Let's Play: Riven - part 19 - Visit the Moiety
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- With all the information we need, we head back to the secret room on village island and link to "Tay", the rebel Age, where we get captured. Again. We can't seem to link anywhere in this game without getting captured.
The logic in the design of the islands is so well done. It's so easy to imagine Gehn coming from Survey Island after calling a Whark, taking the maglev into the "back door" entrance to Jungle Island where he would emerge before the village people from an opening whark statue. He knew his theatrics and the role he had to play among these people in order to keep them under his control. Then, of course, moving to the gallows where the Whark he called would be waiting for a potential meal....
I imagine the watch tower can see whether or not the Maglev is coming, and can rally the village for his arrival.
The visual effect in the stone room is another of my all-time favourite Myst effects.
I can't remember if you mention this in the Uru commentary, but are the Moiety linking plaques related to the Bahro linking stones? They look a bit similar.
Maybe Gehn broke the last color button because he was frustrated about not being able to find the symbology of 5 in the 6 colors. XD
Soooo satisfying to finally solve the stone puzzle after all that clue finding :D
@greenknight5700 If you leave the village for a while, the submarine gets moved mysteriously back to its resting place by the oven. Presumably one of the villagers does it. Helpful if you leave it by the wahrk gallows, which you probably did.
"The only thing you did was give yourself a headache" loved it!
Callback from 2024: If you are looking for that “Not the way you remember it” achievement from Riven remake, this video is the go-to.
Maybe it's automatically called when you take the magcar there. Would make sense, I think.
I always like to time the music with the flyover in the descriptive panel, so when the music swells, that's when the flyover comes up to the tree
"And we've been spotted by the guard again." Entertaining.
Sorry, you do explain Sven, in part 23, i.e. that it is something Catherine learns how to do, not D'ni technology (nor presumably Bahro technology).
that's the point of the games. the designers even talk about that in the strategy guide. they were sick of every game being about killing. the charm of these games is just taking in the incredible scenery, solving the puzzles, etc. the loneliness is what makes it haunting.
The eyeball clues were a recent addition, judging by Gehn's note about the one in the lake, which implies that Catherine told them to put those clues there in order to guide Atrus or whoever he sent to rescue her.
At 2:38 you can see some trees, a part of the island that you cannot get to. It seems that this area was planned to be integrated into the game but was later canceled. I think it's cool that they didn't change the island's look and that you can still see this area from the magcar rides. When taking the magcar from village island to here, you can of course see more. There's some information on Richard Watson's page: cho.cyan.com/rawa/eastpath/eastpath.html
How does the guard get into his tower...?
I've always wondered that lol
The code in disc 4 does not work in ps1 version of me
@meiklman If the link doesn't work, just remove the crap the browser adds between the letters in the address bar.
When I played this first it was with the 5-CD package (lots of disk changing, lol) on a Windows 98 laptop with horrible resolution, so although I needed a hint book to help me locate a lot of things, such as the mechanism to reach the stone room in the holding cell (I used the official Myst/Riven help guide, which dubs the islands Temple, Jungle, Book Assembly, Survey, and Prison), I must say proudly that I solved the Fire Marble puzzle by myself relatively effortlessly... just came to me. What made me think of all of that is when you mentioned around 4:00 that the guildsman appears only if approaching Survey Island from B. A. Island first, I would imagine that for 99% of players, that is how it goes. After all, in order to reach it from Jungle Island first, one would need to locate the switch in the lamp post to open the whark by blind luck, which does not seem all that likely and did not occur to me.
Trevor Martin you know I actually found that switch for the Whark mouth to open before even going to the map island. I shocked myself when it opened haha
@AdaWong94 Me too! when I played the game as a kid, i thought the game was over :P
the game hates you. it gets you imprisoned twice, and shot. wow
what? please explain.
awaiting answer.
Sir the plural of fish is fish
2:43
I'm unsure as how you solved the animals puzzle. One would only need to see the "hidden" animals in the floating camera by the village in order to find out all 5 and solve it?
What pisses me off about the Myst games is that your not given any weapons to roam these islands with...I mean if your gonna be a spy- the last time I checked- you need a weapon, lol.