"What do we have here? Perhaps the pages you worked so hard for?" That line always sent chills through me when I played this game back in the day, and it still does now. Fantastic playthrough!
My dad played the old school Myst. He had a spiral notebook he kept with notes in it from the game. When I was a kid I remember watching him play it and always being fascinated by how relaxing it looked (of course he never allowed me to see the messed up psychological side of it. Every now and then he would set me on his lap infront if the boxy computer and let me run around the Island of Myst and push buttons and such. Thank you for this elaborate guidance through this lets play. It was cool to solve the puzzles and reffed to these videos to ensure I wasn’t missing anything when I would get doubtful that I was doing things right. Such an amazing game.
Thank you for your wonderful walkthroughs. I am 69 and many, many years ago I bought Riven for my PC and never really got anywhere and actually gave it up. As that was probably about 25 years ago, there was no community for gamers help. Ive always yearned to play the game and when I recently found MYST for my iPad I bought it immediately. Now I’ve completed the game (with your generous help) I realise that there is a definite way of thinking for these games and Holy of Holies, Riven is now available for my iPad so I can finally play it again and hopefully this time I’ll get somewhere! Thanks again. 😊😊😊
When I saw Atrus' CGI face in episode 1, I thought it looked familiar. Now it finally hit me. Apparently, in one of his worlds, he became a deranged German doctor in a band of mercenaries
Really enjoyed your walk through of this great game. Thank you. Like you, I sense , I feel Myst and its later games are iconic. For me, they evoke emotions akin to the great science fiction stories, weaving a recreational thread through life to which I constantly return.
Thanks for the playthrough, hope you don't worry too much in the future about cutting out content you think we may find boring. The 'boring' stuff adds flavor!
Just binged this whole playthrough, wonderfully done. I never played the game myself but, my father did way back in the day. I went looking to see if there was any news about a Riven remake and, I was very pleasantly surprised to see that Cyan announced back in October of 2022 that they were planning on remaking that title as well.
Awesome! I played Myst back when it first came out but couldn’t really do anything with it after a lot of hours of trying. I saw that it was available for my M1 mini so I bought it. It runs flawlessly which mde thing sgo much better but in eac Age I had at least one critical roadblock. After I tried very hard, I watched your videos and it made everything so enjoyable. Your commentary is great; pefect temp and sound! I did finish the ending myself. Great job! When Riven is ready for the M1, I am ready to buy it. I mght even help me to decide to upgrade to the M1X. Thanks!
In the version I played, when I returned to Myst after helping Atrus, there was another book on the floor of the library with a 4 number code which when input into the panel in the hidden room under the walkway to the rocket, caused the panel to rise. On returning to the library, I found the center of the floor had risen up revealing another book. Just wondering if you have played this version.
It leaves the question of who placed the pages around. The father says his sons tricked him and trapped him in D'ni and both brothers say that the other brother trapped him, so even if you assume the red and blue books were set in advance from the father being trapped and the brothers fell for it, how did the pages get scattered?
Probably because the father rewrote the various ages to scatter them around. You can literally rewrite ages, just not used all that often because it tends to get... messy... if you do so with people in them.
I think the pages were removed before the books were ever used. Atrus probably took them and scattered them about before his sons trapped him in the green book and fell into their own book traps. He probably did this to prevent someone from simply walking up and using the books to free whoever was trapped in them.
Watching this inspired me to walk your obduction playthrough. By the way, you missed an entire area on Hunrath with the minecar. More lore and stuff, if you're ever feeling nostalgic lol.
Great playthrough. Hopefully they do a Riven remake as well. I guess it'll depend on how well this one does. Still cant believe that Atrius just sits there writing at the end.
Yeah, but I guess it's true to his character within the game (and his ominous mention of fighting someone else). Plus, it's not like there's much of anything left for him on Myst itself; most of the books are gone, and the remaining ones have been plundered by his sons.
I bought the original and sort of remember all the notes i took and the hours and days i spent playing it. It was an epic game. This was a nice walkthru. I like the free roaming instead of the click/move of the original. I think I still have the original around here somewhere..............in a book.
