Other puzzles were so academic you'd swear an engineering degree was required to solve them. For example, you could flip a switch in one corner of an Age and have a door unlock miles away. As well-designed as the puzzles in earlier Myst installments might have been, they were still quite obscure. One of the biggest complaints when it comes to puzzles in any game is the lack of reason behind their solutions. The first puzzle you'll encounter helps summarize the type you'll face throughout the adventure: challenging, logical and fun. Atrus runs off to gather some tools and leaves you to bring the power back.
Before he can take a peek, however, an explosion rattles the inside of Atrus's laboratory, knocking out the power throughout his home. The crystal viewer grants Atrus the power to monitor Ages from afar. Using one of his inventions, Atrus hopes to view his sons one last time through a "crystal viewer" before heading out. You, the player, arrive just in time to help Atrus finalize preparations before his trip to the two prison ages where his sons have forcibly taken residence. Having spent years in isolation, Catherine has convinced Atrus their sons have changed for the better. Seems as though Catherine has been bugging him about their sons. Atrus has once again enlisted your help in a time of need. At the beginning of Myst 4, you arrive in an age known as Tomanha, where Atrus, Catherine and Yeesha have made their home. Years go by without Atrus and his wife contacting or even seeing their sons. They wind up destroying several ages written by their father, ultimately forcing Atrus and Catherine to imprison their sons in two isolated Ages. Although Yeesha plays the part of perfect daughter, both Sirrus and Achenar abuse the power bestowed upon them and create all sorts of havoc. Atrus and his wife, Catherine, had three children: a daughter named Yeesha and two sons, named Sirrus and Achenar. Although there's no main character in Myst (you play a faceless, nameless hero,) each adventure revolves around a D'ni named Atrus. Progressing through each installment, you discovered how the D'ni created specific Ages for pleasure or pain, depending on the person who would write them.
Thankfully, something did go wrong, igniting the story behind the original Myst adventure. With any great power, though, there's a chance something will go wrong. To the D'ni, the ability to create "Ages" represented near infinite opportunities. They wound up linking to a great cavern underneath the planet Earth. This ability, known simply as "the Art," enabled the D'ni to flee their home before a great calamity could destroy their civilization. Although it may sound like a line from an over zealous librarian, the D'ni used these "linking books" to visit worlds across the cosmos. At the heart of Myst lay the D'ni, an ancient civilization with the power to travel to different worlds through books.
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It continues the story of Atrus and his troubled family through a captivating narrative full of betrayal, deception and corruption. Thankfully, the story in the latest Myst does more than string a series of puzzles. Ask any adventure fan what two elements make a great game, and they'll probably say good story and puzzle design.
Not to mention the highest production values seen in any adventure game in recent memory. It boasts mind-bending, yet logical puzzles, graphics the likes you've never seen in a game of its class and a story worthy of its own novel. This isn't to say the game is perfect, as no game really is, but as far as adventure games go, it's damn near flawless. It somehow manages to grip players from the opening sequence and not let go until the very end. Myst 4 on the other hand, takes you where most other adventure games haven't in a very long time: anywhere but wherever you happen to be playing it. Certain developers have tried in vain to save the floundering adventure genre by inundating the marketplace with insipid Myst clones titles featuring a string of illogical puzzles without so much as a sentence of riveting dialogue or narrative.
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