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Want to practice your drawing?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: November 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe after buying the Limited Edition which came with the Prima strategy guide I still can't get the slate drawings to work. You have to have them absolutely perfect or you'll spend hours redrawing them. This is the most frustrating game I've ever played. I finished all the other Myst games in a few days. And enjoyed them mostly. I've spent 3 days and numerous game guide sites trying to figure out how to draw a symbol in Todelmer good enough to move along. If it wasn't for the startegy guide I would have assumed I was on the wrong path. I was able to get the first few slate drawings to work only after multiple tries. Never did see the difference from one that worked and ones that didn't. Any one want to buy this before I throw it the trash? I wouldn't even take your money. It's that bad. Also emailed Help at Ubi and they were absolutely no help. But of course, what did I expect.

Heartbroken

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: March 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Amazon forces you to put stars on a review, but this game deserves less than zero. I know I'm not saying anything that the other reviews haven't said, but this game actually hurt.

I've played all of the Myst games except URU which won't run on a Mac. Then I had a kid; he's four, and he sits next to me and plays them too, so playing Myst has become an intergenerational meaningful experience...

...which Myst V completely destroyed. It is SO bad that I feel like Cyan has robbed me of the enjoyment of doing something fun with my kid. It is a betrayal of everything that the earlier games excelled at. I'm heartbroken, truly pained.

Wrecked my PC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 18
Date: March 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game froze my harddrive; I reformtted, only to have my PC ffreeze again when I tried the second time. I bought two Cyan games, and can't play. What a waste of money!

Utterly boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 18
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As a science-fiction and fantasy worlds lover, I tried a few of the myst games in the past. Though I never really enjoyed any of them, I did make some efforts, solved a few puzzles, trying to find some interest in the game, even wondering if I was in the least normal NOT to enjoy what others apparently found so exciting.

I remembered that landscapes and sceneries had always been visually pleasant despite a somewhat stifling quality (very small worlds), and I also recalled that the gameplay used to drive me mad sometimes : slowness, repetitivity, lack of "open space"...
But strangely enough, when a friend lent me a copy of Myst V, I was rather pleased and looking forward to it. I rushed to my place to install it...

Soooooo, I tried Myst V. Pheeew... Nothing has changed from what I see, but I had forgotten the worst...
Indeed, Myst V still abudantly displays the same utterly pretentious, irritating and theatrical tone, this useless and dreary psychobabble from unlovable characters, and is more than ever based on that atrocious, confused and self-inflated scenario. Right from the start, I got inflicted with the endless verbosity of booklets I found on the way, had to suffer the endless prattle of a "game companion" which kept appearing every 2 minutes...
Slowly getting half dead in front of my screen, I managed to get to the first puzzle... I pulled a few contraptions that were hanging around, and... in a fit of lucidity, trashed the whole thing with a feeling of intense relief. Aaaaaah !

The worst MYST game ever! Even worse than URU

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was such a let down. How sad that the MYST era ended like this. This is one of the worst games I have ever played. My advice don't spend the money to get this. It is that bad!

Myst V BLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 18
Date: November 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the LAMEST ending of all times!! Totally anticlimactic, completely lame...DON'T BUY THIS PILE OF MUNG!!

Worst Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of Myst, having played and loved all of the games in the series. However, this chapter of the Myst series sucks! There is no logic to the puzzles and you have to rely on drawing on a stone tablet in the game to do anything. Plus, Escher is the most annoying character in the world. Every time you think you are getting somewhere in the game, he pops up and talks about pretty much nothing, except to give away what the next puzzle is. He completely breaks up the flow of the game. The whole concept of having to draw on the stone slate so that the animals help you is idiotic. Half the time, the computer thought I was drawing a different symbol than the one I was trying to draw and it allowed me access to parts of the game I shouldn't have been in at that time. Since I was not actually using logic to complete any of the puzzles, I didn't feel like I was accomplishing anything. Also, I kept reading that the ending was supposed to be spectacular, but it was a huge let down and the same ending basically used before in the series. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!

Amazon can't get this right

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: December 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I ordered this item - twice - for Windows. Twice Amazon shipped me the MAC version, and refuses to believe that I didn't order the wrong thing. The picture and the description said Windows version when I ordered it. They can't get it right, so I can't say how good the game is or not. Just a warning, if you want to purchase this game and think you're getting what the picture shows.

Mac

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: May 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am sorry the final chapter is not on Mac platform as well. I have enjoyed the series to be left out in the end.

Awful just awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been an avid follower of the Myst series since being blown away by Riven at the time of its release. Exploring the complex realistic worlds with their beautiful graphics and textures was one of the major things that put these games in a league of their own. When URU was released I was shocked to find that the makers had decided to abandon this aspect of the game replacing it with the same old boring cartoon looking graphical style that is found in so many games these days. Despite this I persevered and was relieved to find Myst 4 returning close to the original graphical style. Having just purchased Myst 5 I am completely shocked and bemused but mostly very disapointed that Cyan have decided to apply the same awful graphical style of URU to the final game in the series. Nothing about this game has the flair and beautiful graphical style of its predecessors. The makers have completely missed the point. They simply do not appear to have any idea what was special about these games. Myst V is simply awful and a great disapointment at the end of what was a classic and landmark series of computer games.

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