@28:20 Sure! I just beat it, and I'll tell you what I thought. It was my first time playing through and it took me quite a while! I didn't even know this was a remake of an older game, I'd just heard of Myst through Google recommendations while searching for escape room games. I came to watch your video because I'd already saved after getting the switch vault page. (I wanted to see what happens if you don't bring the page into D'ni.) I laughed so hard at Atrus' reaction to the player not bringing the page. This might be a long read but, here's my experience with the game: Initially I avoided this game because I'd read complaints from other people about some of the puzzles' difficulty and logic. I played The Witness and didn't enjoy it. A gameplay trailer I watched looked like the player would just roam around on an island (aimlessly), so I had my apprehensions... but eventually I was bored enough and thought, why not? As you said in this video, I would not have known what to do if I hadn't already played a lot of escape room games before! Thankfully I have, but it still took stumbling around for a good 20-30 minutes, tinkering and looking around, before I managed to get into my first book! I wasn't really paying attention to the story at this time because I was still thinking of quitting, like I did for The Witness, but into the forest book I went. I managed to beat the forest book pretty quickly... but I missed the lever on the upper floor that unlocks the spiral stairs. This caused me to miss the red and blue page that would cause me pain later on. This game has no way of telling you where your lost red/blue pages are (that I could find), and combing through each of the books' levels gets kind of annoying. It only tells you in save files (if you notice) how many blue/red pages you've acquired, from there it's up to the player to deduce it's 1 blue/red page per book, and good luck if you forgot which books you acquired red/blue pages from. Anyways, fast forward and I'm still kind of on the fence about whether or not I want to finish this game. All my other games recently have been really terrible, and this was the least terrible one, so I just kept on going. I found a lot of the puzzle solutions to be more "exploratory" rather than logically difficult. Like, "What if I tried this? Or what happens if I did this? This isn't working, instead of trying to screw with it I should look for another way!" Often that would bring me to the solution. This isn't a bad thing per say, but just something I noticed. My favorite puzzles were in the Stone Ship Age book. I enjoyed every single puzzle there! I thought the coolest one was telescope flashing light house thingy, then pressing the button that matched the degree on the telescope. The majority of the games' other puzzles however, I found to be ok-to-annoying. In particular: the underground train maze, that was a nightmare. You turn soooooooooo slowly. I was trying to beat this game without using guides or spoilers, but I wasn't about to go through 1-2 hours of mapping out that maze on paint/paper, hell no. So I used a guide for that. The story really opened up for me when I started listening to the voice actors from the books, after getting my first blue/red pages. Listening and trying to guess the strings of words they were saying, the facial expressions... And slowly understanding the dilemma I was in... It really drew me in! That's when the game became much more enjoyable for me, and I really had to finish it. Before this point I was skipping most of the reading + books, so I got stuck in the ship trying to enter the Selenitic Age crystal book. (I didn't realize you could turn the page in a book for the longest time lol) I also had to use a guide again to figure out where I was missing my 2nd last pages once I had finished the 4 books. I liked the blue guys' voice acting the most, he convinced me! I was really hoping he was the good guy. I was going to pick him too, but when I listened to both the pre-final page stories and how the two stories didn't add up factually about their fathers' demise, along with the existence of a new green book? Not to mention neither of them told me about the secret page in the vault! I began to distrust both of them, and I just had to know what was in that green book. When I opened it, I gasped! A face I'd never seen before, "Was this the father?" he looks so much younger than I thought he would, considering the age of the sons. He spoke with such calmness and repose, (I was freaking out; thinking I could potentially be trapped forever and that I had just made a huge terrible mistake). He was so cool though. He's the legend, I've been reading about his adventures this entire game! Anyways, I was really happy I got the best ending my first time! The bad endings you get from saving the blue or red guy were pretty brutal, I re-watched the ending where Atrus burns their books after just to clean my short-term memory. All-in-all, my experience was pretty good! Especially towards the end, but I could see how some people could have a bad experience and quit mid-way. (and wow I just watched some gameplay from the original, the original has a way darker tone, and real people too! Really different vibe!) Hope it was a good read, thanks for the video + commentary!
Thank you for doing this series..... I played this game as a kid and loved it because it was so far ahead of its time..... I hope they remake Riven and will defiantly watch if you do a play through... Sub +1!!!
I've just played this in VR, previously I played it 30 years ago but I've forgotten all the answers. Its really cool in VR. Just standing in the worlds and watching the environment is very relaxing and cool. As for the puzzles, some of them made me angry. The clock tower puzzle drove me crazy until I cheated and found out there was a trick to it I hadn't realized. I did not think that was a fair puzzle. I also absolutely hated the train maze puzzle in VR.
One of the pieces of the marker page have not shown up for me. You have the page when he Atrus asks for it but I do not. I’m struggling to find what I need
When you turn all of the marker switches on, and then turn the one on the dock off, I think it opens up a little safe on the dock, and that’s where you find the white page. But first you have to get to the marker switch on the clock tower island to turn it on, which means you have to raise the bridge to that island. In order to do that, you have to follow the clues for the Mechanical Age.
It is more apparent than the videos before, but the animations seem pretty bad compared to the original. I do love everything else about the 2021 version. The worlds look breathtaking. Do you intend to play the other games in the Myst series as well? There's so few playthroughs of them on youtube.
