What Lies at the Center?
After over a week of non-stop journeying through No Man’s Sky’s procedurally generated universe the center has finally been reached. It takes a long time to reach that goal, over 70 hours even if you’re rushing (without cheating, of course). What awaits at the center is a globe shrouded in light with no name and no details. You only find out what it is when you’re finally within jumping distance… sort of.
You never actually land on the center, it is not a planet or anything of the sort from what we can tell from a single visit to its final location. When you choose to actually travel to this location your treated to a cut scene of sorts. Instead of going towards something, you’re rapidly pulled away in a reverse of how No Man’s Sky begins. Stars race past you as the game’s beautiful score rises in volume. Suddenly the camera pans to the side and a new glowing orb is there to travel too. You rush forward just as you did when the game first started and find yourself hurtling towards a new galaxy, one full of different stars and planets as the screen fades to black. When you come to, you’re once again stranded in this new Galaxy you’ve discovered.
It’s in a new dimension, something that isn’t exactly detailed at the moment. We don’t know what effect that dimension will have on gameplay. Whether or not it alters your new adventure remains to be seen. For now you are back at the beginning. The center was a bright lure, hovering just on the edge of belief, and as you approached it sent you back, making itself once again a distant goal.
