It's fairly short, very pretty and (mostly) very chill.
You should, just replayed it a couple days ago, it's short but it's pretty good and the visuals are really nice.
I'm not sure. I think it probably has some kind of guidance system to streamline movement. Like, you can walk around with full freedom, but once you start running & tracking a big monster (or those glowy bits the player was shooting at), it might guide you along a dynamically generated path. Kind of like how in Shadow of the Colossus, once the horse got running, it sort of had some auto cruise control. That way the player has freedom to move the camera around and aim with the bow & arrow, without needing to the steer the player too much or risk running into trees and rocks.Ironically enough, this game looks like it's on-rails, or a "path" if you will.
It is only few months time exclusive for sure .abzu was like that .Annapurna published and by the team behind Abzu, but it's PS4 console exclusive. That's really unfortunate. Guess it could still come to Xbox, wasn't Abzu announced as exclusive at first as well?