I may, but likely after some time -- there's a list of games I'd like to get to first. As for the brothers: I think, really, the suggestion is that they're both guilty. The recording in Channelwood from Sirrus to Achenar tells him to "take just one page," which is a fairly straight-forward reference to trapping Atrus in D'ni.
No, Rime is not part of this release -- at least for now. I don't know if they plan to add it later, but they are patching at a regular rate, so never say never?
I actually didn't reset anything -- I had an earlier save (before we went to Mechanical Age) and just punched in the code to get to Atrus before we picked up the white page. The game doesn't make it mandatory to visit anything, so if you know the solutions to puzzles, you can beat the game without ever hearing from Sirrus, Achenar, or cracking any of the linking books. (The videos won't really make sense, but that's not an issue for us in this instance.)
I know they were trying to stick to the source material but I'm kinda sad they didn't include a nod to MYST IV with the two trapped endings. The books the brothers are trapped in aren't just red and blue voids, they're actually dead-end ages without a functioning MYST book for each brother to leave. Sirius is trapped on an age called Spire, and Achaar in Haven.
They also removed some of the finer details of a lot of the mechanisms. The tower rotation drive used to make an absolute racket when it engaged and the access elevator used to turn 90 degrees half-way up the shaft for no obvious reason. It also looked like they MASSIVELY reduced the scale of the tunnel explorer on selentic. It used to be possible to get absolutely lost in that thing to the point you'd ragequit the game.
There is a video out there (czcams.com/video/8wyk1vZmuTQ/video.html) where the folks from Cyan play this version of the game and talk about how some of the puzzles/mechanics had to updated. It's actually fascinating to hear them explain things, including the change to the elevator.
@@biglightbtI remember that! That tunnel maze was so difficult that it ceased to be fun anymore! Now it’s better, because at least you have clues as to which direction you should go.
There were four different possible endings, but only one of which was a good ending, proving that you had done everything correctly. I think the moral was that you were supposed to see that Atrus was trustworthy, while his sons were not, so therefore you wanted to give him what he asked for.
When I originally played this game I got pissed at the ending, all that time spent playing only to get an advertisement for a future game. Also if you clicked on him again he says to to you, “ you’re still here”?
One more video after this (to test the VR and maybe check out some Easter Eggs). In the meantime, for those of you who never played Myst before: what do you all think?
Also, fun fact about this edition: There are achievements for hitting certain story milestones in Myst (2021), including for each ending. According to Steam, only 8.8% of players have the achievement for the second Atrus ending. Not sure if this is different on GOG, but I at least found it amusing.
had a decent story to it and a nice environment some of what showed was expected so not to hidden as to be unguessable but still an enjoyable story. it is to bad there were no survivors on any of the worlds to add back story. like maybe vs either of the brothers further damning them or maybe fans of either one pushing for ones salvation. thank you for the adventure i look forward to many more.
I swear they should have kept the live action actors. It was among the best part of games from that age. Then came the 3D still image renders and the audio.
It doesn't look like it. I don't know if there's a plan to introduce it at a later date, but for now the game just covers the original Myst experience.
@@AfterworkGaming In defense of not having it, I can understand given how Rime was always an after-thought. But I felt it offered something the original experience didn't actually have: Some form of definitive ending. It also awkwardly connects to Riven. It's odd that it the age was even ported to the derived DS version of Myst but not here. I know Starry Expanse (RealRiven) is running on Unreal and will be VR capable and the entire project is finally now in direct collaboration with Cyan. Maybe we will get something to this version as that project inches closer to completion. Which from my estimates will be some-time in 2040. (I kid but I think those guys are hitting Black Mesa levels of fan project completion time.)
Never played myst before. I've heard and seen it before, but never played it as I never really like the "point and click" mechanics that games used to have. Somehow I missed that there would be a remake of it untill I saw that you started a playthrough of it. I loved their other game 'obduction'. Though hated the maze-puzzle part in obduction (don't get me wrong the puzzle itself wasn't bad, just really hated that there is a loading screen in that puzzle). But the puzzle game I would be most waiting for would be 'the talos principle 2', I had a lot of fun with the first game (especially the 'road to gehenna' dlc), but at least I know they are working on it ^^
I can see how the point-and-click nature can be a turn-off, even back in 1993. The ability to move around was introduced in a prior remaster, but I appreciate the graphical and sound polish they added this time around!
Well, the missing Ryme Age was a bit disappointing. One has to wonder why it was omitted. This version does have some good aspects, and more bad aspects than I would have expected. I can't see this being added to my Myst collection, it stops at the Kickstarter edition it would seem.
@@nancyhey1012 Quite a few actually, Masterpiece and RealMyst, and there have been a couple of each of those, and then there is most recent VR version.
