In cyan’s defense, every other point and click mystery/adventure game at the time was so much worse about this shit. Spacequest had stuff like if you forgot to do something in the first room you fail in the last room and can’t fix it. Even Nancy Drew, which was made for kids, had some bullshit (but at least a built-in hint system). Game design had come a long way. The new monkey island games are great.
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Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 weeks agoThe only similar experience I had with Myst was the rail maze. I didn’t notice the audio cue at all so I just mapped out the whole thing on paper by following the left hand wall. I say that because when I was done, I tried following the right hand wall out of curiosity and it was the shortest possible path. It was like a crual joke on people who say that you can find your way through a maze by following the left hand wall, just because the “left” wall was the way people phrased that concept.
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Curdie@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Omg this was basically my experience too. I was so mad when I broke out notepad to show my friends how awesome I was and they were like dude
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Yup, found out the real answer from a friend who was a little shocked.