Let's Play Riven (2024 Remake) Part 2 - Gehn's Laboratory
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Game Description:
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
“I know what he’s doing… He’s watching you.”
Travel to Riven, a beautiful and mysterious world on the verge of collapse. Explore this mysterious place, solve its puzzles, reveal its mysteries, make a daring rescue, and escape.
VISIT A MYSTERIOUS WORLD
“I am Gehn. I assume you’ve heard of me.”
Riven takes you on a journey through dense jungles, awe-inspiring caverns, and monolithic structures. Explore a world bent to the whims of a man who sees himself as a god and where every corner will immerse you in an otherworldly adventure.
IMMERSE YOURSELF IN A SURREAL LANDSCAPE
“There’s a great deal of history that you should know…”
Riven rewards careful observation. Challenge Riven’s cunning puzzles, deftly woven throughout its narrative. The environment of Riven will reveal the story of this world as you make meaning from seemingly disparate bits of information and learn everything you need to know about this world.
UNRAVEL RIVEN’S SECRETS
“...it may be time to give this inexplicable mystery a second look.”
Who are the mysterious island dwellers you encounter during your exploration? What purpose does the giant golden dome serve? Why is this world on the verge of collapse? Play Riven and discover the answers to these mysteries- and more.
ABOUT THIS REMAKE
Created by the legendary indie developer Cyan Worlds and based on the smash-hit original released in 1997, Riven has been lovingly revisited by its key original visionaries to expand the epic narrative of the Myst universe.
Experience Riven like never before - with free movement through a real-time 3D environment. This brand-new, re-imagined, and expanded version of Riven offers a deeper story, new captivating visuals, and a journey that stays true to the original release while also expanding on Riven’s breathtaking world.
REVIEWS
“It's beautiful. Stylish. Timeless.”
90/100 - PC Gamer
“a majestic piece of art, and a world worth exploring all over again”
100/100 - GAMINGTREND
“The 1997 classic is reborn as one of the year's best puzzle games.”
9/10 - PCGamesN
Nice of the scribe to wait for Keith to finish his rock-talk before leaving in the maglev.
😂
So I take it that it lasts for way longer than what I'm expecting...
Like, I'm starting to think Keith is actually a geologist by trade.
i was just thinking how he was in the middle of this action packed chase scene and he stops to talk about the rock wall
@@Mike14264 He was, he went to university for it and got a job in a lab for a few years but he left it and did games full time.
41:12 In the Book of D'ni they also had "Environmental Verification Suits" that the D'ni "Guild of Maintainers" would use in their initial explorations of newly-written Ages. The suits were supposed to protect the wearer from extreme temperatures and pressures and capture samples of the environment to ensure it would have a breathable atmosphere and generally be non-toxic. If the tests passed the book would be given their seal and unprotected travel permitted, if the tests failed the book would be destroyed.
If I recall correctly, the Maintainers would also conduct regular inspections of Ages to verify that they were remaining stable. And if there had been no contact with an Age for a long period of time, they would treat it as "unknown conditions" and use the protective suits until they could confirm the Age was still safe.
You've mentioned being anxious about missing stuff a few times, you're doing fine, just as you said you're feeling out the space. Just be glad you weren't exploring this on the original 5-CD version.. you had to change discs every time you moved islands!
i really really enjoy seeing you go through the whole process of figuring things out, but at the same time i'm yelling at my screen, having just finished the game and now having the gift of hindsight. :P
I love how deep into the D'ni lore you are as well. I'm learning things!
Sees an actual human form of some kind running away from him, and instead of giving chase, goes into a 5 minute dissertation on sedimentary rock structures and how they form. . . You're one of a kind Keith! ;)
54:34 - Pretty sure this is indeed the bridge that collapses earlier in the game. . . Orientation is correct, and you can even see the broken steam pipe on the other island where it snapped apart (I think. . .).
If I am recalling correctly, you can take that elevator inside the monster sculpture up one more level. That's how you get to the upper walkways on the tree/village island.
35:35 The first number isn't 37, it's 82. D'ni uses a base-25 number system, so instead of 3(10) + 7, it’s 3(25) + 7, which is 82.
1:31:04 "How the f did I miss that" - keith being keith xD
Riven! Come for the beautiful void, stay for the geology lecture.
Literally my first thought with that block puzzle, was _"Match the block positions with the islands"_ I mean THEY'RE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU! How could you miss that..?
Ok, so I see now what you meant.
...man the guy is either oversimplifying it, or overcomplicating it. Like... the actual map is right in front of him. On _Survey_ Island.
I’ve learned more about geology from your Let’s Plays than I ever did in a class.😳🤭 Never change, Keith!☺️
I like Riven and Myst. They're so cozy.
Lore wise, and I'm guessing. The Tree absorbs the mineral that glows, and it's in the flowers, which the moths pollenate. Thus the Moths would also glow because they absorbed the mineral from the flowers. That's my guess at least.
That is absolutely brilliant!!! Like, wow, this is at the same level of connection between the elements of the world that's a staple of Riven! They did a really great job, integrating this new puzzle in the world!