@@DavidGreen_au I played the 1993 version when it first came out. I never had any experience with any of the other versions. Seeing this walkthrough of the 2021 version, I noticed two significant improvements over the 1993 version. One was the realistic animation of the bodies of water, and the other was the ability to carry more than one page 📄 at a time.
I remember finishing the game and being truly disappointed. I did all 3 scenarios with the last one (the Father's book) being a major disappointment. I played on the Sega Saturn.
I have to say I was getting very frustrated playing this game because like crosswords unless you have played similar games the missions are impossible to even get started. So you're guides gave me a shove then I went solo only coming back to them when I was well and truly stuck. The controls on the Xbox One are horrible to be honest and spoil the game a little. Its obvious this game was built originally for PC and so I switched to the PC version with game pass and bang much better. Thank you for your efforts much appreciated.
@@AfterworkGaming I loved it. I remember playing text games way back in the early 80's so this was certainly an upgrade on that. I left off playing games while bringing up my kids and then got a lot of pleasure from being a spectator but that was mostly COD and Halo with the ever present FIFA of course. So when I retired I nabbed my sons Xbox One as he bought an Xbox X and a bloody PS5. I tried playing first person shooters but I am terrible my kill ratio would make a blind man blush. I got a free gamepass and imagine my delight to find this game. However I was on the verge of defeat when I came on your video and now I am up for more. Thanks again from an old but happy gamer. PS I am trying to get an Xbox One X but there isn't any so have to wait, in the meantime as an IT engineer I build my own PC's and modify Laptops so I am set.
@@AfterworkGaming I should also say something else for you. When my kids were young their mother a very conservative person disapproved of them playing video games so much she restricted their time. I would regularly allow them to use my profile on the QT. They have just finished University and to their mothers surprise that gaming time has had a big payoff. My younger son is waiting for his induction date with the RAF to train as a drone pilot and much of his testing was on video games platforms. My eldest took music tech at university and has landed a job with a studio that produces music for the games industry. So all the illicit late night father enabled gaming was actually part of their education, I dodge a bullet there didn't I.
The CGI models are awful but eventually it will worth making them the technology from Unreal with Metahumans is getting incredibly good but right now they should use the FMV from the original
Wait so this edition doesn't include Rime? What a ripoff. I would have forgiven the uncanny valley-ification if we could see that part in high def/VR. Sigh. Still a great series.
"I hope you're into books" - such a terrible pun. I love it.
Actually the phrase “In the books” mean’s ‘finished, concluded, able to be regarded as a matter of record’.
"What do we have here? Perhaps the pages you worked so hard for?" That line always sent chills through me when I played this game back in the day, and it still does now. Fantastic playthrough!
Thanks; glad you enjoyed it!
My dad played the old school Myst. He had a spiral notebook he kept with notes in it from the game. When I was a kid I remember watching him play it and always being fascinated by how relaxing it looked (of course he never allowed me to see the messed up psychological side of it. Every now and then he would set me on his lap infront if the boxy computer and let me run around the Island of Myst and push buttons and such. Thank you for this elaborate guidance through this lets play. It was cool to solve the puzzles and reffed to these videos to ensure I wasn’t missing anything when I would get doubtful that I was doing things right. Such an amazing game.
Thank you for your wonderful walkthroughs. I am 69 and many, many years ago I bought Riven for my PC and never really got anywhere and actually gave it up. As that was probably about 25 years ago, there was no community for gamers help. Ive always yearned to play the game and when I recently found MYST for my iPad I bought it immediately. Now I’ve completed the game (with your generous help) I realise that there is a definite way of thinking for these games and Holy of Holies, Riven is now available for my iPad so I can finally play it again and hopefully this time I’ll get somewhere! Thanks again. 😊😊😊
When I saw Atrus' CGI face in episode 1, I thought it looked familiar. Now it finally hit me. Apparently, in one of his worlds, he became a deranged German doctor in a band of mercenaries
I'm kinda disappointed they didn't include the Ryme age in this version. It ties in more lore for the sequels.
and makes the ending have an actual payoff rather than "go explore the ages you've already spent hours in anyway"
Really enjoyed your walk through of this great game. Thank you. Like you, I sense , I feel Myst and its later games are iconic. For me, they evoke emotions akin to the great science fiction stories, weaving a recreational thread through life to which I constantly return.
Thank you for this wonderful play through! I loved this game back then and I still love it today!
Thanks for the great walkthroughs. Nice job 👍🏼
Thanks for the videos, enjoyed them very much!
Thanks for the playthrough, hope you don't worry too much in the future about cutting out content you think we may find boring. The 'boring' stuff adds flavor!
Your videos are awesome - nicely done!
