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Stunning world that can't deliver on the promise Showing up on the pier and taking first steps, you see the world that has it's secrets. A foreign land with indecipherable puzzles and a mystery to resolve. Each click and movement makes it more familiar and you slowly think it may make scene after all. World is beautiful... and absolutely empty. For something praised like Myst it's really unenjoyable. I tried to play Myst at least 5 times and that included different versions. From original PC release, through PlayStation, DS and finally even the realMyst masterpiece edition. I lost count of the re-releases I tried. After many, many attempts I just gave up and watched a let's play. Mainly to skip the unintuitive puzzles and try to enjoy the story. Source:  https://lparchive.org/Myst/Update%2017/ Stockholm syndrome Myst is surely product of it's time and remembering being able to be bored in 1993 - this would be a respite. Then, you didn't have any expectations and...

    I just finished watching two let's plays and a long play of the DOS game, The Quivering. The reason it was 3 separate plays was that the first guy gave up upset after 2 hours and the 2nd two other guys gave up 30 min before the end, while also pretty pissed because of what they thought was a bug. Long play was just to see the last half hour. I think there was no bug in their case, but in their defense there was a very confusing way to pick dialog options that they couldn't figure out. I usually just watch LPs of games that are obtuse and I judged this one perfectly. I prefer some commentary because it keeps me following the story, while I'm usually doing something completely else and just eye the game play from time to time. Confusing puzzles and frequent deaths were common at the time, but what really upset the players were limited numbers of saves to the number of imps you collect along the way, or in 2nd half - win in a slot machine that can kill you at ...

It's October, go play Crow Country . I'm not joking, you don't need this recommendation, if you like survival horror or cool retro stuff - it's worth it. If you're still here, I'll be brief with the story introduction, because it's best experiencing it yourself. As Agent Mara you come by car to a closed down theme park - Crow Country. You look for the owner - Mr. Crow. Armed with a pistol, you enter the premises and somehow you bump into some body horror, human shaped beings that seem to be aggressive. While other people you meet in the theme park, somehow at the same time as you decided to come, are shocked by their presence - you, Mara, were expecting them... are almost familiar. Keeping to yourself, you explore the Crows Country secrets, learning what's been going on here really. There is one reason you came here - you need to find Mr. Crow. Aesthetics Big selling point are the original PlayStation graphics or rather how they look in our nostalgic mem...