Myst V: End of Ages Reviews

While I'm not a die hard myst fan like my friends. I have played MYST 1, 3 and 4. We will eventually get to Riven down the road, but my friends wanted me to play these three first before we started Riven for a lot of reasons most avid Myst fans know, so I won't get into that. Myst 4 and 5 were the two Mysts my avid fan friends did not yet play so we went into it. While many reviews here were not liking little to no FMV's, this doesn't hurt the game. In fact, what hurts the game is the puzzles. Unlike the other Myst games, they REALLY and I mean REALLY expect you to pay attention. Even if you pay 101% close attention, some of these puzzles, especially when you look at a video walkthrough, will still have your head scratching. My friend Whitefire knows puzzles super well, and twice throughout our playthrough, he had to look up a guide. For Myst 1, 3, and 4. No guides were needed, except one time for Myst 4. The other noticeable thing is the tablets. The drawing aspect is a neat idea, but poor execution. It is VERY pixel picky about these drawings and for 1 or two puzzles that require you to be patient with them, makes you feel like you didn't solve it but yet you did. One puzzle (the snake one), sometimes didn't activate to up to two minutes. So, it made us wonder if we did the puzzle right. Other times, drawings didn't even look CLOSE to the tablet, but yet the game accepted it. And there are other times, when you drew the tablet perfectly, it didn't take. The whole story with the creatures was interesting, but we all felt they were really reaching and almost "rekt con" the series with this finale. If you're a super fan of the series give the finale a shot, most puzzles make sense, and others will just make you go "huh"?. Again, remember, you REALLY need to pay attention! In comparsion to other Myst series, this one is the weakest, so it's hard to recommend it.

WAY COOL