![]() But this post is based on what we knew in 1993 when playing the original Myst. I know that's the current official canon. Okay! Enough unpaid advertising - back to the puzzle.īefore you ask: I am not worrying about the retcon introduced in Myst 4, in which trap books are "not real". I snagged a couple of mousepads, which are now sold out, ha ha. Some of this has art from the upcoming Myst some spotlights fan artist Lauren Herda. If you're into merch, Cyan has put new mugs, shirt, posters, and other stuff on their company store page. They also posted an in-character Atrus journal touting the idea, in case you like your marketing ARG-style. (Outdoors, preferably, but you know this.) Now they're pushing it as ideal for pandemic times - you can show people your photo album while standing six feet away from them. It's free, no ads, with a paid DLC option for extra features (more shareable albums).Ĭyan teased this idea last year at Mysterium. You browse through your photos on your phone, select one, and everybody else standing near you can see it pop up on their phone. No, it's not a game it really is a photo-sharing app. While you think about it, I'll mention some other recent Cyan news.Ī month ago Cyan released a photo-sharing iPhone app called Crowbox. (I've put these in alphabetical order to avoid giving hints!) (I) Sirrus and Achenar tear one page from Atrus's Myst linking book.(H) Sirrus and Achenar enter the red and blue books and are trapped.(G) Sirrus and Achenar do something ("used Catherine") to trick Atrus into going to D'ni.(F) Sirrus and Achenar burn the library on Myst.(E) Atrus tears pages from the red and blue books and scatters them.(D) Atrus records a message to Catherine in the Forechamber imager.(C) Atrus moves four linking books from the library to the protected places on Myst.(A) Atrus creates the red and blue trap books.Using only your knowledge of the original game, put these events in chronological order: ![]() hang on, how did that work? Who was trapped first? We know that Atrus trapped his sons in the red and blue books, and the boys trapped Atrus in D'ni. But it's surprisingly hard to pin down exactly what happened. The original game does an incredible job of painting a complex story of betrayal with just a few brushstrokes of narration. ![]() This is only a theory.)Īnyway, I thought it would be fun to go back and look at how little we know about the Myst story! My personal theory is that Facebook walked into Cyan's office with a bucket of money and said "Make Myst VR a Quest exclusive!", and Cyan said "Oh, no, we really can't do that," and then there was a lot of pacing and gesticulating, and they wound up with this handwavy compromise where the PC version ships a couple of months later and nobody calls it a Quest exclusive. It's just a game that releases on Quest this week, and other platforms at an unannounced future date. (Cyan has walked a painful line insisting that this is not a "Quest exclusive" release. The updated Myst will be released for other VR platforms and flatscreen PCs in 2021 - I believe they said "early 2021" - and I am happily anticipating that. ![]() I will not be playing it this week because I'm not into VR or Facebook. The VR remake of Myst is due out for Oculus Quest on the 10th. ![]()
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