This one of Myst's series most epic moments. You are solving this massive puzzle without realizing that in the end, you will be INSIDE the ball when it will be rolling along the coaster !!!! Just epic !
Despite the deterioration of Saavedro's sanity, he is obviously an intelligent and creative man, and would probably have been a great teacher before he went mad. (Probably why Atrus trusted him to teach his sons. I wish he could have been there for his daughters...)
My game glitched out when I solved the final and puzzle and immediately started playing the scribble cut scene, skipping the entire roller coaster ride. Thanks for uploading this.
7:30 Saavedro thinks his wife, daughter, and his people are lost to him forever. He's been alone for years, and it's made him nearly insane. In this moment, it is like he is talking to God, more than to Atrus: What are the limits of your power? Can you rewrite this book? Can you make this world new again? Can you give back to me the people I love? For my money, this is the most powerful performance in all the Myst games.
And one of the messages in the ages also has him talking about how he couldn't remember Tamra's facial features perfectly and then said almost teary-eyed: "I'm not you Atrus." Chills.
Thanks for these videos. Most entertaining! Exile is quite a story. I've been enjoying your commentary and how you are filling in a lot of the backstory for this series. Thanks again. Cheers!
I can imagine someone playing a practical joke on that ride and having the sphere break on the balance puzzle causing the stranger to get a major butt rash.
Completely agree about this Age. This game is probably my personal favorite Myst game and this Age is probably my favorite for a few reasons. The music is great, the atmosphere is visually stunning with the sunset vs. storm clouds, and of course, the ride at the end is great. I love it!
It would be really interesting if you could go back and visit J'nanin and the other ages of Exile with Yeesha's pendant from Revelation. Actually seeing Saavedro sabotaging all of the puzzles would be fascinating
Now, Sirrus and Achenar are total dillweeds so I'm not going to play devil's advocate for them, but, if Atrus DID send them through rube goldberg traps like this (what if the ball shattered with them in it? What if the track was set wrong? What if the ball skipped the track? What if their weight inside the ball threw it off? What if the freezing process malfunctioned?) and through nonsense like expecting a bird to carry them around in a cage (or Squees to keep the barnacles expanded rather than losing interest and running off in the middle of them crossing the bridge), then maybe that's part of what drove them over the edge as youths??? This would seem to suggest Atrus, while much kinder and more well-intentioned, was nevertheless kind of a madman of a father. But can this ride's exhilaration compare to that of riding the tall tree as it ka-chunks slowly upward on Myst Island?!?!
Sirrus and Achenar are actually fairly typical D'ni (Uru and Myst V delved into their civilization in much greater detail; and they are not exactly nice people). It is Yeesha who is unusually kind and compassionate. And, despite his lousy parenting, Atrus at least tried to set his kids on the right path. Most D'ni parents couldn't care less if their kids plundered ages or enslaved sentient beings for fun and profit.
Is it possible to re-link to ages after completing them to repeat the ride? It doesn't seem like it could be, especially in Voltaic, unless the hot air balloon somehow resets itself (which it must be able to do somehow since we clearly were not the first to use it). But what happens if one re-links to Amateria and enters the central structure (or is that not possible, since it seems the colored start buttons came with us to the bottom)? Or to Edanna and re-traverses the whole age?
This is a very late post, but I wonder if the dates that Atrus wrote correspond to the Gregorian calendar (93.10.25 might be October 25, 1993 for example) or am I overthinking the date system?
i remember i saved all the solutions to the ages and told my friends it was an amusement park :P Also concerning safety there was nothing to hold on to, I wouldnt expect to just sit still while this happened...
Source please? All evidence I've found seems to indicate that the two took the course together. It wouldn't make sense if it was a race. Atrus wrote these ages for his sons to learn, not to see which brother was better at solving their father's puzzles.
No idea why you got downvoted for pointing that you. It's clearly true. Unfortunately, this whole game feels like a highly-contrived set of puzzles for the player to fiddle with for basically no reason and no gain (I'm mostly here for the lore; the D'ni and the Art are interesting to me) so riding that roller coaster has been the high point for me so far.
So two things bother me about Amateria... amongst many others - 1) that the whole age is about the providing scenery porn for the ending ride. Seriously, the whole age is just setting up the ending ride. 2) How does Amateria teach the fundamental principle - im pretty sure it's Dynamic Forces Spur Change - all it is is a rollercoaster? How does that teach S&A outside of teaching them how physics work?
This one of Myst's series most epic moments. You are solving this massive puzzle without realizing that in the end, you will be INSIDE the ball when it will be rolling along the coaster !!!! Just epic !
Despite the deterioration of Saavedro's sanity, he is obviously an intelligent and creative man, and would probably have been a great teacher before he went mad. (Probably why Atrus trusted him to teach his sons. I wish he could have been there for his daughters...)
ironically savvedro's family is still alive. the people of naryan saved the tree among other things during the years he was gone
@@blaster1421No, the old lattice trees died, and we can see their remnants on Narayan. The Narayani had to weave new trees to live in.
My game glitched out when I solved the final and puzzle and immediately started playing the scribble cut scene, skipping the entire roller coaster ride. Thanks for uploading this.
Has anyone else noticed that Myst III can be summed up in one phrase?
"PULL THE LEVER, KRONK!!"
7:30 Saavedro thinks his wife, daughter, and his people are lost to him forever. He's been alone for years, and it's made him nearly insane. In this moment, it is like he is talking to God, more than to Atrus: What are the limits of your power? Can you rewrite this book? Can you make this world new again? Can you give back to me the people I love?
For my money, this is the most powerful performance in all the Myst games.
