Myst

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Summary: An awesome mystery and puzzle solving game
Review: This is such an innovative game! My brother played it before so it was easier for me, but I still loved it! Right now I've defeated 3 levels, and I'm addicted. BUY IT OR YOU ARE MISSING OUT! The sound is cool and the graphics are good too. If you are not very experienced at solving puzzles like these (when you explore places and find out about them and their history), then get a hint book, or my brother. Once you understand the patterns throughout the levels, it becomes even more addictive. I would recommend this game to everyone!

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Summary: I beat the game, what do I do now?
Review: Okay, i'll agree the game was a good alternative to the all the first person shooters out there, but what are you susposed to do with it after you've solved all the puzzles?

Call me crazy, but I think one of the most important factors of a good game is replay value and Myst just doesn't have this. When you get stuck on a puzzle, there's nothing to do but ask a friend who's beaten the game what to do next. And as i've asked before, What are you susposed to do after you beat the game? (and please don't say "you could always play it again", because if you do, i'll know you're truly a geek:)

I know it would defeat the perpose of this genre of beautiful non-violent games but I would like to see a combination of Myst and Doom in the future. A game where you could kill a few monsters while you're between quests.

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Summary: A Marvelous Mindgame
Review: If you like shoot-em-up action and gore galore, this is NOT your game. If you enjoy exploring new, mysterious, and unknown worlds, and figuring out how things work, you will love MYST. MYST's creators borrowed from the ideas of some of the oldest computer mindgames--explore, touch, press the buttons, turn the wheels, read the books and papers--and created fascinating, interconnected puzzles that require patience, persistence, logic, and some intuitive leaps to solve. My husband bought the game, messed around with it for several hours, and gave up in disgust. I decided to try it and was hooked in minutes. Ultimately, I think, most players won't care much about the three chracters in the game; The challenge of solving the puzzles is all-absorbing, and the worlds to be explored are fascinating. You have to pay attention to small details to solve some of the problems, and there are plenty of meaningless, but intriguing distractions in every scene. Solving this game (I'm not even sure it should be called a game) requires out-of-the-box thinking and lots of note-taking. Every successful entry to and exit from a new world is a thrill because you've solved a very difficult puzzle just to get there. MYST is frustrating, fascinating, fun, and very rewarding. And it's a great precursor to RIVEN, which is MYST to the tenth power.

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Summary: Myst
Review: Myst is a really really good game. The graphics are fantastic. Solving all the puzzles is really fun. But there is one thing i really hate in myst, To pass through one level (the space ship) one has to play a particular tune on the piano in the spaceship to get through but i am tone deaf and i just couldnt play that particular tune and i am stranded there for months. I wish game makers wouldnt make puzzles like this.

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Summary: Good Game; Gameplay Confusing at Times
Review: I purchased this game about a year ago, and I started up the game and I had no clue what was happening. But as soon as I saw how everything was working out and it simply became easier. This game takes alot of thought and this is a game youll be hooked on. I have played this game hours at a time. The graphics for this game a very nice and the Quicktime Animation enhance th experince all the better. I eventually beat the game (after cheating two or three times). Some of the puzzles were almost impossible where I just stood back and was like "huh?". But all of the secrets of Myst Island are explained in the Library (hint, hint!), but I would recommend buying the Masterpiece Editon if you really want this game.

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Summary: Myst: The conquest of a lifetime
Review: Christmas morining, 1993. I was nine years old. I can still remember that day like it were yestserday. i woke up, ran down stairs, and looked in amazement at what santa had brought me. I woke up everyone in the house and forced them out of bed. A few minutes later i had my big brother, parents, and grandparents gathered around the christmas tree. Then i tore my way throught the wrapped gifts. After a few a came up on one that i wasnt expecting. MYST. i stared at it, not knowing exactly what it was, then i found out it was a computer game. After we finished unwrapping gifts, and ate breakfast, my dad loaded the game on to the family computer. I was fascinated. I felt as is a was grabbed from my chair and ripped into the game! I played for hours on end. I even believed that sleep was a rude intrusion of playing time. I admit, I had to go get a strategy guide, but i only used it when I felt that I was in dire need of it.Beat the game after awile. Then what? I got so cuaght up in it, that after i was done, it felt like something was missing.

Then, in 1996 Riven came out. I bought it and fell in love all over again. These two games are with out a dought, my personal favorite games of all time. The story is so deep, that you begin to feel atrus's pain. The scenery is so beautiful, that you will feel like you are there. I cant tell you if you would like the game, i know people who hated the game. if you would like a game where you can sit down, walk around and look at beautifull scenery, or solve a mystery, then by all means get this game. But if you want something alittle more exiting, stay away from this.

If you do buy this game, please dont go online and read the walkthrough, it ruins the experience, and the adventure. Take your time, dont rush it, its better if it takes you a few weeks than if you better in a couple of hours.

You may want to delay buying myst, becuase in november, they are going to put out a new version of myst called realmyst. It will be in real-time 3d, instead of just being pictures. that means you can walk around in the environment in 3d, instead of it being like a slide show. There will also be changes in weather, and it will change from day to night. There will be animals roaming around, and the clounds will move and trees will sway. There will also be a whole new age (world) to explore, with new puzzles. You won't be disappointed if you wait. Also look out for MystIII:Exile, coming out in the 1st quarter of 2001

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Summary: A very good game!
Review: It took me a while but I was able to solve Myst! I enjoyed it's unique interface and no directions just move around it and figure it out for yourself style! I would recommend this game to anyone who likes a challenge and wants to solve a mystery!

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Summary: myst
Review: I thought Myst was one of the best games I've ever played. It's a challenge, a challange worth taking. All you have to do is to lose yourself in the game, explore, and write everything you think is important(most everything is important). If you loved Myst, try Rivin, The sequel to Myst. And f you loved Riven, try Myst 3:Exile...Take my word for it. This game is the one to own. By the way, kids under ten CAN play this game.

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Summary: MYST- What else is there to say!
Review: Myst was a game that I picked up by chance. I had just bought my computer and found the game on a bargain shelf. Was I surprised? .....More than that, I was thrilled! I had never before played such an involved and MYSTical game, and probably never will again. The whole storyline was enthralling. I was spurred on by every puzzle I came upon as well as by the flawless way the creators wove the plot, characters, object manipulation and ending ALL into a wonderful joyride! Kudos to Mindscape, Cyan and Red Orb for such an enterprising and entertaining piece of work!

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Summary: A triumph from detail to beautiful detail
Review: There are action games. There are adventure and sci-fi games. Even those that call themselves puzzle games. But Myst is monumentally revolutionary. Anyone who plays it will instantly realize this is like nothing ever seen before. It immerses the player in an unparallelled (save for Riven) world of surreal mystique. You arrive knowing nothing, finding your only opportunity to be exploration and attempting to uncover the shrouded secrets of this unexplained world. The graphics are fantastic, the sound perfectly complimentary to the visuals, the plot (once you discover it) gripping... but the most underlying truth of Myst is its difficulty. More than 20 (I think) mind-bending true puzzles will present themselves to you during the course of the game, and anything anywhere may have an effect on something somewhere else. ~Be prepared to think outside the lines ~NEVER EVER OVERLOOK ANYTHING! ~Let the game enfold you with its sense of immersive reality. And, most of all, enjoy the experience.