Amazing playthrough! I really enjoyed. I hope they remake the other ones as well!
Thanks! I agree -- and I think there's a team working on a Riven remake already.
Thanks a bunch, loved it!🐻🍁
Well done. Takes me back. I played the original and finished, but this brought it all back
Thanks for the run through memory lane
Great playthrough! I would love to see you play the other MYST games.
Thank you for your company and assistance...see you in Riven ☺️
Just binged this whole playthrough, wonderfully done. I never played the game myself but, my father did way back in the day. I went looking to see if there was any news about a Riven remake and, I was very pleasantly surprised to see that Cyan announced back in October of 2022 that they were planning on remaking that title as well.
Myst primed a whole generation for escape rooms
I loved this game when it first came out, and I finished it much faster this time around. Thank you for the help where I got stuck.
Thanks for a great run-through of a terrific game! Are you planning to do Riven?
This was really relaxing to watch I might pick this up and try it out in vr.
Thanks! And if you do, let us know how your experience was!
Awesome! I played Myst back when it first came out but couldn’t really do anything with it after a lot of hours of trying. I saw that it was available for my M1 mini so I bought it. It runs flawlessly which mde thing sgo much better but in eac Age I had at least one critical roadblock. After I tried very hard, I watched your videos and it made everything so enjoyable. Your commentary is great; pefect temp and sound! I did finish the ending myself. Great job! When Riven is ready for the M1, I am ready to buy it. I mght even help me to decide to upgrade to the M1X. Thanks!
Thanks for the kind words; absolutely, waiting for Riven!
Thank you for this!
Riven next!! Whoo!
You are welcome; once Riven is remastered, I will absolutely play through it!
Great as always-have you considered doing an Aporia playthrough?
In the version I played, when I returned to Myst after helping Atrus, there was another book on the floor of the library with a 4 number code which when input into the panel in the hidden room under the walkway to the rocket, caused the panel to rise. On returning to the library, I found the center of the floor had risen up revealing another book. Just wondering if you have played this version.
It leaves the question of who placed the pages around. The father says his sons tricked him and trapped him in D'ni and both brothers say that the other brother trapped him, so even if you assume the red and blue books were set in advance from the father being trapped and the brothers fell for it, how did the pages get scattered?
Probably because the father rewrote the various ages to scatter them around. You can literally rewrite ages, just not used all that often because it tends to get... messy... if you do so with people in them.
I think the pages were removed before the books were ever used. Atrus probably took them and scattered them about before his sons trapped him in the green book and fell into their own book traps. He probably did this to prevent someone from simply walking up and using the books to free whoever was trapped in them.
It was a nice playthrough. Are you going to play the other Myst games up to Myst5 and Uru?
Maybe eventually -- but not right after Myst. Next on tap is going to be House of Da Vinci (1 & 2), and then we'll see where it goes.
Thank you
You're welcome!
Watching this inspired me to walk your obduction playthrough. By the way, you missed an entire area on Hunrath with the minecar. More lore and stuff, if you're ever feeling nostalgic lol.
There is, I know (and I'm embarrassed for having missed it) 😜
The water in this version is much better than in the original Myst, it’s much more realistic!
Great playthrough. Hopefully they do a Riven remake as well. I guess it'll depend on how well this one does. Still cant believe that Atrius just sits there writing at the end.
Yeah, but I guess it's true to his character within the game (and his ominous mention of fighting someone else). Plus, it's not like there's much of anything left for him on Myst itself; most of the books are gone, and the remaining ones have been plundered by his sons.
What I've never picked up on in Myst is that it was already specified there that only one of the sons was guilty (if correct).
@@zlorfik2428 both sirrus and achenar are responsible for the destruction of the ages, it’s not just solely one of them responsible :)
More of these plz
That was an amazing play thought - thanks! It sounds like this was not your first play though - do you have a favourite version after playing this?
Not my first playthrough, no. Honestly, the original 1993 version -- there's something about the original that is still very compelling.
I bought the original and sort of remember all the notes i took and the hours and days i spent playing it. It was an epic game. This was a nice walkthru. I like the free roaming instead of the click/move of the original. I think I still have the original around here somewhere..............in a book.
@28:20 Sure! I just beat it, and I'll tell you what I thought. It was my first time playing through and it took me quite a while! I didn't even know this was a remake of an older game, I'd just heard of Myst through Google recommendations while searching for escape room games.
I came to watch your video because I'd already saved after getting the switch vault page. (I wanted to see what happens if you don't bring the page into D'ni.) I laughed so hard at Atrus' reaction to the player not bringing the page.