And one of the messages in the ages also has him talking about how he couldn't remember Tamra's facial features perfectly and then said almost teary-eyed:
"I'm not you Atrus."
Chills.
Thanks for these videos. Most entertaining! Exile is quite a story. I've been enjoying your commentary and how you are filling in a lot of the backstory for this series. Thanks again. Cheers!
12:23 that Linking Book to Narayan sure looks thick. Is it the Descriptive Book maybe?
Yup
I can imagine someone playing a practical joke on that ride and having the sphere break on the balance puzzle causing the stranger to get a major butt rash.
Completely agree about this Age. This game is probably my personal favorite Myst game and this Age is probably my favorite for a few reasons. The music is great, the atmosphere is visually stunning with the sunset vs. storm clouds, and of course, the ride at the end is great. I love it!
It would be really interesting if you could go back and visit J'nanin and the other ages of Exile with Yeesha's pendant from Revelation. Actually seeing Saavedro sabotaging all of the puzzles would be fascinating
This + Oculus Rift, I want.
OH MY GOODNESS YES. Have you played obduction yet? I plan on getting a rift s soon and playing it.
the cheering at the end of the ride is funny
someone actually went further on that in a music video of this ride set to Blur's Song 2, and overlaid "NAY" alongside that shape.
As in "Cyan" backwards.
There are Gyroscopes positioned beneath the chair, that's how the orbiter keeps stable too.
1:31 - an homage to Cyan Worlds from Ubisoft and Presto. Love your videos Sven!
O.O That's one of the coolest things ever! I had no idea, I want to ride it!
The way you said Oh My God made me laugh my ass off...
This was such a stunning game, though I still think Riven just beats it as the best.
When Saavedro said that he read Atrus's journal, I expected him to roll his eyes or sigh or something.
Now, Sirrus and Achenar are total dillweeds so I'm not going to play devil's advocate for them, but, if Atrus DID send them through rube goldberg traps like this (what if the ball shattered with them in it? What if the track was set wrong? What if the ball skipped the track? What if their weight inside the ball threw it off? What if the freezing process malfunctioned?) and through nonsense like expecting a bird to carry them around in a cage (or Squees to keep the barnacles expanded rather than losing interest and running off in the middle of them crossing the bridge), then maybe that's part of what drove them over the edge as youths??? This would seem to suggest Atrus, while much kinder and more well-intentioned, was nevertheless kind of a madman of a father.
But can this ride's exhilaration compare to that of riding the tall tree as it ka-chunks slowly upward on Myst Island?!?!
Sirrus and Achenar are actually fairly typical D'ni (Uru and Myst V delved into their civilization in much greater detail; and they are not exactly nice people). It is Yeesha who is unusually kind and compassionate. And, despite his lousy parenting, Atrus at least tried to set his kids on the right path. Most D'ni parents couldn't care less if their kids plundered ages or enslaved sentient beings for fun and profit.
The ride is awesome, but it's kind of weak compensation for the massive headache of the tedious puzzles that came before.
Found a error in the ride.... The stranger is in the sphere, now the sphere is much heavier.
And no error on the weight puzzle.
imagine this with oculus rift
yes
Is it possible to re-link to ages after completing them to repeat the ride? It doesn't seem like it could be, especially in Voltaic, unless the hot air balloon somehow resets itself (which it must be able to do somehow since we clearly were not the first to use it). But what happens if one re-links to Amateria and enters the central structure (or is that not possible, since it seems the colored start buttons came with us to the bottom)? Or to Edanna and re-traverses the whole age?
Why not just throw a plank in the water and paddle around til you find the symbol? Oh, right, cause puzzle solving is fun
And when you knock down the second weight, it looks as if the part that should be crystal actually looks like metal.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS
"Whether or not this is actually a hit for a puzzle, I don't know."
LIES! YOU DO KNOW. YOU LIAR.
This is a very late post, but I wonder if the dates that Atrus wrote correspond to the Gregorian calendar (93.10.25 might be October 25, 1993 for example) or am I overthinking the date system?
Not the ice sphere is weighted, but the smaller 7/8 wooden sphere.
Are you going to mention that the Amateria symbol was the end ride again; the ice ball with chair inside?
I always wondered how come we stay upright even though the ball is rolling along the track...
BB8
i remember i saved all the solutions to the ages and told my friends it was an amusement park :P
Also concerning safety there was nothing to hold on to, I wouldnt expect to just sit still while this happened...
Coaster time!!
Really? :(
Wow! I would to ride that rollercoaster! Sry if I wrote not correctly but i'm not good in english yet.
WilczycaCzarownica Someone has to win the lottery so this can happen!
+Alexander Comley Let's hope that some Myst fan becomes a billionaire.
Source please? All evidence I've found seems to indicate that the two took the course together. It wouldn't make sense if it was a race. Atrus wrote these ages for his sons to learn, not to see which brother was better at solving their father's puzzles.
pointing that out*
Such strange errors I make some times :(
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. :)
No idea why you got downvoted for pointing that you. It's clearly true. Unfortunately, this whole game feels like a highly-contrived set of puzzles for the player to fiddle with for basically no reason and no gain (I'm mostly here for the lore; the D'ni and the Art are interesting to me) so riding that roller coaster has been the high point for me so far.
So two things bother me about Amateria... amongst many others - 1) that the whole age is about the providing scenery porn for the ending ride. Seriously, the whole age is just setting up the ending ride. 2) How does Amateria teach the fundamental principle - im pretty sure it's Dynamic Forces Spur Change - all it is is a rollercoaster? How does that teach S&A outside of teaching them how physics work?