i didn't realizeee that i had to pick up a stick before i could use one so i kept trying to press E with those llama things and thinking the game was broken :(( eventually as i was walking towards the other apes to try it on them i realized there were sticks on the ground i could pick up. there's a sound effect for picking up items which is nice but not much to indicate when i'd made a pal and what they could do for me so i didn't see much reason in doing it. there was a suggestion to place rocks but i couldn't figure out how to pick up or move any of them which made me close the game.
after some time writing up this review i decided to give it another shot because i also wanted to check the audio again. it's set too low for me to hear and the start of the voiceline is hard for me to understand even with my audio up.... since i tried it again i noticed there were individual rocks around that i could pick up, but after picking and placing a few i got stuck in some crevice here.
so at that point i gave up again. unfortunately i wasn't really feeling this game.... worst thing was the movement felt painfully slow for me so i got impatient fast. there just wasn't enough direction to feel like i was doing the right thing and it didn't seem fun to have to slowly slide over the island to find more rocks