![]() Each sound is significant (especially in one of the ages where you need to Listen to sounds to unlock doors and navigate a maze), and the Background music is just that - background. The creators actually thought of not having a soundtrack, but after listening to the music and SFX, they reconsidered. The sound and music in the game is also very good. Each picture has a purpose, if it be to convey a clue or to steer you toward a object. But you must take into consideration, the incredible number of hours it took to render this game. I know that a lot of people complained that they were still-life pictures. And I must say that the game is one of the most involving games I've ever played. :) So one of the first games I played was Myst. So when I heard all the great reviews from the critics, but the horrid reviews from people I knew who played. I was still stick in the Non-CD ROM and Win3.1 games. When this game first came out, I didn't have the hardware (or software) to run the game. Just the name conjures up images of still life pictures :) If you like puzzling and exploring, this is for you. The puzzles may be a bit too hard as mentioned before so you may need a walkthrough at times. The graphics are also surprisingly beautiful and combined with the realistic sounds it really gives you the feel of being alone on a deserted and surrealistic island. The game can be completed in different ways but only one is the correct one (That's up to you). You need to explore everything to gain all clues and solve all puzzles. The puzzles are challenging and fun (you may find them too difficult at times, though) but if you concentrate on them and think logically and look for relations between things you'll find the solution eventually. In each age a blue (Sirrus) and red (Achenar) page is hidden and a linking book back to Myst. You need to travel to all the different ages (worlds) of Myst by finding the linking books in which these worlds are described and retrieve the pages torn from the books to take them back to the library. You'll soon find out that there are two brothers called Sirrus and Achenar trapped in books and you need to free them but they but both blame each other for being a liar so who's right and what about Atrus and Catherine, their parents? That's for you to find out. Therefore if you are an action gamer stop reading otherwise read on. This way the (brilliant) story slowly unfolds. Instead of fighting baddies you are totally alone on this island and you have to find clues to discover what happened and solve puzzles to progress. This makes it fresh and unlike anything else. When this was released, it was not like other point and click adventures such as Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion, but a first-person view game so that YOU become the protagonist.
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