![]() RIVEN is a series of islands, each one of which has a spinning dome which one must find as well as determine how to open each of them. Part I consists of the hints, of increasing depth, and Part II is a walkthrough, noting every little detail one can possibly expect. ![]() The Guide also provides printouts of the various journals by Atrus, which make it convenient to return to for hints, drawings and a running narrative. This brings us to my review of the RIVEN Strategy Guide, which I have found extremely valuable and helpful in remembering both the overall game and the details of the various puzzles. Even with said Guide, these games take several months to play, at least at my level of sophistication. (If I had gotten the Strategy Guide, you’d be seeing the above paragraph and a review of it before this one) When it came to RIVEN, which is a more complicated game, I decided to reorder the Strategy Guide to get me through. My memory being what it is, I quickly forgot many if not most of the strategic steps, so went online and got a walkthrough of MYST, which came back slowly, but was a very satisfying experience. So, a number of months later, I received said package and decided to replay MYST and RIVEN first. More about those in my review of EXILE.įast forward to 2018, when my stepdaughter Katie informed me that Cyan, the games’ developer, had a Kickstarter campaign to update all the MYST games to be compatible with Windows 10, and for a contribution of $100 I could, eventually, receive contemporary/updated versions of them (MYST, RIVEN, EXILE, REVELATION, END OF AGES, and UDU, as well as a 3-D version of MYST). So, tears in my eyes, I packed up the “Special Edition” of EXILE (which came with the Strategy Guide and a little pewter marsupial called a “squee” from the game I had also obtained figures of the protagonist, Atrus, and his nemesis Saavedo at the Dollar Store). By that time, I had gotten rid of MYST and RIVEN. ![]() I came to find out, through my cousin Joel, a fellow gamer of MYST, that Windows 10 isn’t compatible with the programming for these games because they were so old. When I got a new computer, I found it wouldn’t play EXILE. I ordered the first three games online, as well as their corresponding Strategy Guides and made it through the first two (MYST, RIVEN) and part way through the third (EXILE) when my laptop shot craps and wouldn’t continue the game as well as any other programs (a word of caution don’t spill coffee on your laptop’s keyboard, nothing good comes of that). They consist of a combination of “hints” and “walk-throughs,” with the player going to the latter only after going bonkers using the former. I really had to rely on the Strategy Guides to get me through them. They were problem-solving games, with a back story to make any fantasy author proud, appealing characters (even the bad guys), little to no violence, lush graphics, and insanely complex and at times extremely difficult puzzles, which built on each other. First, a bit of history: I came across the MYST computer games back in the late 1990’s, a few years after they came out.
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