This might be a long read but, here's my experience with the game:
Initially I avoided this game because I'd read complaints from other people about some of the puzzles' difficulty and logic. I played The Witness and didn't enjoy it. A gameplay trailer I watched looked like the player would just roam around on an island (aimlessly), so I had my apprehensions... but eventually I was bored enough and thought, why not?
As you said in this video, I would not have known what to do if I hadn't already played a lot of escape room games before! Thankfully I have, but it still took stumbling around for a good 20-30 minutes, tinkering and looking around, before I managed to get into my first book!
I wasn't really paying attention to the story at this time because I was still thinking of quitting, like I did for The Witness, but into the forest book I went.
I managed to beat the forest book pretty quickly... but I missed the lever on the upper floor that unlocks the spiral stairs. This caused me to miss the red and blue page that would cause me pain later on. This game has no way of telling you where your lost red/blue pages are (that I could find), and combing through each of the books' levels gets kind of annoying. It only tells you in save files (if you notice) how many blue/red pages you've acquired, from there it's up to the player to deduce it's 1 blue/red page per book, and good luck if you forgot which books you acquired red/blue pages from.
Anyways, fast forward and I'm still kind of on the fence about whether or not I want to finish this game. All my other games recently have been really terrible, and this was the least terrible one, so I just kept on going.
I found a lot of the puzzle solutions to be more "exploratory" rather than logically difficult. Like, "What if I tried this? Or what happens if I did this? This isn't working, instead of trying to screw with it I should look for another way!" Often that would bring me to the solution. This isn't a bad thing per say, but just something I noticed.
My favorite puzzles were in the Stone Ship Age book. I enjoyed every single puzzle there! I thought the coolest one was telescope flashing light house thingy, then pressing the button that matched the degree on the telescope.
The majority of the games' other puzzles however, I found to be ok-to-annoying. In particular: the underground train maze, that was a nightmare. You turn soooooooooo slowly. I was trying to beat this game without using guides or spoilers, but I wasn't about to go through 1-2 hours of mapping out that maze on paint/paper, hell no. So I used a guide for that.
The story really opened up for me when I started listening to the voice actors from the books, after getting my first blue/red pages. Listening and trying to guess the strings of words they were saying, the facial expressions... And slowly understanding the dilemma I was in... It really drew me in! That's when the game became much more enjoyable for me, and I really had to finish it.
Before this point I was skipping most of the reading + books, so I got stuck in the ship trying to enter the Selenitic Age crystal book. (I didn't realize you could turn the page in a book for the longest time lol) I also had to use a guide again to figure out where I was missing my 2nd last pages once I had finished the 4 books.
I liked the blue guys' voice acting the most, he convinced me! I was really hoping he was the good guy. I was going to pick him too, but when I listened to both the pre-final page stories and how the two stories didn't add up factually about their fathers' demise, along with the existence of a new green book? Not to mention neither of them told me about the secret page in the vault! I began to distrust both of them, and I just had to know what was in that green book.
When I opened it, I gasped! A face I'd never seen before, "Was this the father?" he looks so much younger than I thought he would, considering the age of the sons. He spoke with such calmness and repose, (I was freaking out; thinking I could potentially be trapped forever and that I had just made a huge terrible mistake).
He was so cool though. He's the legend, I've been reading about his adventures this entire game!
Anyways, I was really happy I got the best ending my first time!
The bad endings you get from saving the blue or red guy were pretty brutal, I re-watched the ending where Atrus burns their books after just to clean my short-term memory.
All-in-all, my experience was pretty good! Especially towards the end, but I could see how some people could have a bad experience and quit mid-way. (and wow I just watched some gameplay from the original, the original has a way darker tone, and real people too! Really different vibe!)
Hope it was a good read, thanks for the video + commentary!
Thank you for doing this series..... I played this game as a kid and loved it because it was so far ahead of its time..... I hope they remake Riven and will defiantly watch if you do a play through... Sub +1!!!
If they remake Riven I will be first in line to play, and I hope you all join me for the ride!
Can you play riven next. Your the only CZcamsr that isn't rusty and I quite enjoy your play through
Maybe not right away, but I know they're working on a Riven remake -- and if that comes out, you bet I'm going to play it!
I've just played this in VR, previously I played it 30 years ago but I've forgotten all the answers. Its really cool in VR. Just standing in the worlds and watching the environment is very relaxing and cool. As for the puzzles, some of them made me angry. The clock tower puzzle drove me crazy until I cheated and found out there was a trick to it I hadn't realized. I did not think that was a fair puzzle. I also absolutely hated the train maze puzzle in VR.
What about the crystal tuner world? Or was that only in realmyst?
So I've played all released versions of this game but not played this new version of Myst yet and I'm curious, what happend to the Rime age?
It doesn't look like RIme made it into this version -- it's just the core 1993 Myst experience ported into Unreal Engine.
