It added a bonus Age which ties into Riven's plot a little more and it also had real-time effects like day/night cycles and a weather system implemented into it. RealMyst is just the game rendered in 3D, where you can roam around Myst Island and the Ages freely as opposed to 'click spot, wait for image to load of next area'/so on. I think it also added a built-in hint system, though I never played the non-Masterpiece release so it may have always been there. Myst Masterpiece is basically a 'light' (in terms of what people expect these days) remastering of the original Myst - the images were bumped up in color-depth, the music and sounds were digitally remastered and (I believe) some of the animations for actions/etc.

ItвЂ™s an awkward and convoluted means of control, and I found myself more often than not moving rapidly back and forth so I could trick the game into giving me standard mouse-look controls instead of dealing with the Right-Click-to-pan scheme.Spectre: What are the differences between the games apart from the realmyst games letting you move freely?ДЄlso it's been decades since I've played Myst and I can't remember if you were only jumping from static pictures or if it was like that Atlantis game where you also had prerendered animations between the scenes? Myst/Myst Masterpiece is basically shifting between static images. Now you have to hold down right click to pan around, or scroll with the edges of the screen. But when you stop moving in realMyst: Masterpiece Edition, your controls change. This is how first-person games have played since time immemorial. When youвЂ™re walking, the game controls like a standard first-person game-that is to say, when you move the mouse your view also changes. ItвЂ™s a bit disorienting if you did play original Myst, because walking over takes up more time (though thereвЂ™s a bar to adjust walk speed).ДЇree-roam mode is a mess, however. With Classic controls, Cyan went back in and mapped the original camera angles from 2D Myst onto the 3D environments, so youвЂ™re basically playing Myst as it was originally intended, except instead of warping to the next camera angle, your character walks over. RealMyst: Masterpiece Edition also has two control schemes: A вЂњClassicвЂќ mode that controls like the point-and-click games of yesteryear, and a free-roam mode that allows you to walk and look around at will. Aside from a few muddy textures (especially the ones used inside the libraryвЂ™s destroyed books), this is Myst Island and the Ages as youвЂ™ve never seen them before. The addition of a day-night cycle is utterly pointless, but exploring at night or even at sunset adds a certain solemnity to the isolated loneliness of the island. This isnвЂ™t Battlefield 4, by any means, but the new Unity Engine-ified version of Myst Island looks comparatively gorgeous here.

YouвЂ™d never know realMyst: Masterpiece Edition is essentially a twenty-year-old game. So, in other words, realMyst: Masterpiece Edition is a visually-enhanced version of realMyst, which was already a fork of the original Myst line but rendered in polygons. The вЂњMasterpiece EditionвЂќ designation is basically CyanвЂ™s way of saying вЂњDirectorвЂ™s CutвЂќ or вЂњRemastered.вЂќ RealMyst, on the other hand, turned those 2D environments into fully-realized, 3D polygonal spaces. The original Myst was made in Hypercard and was essentially an interactive slideshow: A collection of hand-drawn environments you navigated by clicking. This is the fourth major version of Myst-the original, realMyst, Myst: Masterpiece Edition, and now realMyst: Masterpiece Edition.

To celebrate this auspicious anniversary, Cyan has released realMyst: Masterpiece Edition.

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