almost immediately after encountering this procession, I made a mistake - I accidentally gave the people a wrong direction. Adults and children alike file out from the door in an orderly line and continue walking forward until presented with an instruction from the player. For all the visual and auditory presence of humanity, what the player should make of the infinite collective is left up to interpretation.įor example: The first several puzzles in Humanity start with a white door, out of which pours an endless stream of humans. The player controls a dog and only converses with featureless spheres. But despite this overwhelming human presence, the game’s tone is cleverly detached.
Even the soundtrack, a digitized choir, reinforces the sense of being inundated with the sights and sounds of humanity. In the stage-select screen, thousands of bodies mill about as you choose what you’d like to play.
Often, levels can only be completed when hundreds of people have walked the same path to the goal. Humanity, a collaboration between Japanese creative firm tha and Enhance ( Tetris Effect, Lumines), started out as a technical experiment with a similar goal: How many people could be rendered on screen at the same time? Before there was even a game, there was recognition of the same fact Kurosawa knew: People, at scale, are inherently visually interesting. The magnitude of people lends the scene a captivating level of visual engagement. The composition turns an otherwise straightforward script into a dense, sweaty, cinematic tour de force. But the scene is framed to fit nearly 40 people, so that every reaction to new information in the scene is mirrored and amplified 40 times. Nothing too narratively vital happens in this sequence. There’s a scene in Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film High and Low in which a room of detectives is briefed on an ongoing crime. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule.
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