@@AfterworkGamingHow many different versions of Myst are there?
One of the pieces of the marker page have not shown up for me. You have the page when he Atrus asks for it but I do not. I’m struggling to find what I need
When you turn all of the marker switches on, and then turn the one on the dock off, I think it opens up a little safe on the dock, and that’s where you find the white page. But first you have to get to the marker switch on the clock tower island to turn it on, which means you have to raise the bridge to that island. In order to do that, you have to follow the clues for the Mechanical Age.
I got this game thinking it was an island survival game. I was so confused when I first spawned on the island
Where can i find the white page? I'm confused
where is the missing page to give him? Or how to give it to him?
It is more apparent than the videos before, but the animations seem pretty bad compared to the original. I do love everything else about the 2021 version. The worlds look breathtaking.
Do you intend to play the other games in the Myst series as well? There's so few playthroughs of them on youtube.
I may, but likely after some time -- there's a list of games I'd like to get to first.
As for the brothers: I think, really, the suggestion is that they're both guilty. The recording in Channelwood from Sirrus to Achenar tells him to "take just one page," which is a fairly straight-forward reference to trapping Atrus in D'ni.
Where to find the white page?
Did they not include the 5th age that was added later?
No, Rime is not part of this release -- at least for now. I don't know if they plan to add it later, but they are patching at a regular rate, so never say never?
how did you happen to reset and play out the alt endings?
I actually didn't reset anything -- I had an earlier save (before we went to Mechanical Age) and just punched in the code to get to Atrus before we picked up the white page. The game doesn't make it mandatory to visit anything, so if you know the solutions to puzzles, you can beat the game without ever hearing from Sirrus, Achenar, or cracking any of the linking books. (The videos won't really make sense, but that's not an issue for us in this instance.)
@@AfterworkGaming thank you!! i hadn’t thought to save besides auto saving tbh. new to myst but love puzzle gaming. your videos were super helpful!
I know they were trying to stick to the source material but I'm kinda sad they didn't include a nod to MYST IV with the two trapped endings. The books the brothers are trapped in aren't just red and blue voids, they're actually dead-end ages without a functioning MYST book for each brother to leave. Sirius is trapped on an age called Spire, and Achaar in Haven.
They also removed some of the finer details of a lot of the mechanisms. The tower rotation drive used to make an absolute racket when it engaged and the access elevator used to turn 90 degrees half-way up the shaft for no obvious reason. It also looked like they MASSIVELY reduced the scale of the tunnel explorer on selentic. It used to be possible to get absolutely lost in that thing to the point you'd ragequit the game.
There is a video out there (czcams.com/video/8wyk1vZmuTQ/video.html) where the folks from Cyan play this version of the game and talk about how some of the puzzles/mechanics had to updated. It's actually fascinating to hear them explain things, including the change to the elevator.
@@biglightbtI remember that! That tunnel maze was so difficult that it ceased to be fun anymore! Now it’s better, because at least you have clues as to which direction you should go.
You didn’t do a Riven Walkthrough??
something tells me he is writing the Book for the next adventure (Riven)
What about the extra age?
Where is the white page?
That satisfying but still chilling moment you return to the library and see what “It is done” meant…
Thank you for this play through - heaps of fun.
What if... each of the endings set on a new adventure? and ultimately an adventure back out of Myst itself? so many possible worlds...
There were four different possible endings, but only one of which was a good ending, proving that you had done everything correctly. I think the moral was that you were supposed to see that Atrus was trustworthy, while his sons were not, so therefore you wanted to give him what he asked for.
No Rhime Age?
When I originally played this game I got pissed at the ending, all that time spent playing only to get an advertisement for a future game. Also if you clicked on him again he says to to you, “ you’re still here”?
One more video after this (to test the VR and maybe check out some Easter Eggs). In the meantime, for those of you who never played Myst before: what do you all think?
Also, fun fact about this edition: There are achievements for hitting certain story milestones in Myst (2021), including for each ending. According to Steam, only 8.8% of players have the achievement for the second Atrus ending. Not sure if this is different on GOG, but I at least found it amusing.
i don't know if it applies across the board, from from my limited experience GOG games don't include Steam-type achievements.
had a decent story to it and a nice environment some of what showed was expected so not to hidden as to be unguessable but still an enjoyable story. it is to bad there were no survivors on any of the worlds to add back story. like maybe vs either of the brothers further damning them or maybe fans of either one pushing for ones salvation. thank you for the adventure i look forward to many more.
I swear they should have kept the live action actors. It was among the best part of games from that age. Then came the 3D still image renders and the audio.
Is Rime age available?
It doesn't look like it. I don't know if there's a plan to introduce it at a later date, but for now the game just covers the original Myst experience.
