You can’t break the clock any worse than it’s already been broken by fiddling with its gears, but you can’t fix it that way either.
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Playing the new Myst on Quest feels a bit like teleporting inside a giant mechanical clock that someone’s intentionally broken, and then filled with scraps of paper on how to fix it. They didn’t seem very nice.įorget the nostalgia though. My nostalgia for Myst is pretty surface level, since I never actually played the game and only have fleeting memories of spaceships, switches, and two fantastical brothers locked inside books who would shout at you. My mom admits she never finished it she was too busy writing novels and trying to not go insane from the constant moving around the country with two rambunctious kids in tow, a built-in feature of my dad’s former life as an officer in the US Air Force. I was 10 years old when I first, and probably last saw Myst in the flesh. The original Myst (1993) | Image courtesy Rock, Paper, Shotgun Eventually I got into puzzle adventures with Riven (1997), the sequel to Myst, but only after I got my own computer and my brain was decidedly less mushy and stupid. I would quizzically peer over my mom’s shoulder, not really knowing what the hell was going on as she worked her way through the game’s many puzzles on her home office desktop. I remember only brief glimpses of Myst as a kid in the ’90s. I’ll also be diving into the game’s overall implementation on VR headsets.
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Some of our readers have probably played Myst before, either the original or the remaster on PC from 2000. Much of the game is completely new to me, so I’m approaching the review as an (almost) entirely new player. Note: My first and only encounter with Myst was in the mid-90s, and I never finished it as a kid. Peeling back the nostalgic sheen, it’s clear there’s still something special about Myst, although it’s undoubtedly a product of its time.Īvailable On: Oculus Quest (SteamVR release TBA)
Cyan, the same studio who help pioneer the adventure game genre with the original Myst, have now rebuilt the game from the ground-up for traditional monitors and VR headsets, launching first on Oculus Quest. Real-time 3D rendering was still in its infancy back then, so there was something unique about Myst’s rich pre-rendered environments and its simple (but effective) story, which was told across 2,500 point-and-click stills. They subsequently ceased development on The Starry Expanse Project, as our official efforts to remake Riven began.”Ĭyan did not offer any information on a release date or window for the remake, but noted that the best way to stay abreast of Riven news would be to subscribe to the company’s newsletter.Originally released on Macintosh in 1993, Myst immersed players in a first-person adventure that was truly ahead of its time, both visually and conceptually. Together, we reached an agreement which allowed us to reference core pieces of their efforts to jump-start our development. “We spoke confidentially with the Starry Expanse team a couple of years ago,” Cyan said in a blog post last year, “about the exciting news that Cyan finally had the resources to tackle remaking Riven.
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Starry Expanse was a fan-developed attempt to recreate the series of 2D images that made up Riven’s locations, scenes, and puzzles as equally impactful 3D environments. The announcement may come as a surprise to most, but absolute Riven nerds - *glances around nervously* *coughs* - got a bit of a heads up a year ago, when Cyan announced its agreement with The Starry Expanse Project, saying that it was in touch with the Starry Expanse team, and had even hired from their members. We wanted to make sure we could take on such a difficult, costly and complicated endeavor – and do it well.” We didn’t want to approach it lightly or frivolously. The company addressed why it took so long to bring Riven into three dimensions in an FAQ: “ Riven is one of the most highly regarded games in Cyan’s history. And for the game’s 25th anniversary, Cyan, the occasionally wobbly indie studio that crafted it, will remake the game as a “fully traversable” space.
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Developer Cyan Worlds announced Monday that it’s in production on a full remake of Myst-sequel Riven, taking the blockbuster 1997 adventure-puzzle game somewhere it’s never been before: 3D.Īmong the most sublimely constructed feats of puzzlemaking through environmental storytelling in video games, Riven bedeviled millions of players who dared click their way through its lush, two-dimensional world.
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