I didn’t find Riven to be oppressively hard, but it was clearly more difficult than Myst. (Myst has appeared on at least 11 platforms. Uninstalled and never paid any attention to this franchise again. Played for about 6 minutes, got friggin’ nowhere, got serious motion sickness. What happened? How did the Millers look at the phenomenal, groundbreaking, industry-changing success that was Myst and decide that the proper way to follow up was to crank up the difficulty 500 notches? Did they secretly have the burning desire to make the most tortuously difficult game imaginable, and they realized that they could get away with it because all anyone would ever talk about would be the eye-popping graphics and surrealism and riveting story? Or, given by how the later games turned out, they made it tortuously difficult because that’s what the players wanted? (Which, personally, I would find disturbing as hell.)Įxile…eh. How bad is it? In all the gaming I’ve done in my life, every platform, every genre, I’ve found one task that is comparable in stupid impossibility, the Grand Puzzle in Zork 3. Riven, who the hell knows?Īnd that marble board…I’m sorry, but any puzzle where you have to place 5 of 6 pegs into any of 625 possible spaces (and of course you don’t even know which peg is the wrong one, oh, and did I mention that one of the peg locations is hidden?) has no place in civilized society. Back in Myst, if you found the way out of an Age, you knew you were getting somewhere even if you didn’t find the red or blue page in it. Because the islands are haphazardly connected to each other, and you can move from one to another without really figuring out much, it’s difficult to tell whether you’re making progress. Sometimes you don’t get the rest of the solution at all, like with the marble orb symbols, and you just have to guess as to what the final piece is. The amount of running around you need to do for some of them is beyond baffling (if I ever run into anything like the “get 4 animal sounds-get 10 Riven numbers after about 20 minutes of work-match numbers to animals-match fifth number to animal that doesn’t have a sound” again, it’ll be too soon). You get part here and part on some other island, if you’re lucky. For starters, there is not a single complete solution anywhere in the game. Riven is quite possibly the most overrated computer game in history.
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There are a few minor things that could’ve used improvement (path to tree elevator needed to be clearer, better idea of how to fix the power line if you went over voltage, at least one critical clue required the brightness cranked WAAAAY up), but otherwise, this was simply a great game. Where if you were thoughtful and persistent, you could succeed without requiring official books or in-game help or the Internet. This was exactly what a free-roaming mystery was supposed to be, a variety of beautiful, lush environments where you pieced together different parts of the mystery one at a time. I doubt you’ll get much argument on that.
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