fun game to play but i do wish the puzzles were maybe a little harder to do. at the beginning they all feel incredibly daunting but they don't really scale up in difficulty at all and by the end everything feels super easy.
another thing is that i would also wish for the puzzles to be more "figure out the code to this door through clues" instead of "try to figure out where the code to this door is"
another thing is that i would also wish for the puzzles to be more "figure out the code to this door through clues" instead of "try to figure out where the code to this door is"
Wonderful video game, played realmyst for the rime age after completing the 2020 remake :)
Excellent puzzles followed by some immersive worlds. The scenery and ambience in Mechanical was so damn beautiful I wish I could stay there forever. The plot was okay but that's not what I played for. Admittedly, I'm glad I got the good ending first lol. Only bad thing was the 2nd half of Selenitic; fucking terrible.
30 years since its release, it's very easy to see why and how Myst captivated so many back then and continues to do so even now.
You've heard of pen-and-paper RPGs, yet for entirely different reasons, this surely qualifies as a pen-and-paper puzzle game. There's no handholding, no onboarding, and very little in the way of tutorials on how the puzzles work. You're just dropped off on the island of Myst, and away you go. It's up to you to keep track of patterns, codes, and clues along your journey and piece together what and where they might fit in.
As for the how and why of your present circumstances, those answers are presented as you play in a pretty succinct and natural way by revisiting certain pieces of information along the way and putting together context clues from your environment. The lore behind the island and the story of Myst is simple yet surprisingly compelling, showing how too much power can corrupt the just and unjust depending on how they wield it.
Nearly all of Myst's puzzles and islands are incredibly well-designed, though the tram section in the second half of the Selentic Age is definitely the most boring and uninteresting of the bunch, though that's only because the rest of the roster is superb by comparison.
I suppose where Myst loses its appeal a bit is how the last part of the game works. It essentially involves a scavenger hunt in every region you've visited thus far for specific items (provided you haven't picked any of them up on your journey already), and only then can you achieve the various endings, with the true ending requiring even more busywork.
With no quick and easy way to return to the previous sections, the tedium lets the air out quite a bit as you're forced to retrace your steps. Admittedly, I ended up using the incredibly useful hint guide from UHS-Hints to skip some steps and get to the true ending otherwise the trek to the finale would have soured my opinion on this game far more.
Regardless, Myst, even in this nifty VR-Ready next-gen remake, still holds up as a classic of the adventure and puzzle genres and regardless of how many feel about the changes and visual aesthetic of this version, I am certainly grateful that it exists so I can play it using a controller with my current setup :)
7.5/10
You've heard of pen-and-paper RPGs, yet for entirely different reasons, this surely qualifies as a pen-and-paper puzzle game. There's no handholding, no onboarding, and very little in the way of tutorials on how the puzzles work. You're just dropped off on the island of Myst, and away you go. It's up to you to keep track of patterns, codes, and clues along your journey and piece together what and where they might fit in.
As for the how and why of your present circumstances, those answers are presented as you play in a pretty succinct and natural way by revisiting certain pieces of information along the way and putting together context clues from your environment. The lore behind the island and the story of Myst is simple yet surprisingly compelling, showing how too much power can corrupt the just and unjust depending on how they wield it.
Nearly all of Myst's puzzles and islands are incredibly well-designed, though the tram section in the second half of the Selentic Age is definitely the most boring and uninteresting of the bunch, though that's only because the rest of the roster is superb by comparison.
I suppose where Myst loses its appeal a bit is how the last part of the game works. It essentially involves a scavenger hunt in every region you've visited thus far for specific items (provided you haven't picked any of them up on your journey already), and only then can you achieve the various endings, with the true ending requiring even more busywork.
With no quick and easy way to return to the previous sections, the tedium lets the air out quite a bit as you're forced to retrace your steps. Admittedly, I ended up using the incredibly useful hint guide from UHS-Hints to skip some steps and get to the true ending otherwise the trek to the finale would have soured my opinion on this game far more.
Regardless, Myst, even in this nifty VR-Ready next-gen remake, still holds up as a classic of the adventure and puzzle genres and regardless of how many feel about the changes and visual aesthetic of this version, I am certainly grateful that it exists so I can play it using a controller with my current setup :)
7.5/10
After playing the game and finding out that it was a remake of a 1993 game, I can see how influential this game would have been at the time, and it's nice that this remake exists.
The puzzles are well-designed and blend seamlessly into the world, adding to the overall fantastic atmosphere the game provides. For a puzzle game, that's definitely the most important part. There was only one puzzle in the game I got stuck on, which seems to be a sticking point for everyone else, as it was the only puzzle in the game that was really unclear on what it wanted from you.
However, for a remake, the game looks rough, especially the human models, and man are the voice actors extremely grating. There's also some weird performance issues and graphical hiccups, even playing on PC. Overall it's a great puzzle game, with poor presentation.
The puzzles are well-designed and blend seamlessly into the world, adding to the overall fantastic atmosphere the game provides. For a puzzle game, that's definitely the most important part. There was only one puzzle in the game I got stuck on, which seems to be a sticking point for everyone else, as it was the only puzzle in the game that was really unclear on what it wanted from you.
However, for a remake, the game looks rough, especially the human models, and man are the voice actors extremely grating. There's also some weird performance issues and graphical hiccups, even playing on PC. Overall it's a great puzzle game, with poor presentation.
my gf and i played it and the game was fine but the s*x afterward was fire
Puzles difíciles a veces en demasía, pero en general muy satisfactorio de jugar
Good puzzles most of the time but some are way way too obscure.
But the most disgusting thing is the walk speed. I could make a cup of tea before 100m walk is completed in this game.