Microplastic LEDs
It might be some kind of fluorescent protein rather than a mineral. It would make sense, though, that the moths would get it by drinking nectar from the flowers.
". . . MYSTing it again" was actually a pretty funny little slip of the tongue! ;)
please take this as the complement i mean it as: comedy genius
The lever you can't find, isn't there anymore. It was the power switch for the vent fan above the frog trap in the original. You had to do that, in order to reach Ghen's office. So, you're not going crazy, it's just not there.
The purpose of the sound context subtitles is to narrate important things that happen outside of the player's sight and that's why you've only seen it in that one location. There's not many places where something important happens outside of the visual range of the player.
That also explains why it's only visible above the console of the vehicle. It's a design choice specifically for VR but they didn't bother putting it at the bottom of the screen because if you're looking at the door, you don't need to know that the door is opening.
And there are deaf and colorblind gamers
@@2nd3rd1st yep! I'm an example of a color blindplayer.
@1:34 That's funny. Right after you finished talking about having walked past a level on the long walkway you again walk right past the level on the right when you're looking at the window on the boiler which I suspect would turn off the burner underneath.
Deeply appreciate the geology discussion break, i love rocks
2:05:00 I feel like he's not solving that puzzle correctly but he's really determined to solve it incorrectly. He's just focused on making it fit into the center boxes but I think the sliders need to match the locations too. If that makes any sense.
It not only makes sense it is also really obvious.
No yeah, it really is just that.
It's almost impressive how determined some people are to ignore what's in front of them. "Five different sliding pieces? In the same shapes as the five islands I'm looking STRAIGHT AT? Well, obviously that couldn't be trying to tell me anything."
@@scotthersey4380 yeah, it's honestly kinda funny how sure he was of his method.
1:41:10 "I literally thought there was nothing here." In the preview stream the game devs did the ones they had on were also surprised you could walk back there! They were so used to only seeing that part of the game in the level editor.
I love the rebrand! Honestly I was surprised but then I was like Oh Fuck Yeah Loving this look at all the art!
Neat. There's new content in this version. That lens is new. Might be an aid because it looks like 3D makes Rivan harder.
1:00 - Funny as hell you bring up catching flack for years for not seeing a lever you needed at one point in your play-thru of the earlier version. . . All the while continuously walking right by the lever you need to throw in order to gain access to the boiler! ;)
56:12 Is it me or they did the camera aperture simulation the wrong way around? Interiors should be darker until the aperture widen, and exteriors should be extra bright until the operture tighten again (56:18)
Also, bezier curve catwalks and hallways are my pet-peeve.
(Sorry I only comment random crap, but thanks for these videos as always!)
game wasn't bugged, you just look at the ground more than average last time you walked around the beach. You need remember you are playing in a 3D space, and to look up and all around.
Great video, keep them comming!
To be fair, when he first ran around where the lens was, it was visible on the screen but it wasn't flashing like it was when he visited the second time.
I don't know if the absence of The flash was intentional for the first time you walk by it or if it was a bug. I could totally see them supplying a subtle hint for such an important item if you miss it the first time you visit that area and then revisit it later.
Also, yeah he doesn't look up and around nearly enough.
@@ViviFuchsI played the VR version, which has a few minor differences, but the lens definitely flashed the first time I went back there!
i never thought it was possible to over think Riven until he questioned the moss. But seriously, i'm enjoying the play through.
It's those sorts of details Cyan are usually great at, for world building and immersion.
A video game play-though from the perspective of a Geologist lol But really loved it! Can't wait to play the game.
Everything seemed to be well hidden. I have memories of the boiler island. It seemed pretty difficult. This version does have layers of complexity after all.
I'm am slowly being convinced that more games need to hire an on-staff geologist 🤣
Im playing the New Riven game myself, I solved the problem to this that u are having 1:09:14. BIG Hint , dont continue reading if u want to solve yourself, you did kind of solved the puzzle correctly, that how it should look, but not done the correct way. look at how the islands are positioned. The islands are the same as your pieces look at where the islands are at, sooo, where do you your peices go? 😉 If you still dont follow the 1 by 1 square piece should be on upper right corner.
its ok if u missed a thing, the entirety of the internet is bearing it weight upon you to know all.
i think you have the islands organised wrong on the grid slide puzzle
I also think so, and I see that arranging them as they are under the puzzle make a perfect square too
@@guigui0246 yea that’s what i was thinking too
Strange that Cyan made something so ambiguous - there are 4 different combinations, even if the correct one is literally under your nose at the time.
Edit: let me reiterate: Cyan can be very, _very_ ambiguous, but they don't usually give you the puzzle with the solution so close by, especially not *in frame*. Usually it's deduce answer, enter, then see if it worked. This feels very strange for them.
@@GreatWightSpark it ain't that ambiguous, if it's right in front of your nose... tho this makes me wonder... how did this puzzle go in the original again? Or did he not solve the sliding block puzzle enough to get to the actual map puzzle?
the Myst creators were notorious for hating inventorys and carrying stuff around hence why you had to carry the pages around on your cursor in the first Myst game
Lots of dead ends now and you can't skip to other parts.
