URU: Complete Chronicles

If you're on the fence then go for it! It has a lot of personality and charm, although it is unfortunately held back by terrible controls. I would suggest playing in first person and making liberal use of hints.

Impression d'aventure. Force notre sens d'observation.

These kinds of games are for deep explorers. For those who only want to discover new worlds for the pleasure of seeing new artefacts, imagine how they work and try to solve logical puzzles. If you already played it, you'll enjoy this remastered version. If you've never played these adventures, your analytical brain-side will rise up with a strength you never knew you had. And it will never leave you.

So I only played through Uru because I loved the first four Myst games and wanted to play all of them - if I wasn't stubbornly determined to do this, I probably wouldn't have bothered with Uru. Having finished it, I'll say that Uru: CC is fun, but it's also kind of a hot mess for three reasons. The first issue is the control system - the designers intended it to be played in third person mode and you sometimes need to use third person to accomplish certain tasks. However, the third person controls are extremely clunky and the camera angle frequently shifts around. My avatar did a lot of walking backwards while looking at his ankles or turning around in little circles when I was trying to position him in a certain spot. Crappy controls wouldn't be a huge deal (after all, you can usually stay in first person mode, which is much easier to use) except that the game sometimes requires you to manipulate the avatar in precise ways that require third person, such as manipulating items by bumping into them with your feet or making very careful jumps. The second problem is that, unlike in the previous four games, the introduction of the Relto book means you can fall off cliffs and into chasms and otherwise get into trouble - you link out to Relto before you die, but that means you have to link back in and navigate to wherever you last were, Combine that with the clumsy controls and you have some very frustrating parts of the game, which for me took away some of the fun. Finally, while I thought most of the puzzles in Uru were more or less logical, there were a few that I don't think could be realistically solved by a player using observation and logic. In other Myst games, you figure out cause and effect by experimentation, but some Uru puzzles make experimentation extremely tedious in that, if you get something wrong, trying again is time consuming and clunky. It didn't lend itself to leisurely trial and error like other Myst games, so I'd sometimes use a walkthrough just to avoid annoyance. Anyway, I still had fun playing Uru despite all of that irritation - it's huge, has lots of playtime, and there are some gorgeous ages and several very cool puzzles. If I hadn't occasionally used a walkthrough it would have been a pain in the butt, which felt like kind of a shame.

Uru auf modernen Systemen gescheit zum laufen zu bringen ist ein Pain in the ass. An einer Stelle ist das Spiel reproduzierbar abgestürzt, Windows XP Kompatiblitätsdingens hat geholfen. Das ist das einzige Myst-Spiel, das ich selbst mit Komplettlösung nicht durchgespielt habe. Zu große Laufwege. Was soll das mit den Weltentüchern? Ich komme mit der Steuerung nicht klar. Man merkt, dass das Spiel ursprünglich als MMORPG geplant war, aber der MMORPG Part hat es nicht ins fertige Spiel geschafft, weil Cyan damals in wirtschaftlichen Schwierigkeiten war. Das selbe Spiel bekommt man heutzutage mit der Multiplayer Komponente unter dem Namen Myst Online als Open Source kostenlos. Das hat auch Fixes die in der Steam Version noch nicht enthalten sind. Ich konnte selbst Myst V etwas abgewinnen, abgesehen von der Spielmechanik mit dem Zeichentablet und Eshers zu langen Monologen. Aber mit Uru bin ich einfach nicht warm geworden.

Game breaking glitch makes entire section of the game unreachable. Glitch has existed for nearly 10 years. Abandonware.