The consensus seems to be that it’s slow and dated and not for ‘real’ gamers, whatever they might be. Despite Myst being one of the most popular and successful games of all time, this is quite a rare opinion these days, especially amongst game reviewers.
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But on the DS, it's not even close, so an experience that should be all about atmosphere leaves you feeling somewhat lacking.Here’s a full and frank admission to kick off this review I’m a massive fan of Myst. I love the idea, I love the setting, I love the fictional mythology it spawned. The decline of the point-and-click adventure game has been one of saddest things in recent gaming history, so it's great to see the DS picking up the baton with games like Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Hotel Dusk: Room 215.īeing one of the greatest adventure games of all time, Myst should have fitted in right alongside the above duo. Overall, then this is something of a missed opportunity. Instead, you have to make do with using the magnifying glass and then moving it around to look through the pages. Considering you will spend a lot of time reading through stained, aged books with florid scrawling text, we'd have liked to have seen the DS being used in its book-like vertical orientation. In typical Myst DS style though, you can only keep a single photo at a time.Īnd, most disappointingly, the one feature we would have expected to see is conspicuous by its absence. You also have access to a camera to take stills of the screen so you can remember earlier puzzles you may need to refer back to. There's a notepad for you to scribble on that does come in handy as you would usually play Myst with a notepad and pen which, of course, isn't that convenient if you're playing on your bus journey home from work. New video clips have been added, along with a couple of new gameplay features. To be fair, there are a few changes to the DS version that attempt to compensate for the lack of graphics and sound. They have, of course, always been this hard, and you shouldn't expect any let up in difficulty, whether in the main game or in the newly added Rime Age section (previously a bonus level to be found in the realMyst release). So what you're left with are the incredibly taxing and obscure puzzles. The sounds are scratchy, too, despite being specifically remastered for the DS. The added magnifying glass to enable you to zoom in on the top screen only serves to magnify how ill-suited the DS proves when it comes to display the sumptuous environs. The graphics are pixellated and washed out. With much of the drama in written form, you're left to ponder the puzzles in a serene and beautiful land while listening to the sound of lapping water on the nearby shores… or rather you would if the DS could conjure up such an environment. Finding yourself trapped in a beautiful but unpopulated land, after opening a book, you wander around an island, reading tomes and letters, pulling levers, opening hidden vaults and chambers and travelling through different ages to uncover Myst's underlying story.
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That's why, 14 years after its first PC release, it's been remade for DS.īoasting no instructions, no living beings, no inventory and no death, the game is adventure puzzle solving at its purest and, arguably, its best. Still, the more casual audience can't seem to get enough of its lush graphics, intriguing plot and play-at-your-own-pace dynamic. "It's nothing but a glorified coffee table book," they complain, while others find its cryptic puzzles too hard. Despite selling over 12 million copies (including sequels), many hardcore gamers treat it with derision.
More than any other game, Myst is a real marmite experience.
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