This game is so alluring and BEAUTIFUL,I can't stop watching it. o.o
I want to know why Cyan thought to change Riven's logo from the ]-[ to the fish 🐠 seems like a weird design choice, but maybe they've actually added the model to the remake. Not everyone saw the silhouette or even understood the significance of it.
The new way to gain entry into Gehn's lab was cool - reminds me more of Myst III and all the marble mechanics they used. Obviously more visually exciting than going through a duct!
42:47 you made the EXACT same comment last time 😆
Weird indeed. I understand wanting to change the logo, but I would’ve liked something simpler. *[POSSIBLE SPOILER]*
I think they should’ve used the new Rivenese symbol for the number 5. It retains the meaning of the original D'ni logo while signaling to people who've played Riven '97 that this isn't a one-to-one remake.
@@B_Skizzle- very much agreed
@@B_Skizzleoh that would've been clever, ngl.
The notebook in this game is my only real gripe. There should be a hotkey to open it, it duplicates images sometimes for no reason, sometimes just captures the straight up incorrect image when I press the button, it doesn't save your position so you have to scroll down every time, scrolling is annoying because it loads up all the images in a row when you open it which makes it jittery, just kind of a mess.
I think Myst IV may have had the same issues, even though that wasn't Cyan (Ubisoft).
@@GreatWightSpark Obduction had an even more annoying bug where deleting an image would mess up the image indexing, so clicking on one thumbnail would open a completely different full-size image. If you needed to look at a specific image in full size, you had to try every one until you found it.
I just watched the original let’s play you did, it’s interesting how you make similar comments/thoughts
1:31:47 The game was not "bugged out" you just didn't look up when you were there the first time round
Ooooff! Having to pinpoint the location of each of the orbs on each of the islands to solve the elevator code would have just been cruel!
(. . . says the guy who's feeling a bit cocky at this point for having figured out the slider puzzle rather quickly!) ;)
i think it is more of an older way of thinking in 2D you don't need icons i big hitboxes in 3d you need a few visual cues to show the player whats available to be touched egi just a few icons explaining what each switch dose in some bright colour next to them
2:07:12 I thought I heard a stone sliding sound for a moment, was that just ambience?
Go back to the puzzle put them the on the board exactly the way you see him laid out and and something will happen and then you go back to the elevator where the other board is
I totally missed the lens the first time I hit the beach as well. Don't think I got the sparkles either.
Hmm, I don't think it was there actually. It wasn't there the first time Keith got there. The island is dynamic it seems - some events only happen after you go to certain areas, which I think is really gnarly.
93rd and 94th age lol.
If only Riveneese numbers were that easy to read. I mean, I don’t blame ya. That’s the way I thought it worked too.
(1:10:05) Wahrk counter: 1
And damn, did it look menacing...
I first discovered you with your original Myst playthrough, and loving the new Riven playthroughs. Your voice is so soothing here, ever thought about doing ASMR?
On a side note, the Survey Island always struck me as the oddest, the most alluringly bizarre. Really nice to look at, ngl.
...how do you miss the way to reposition the island blocks so much while looking at a _map_ of the islands on _Survey_ Island?
1:31:16 ok, that wasn't there before. That's pretty gnarly actually... even if you don't see that many people, the island does feel quite dynamic!
I know that Survey Island looks like it has a big eye from above - all the tusks are eyebrows, the water and rocks the iris.
@@GreatWightSpark yo, that's clever af actually
1:32:41 "Walnuts"
yeah, they look like walnuts
Dammit! Never saw a lens down there on the beach either! I honestly don't think it was there the first time thru. Regardless, now I have to stop watching and try to get ahead again. . . Drat!!!
Bm 17:05
You have to put the blocks in the correct order on Survey Island, then then the dome locations pop up. Then there’s a puzzle on the elevator that takes you to another room.
Oh that's BS. I tried to click that lever behind the wheel on the elevator like 30 times.
Congrats on the furry rebranding! (Posting this from my non-furry account) XD
I just finished watching the first one.
31:38 "hospitably"
Also, a small hint for reading the D'ni numerals with two digits: I think the years on Gehn's journal are the same as those in Atrus'. Or at least around the same period more or less. Certianly more than 30-something: that something has a value greater than 9. And the new age that Gehn did manage to write? It certainly is a greater number than 98. Nah, this guy ruined a much vaster amount of worlds. More than double of the value you assumed it was, actually. I'll say that much.
Also damn, everything is a numbering system for you, huh?
54:35 no yeah, this is the bridge you collapsed in the first epsiode :)
Let's look at rock layers instead of chasing a stranger.
yeah, he'll wait
Big fan of your old Myst series playthroughs, I come back and you're a dog or something now? That's weird dude
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@@KeithBallardA You sound the same in the video so whatever I still like you :)
@@mrbitbothe sounds happier now.
I found this comment hilarious 😂