Myst 4 bookshelf puzzle series#
They would rather have a long series of Access puzzles leading all the way to the end. You swiftly get access to four islands after a few Access puzzles, but that's only the first step! I believe the reason not many were able to follow in the footsteps of Riven was because of this. This is what lets Riven be an "open world" puzzle game. How do I save Cathrine? How do I capture Gehn? How do I reclaim the prison book that the Moiety took from me? The last, of course, being answered by solving the Animal Stone puzzle, which gave you everything you needed to solve it long before you found the puzzle itself. By reading the context of an entire sentence you can work out what that weird squiggle probably is supposed to be.Įndgame would be the overarching puzzles that all other puzzles lead into in parallel. Hell, even the calligraphy fits in here funnily enough. Once it clicks, numbers ceases to be an issue. The D'ni number system is given to you in chunks and lets you figure out the rest. A locked door, a rotating room, a spinning dome covering a linking book, a submarine to be piloted.Įxtrapolation is all in your head. Access, Extrapolation, and Endgame.Īccess deals with physically getting from point A to B. I believe they can all be sorted into three types. Let me take the puzzles of Riven as an example.
Contrast this with a game like The Room, where the mechanisms you're working with are just so magical that there's really no value in trying to reason out how things might work in real life. Similarly, getting to the Selenetic Age is easier if you understand breaker switches, and think to follow the power lines. The game expects you to bring in some real-world knowledge to conclude that maybe the elevators are powered by water pressure. It isn't just a puzzle for the sake of having a puzzle. Peak Myst is the Channelwood Age, where you're manipulating a system that feels like it has a real purpose within the environment. Moreover, the best Myst puzzles are tied to the environment, as you say. And then when the little model ship raises up, there's a further connection to be made between the model and the real deal down by the dock. The clue just lets me exercise the solving that I already did. When I finally get the clue, there's really not any puzzle solving to be done, because the puzzle was working out which elements in the world were connected, and I already did that. Therefore it would be really handy to get a set of dates so that I'd know which pillars to activate. There's a planetarium that lets me enter dates, a bunch of pillars with symbols, and a book relating star patterns to the symbols on the pillars. Myst puzzles are about figuring out how things in the world relate to each other. The Starry Expanse Project - Rebuilding Riven in beautiful realtime 3DĬyan Games /r/FirmamentGame - Cyan's newest adventure title /r/Obduction - Hunrath welcomes you Other /r/pystposting - Myst memes.
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