@@AfterworkGaming In defense of not having it, I can understand given how Rime was always an after-thought. But I felt it offered something the original experience didn't actually have: Some form of definitive ending. It also awkwardly connects to Riven.
It's odd that it the age was even ported to the derived DS version of Myst but not here.
I know Starry Expanse (RealRiven) is running on Unreal and will be VR capable and the entire project is finally now in direct collaboration with Cyan. Maybe we will get something to this version as that project inches closer to completion.
Which from my estimates will be some-time in 2040. (I kid but I think those guys are hitting Black Mesa levels of fan project completion time.)
Never played myst before. I've heard and seen it before, but never played it as I never really like the "point and click" mechanics that games used to have. Somehow I missed that there would be a remake of it untill I saw that you started a playthrough of it. I loved their other game 'obduction'. Though hated the maze-puzzle part in obduction (don't get me wrong the puzzle itself wasn't bad, just really hated that there is a loading screen in that puzzle).
But the puzzle game I would be most waiting for would be 'the talos principle 2', I had a lot of fun with the first game (especially the 'road to gehenna' dlc), but at least I know they are working on it ^^
I can see how the point-and-click nature can be a turn-off, even back in 1993. The ability to move around was introduced in a prior remaster, but I appreciate the graphical and sound polish they added this time around!
I can barely hear Artus
Well sir....now I have to go get the other myst games now
Ha! That does then to happen!
Well, the missing Ryme Age was a bit disappointing. One has to wonder why it was omitted.
This version does have some good aspects, and more bad aspects than I would have expected.
I can't see this being added to my Myst collection, it stops at the Kickstarter edition it would seem.
Where was the Ryme Age? It wasn’t in the first Myst that came out in 1993. Were there other versions of Myst?
@@nancyhey1012 Quite a few actually, Masterpiece and RealMyst, and there have been a couple of each of those, and then there is most recent VR version.
@@DavidGreen_au Wow! That’s quite a lot! It shows how popular the game is!
@@DavidGreen_au I played the 1993 version when it first came out. I never had any experience with any of the other versions. Seeing this walkthrough of the 2021 version, I noticed two significant improvements over the 1993 version. One was the realistic animation of the bodies of water, and the other was the ability to carry more than one page 📄 at a time.
I remember finishing the game and being truly disappointed. I did all 3 scenarios with the last one (the Father's book) being a major disappointment. I played on the Sega Saturn.
I have to say I was getting very frustrated playing this game because like crosswords unless you have played similar games the missions are impossible to even get started. So you're guides gave me a shove then I went solo only coming back to them when I was well and truly stuck. The controls on the Xbox One are horrible to be honest and spoil the game a little. Its obvious this game was built originally for PC and so I switched to the PC version with game pass and bang much better. Thank you for your efforts much appreciated.
Awesome; glad to hear it! What did you think of the game overall, then?
@@AfterworkGaming I loved it. I remember playing text games way back in the early 80's so this was certainly an upgrade on that. I left off playing games while bringing up my kids and then got a lot of pleasure from being a spectator but that was mostly COD and Halo with the ever present FIFA of course. So when I retired I nabbed my sons Xbox One as he bought an Xbox X and a bloody PS5. I tried playing first person shooters but I am terrible my kill ratio would make a blind man blush. I got a free gamepass and imagine my delight to find this game. However I was on the verge of defeat when I came on your video and now I am up for more. Thanks again from an old but happy gamer. PS I am trying to get an Xbox One X but there isn't any so have to wait, in the meantime as an IT engineer I build my own PC's and modify Laptops so I am set.
@@AfterworkGaming I should also say something else for you. When my kids were young their mother a very conservative person disapproved of them playing video games so much she restricted their time. I would regularly allow them to use my profile on the QT. They have just finished University and to their mothers surprise that gaming time has had a big payoff. My younger son is waiting for his induction date with the RAF to train as a drone pilot and much of his testing was on video games platforms. My eldest took music tech at university and has landed a job with a studio that produces music for the games industry. So all the illicit late night father enabled gaming was actually part of their education, I dodge a bullet there didn't I.
The CGI models are awful but eventually it will worth making them the technology from Unreal with Metahumans is getting incredibly good but right now they should use the FMV from the original
I think in the latest patch they put in the option of using the original FMVs -- I will check when doing the VR test.
Wait so this edition doesn't include Rime? What a ripoff. I would have forgiven the uncanny valley-ification if we could see that part in high def/VR. Sigh. Still a great series.
Right, it doesn't look like Rime made it into this version -- so it's just the core Myst experience.
Rime is a much later addition to Myst
Wait a minute what about rime?! Rime doesn't exist in this game!?