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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 $[...].

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.

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!!!!!!!!!!!

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!).

Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of the PS version of this game and was very excited to see they were making it available for the DS. I read the reviews on here and thought it couldn't possibly be as disappointing as the reviews showed. Well, don't kid yourself. The reviews are right. The graphics are pretty bad, the screen is too small making you nearly squint to see the finer details and there are some glitches. It's not worth it. Not even buying a used one is worth it. Sad.

DS Myst is a miss!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

When I first heard that Myst was coming out for DS, I was ecstatic. Quicktime is the worst media software I have ever experienced, and Myst is still getting buggier by the minute as new OS's come out for the PC (thanks Apple, once again). I pre-ordered the game and all that was left was to wait.

Since I had played the game before, I pretty much knew the general feel and most of the solutions to the puzzles. The only puzzle I really had trouble with / forgot how to solve was the one on the Stoneship Age with the hidden compass (no spoilers here).

I was delightfully surprised to find that there was actual speech in the game, something I had never experienced on a Nintendo hand held before. The graphics, too, were not so bad at all. Overall, the gameplay, besides the size of everything, was very satisfying.

Unfortunately, this is a game that is played once and then sits on the shelf gathering dust for the most part. Other games, though not as classic, can probably be re-played over and over and not lose their intrigue for a while. All in all, nice try but this was just merely okay for me.

As painful as ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game when it came out on the PC, but then, after playing games like EverQuest II and even Dungeon Siege, I began to realize how poor the controls on Myst were.

I thought the Nintendo DS version of Myst was going to have some improvements, but it is actually worse than the PC version. Navigating is very limited--you can only move to two or three spots on each screen. The screen is small, naturally, and the zoom feature does little to clarify the scene, so it is sometimes difficult to determine what you are looking at (and if you try to move closer you switch to another area completely).

This game is very aggravating.

Bummer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love the Myst series...I've read the books and I've played all the PC games. When i saw it was coming out for the DS, I was psyched! I've been playing it for the past few days, and I've got to say, I'm disappointed. Glitches abound in this game! My DS has locked up a number of times, the screen freezes up or blacks out...I mean, the game play is good and all, but the glitches make it a nuisance to play. This last time, I lost some serious game play because it locked up so bad I had to shut off my DS. I'll keep playing it through just because I love the game so much, but I don't think I'd ever recommend it to a friend.

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