Unlike point and click games before it, Ankh's environment is tracked through a cinematic camera that pans over the action between scenes. As well as being nice to look at it helps the game feel more like one solid world rather than a jigsaw joined by hundreds of small pieces as in other point and clickers. The environments to explore range from bazaars to palaces and pyramids and each appear skillfully crafted in a convincingly cartoon-like way. Every scene is plentifully detailed and nearly every prop is available to be investigated. If an item is interesting then Assil will react accordingly. Even everyday items such as jars and chairs prompt him to exhibit some form of oral reaction - 'Jars. Very common around here' while descriptions of stationary characters are explained necessarily simply - click the boatman and he says, 'The boatman - obviously.' That told you.