Wait who here could possibly hate myst?
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Whatâs cool about the particular randomizer I used is that you actually tell it what speedrunning tricks youâre capable of/comfortable with performing, as well as how you feel about âhell runsâ (sprinting through hot Norfair areas with no Varia suit), and a bunch of other options, in startlingly granular detail, as well as just overall how difficult you want the route to be, based on your abilities.
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Demonâs Tilt is out on Steam in Early Access.
only played one game of it so far, but i liked it! normal mode feels too easy; then again, i played Devilâs Crush on fast, so i should probably check out Hardcore?
no final verdict, justâŚseems fun.
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE
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I canât remember if Iâve ever stepped astride the Myst line around here, but if I did, it was probably just to say that I like the Myst games, but I pretty much only interact with them through Andrew Plotkinâs reviews. Through the lens of Mr. Plotkinâs enthusiasm and analysis, I love this franchise. I am bad at playing the games.
The first Myst is easy! It was played by grandmas all around the world! You should try it!
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The glitches necessary to complete the game are well-defined for all the randomizers Iâve seen, and they all have options to make the logic not require glitches. In fact, glitchless is the mode that almost all races operate under, since having the choice to sequence break is more interesting than being forced to from a routing perspective.
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Look the Piano Puzzle in Myst is a nightmare if youâre as tone deaf as I am. And the Maze puzzle fucking sucks.
But yeah besides that, the original Myst is a super breezy fun puzzly time!
Too late, alas! I played it with a walkthrough in like '06. I guess enough time has passed that I wonât remember all the puzzle solutions, but I remember enough that I donât think Iâll get many rewarding âeureka!â moments.
Hey both Cuba and Me have that book coming.
I think polybius may be the first game to have a brexit level, the main mechanic of which is nightmarishly large moving goalposts which you have to avoid
itâs actually called âbrexit miasmaâ
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The Myst games were pretty formative for me during the year in high school when I got obsessed with PC adventure games. I would say Sanitarium was the most important game I played that year though.
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We got a NES Classic for Christmas and my partner and I have been playing a bunch of 2-player Dr. Mario and that game really fucking rules.
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Oh hell yeah! High five, @OneSecondBefore
I loved that game. Not many people know it but Iâve heard it talked about a couple of times on sb and that made me happy.
Myst sucks.
Nah, itâs alright but I take it as a personal insult if you say itâs a breezy game. I couldnât get anywhere in it as a kid. I mostly blame the movement for that though. I just didnât have the patience to mess with it. I guess I could have figured out the puzzles but the frustration of moving around was just too much
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Sanitarium fucked me up for weeks
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The boss fights in E.V.O. Search for Eden are bullshit.
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the game is fun for a few hours before you see behind the curtain and realise youâre just grinding until you buy each eraâs highest-statted body parts, then going onto the next era and doing it again.
a protip if you have infinite patience is to save up a ton of points so you can keep switching body parts during bossfights, because every time you change a part your hp fills up
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I thought this until I realize the game gives you fairly obvious audio cues for the right way to go once you know what to listen for
I think the long unskippable animations still make it bad!
I know itâs potentially stifling criticism to give things a pass like this but I really think critiquing the mechanics of individual Myst puzzles is missing the point
itâs a game from 1993 made in hypercard, obviously it has some weird implementation compromises from time to time. The point is that it was hugely influential and in largely good ways! The sheer anthropological vocabulary of Riven is still one of the most impressive things to be done with a videogame and that periodically plays like shit too!
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