There you find two untrustworthy sons of the island’s caretaker, who are trapped within separate books that you must find the pages for in order to properly understand their story and judge whether they deserve saving. The concept is actually fairly straightforward, as you find yourself trapped on a mysterious island that you’re teleported to via a magic book. A walkthrough for Myst, a point-and-click puzzle adventure game by Cyan that was originally released in 1993. Myst’s storytelling is equally opaque, although not as much as The Witness and later entries in the series. That’s fine up until you realise that the only reason you couldn’t solve a puzzle is that you didn’t notice a hidden note or some other tiny background detail, which the game absolutely refuses to give you a hint about. The Witness – which was clearly heavily influenced by the original Myst – would be one of the closest modern comparisons, in that both games offer almost no help or context for solving their puzzles and expect you to simply experiment and work things out for yourself. Myst VR really must be experienced with teleport and snap turning, it recreates the old school point and click adventure feel nicely in a modern way. Today you can explore it like never before, as the puzzle game comes to Oculus Quest built-from-the-ground-up for VR. The memory tests and trial and error solutions of some puzzles are especially trying but the majority are strictly logical and simply require a little experimentation and reading up on the in-game lore (something the higher resolution of the Oculus Quest 2 makes agreeably easy). Man, I have been loving Myst VR, it is like a dream come true for me as the first three games were some of my first games. That’s not because of any failure on its part but because the idea of purposefully difficult puzzles is not something any modern, mass-market video game would base itself around. With the VR environment raising up the visuals to something closer to modern standards it’s the gameplay which now feels like the most retro element of the game. Myst on Oculus Quest The first puzzle, explained in a note you find when you first arrive, sets the tone for the whole game: The note tells you to count the number of switches on the island. The return of Myst in VR was announced at yesterday's Facebook Connect, an event that revealed the Oculus Quest 2, new VR Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell games, and much more. Although, cleverly, there is the option to randomise things like dates and clues so you can’t solve anything purely by memory, even if the underlying puzzle is still the same. What the remake also retains is the same puzzles, so if you somehow remember all the solutions this will be a walk in the park – sometimes literally.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |