The Ending Has Yet To Be Written | Episode 11 | Riven 2024
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2025
- Welcome to the Dragon Den! Once Again, we dive into the beautiful but unstable world of Riven! Once again, we must help Atrus and his family by saving Catherine and capturing Ghen. Join alongside Winter as he explore the wonderfully and amazing 2024 remake of Riven, The Sequel to Myst!
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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57:50 he assumes she brought a schematic with her that someone else invented, but in truth she invented it herself! Just another way he discounts the intelligence of others
34:00. He's so excited, and he just can't hide it! He's about to lose control and I think he likes it!
Yep! I was quite excited too when I learned that was ANOTHER place you could now explore in this new game! Another wonderful run Winter. Glad you got to do this! I very much enjoyed this game too. I'll have to check out your other Myst game video when I get the chance :D
I've always wanted to explore more of Ghen's age as well as the Moiety age. I was so excited to be able to! And the tease of another age written by Ghen is something I hope is followed up on at some point!
33:58 LOL that was cute
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1:20:29 well The Looker was at times not a very relaxing parody of The Witness XD but yeah I think the only Myst parody I know of doesn't even have more than the first screen IIRC
We get a close-up look at the interior of the Moiety "Hive" on Tay. It's smaller than I imagined, but densely packed with detail. An interesting change is that the linking book back to Riven apparently doesn't need a window-crystal; I guess the flaw really did lie with Gehn's writing, and not with the quality of the materials he was using to produce his books and ink. As for the Moiety daggers stuck into the central chamber, IIRC there was some lore detail in the walkthrough manual for the original that the daggers stuck into the wooden effigy statue near the link-in point represented Moiety agents killed by Gehn. If this is anything like that, then that means a _lot_ of dead Rivenese natives. (Also, who else thinks that the circular axes used by the Moiety guards look a bit like pizza cutters? I think you can see giant versions of them on the Village and Survey islands).
Likewise, exploring outside of Gehn's outpost on 233 is a real treat. The presences of the Rivenese funerary totems there is a good bit of environmental storytelling; it shows just how many of Gehn's (presumably loyal) Rivenese subjects died on 233 to establish his base there, and Gehn's callousness in using their grave markers for firewood. The critter cooking in the parabolic solar oven (what you called a satellite dish) also shows how Gehn was quite self-sufficient living on 233. As for the burnt 234 book, we can only wonder if Gehn burned it because it was defective like so many others, or perhaps because with (he thinks) a linking book back to D'ni in his possession he believed he no longer needed such "flawed" creations (which says a lot about just how inauthentic his claims were about desiring to write a new Age to be a refuge for the villagers). Although we can see that he's already started writing 235, which is sitting on his desk where 234 was in the original. We can presume that 234 was burned only recently, perhaps during the time between when the player uses the Trap Book and when Gehn follows, since the linking window only winks out permanently shortly after the player opens it.
Another neat details on 233 is the inclusion of carrying cases for Power Marbles, presumably to power the spherical furnace which energizes the linking book back to Riven. They are likely also on-hand in case Gehn succeeded in writing another age, so he could take them with to power a linking book back to 233. Also, the presence of the actual 233 descriptive book and what I presume are spare linking books. All under lock and key, of course, so no one who stumbled into his office could use, damage, or abscond with them (even if they somehow escape the cage first).
The new holo-imager recordings in Gehn's quarters were also a surprise. Not only is this (I think) the first depiction of Ti'ana in the games (other than the occasional reference, like the gravestone in RealMyst), but her and Aitrus' recordings paint a picture of how Gehn ended up the way he did, if _this_ is what he's been ruminating on his entire adult life. Every time he had doubts about his "noble mission" to restore the D'ni civilization, he'd go back to rewatch the message from his mother and it'd steel his resolve. If, as Ti'ana says, her love and compassion took away the life that Gehn should've had, what else was he to become except for a cruel tyrant?
Definitely agree that the holo-imager is a perfect place for a hidden recording. Cyan loves their easter-eggs.
The Riven linking book on 233 linking back to Gehn's Lab on Crater island is a nice touch. After all, where else on Riven is he likely to go or spend any significant amount of time?
We get a closer look at the inside of Catherine's prison, but there really isn't much there. Although before it was her prison, it served as Gehn's private quarters on Riven before he relocated to 233. The accommodations are quite spartan, but I get the impression that the security measures were originally intended to keep visitors _out_ rather than to keep anyone _in_
It's probably for the best that the Myst theme park attraction never got built. While I think it'd do really well, especially in today's environment of smartphones and QR-code easter-egg hunts, I'd rather the Myst IP stay firmly in Cyan's hands instead of the likes of Disney or Universal running it into the ground.
The Cyan Logo being the ball in the center of the Star Fissure is a cheeky wink and nod at the player. Although the real lore question is how it got there, and why it seems to be anchored in place despite floating in the void without apparently being attached to anything. Awfully convenient for Gehn to have an object to rotate his constructions around. Although, as with anything involving the Star Fissure, one might as well chalk it up to the will of the Maker.
And that's a wrap. I'll see you in Myst III: Exile!
I love the detail and insight you bring to each episode! It's always a fascinating read when I see you comment