1/16/2024 1 Comment Puzzle adventure games like mystVersailles 1685 mixed then-groundbreaking 3D graphics with historical fantasy storytelling. When the genre bottomed out, they were one of the few studios to survive as they quickly pivoted to make edutainment games much like Humongous Entertainment. At the studio's onset, they were making SCUMM-clones to try and capitalize on LucasArts' "Golden Age." Somehow, they ended up with the Dune IP and developed the well-received 1992 Dune adventure game. However, they were a studio that rarely brought anything new to the table. During the late 90s, they were outputting three to four fully-featured adventure games per year. Cryo was a massive figure in the PC adventure game community as their output during their peak was bonkers. As such, let's jump into everyone's "favorite" era of PC adventure games: the CD-ROM era! That's right, assholes it's time for us to talk about "Myst-likes."įirst, we should talk about Cryo Interactive. You fuckers said I was "too soft" last time. Therefore, I decided to tackle something different with today's blog. It is a technical masterpiece that, at its worst, has a handful of above-average puzzles that can impede the player as they progress its story. Despite all of its faults, The Dig is in no way the "worst" at anything. I received moderate criticism during that blog that I was engaging in histrionics, and it was a fair point to make. When I last talked about an adventure game, it was for LucasArts' The Dig. My two cents: Cyan seems to be two teams at the moment: one working on Firmament, their next big project after Obduction did well enough to help keep the lights on, and one working on this new Myst remake.Preamble Well, this is certainly something different! You can check out their blog here but they haven't updated since this time last year. Once work is done on the Myst remake, I have to assume the Myst remake team will hop onto the Starry Expanse projectīetter news: they got bought BY Cyan! Last we heard Cyan was "auditing" their work, and Cyan proper will be working with these fans to get a nice modern version of Riven out. My two cents: Cyan seems to be two teams at the moment: one working on Firmament, their next big project after Obduction did well enough to help keep the lights on, and one working on this new Myst remake. A project called "The Starry Expanse" has been working on a VR/flatscreen "realRiven" remake for a couple of years now, and as a fan project, predictably, it's l o w l y.īetter news: they got bought BY Cyan! Last we heard Cyan was "auditing" their work, and Cyan proper will be working with these fans to get a nice modern version of Riven out. All source code, video files, audio files, and assets are gone. I need to get back to and finish Riven, but there's good news and bad news on Riven.īad news: they lost everything. It's all CG faces that vaguely look like the Apple Memoji stuff. I got physically stuck (as in: couldn't move) on the spiral staircase in Channelwood, but patches have come out since so I bet it's a bit smoother now. It also has the ability to completely randomize puzzle solutions so if you've played it a million times, it will still feel new. That's because it's a bit more than a standard port of Myst: new level geometry and assets (realMyst and it's variants are based on old art assets ported to new tech, and over time they kinda lost the plot (shiny rock walls anyone?)), leading to a more lived in, natural feeling Myst island, with new areas around linking books. It will be receiving a PC port at some time in the future and I have to assume console ports. This is largely because it's a port of realMyst into Unity, a toolset that Cyan doesn't typically use (their recent projects have all relied on Unreal), and as a result, it's a weirdly buggy mess.Ī few months ago a brand new remake of Myst just launched, with timed exclusivity on the Oculus Quest. For starters, even on a relatively decent PC, it struggles to run, and I can't imagine how it would run on a switch. At the moment, that might be the only Myst like game out there.
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