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i feel like Relto age is what inspired animal crossing

This game is also nicer than KQV, especially in the catacombs, because it won't let you enter the catacombs at first if you are missing required items. It will send you straight there after talking with Lord Azure if you have everything.

Well..HUH! That's...nEW. * blink blink*

I like your opinion on stairs in this game. I would love to see you do a LP of Stairs Quest. Someone thought taking the worst part of this game and making it into a full game would be a good idea

Sven the speedrun time 5min07sec706 milliseconds

Was there not a button next to the handle to lower the bridge on Gehn's chair? Does it do anything?

Maglev was leaving without as hahaha

I dont like how we set on maglev seat we went through it

0:10 Patience is a virtue.

Something I haven't been able to figure out on my play-through: What is that button in the bottom right at 5:59 for?

When I entered that first rotating dome and it closed behind me... haha that scared me so much, thinking I had already been trapped and found a bad ending!

Magvel works on steam and it looks great in this game

I dont like footstep sound but its more real in real life we can hear our walking

43:35 You can actually walk through the gap in the stone wall at the end of the platform. You can see the other side of the track that has fallen apart (which presumably used to take you to the great tree island), and if you look down at the water you can see a broken maglev.

No game in my lifetime has been able to capture the mood and feeling with a soundtrack like the Myst series does.. the soundtrack is so underrated in setting the tone for your exploration without it the series wouldn't be anything like it is.

Loved these videos. I don't have the patience to play these games, butI've watched pretty much all of your vids on Cyan games. This one in particular reminded me of a couple of books called Inside Out and Outside In. They have a very similar plot twist. Honestly it was giving me anxiety considering the big reveal in the books involves opening a cool future door and oopsie doodles there is nothing on the other side to protect from the big reveal. I figured Cyan wasn't going to horrendously do that in their game, but there were a lot of cool future doors at the end there.

Interesting, so one can enter in to the star rift area. And the volume in side the star rift seems to bring everything closer together then it is in the 'normal' world. Except the orientations don't match up, so it's not that the star rift reduces the distances. A more logical interpretation instead may be that this part of the star rifts volume is intersecting with the domes in those 5 locations in an unknown hyper-dimensional setup. Curious that the star rift is structured like that and appears as the world starts falling apart though. This seems to imply it in some way is linked to the overall creation, and now that the 'normal' world on falling apart a bit something of what it's built on top of is being exposed? Or who knows exactly I guess... well Atrus probably. But I guess this in some way might be caused by or is one or several of the 'shortcuts' that were taken in creating Riven. Well total speculation though, so it probably won't matter. In the practical upshot it effectively serves as a hopefully quicker travel system I guess. Though looking at it another way, assuming that book in the big dome is a linking book and they did use it. Then the logical conclusion would be that there you can only retract bridges from the dome side, then the person that tried to isolate the dome as much as possible potentially came from the one place with a still extended bridge in the star rift. I'd first thought that they'd have crossed over the bridge and then raised it behind them. But considering what happened to that, it now seems more logical to assume that this is not the case. And if one was very paranoid, I guess one could speculate that maybe someone setup the bridge to fail in case anyone tried to get to the dome from that direction. It could just be some kind of damage instead though, certainly things going on that could damage structures, but it seemed a bit odd really. This leaves just one question in my mind, how did the person that ran away on the elevated track manage to close the temple door. Maybe there is some other area aside of the chair where one can control it? Or was there some exterior button or control that was missed perhaps?

I'm so glad the first time I played was in VR. The starry expanse was such a thrill in 3D.

Was NOT expecting this. But I kinda love it.

The frame rate conversion blending (motion blur like) artifact is still present. At the beginning, there's zero of it, and then it gradually increases towards being quite visible at the end (but the previous frame's weight is still lower than the current frame's). In this case, it would result from converting something like 59.9998 fps to 60 fps with frame blending. I think you might be able to avoid it by making sure your video is exactly 60.0000 fps before uploading, or perhaps the capture software you're using has an option to disable the frame blending. BTW, I played the original 5 CD-ROM version of Riven back in March 1998, which is what attracted me to your Let's Play of the remake. I still have my old save-games. I may have finished the game, judging from the save-game filenames, having played for 4 days. (I only remember bits and pieces of it, but am looking forward to seeing the remaining differences in the remake by watching your video series.)

So, the Starry Expanse is sort of a dimensional void upon which the Age is being written. And the enters to it shall be thoroughly sealed up to avoid air leak into it...

This is definitely not your father's Riven

I have to say that when you commented the Symbol was referring to Gehen, I'd already concluded that quite awhile ago. It was kind of obvious when it was put on the god like figure before, who it was already obvious would be Atrust father. I mean who else would do that. And even before that one could speculate it might be a person symbol for who had made the place, and well... who would that be? Though I guess one could have some what held out for an alternate person or group. It's a bit like the symbols in each direction that one sees on the dome, one can already reasonably speculate this some how identifies the individual domes in some kind of control scheme, or otherwise has something to do with that button at the dome one encountered, maybe it indicates at which timing one should press it. As for the linking book, my first idea was that this might be the linking book that Atrus blocked, thus trapping their father there. It would make a certain level of sense for his father to build various instruments to try and study and fix it, as it would seem the only way out of the world they are stuck in. In which case we might just be looking at their failed attempts at fixing it and they just left it there for some reason. I guess an alternate theorem could be that they tried to write a new book to at least be able to leave Riven, in which case they might no longer be present here and thus are instead some what safe elsewhere, this too would make sense for a person that does not seem to care to much about the worlds. In which case the book is still there as they used it after closing all ways to get to the book from the locals. In such a case perhaps the book needs some kind of additional power to activate as well, as that would make more sure people can't just follow you. I suppose I'm working along these theory lines at current, just seeing which way the various bits of evidence fall I guess. I don't know if others would have put less or more together then this already at this point, but I hope it is in some way helpful in getting an idea what some would be thinking about at this point.

Looks like Gehn got his hands on the Null element from "The Room" (mobile/pc games by Fireproof games). That space under the domes felt like it's space-warping properties.

Somehow I was expecting another one of those floating orbs lights to materialize in the golden dome's pool when you got back. And wow. So they complete got rid of the need for intralinking books in this game?

You can get to the other side of the first maglevel sation and look out to the destroyed section of track. you should walk through the gap between the rock wall and the station pillar

Did you notice the ball from the cyan logo in the starry expanse? I guess it’s an uncolored fire marble. And how did someone close the door behind them when they took off in the mag lev?

Being able to enter the Starry Expanse here is one of my favorite parts of this remake. Of course it made my jaw drop when I first saw it. I think introducing it before the end of the game makes the ending feel less out-of-nowhere and more like a full-circle development, especially for people who didn't play Myst. It also explains how Gehn manages to travel around the islands so quickly, like after he makes his Wizard of Oz appearance for you. (Unless I missed something, he can't have been using the books in the domes since they weren't powered at the time.) But what I like most is that it doesn't make the whole thing any less mysterious. In fact, I feel like it adds even more mystery. What is the floating orb? What is the rock globe? What did Gehn mean about the feeling of breathing in there? I love it.

Love that you are NOT rushing through!

What! 11:46 11:54

Sven have you Tried the VR Version of this game?

Dilandau, would you please replay King’s Quest series??

The start confirms you definitely has traditional protagonist jump-phobia [0:46]. Im suprosed there aren't more comments about "look up at your balls!" [36:42] 😆 I do love you are taking your time as always 💚💚 tracing the pipes and connecting the visual and spacial concepts - top notch 👌

The theme music from the Prison Island sounds very similar (if not same as) the Todelmer age on Myst V: End of Ages

11:40 Whoa! 🤯

The inside of the star fissure really reminds me of that place in Twin Peaks season 3. When agent cooper climbs those stairs in that palace in the endless ocean. And when he gets through the hatch, he is suddenly on a black cube with a machine on top, floating in space, surrounded by stars.

I was in a voice chat with my girlfriend while playing the new Riven, and when I opened the Firemarble dome for the first time, and my reaction was pretty much the same as Sven's. I was speechless and had trouble describing what I was seeing and had to explain why this was such a big deal since my GF hadn't played the original. And then the game crashed because I'm on Linux and the Riven remake does not like Linux. :p

If this were a King's Quest game, you just made it unwinnable 44:57 😊

Kinda funny that they even made you able to walk upside down on those walkways.

A sven video a day keeps the doctor away

“If you're expecting me to rush…”. Never rush. Remember, the turtle always wins. :)

What the actual f is happening under riven i think original was better

11:44 WHAT?!

Unreal!Riven is to Riven what Black Mesa is to Half-Life (speaking of which: I think what I really miss in terms of animation is camera shakes. would really spice up big impacts) 16:17 Ooh, Obduction vibes in the music

What what what whats happening under riven oh its star fissure

Star Fissure would make a great band name

12:11 I said the same thing when I got there. 😅😅 Reminds me of Uru, the time traveling world where you link to the construction area and you realize it's all a stage. The only thing, so far, what I'm disappointed with is the characters are animated. I liked the old real live video of the characters. Atrus looks nothing like Atrus... I've already visited all the worlds, and am looking forward to your theory on a puzzle because i have information, but have no idea how it is to be applied yet. 🤔👍🏼😀

If you look up at the tubes around the book in the gold dome, you can see the orbs that you transported through the expanse. :)

Keep that next game CD ready on hand Dilandau!

Yes sven dont skip