IBBoardI have no idea what I was doing, what the next step is, or where to go from here.
Yep, definitely a Myst series game 😐
(I think I missed some bits because the hand on the pillar doesn't light up fully. But I have no clue what I missed. Or where)
Uru is a masterpiece of "What if we made the puzzles dependent on you noticing things in the environment AND gave you such janky camera angles that they won't be out-janked until Assassins Creed!" 😐
Finally finished the main bit of Uru (not the expansions). Lots of hints required this time.
I think the main failing (other than the controls… and the camera angles) is that they changed from "an environmental puzzle game" to a "did you remember this bit of the story that is no longer just interesting narrative but is actually vital clues".
Like… dude?! Did you expect me to remember the name of some random character who projects a message once really early on? I had NO CLUE that she was the one narrating bits of it. I thought it was some god-entity in the special spiritual room! 😐
Debating whether to play the expansions for Uru, or whether to put it on the back burner and see whether Myst IV: Revelation is any better.
Probably going to go with the latter. I don't _have_ to finish all of a game. And I can come back to it later.
This is more like it. Myst 4 is an ACTUAL Myst game.
Maybe that explains why they called the fourth game Uru instead of Myst 🤔
Trying to do the "decode the words on the spines of books" puzzle and… as an English speaker, it's REALLY difficult to try and decode text that looks heavily influenced by Arabic when it's a) rotated and b) pixelated because the game maxes out at 1024×768 resolution 😐
(Although having just checked 640×480 resolution then I'm not convinced that it's ACTUALLY using that resolution - or the upscaling is virtually indistinguishable. But whatever, it's pixelated and unclear script!)
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