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Small screen can't contain the wonder of an Age!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love Myst. I have every version (original, Real Time, etc) and every sequel (Riven, Exile, etc), so of course I had to have the DS version as well. What a let down! Half the fun of the Myst series is the beautiful and fascinating detail of the Ages, which you can barely see on the DS screen. The other half of the fun in Myst is finding out all the little tasks you have to do in order to complete your work in each Age, and quite frankly, if I didn't already know what to do in each Age, the itty bitty screen pictures wouldn't have helped me. Reading the journals (another important thing in any Myst game) is annoying, with all the scrolling in every direction, and little touches like the opening animation in each Linking Book are gone. I can't recommend the DS version of Myst, but I highly recommend getting the PC version and playing it on the biggest monitor you can find (with the room lights out, too... you really feel like you're there!).

Dragging back a classic to put it in a humiliating dress and milk it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: June 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Myst was a tremendous game at the time with some nearly equally amazing sequels, but why are they dragging this back from retirement to parade it around again on a platform that's not really suited for it?

One of the things that made Myst so incredible was its atmospheric imagery. You're not going to get this on a DS, even with two screens. I haven't yet played this version, but other reviews have mentioned there's a "zoom in" feature to give a greater view of detail (which apparently doesn't really work that well), and that alone should tell you something.

What's more is that they expect you to pay nearly thirty bucks for it -- for a game that's over a decade old, crowbarred into a new container. Are you kidding? Used copies can be found for pennies.

Do yourself a favor and use the search at the top of this page to look for the Windows version, which is as of this writing listed at prices starting under half a dollar. I'm sure everyone here has a computer of some sort, and even if they have a Mac or run a newer Windows OS like Vista that may not run older apps, they could cheaply and easily set up a virtual machine with Win2k or 98 on it. It might not be portable that way, but this game wasn't really ever designed to be.

Myst.....well, Missed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: June 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I eagerly awaited for that golden brown UPS package to show up on my porch after school. As the bus dropped me off I ran home, ripped open wrapping, and pushed that bay in my NDS. After an hour of trying to convince myself that it would get better; it didnt. I tried again the next day, no luck.

The puzzles are impossible!
It's repetitive and boring.
It makes you go back and forth to "try" different switches to see what will work. But if you, let's say, pull a lever, nothing will happen that will tell you it's right.

I have not played it since.
In short:
DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Outstanding game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Myst always was and always will be an outstanding game, even in this small format. A great computer game, then a console game and now a DS version.

Great fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

You won't be disappointed with this game. It is short, like the original computer game, but still fun and challenging.

Absolutely not worth the $$

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was extremely excited to get this game having missed out on the Myst wave from years past. After about 2 minutes playing it I realized what an awful game this was. The navigation is jerky and clumsy. I could see my level of frustration building as I tried to examine this or that. I didn't spend too much time before I gave up and sold this to my local game store but to lose $[...] so quickly wasn't fun. I don't think this title is even worth $[...].

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