Obduction’s Worlds aren’t necessarily the best Myst Ages. Places where someone (or rather a lot of someones) really cared, had thought hard about the particulars of this world and its inhabitants.
It’s not something most games pull off, and more notable is the fact you could probably rattle off the names of the ones that did- BioShock’s Rapture, or Dark Souls’s Lordran, or Morrowind’s…Morrowind. An attention to small details lends these worlds, these incredibly alien worlds, a credibility. The way a machine is built, or over-built, tells you something about the people who supposedly used it.Īnd yes, sometimes the bit of information you learn is “This society’s architects were sadistic to design something like this,” or “These people must love living in a puzzle box.” Often though there’s more to be inferred from the use of materials, from the shapes it favors or its power source or its decorations (or lack thereof). Hints about various cultures, conveyed through their lost artifacts and their decorations and, most often, their machinery. The puzzles are the muscle, the connective tissue that propel the player through Myst’s Ages.Ĭyan is a world-builder though, and that talent is on full display in Obduction-on Hunrath, certainly, but in the game’s other Worlds too.
The popular narrative around Myst is always concerned with the game’s puzzles, and for good reason.
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