It kinda strikes me as endearing how completely off-script of a parody this is when juxtaposed with the actual Myst. Like, yeah, it's a parody of the game and uses its assets to poke fun at the fantastical whimsy of a techno-fantasy island, but it seems like the creators of this game saw fit to jam in the firey angst present in any amount of 90's alternative mindset or media aimed directly at mass media and out-of-touch establishments. The initially pristine island turned into a kaleidoscope of trash and marketing, almost entirely wrung into utilitarian capitalist mayhem, voices from the filthy mass of posters and derelict trailers. It's absolutely poor-taste in points though, a level of deep-seated misanthropy cast to all sides- I particularly didn't like the king character, played by John Goodman, and his one bit for the game's ending. Beyond it and many a poop joke, it's 15 minutes of gameplay where most of it is reading out posters and listening to audio.

It feels as though, by nature of its manufacturing as a CD-ROM and thus its contribution to the wider megapile of computer game diaspora, its existence almost necessarily plays out in such a way that feels more warranted and tasteful than the stuff that Newgrounds and such would call parody in its wake. Whether it's enough is another story, but I can tell its creation was not in total, unequivocable hatred for the game despite the literal trash made out of it. There is something else to be said beyond that Myst as a concept is silly, and for that I think it's somewhat of a league more respectable than the stuff born purely out of cynicism and nothing else.