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Summary: A pleasant surprise!
Review: Amazing scenery and beautifully haunting music. If your looking for a quick game, then this is not it. You have to spend major time investigating everything, so if you have a short attention span or times a premium then you may be disappointed by this game. That aside, this is a great game! You don't have to run, jump, swim, or do rediculous acrobatics to progress(which allows you to look at the scenery instead of watch it flash by) you can't die or get trapped in this game so it's to the players advantage to try everything and anything. It is best to keep notes and draw sketches. My only gripe is one of the puzzles is based on sound and if your tone deaf it will be difficult to solve. The sense of lonelieness was very realistic as this game was very absorping and addictive! I kept expecting someone to jump out at every twist and turn.
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Summary: VERY FUN AND INTRUIGING!
Review: This game is great. It makes you use your imagination and think a lot. I didn't understand the concept at first, but once you get the hang of it it becomes easier. I am not saying the levels get easier. I really recomend it to everyone who has an imangination and has a lot of time on their hands, because once you start you won't want to stop.
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Summary: An Engrossing Challenge
Review: I've just completed the Myst Masterpiece Edition game, and found it thoroughly engrossing. While not familiar with the original edition, certainly the Masterpiece Edition boasts arresting visuals and haunting music. The major part of Myst's draw is its puzzles, some of which are fiendishly difficult, but this edition has a digital guide which can step in with some assistance when needed. While making too much use of this feature would undoubtedly take the fun out of the game, every now and then it can help keep you from becoming totally stuck and frustrated. This game tests your powers of observation, memory, intuition and reasoning in an entertaining context, and solving one of the game's tough puzzles on your own is a satisfying payoff.
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Summary: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! A MUST-HAVE!
Review: This has got to be one of the best games I ever played. The 3-D graphics and the sound in this game were outstanding that it blew me away. My favorite part in this game was "Stone Forest" in the Selenitic Age. Robyn Miller and Rand Miller gets 5 stars for putting terrific effort in producing it. You won't be disappointed in playing this game. BUY IT TODAY!
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Summary: Enter the mysterious world of myst!Are you ready?
Review: Myst is one of the most best selling adventure games ever.But what is so special about Myst?Incredible 3-D graphics and a mysterious atmosphere with a strong sense that you are hunted by someone or something and the lonelyness you feel during the game makes it more mysterious.So,switch off the lights and enjoy your time trying to solve the game's puzzles(believe it takes a long time this).
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Summary: Classic
Review: I've been playing the Myst games for years, they never get old. I left a review for the DVD Trilogy Box-set for the Myst series, so I thought I should review each individual game as well.
First off, Myst is a classic. Of course, even with revisions, it is completely outdated. But the intrique and spark is still there. Beautiful scenery and lush sound. I wouldn't recommend this to first person shooter fans. But I'm a big first person shooter fan I still find Myst to be an excellent adventure. Dig in and enjoy.
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Summary: Entertaining, visually splendid, remarkably frustrating
Review: Playing Myst reminded me of the episode in
"Red Dwarf" (British sci-fi comedy series)
in which the crew discovers that they're actually
ordinary people who have been playing a virtual
reality sim-game in which they play space travelers.
The attendant is stunned to discover that they've
been playing the intro sequence the entire time.
"But didn't you find the microdot that explains
the secret mission?"
"_What_ microdot?"
"On the wall over Rimmer's bunk, the 'i' in his
swimming certificate! The dot over the i is a microdot.
It's a dead giveaway, innit -
Rimmer can't swim, and he's got a swimming certificate?"
That's about as obscure as most of the puzzles, IMHO.
Gorgeous to look at, wondrous to walk through, but if
it weren't for online tips and tricks, I'd never have
left Myst Island.
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Summary: It may be hard but it's way cool and atmospheric.
Review: You really do get the feel of absolute abandon and isolation while playing Myst. The graphics may be rather dated now (especially compared to the modern graphics in Uru and Myst IV) but it's easy to get immersed in the quiet, lonely environment and believe your actually there. The sound effects and music are slight and subtle rather than overbearing like in other video games.
Since Myst the franchise has indeed developed and evolved. People still tend to think of them and point and click slide shows. Which isn't very fair. Yes, Myst is this way, though it was made 11 years ago and graphic cards back then were not the frontiers of technology they are today.
A lot of patience and intelligence is needed to solve the puzzles and put the clues together. A lot of reading and note-taking is required and those looking for shoot-em-ups and violence should look elsewhere.
Myst is, indeed, a game for the refined gamer.
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Summary: This is a great game
Review: I've been aware of Myst for around 10 years now, but never got to play it until now, when I bought this 1999 Masterpiece Edition. But for many years I saw pictures of this game like in magazines and I thought the game was worth buying for just the graphics. Well it has much more than just graphics going for it. Never having played the original from 1993, what I do know is Masterpiece Edition has improved graphics and features. It's nice to see a Rated E game that's fun to play. It's the kind of game even recommended to those who think video games have contributed to the downfall of American society. It's also truly a recommended game if you are sick and tired of those slasher or shoot 'em up games. The game is stuffed with puzzles where you have to open up secret passages, look for clues, activate a spaceship, a tree elevator, or whatever, in order to look for missing pages from a book. The only drawback is some of the quests are a bit on the tedious side. But to make things easier, just write down clues on paper, writting some of this stuff on paper would help save time (some of it is crucial). This package also comes with a screensaver with soundtrack CD. If you like the music from the game enough, then you have this CD to hear the music on a regular CD player. As for the game itself, the graphics are wonderful, and in many places are quite realistic (of course there are other scenes that look obviously like computer graphics). I'm glad to to finally get Myst, and I look forward to getting the sequels.
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