Likely the best game to ever exist. There is no part of this adventure that is lacking, and when you think it can’t get better, it inexplicably does, and then gets better and better. Ludicrously fun. I resisted playing this game for decades because I wasn’t a fan of turn-based RPGs but when I finally decided it was time to explore this world I could instantly see why it’s likely to not be bested ever again.
Highly disturbing, this game was the nightmare giver when it came out. Just simply bizarre, the graphics, story, and music/sound design were truly incredible. This very oppressive delve into the psyche of Harry Mason in the search for his daughter brings you about as close to hell as is possible in a game. Soon after release I played this in the most peripheral sense, as in I was almost outside of the room petrified, two minutes later it was off...and stayed off for many long years.
For its time a bombastically weird and interesting game, unfortunately for me I don’t like point-and-click games whatsoever with one exception. The story of Myst itself is great though and it’s so different visually it has influenced everything downstream. I’m very glad this game exists and I enjoy its strange 3D landscapes.
A pretty fun game that isn’t quite that good. If you like to manage things in a shallow way this can be entertaining. Also pretty good fun is the completely broken prisoner mode where you can escape from prisons you’ve designed or others’ prisons put up on-line.
A dreadfully boring game that has some technology behind it. At first what looks like a lake is quickly discovered as a pond—this game suffers severely from procedurally generated disease akin to Daggerfall but worse. Another affliction it has is bug infestation syndrome, perpetually in beta, or even alpha, and will never get better. The modern gamer is so mentally broken the studio behind it has now been rehabilitated via free half-baked goodies similar to bribing a fat kid with candy.
Arguably one of the worst games in existence, if you love flying aimlessly (with the worst controls) through glowing, floating hoops in a dead city this is for you. The only part that can be construed as fun is going back to the late 90s and journeying to the Blockbuster so your expectations are completely different than our convenient modernity, becoming a child, and using your frost breath once and picking up the car. On release this was the first game I played that was 3D and also ‘open world’—in the absolute most liberal sense of the phrase—that involved flying as opposed to something on rails like Starfox 64 and that was kinda fun if you used your imagination. Failing was a little interesting too cause Lex’s laugh was on repeat in a kind of dementedly entertaining way.
