Riven: The Sequel to Myst for Windows, Mac

Pros: more puzzles, better graphics
Cons: confusing at times, could have been better

I bought this game at staples for $5. It was $15 in the bargain bin with a $10 rebate and to add to that a strategy guide was included with the game.

So I says to myself, sounds like a good bargain. I did like the original Myst after all....

Pros: Gorgeous eye candy, excellent music, deep story, more challenging than Myst.
Cons: CD swapping, more challenging than Myst.

Riven is a game of puzzle, beauty, intrigue and patience. It is not for everyone. The secret to victory is not a quick trigger finger. The enemy does not jump across the screen. The solutions are evasive. The secret to victory is patience and...

Pros: Complicated puzzles
Cons: Boringly slow moving!

I purchased Riven 2 years ago and played it for several evenings...you couldn't get me away from the computer. Well, it became so boring and I just didn't understand what was going on. I got stuck in one place and was unable to proceed past that point....

Pros: Absorbing to the point of being consuming
Cons: Five CDs: Much swapping

My wife and I played Myst a long time, and we broke down and got two hints from the AOL Myst boards. We were sorry we did it. We vowed not to do the same with Riven. Hours, and hours, and hours it took. We sat up nights. Whole evenings of play would pass...

Pros: Amazing attention to detail - Cyan developed an entire culture to make this game
Cons: Plotline and puzzles will disappoint some

If you enjoyed Myst and were not too frustrated by it, you will probably love Riven, but it's certainly not for everyone. I'm very fond of the gameplay found in these titles, but it's not action packed. I remember playing Cyan's first title, The...

Pros: I didn't actually buy it; it was a loaner from a friend.
Cons: I wasted 3 hours of my life on it.

Myst (along with the 7th Guest, Phantasmagoria, and others) was a game borne of the "let's make a game using lots of full motion video spread across 75 CDs!" movement that was so big back when people first bought CD-ROMs.

Riven, the...

Pros: excellent graphics
Cons: didn't improve what was majorly wrong in Myst

After the success of Myst, Cyan and Red Orb would be crazy not to make a sequel. So they did. Of course, if you played Myst, it was pretty much obvious that they were setting up a sequel anyway. They took Myst, included much the same plot and...

Pros: reading material, plot, graphics, toughness
Cons: headaches, frustration

Riven is a fun game...at first. At the beginning of this game I knew what to do and how to do it. But when you don't know what to do it gets boring. Eventually, you find yourself wondering around the islands looking for something to figure out....

Pros: Facinating World Created
Cons: It's too dark in a lot of places.

Riven is the sequel to Myst and I think it's very entertaining. The graphics are good except that it's a little too dark for me. The sense of entering another world is there and the perspective is good. There are many puzzles in the game and they're...

Pros: Fantastic attention to detail; wonderful graphics and sound
Cons: Lots of CDs; puzzles can get frustrating

After the tremendous success of Myst, it is no wonder that many of us waited eagerly to play Riven. And I would venture that, for most of us, our patience was well rewarded.

I suggest that before playing Riven, you take a look at Myst to get...

Pros: beautiful sights, sounds, creative storyline
Cons: lots of disc-swapping, very little animation

If you're really green to the world of PC gaming, if you're not ready for (or not interested in) all the shooting, strategy or role-playing games (RPGs), and if you really like puzzles, you might give Riven a try. The only difficulty (particularly if...

Pros: great graphics, great worlds
Cons: none

Once I finished Myst back in probably 1995 I waited anxiously for the sequel. It finally came out in I think 1997 or 1998. "Riven: The Sequel to Myst" is just as good as Myst, if not, maybe better. The world of Riven is more beautiful then...

Pros: No guns, no killing, and you can't die either!!
Cons: none

After I played Myst on my PC, I couldn't wait to get Riven!! All the games I had played up to that point had been shoot 'em up games I inherited from an ex-boyfriend of my sister's, and they really didn't interest me. But Riven is a game where you have...

Pros: A complete little world - well thought out and involving. Super-powerful PC not required
Cons: Graphics showing their age. Maybe puzzles a little too hard for the casual player

This review is based upon playing Riven very recently, and is written for the benefit of someone considering purchase now (2001) as opposed to when it was first released. By this time, you will probably be picking it up as a bargain title (maybe bundled...

Pros: Challenging puzzles, awesome graphics and movies, very involved plot.
Cons: Challenging puzzles. :)

This is a great sequel to the game Myst. The graphics are mind boggling, the movies are astounding, and the puzzles are very well thought out. The game is your quest to capture the ruler of a world that is running away from justice. The game is very easy...