Just some random stuff I've run across. The easiest way to collect the archives is to unlock the horse as quickly as possible. Why? Because it's large and extremely fast. You can travel to any area in minutes if you've got the paths down. You can also outrun pretty much anything quite easily. It's not difficult at all to collect all three archives then sacrifice yourself to get the next story episode in less than five minutes. Or keep playing if you wish, I'm just impatient. ...
So I just downloaded Tokyo Jungle from the PSN the other day. It's a post-apocalyptic animal survival game. With dinosaurs. And I'm pretty sure there's a mammoth in there somewhere. Scratching your head yet? The premise is that humankind randomly vanished, leaving pets to go wild, zoo animals to break out of their cages and...I dunno wtf explains the dinosaurs, but they're stomping around too. So seeing as I have a weakness for games with animal protagonists (and dinosaurs), I just had to try it ...