No Man’s Sky travel diary, day one: all alone on an alien planet

No Man’s Sky is an almost impossibly huge game, an entire virtual universe filled with 18 quintillion planets, each one different from the next thanks to the powers of procedural generation. Instead of a typical review, for the next week I’m going to be writing daily dispatches from No Man’s Sky, giving a firsthand account at what the experience is like, and what you can expect if you choose to dive in.
Tall, thick, neon-green blades of grass bend and sway in the wind. Nestled