| | |  | All Games | Home » » » Myst | | | | | | | Description: | | Myst is an immersive experience that draws you in and won't let you go. You enter a unique setting, venturing alone to varied times and places, the worlds that compose Myst. There are no instructions, and you encounter no living beings but soon realize your actions may help individuals who are somehow trapped in a parallel dimension. You don't so much play Myst, as experience it. | | | Features: | |
• Combine keen observation and logic to unlock the secrets of Myst.
• A complete all NEW Age to explore and uncover mysteries on Nintendo DS.
• Original soundtrack and sound effects that enhance the sense of realism.
• Newly re-mastered Video, audio and new music for the New Age.
• New mini-tools - Camera, Magnifying Glass, Notebook and Map
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.52 pounds | | Package Length:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.2 pounds | | Release Date:
| May 13, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 25 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| Nintendo DS | | Media:
| Video Game | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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36 of 36 found the following review helpful:
 an unfortunate let-downMay 19, 2008
By khrome
"khrome23"
I was excited when I found out that Myst was going to be ported to DS. Within a few minutes of playing, I was already disappointed. It was as if the developers had never played any DS games to see what kinds of things the DS can do. If I were to port this game all over again, here's what I would change:
Pull-down Menus - right now, all the icons are on the main play screen (bottom screen), taking up about 1/3 of valuable real estate. The graphics already had to be made smaller for the DS screens, and then they made it worse by adding icons. I think tabs or a menu button that could open and close the menu would have been better.
Zoom and Pan - There is currently a zoom tool, but all it does is display the exact same image, just a hair larger, onto the top screen. It's not very useful at all. In fact, things are so small I have to use a magnifying glass that I normally use for embroidery. :P
Better Use of the Dual Screens - Perhaps the perpetual icons wouldn't have been so bad if you could swap between screens. But the top screen is hardly used. You can display the "magnified" version of what you are looking at (but if you turn or walk forward it flips back to the title screen) and it used for displaying a map that has text that are about 2 pixels big. The only time in the game you can pan is when you are reading a journal. The journal panning is pretty decent, but on someone else's review they said they should have made it so you read the journals sideways like a book (like how Brain Age is oriented.) I like that idea.
A Better Note Taking Feature - You can take notes using a little keyboard but it's limited. If you've made a mistake typing two lines up, there is no way for you to tap and place your cursor there - you have to delete everything in between! I think a better note taking feature is one where you can use your own handwriting, like on Zelda.
More Screenshots - You can take screenshots of clues, but you can only save one at a time.
I've read several reviews where people complained about the sound. To be fair, the sound is actually pretty good if you have headphones on. It definitely does not sound as good coming out of the DS speakers.
I was finally able to enjoy the game after A.) I used a magnifying glass B.) used headphones C.) took notes with pen and paper instead of the in-game tools. I would not recommend the DS version unless you are willing to put up with all that. However, Myst itself is a great game which is why I gave it a fun rating of 4 stars. If you have never played it before, try the PC or console version.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 The developers of Myst for DS have massacred a great gameMay 27, 2008
By Z. Drake
Myst is a great game, but I suggest you find another platform to play it on. This port is riddled with bugs. When flipping through the books, the pages skip around, the upper screen has become distorted, the touch screen controls are finicky, you can't read anything without using the zoom feature, and the screen capture tool (used as a form of note taking) flips books back to page one before taking the shot. I've only played it for about an hour and I can't believe Nintendo let them release the game in this state. Bottom line, don't buy this version of Myst. The developer who ported this doesn't deserve your money.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
I should have listendedJun 30, 2008
By littleblackraincloud
Like most others I was excited to see Myst coming to the DS. I should have listend to the reviews. This game did not transfer well to the DS. It is extremly hard to nagivate and the screen is very little. The zoom feature may as well not be there it does nothing to help you look at things. If you love this game and own a DS DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY! I would highly recommend you try it out from a game rental site before you buy it. I plan to trade mine in with only an hour played.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Glitches galore!May 18, 2008
By C-3PO
"The Great Game Geek"
Myst is a wonderful puzzle game, I am having much fun playing it on the ds, but there are certainly some drawbacks. The screen is to small for this game, but I can make do with it. The biggest problem is the multitude of glitches. This is the first ds game I have ever had glitch up on me. If you like Myst, get it. But if otherwise, consider a different puzzle game if you can't tolerate glitches.
11 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Some things just never changeMay 19, 2008
By N. Durham
"Big Evil"
Myst. The title alone will bring you memories of joy or pure frustration if you were around when the game originally hit PC's years ago. Since then, there have been numerous sequels and spin-off's, with the original Myst being ported to countless systems as well. Now, all these years later, Myst comes to the DS for some odd reason. One may think that the game may be reconfigured and really put the DS' technical capabilities to use, but alas, it doesn't. What we get here is the same game of yesteryear, with the only difference being that Myst has not aged well at all. The once pretty still visuals have become dated and stale, and the fact that the game has been cropped and shrunk down makes things harder to see than ever before. Not to mention that the point and click style of gameplay, which would seem to be something that work on the DS, just seem less interactive than before. Myst as a whole is still a chore to get through as well, but those who enjoyed the game back in the day will find that most of the original's audio quality is here, and there is a bonus island to play as well. Whether or not you get that far however is another question entirely. All in all, if you enjoyed Myst way back when and you own a DS, this may be worth a look; but for those uninitiated with the Myst series or the old point and clicker genre, avoid like the plague.
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