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For diehard Myst fans only

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's not worth it to say much about this game. It's certainly not right for anyone who hasn't played all the previous Myst games.

The puzzles are fair, ranging from insultingly easy to pull-your-hair-out frustrating. The problem is that all the puzzles in the game have pretty much the same objective. The Ages all follow the same formula, so there is little plot development.

As in Myst: Uru, it lacks the live action characters that made the previous Mysts so realistic and immersive, though the CG characters do look impressive.

Not much else to say except that Myst fans will appreciate this game for the closure it provides (if for nothing else). So it's definitely worth it for those diehard Myst fans out there who don't believe that "perhaps the ending has not yet been written." It has been written, and here it is.

One final note: It is definitely worth it to play Myst: Uru Complete Chronicles before Myst V. Myst V picks up just where Uru: The Path of the Shell left off, and if you haven't played it, then it is impossible to fully understand the plot.

Myst V is terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 22
Date: September 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A fraud, if you will. Loved all the previous Myst games. This was made by a different group with much lesser standards, talent and budget. The last hurrah cash in. Sad for all those looking forward to it. Sad for the people who made the previous versions

What Happened?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been a fan of Myst games since the original came out years, and years ago. I can honestly say that I was incredibly disappointed in the quality of the last installment of my beloved game. The graphics were quite poor, and the level of difficulty was pathetic. the word "Easy" doesn't quite paint an accurate picture.

This installment was trying to emulate Uru, but Uru was head and shoulders above Myst V. Uru had twice as much detail, and is notoriously more difficult. It's a shame that Myst V had to follow Myst IV, because Myst IV was the most beautiful game ever. If you haven't played Myst IV, please put that on your to-do list.

Yet, this game is a must for Myst fans, and it is necessary to suffer through it. I know the Myst project has ended, but I can only hope that Ubisoft or cyan will resurrect Myst or Uru and redeem itself. We all know that this could have been a spectacular ending, and we were all pretty disappointed.

Slow start but moved into Myst tradition

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have loved the Myst games, mostly due to the artistic quality, imagination and storyline, and secondly the puzzles, and thirdly that I am not fighting foes nor trying not to get killed. This last in the Myst series is a fitting end to quite a run.

Myst V: End of Ages started slow for me. I thought the color of the shaft (I won't say any more) was lifeless and dreary, although it was fitting for the setting and the story. Bright colors would not have been appropriate. However, as with any Myst game, the explorer has the freedom to explore in many directions by choice, and I chose to fully explore the shaft before going anywhere else. So it seemed a slow start and I felt like it was a little boring. But that's the direction that what made sense to me at the time. The game can certainly be played differently. Once I began exploring the Ages, the mood and artistic ambience was evident. Puzzles weren't as challenging as in Myst IV, but I didn't miss that at all. The story was intriguing, and the actors and journal entries from others made me wonder what my decision would be at the end. Movement was delightfully quick rather than plodding, as I flew around corners and down stairways, if I wished. There are different ways you are allowed to move in Myst V, depending on your preferences. There's also an intriguing way to interact with certain beings that is totally new to Myst, and introduces a new angle on communication that you have to figure out. Yet it relates to the linking books concept as well. I also found myself making considerable more journal entries during this game, and I'm not sure why.

Myst V is a fitting ending to a great Myst tradition. I also enjoyed the alternative endings....

Buy it if you must finish the series, but don't expect too much

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've very much enjoyed playing all the other Myst games, and by the end felt somewhat triumphant for having figured everything out. They all had pretty good story lines and the puzzles were challenging. I was excited to get End of Ages to once again figure out challenges, tax my brain, etc. In the end, I was rather disappointed. The puzzles really weren't as hard they were in some of the other games. I was able to move rather quickly through it (with just a couple of snags) and then came upon a rather quick and anticlimactic ending. I also preferred the real actors to the animated people that replaced them.

BOTTOM LINE: I still would've purchased this game and played it just so I could finish out the series. If you are a Myst fan, but don't feel so compelled to finish it like I did, don't bother with this one. I can't recommend a mediocre game.

Disappointed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Bought this game for my husband for Xmas last year and he was finished by bed time. No kidding and that is taking out time for dinner with family etc.. to say I am disappointed is really an understatement. The actual game was all right. The puzzles werent as difficlult as I thought they could have been.

Very Dissapointed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Knowing this would be the last chapter to the Myst series, I was hoping it's creators would come through with the most beautiful and immersive worlds yet.
The graphis were extremely underdeveloped. The worlds were not as immersive because the worlds did not look real for the most part, trees looked like playdough rolled in ash, and the graphics had the choppy egdes which come with underdeveloped animation.
I was also dissapointed that we do not get to see Atrus throughout the entire game and Yeesha was, i'm sorry, a jerk. From being about ten or eleven in Revelations to now being in her mid fourties was not a pleasent switch.
Also they took out the actors and replaced them with 3D characters, although I was impressed with the facials of the characters, (but I myself have been quite used to playing games that were voiced over in english from the japanese version). The actors in the past games were a feature I loved about the games and set them apart from regular computer games.

Ubisoft Myst the Mark on this one

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A BAD, SAD end to a great series! Myst V is the absoulte worst of the bunch. The game seems as if it was built in a rush by third stringers using leftovers from URU and Myst 1. The puzzles are lame and the graphics poor with detail, clickable or otherwise, minimal and no interactive video. Worst of all seems to be the poor quality control: I have run all the Myst Games as well as URU on the same machine and only with Myst V did I have so many technical problems, including a Crashed Hard drive.

The only good Part was David Ogden Stiers as the voice of Esher and, of course, Atreus.

Good, but not great.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I liked the game, as I love all the Myst games. The graphics were great for 3-D, although I much preferred the pre-rendered graphics (especially from Revelation). Personally, I found the gameplay much easier than the previous Myst games. And the ages were much shorter. I finished this game in one week. It took me 3 months to finish Revelation. So all in all, it was a good game, but it's my least favorite of the series.

Play URU first.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Myst I, Riven: The Sequel to Myst, Myst III: Exile, Myst IV Revelation... Myst V, right?
Wrong.
I'm a long time Myst fan catching up with the end of the series. I played through Myst IV in anticipation of getting to V. IV is easily my favorite, but I was shocked to go on to V (with out playing Uru, Ages Beyond Myst) and find that there are huge gaps in the story of Atrus without playing Uru.
I've read all the books and was looking forward to an end to the series with Uru (Ages BEYOND?!? Myst) as something to do afterwards. Instead things have jumped far ahead, and while I had a vague idea of what was going on from the 3rd Myst novel, I really wished I had played Uru first...

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