It reminds of those cheap games where developers remove sprint and turn down walkspeed down to a crawl to make the game time longer.
-2 stars for that alone.
But the most disgusting thing is the walk speed. I could make a cup of tea before 100m walk is completed in this game.
It reminds of those cheap games where developers remove sprint and turn down walkspeed down to a crawl to make the game time longer.
-2 stars for that alone.
Cant get the last item needed so dropped/finished. Played this both in regular VR [steamVR] and on pc. Had audio issues glaore in VR w audio cues not showing up or no sound. Subtitles only work on the new version of the videos. No support for other VR headsets and it shows BADLY. There was multiple points I couldn't get through in VR that I had to swap over. There was one point I could NOT get a puzzle to work on controller that I had to move to keyboard. The scenery is really pretty to view in VR. Not sure why there's ray tracing for this game. Oh and walls will talk to you, the audio cue area is borked.
Despite being a point & click adventure game player all my life Myst was the one "huge classic" of the genre I always wanted to to get into, but couldn't. The game was just so very hard, and the lack of characters and any easy-to-understand story was always putting me in my place. I just didn't quite understand what to do, or (barely) how to play it.
The meme about being stuck in a place forever and not knowing what a lever does is probably how many experienced it. I could never be sure if the game wasn't for me, or if it was my fault. I always suspected the latter.
So, I actually bought Oculus Quest 2 just to play Myst, and try to get into it, and I'm very happy to report it worked. I'm finally one of the Myst fans, which strangely feels like an exclusive club.
VR is an amazing way to experience Myst. It feels like you are there. The universe is immersive. It's like Myst was always meant to be played like this. It's been said before by many people, but yes, the game and the puzzles is usually pretty hard or even very hard (depending on your skills in puzzles), but it's always so incredibly rewarding when you get something to work.
There's also a quite rich plot when you get into the game. The story with the two brothers, who both want you to help just them, while telling you to NOT trust the other one, is classical, and keeps the tension going to the end.
Myst does need patience though. However, if you stay with a problem long enough, you'll eventually figure things out. You have to imagine being stuck on an island where there is nothing else to do than to figure out a mechanism or a puzzle of some sort. It's also very peaceful and meditative to play.
Either way, I can finally understand the hype. Better late then never. If you have a similar experience with Myst. Keep at it, it's worth staying with to the end.
The meme about being stuck in a place forever and not knowing what a lever does is probably how many experienced it. I could never be sure if the game wasn't for me, or if it was my fault. I always suspected the latter.
So, I actually bought Oculus Quest 2 just to play Myst, and try to get into it, and I'm very happy to report it worked. I'm finally one of the Myst fans, which strangely feels like an exclusive club.
VR is an amazing way to experience Myst. It feels like you are there. The universe is immersive. It's like Myst was always meant to be played like this. It's been said before by many people, but yes, the game and the puzzles is usually pretty hard or even very hard (depending on your skills in puzzles), but it's always so incredibly rewarding when you get something to work.
There's also a quite rich plot when you get into the game. The story with the two brothers, who both want you to help just them, while telling you to NOT trust the other one, is classical, and keeps the tension going to the end.
Myst does need patience though. However, if you stay with a problem long enough, you'll eventually figure things out. You have to imagine being stuck on an island where there is nothing else to do than to figure out a mechanism or a puzzle of some sort. It's also very peaceful and meditative to play.
Either way, I can finally understand the hype. Better late then never. If you have a similar experience with Myst. Keep at it, it's worth staying with to the end.
pretyyyyy
not my cup of tea
I never played this back when it originally released. I thought I'd love it as I had a PC back in the 1980s and I get the shortcomings of the time. This game was boring to play even keeping that in mind. It felt like I was dying of old age about halfway through. Being able to flip from new to old visuals was nice, I wish more remakes did this.
Some of the puzzles don't make sense. Even after looking up the solution, there are no hints that pointed towards that. I can see how this would've been a great game in 93, but in 2020 it has a lot of flaws. Also, some of the achievements are actually impossible on the Xbox because they have to do with timing, and the animation sequence takes too long.
it's myst, the prequel to riven!
about three years ago i tried playing this game and couldn't find the right approach to it. no doubt in part due to my inability to find catherine's letter (which also happened again here with equivalent time wasted) but i was also refusing to play ball with myst's framework. i had no desire to read the books in the library, didn't catch the impetus from atrus' message to catherine and as a result i never really found a foot in to the mystery of the island of myst, and i quickly lost interest.
this second go around i found it remarkable that once i actually got to another world, my progression snowballed and i was able to finish the whole game in two quick sessions on the same day i started it. myst is surprisingly not a difficult game, but it definitely requires that certain calibration towards it. what comes after isn't hurt in this way, it's still an incredibly charming world with a very unique aesthetic. it still has a surprisingly nuanced story effectively told entirely by exploration of environments. we read in the library of atrus the beauty of these worlds, these "ages", and what happened in them to better the lives of these people. and then you as the player see them in their total desolation and abandonment.
the remake of riven is a few weeks away at this point, and i cannot wait to continue what has started here.
this second go around i found it remarkable that once i actually got to another world, my progression snowballed and i was able to finish the whole game in two quick sessions on the same day i started it. myst is surprisingly not a difficult game, but it definitely requires that certain calibration towards it. what comes after isn't hurt in this way, it's still an incredibly charming world with a very unique aesthetic. it still has a surprisingly nuanced story effectively told entirely by exploration of environments. we read in the library of atrus the beauty of these worlds, these "ages", and what happened in them to better the lives of these people. and then you as the player see them in their total desolation and abandonment.
the remake of riven is a few weeks away at this point, and i cannot wait to continue what has started here.