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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.

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!).

I should have listended

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Like most others I was excited to see Myst coming to the DS. I should have listend to the reviews. This game did not transfer well to the DS. It is extremly hard to nagivate and the screen is very little. The zoom feature may as well not be there it does nothing to help you look at things. If you love this game and own a DS DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY! I would highly recommend you try it out from a game rental site before you buy it. I plan to trade mine in with only an hour played.

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.

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.

You're better off with the PC version

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Pros: This game still has the same great puzzles you remember, along with some updated features we always wished they'd had in the original, such as the ability to take screen shots and a way to take in-game notes instead of mucking about with notebooks and pencils.

Cons: They've shoehorned the original game onto a tiny DS screen instead of reworking it in a way that might have been more effective. The itty bitty controls are difficult to work in some places, and the dark graphics that looked so great on your monitor are hard to make out on the small DS screen if there's any other light in the room to cast a glare. You'll find your frustration with this game has less to do with the puzzles, and more to do with the cramped game play.

Bottom line: Go ahead and get this if you specifically need a version of the game that's portable (I bought it for a 7-hour flight), but if you want the full enveloping puzzle experience, go for the PC version.

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.

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.

The developers of Myst for DS have massacred a great game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Myst is a great game, but I suggest you find another platform to play it on. This port is riddled with bugs. When flipping through the books, the pages skip around, the upper screen has become distorted, the touch screen controls are finicky, you can't read anything without using the zoom feature, and the screen capture tool (used as a form of note taking) flips books back to page one before taking the shot. I've only played it for about an hour and I can't believe Nintendo let them release the game in this state. Bottom line, don't buy this version of Myst. The developer who ported this doesn't deserve your money.

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