Riven

Puzzle-mogs every other game. Played through it on PS5 with two siblings over a vacation and it was just the best. A perfect couch co-op game. The story is great, the world is great, the puzzles are great. The puzzles are really, really great. They don't feel arbitrary, senseless or unfair, but their solutions also are not always immediately obvious. You need to draw connections frequently. Sometimes you need to take some notes or snap a photo to reference later on. The lore unravels wonderfully, with a few major drops where you'll just be thirstily reading, soaking it up as you integrate it with the history and speculations you have thus far. The lore is itself a puzzle you build up. Then that connects, in turn, with the worlds you traverse. You build up a map of the world and an understanding of some key systems, as well as how and why they exist. A perfect game, on par with Outer Wilds in elegant, reasonable complexity and with an altogether chiller vibe. Bought it for PC literally just to support the developers. I crave games like this.

So amazing, one of my favorites of all time!

Vorweg, ich habe das originale Riven vor 28 Jahren gespielt und mit den paar Dingen, die mir noch im Gedächtnis geblieben sind, konnte ich im Remake nichts mehr anfangen. Also habe ich angefangen, alles neu zu entdecken und möglichst keine Hilfe in Anspruch zu nehmen. Lösungen sind für das Spiel sowieso nur bedingt nützlich, da viele Dinge zufällig erstellt werden. Aber nach viel Knobelei und 30 Stunden Spielzeit habe ich alle Enden erlebt und alle Errungenschaften bekommen. Mir hat dieses Remake sehr gut gefallen, die Grafik und der Surround-Sound waren klasse. Ich habe nicht einen Fehler oder gar Absturz erlebt. Das man für die Notizen das Menu öffnen muss, hat mich nicht wirklich gestört, da ich meine wichtigen Infos sowieso auf meinem zweiten Bildschirm oder in meiner Zettelwirtschaft habe. Alles in allem kann ich das Spiel jedem empfehlen, der sich für dieses Genre begeistern kann und auch bei schwierigen Rätseln nicht aufgibt.

It's pretty good. I was actually super frustrated in the beginning because the first "pixel hunt" you have to do to progress wasn't immediately obvious and I found myself in a very small area with nothing obvious to do, but I was determined to get as far as I could without looking anything up so I persisted and ultimately found the solution. I mention that, because that is kind of the theme of the game. It's a combination of some fairly satisfying puzzles, odd pixel hunts where you might not have realized there was some kind of button right before your eyes. You also may be looking at something important, but won't realize it until much later, so you will have to do quite a bit of hiking back and forth. There's a lot of unimportant things as well. Ultimately I finished the whole game without ever having to look anything up, and that is quite satisfying. So I would say hang in there, avoid looking anything up unless you are absolutely at your wit's end. I think if you played the newer Myst game that came right before this, this one is considerably more difficult and a lot of the puzzles don't have immediate feedback, and you really have to read everything and though the game has a screenshot system, realistically you are going to need a notebook for this one. So with all that said, if it sounds fun to you give it a try. I personally am very happy with this one (as well as the newer Myst game that came before it). For context, I never played the original Riven, except that after playing this I went and played the original just to see the difference, and it seems very similar, though the world was laid out a little different. I'd certainly recommend this as your introduction to Riven though.

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Groovy game. I would have liked an overlay map at times. I got lost a lot.

As much fun to play as it was the first time it was released

Someone got me the original Riven for PS1 when I was a kid and I loved playing it but never got very far because I was only about 7 years old. Being able to come back and conquer it in the updated version was a great experience! Highly recommend and will go down as one of my all time favorites.

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Crushingly difficult/unintuitive puzzles. Some were great. Visually awesome.