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| From: Empire Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $18.88
You Save: $11.11 (37%)
Buy New/Used from $14.84
Avg. Customer Rating:   (16 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2181
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 02776
UPC: 744788027766
EAN: 0744788027766
ASIN: B0013M2SJ0
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Outstanding game June 12, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Myst always was and always will be an outstanding game, even in this small format. A great computer game, then a console game and now a DS version.
 You're better off with the PC version June 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Pros: This game still has the same great puzzles you remember, along with some updated features we always wished they'd had in the original, such as the ability to take screen shots and a way to take in-game notes instead of mucking about with notebooks and pencils.
Cons: They've shoehorned the original game onto a tiny DS screen instead of reworking it in a way that might have been more effective. The itty bitty controls are difficult to work in some places, and the dark graphics that looked so great on your monitor are hard to make out on the small DS screen if there's any other light in the room to cast a glare. You'll find your frustration with this game has less to do with the puzzles, and more to do with the cramped game play.
Bottom line: Go ahead and get this if you specifically need a version of the game that's portable (I bought it for a 7-hour flight), but if you want the full enveloping puzzle experience, go for the PC version.
 As painful as ever June 4, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I loved this game when it came out on the PC, but then, after playing games like EverQuest II and even Dungeon Siege, I began to realize how poor the controls on Myst were.
I thought the Nintendo DS version of Myst was going to have some improvements, but it is actually worse than the PC version. Navigating is very limited--you can only move to two or three spots on each screen. The screen is small, naturally, and the zoom feature does little to clarify the scene, so it is sometimes difficult to determine what you are looking at (and if you try to move closer you switch to another area completely).
This game is very aggravating.
Dragging back a classic to put it in a humiliating dress and milk it June 4, 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Myst was a tremendous game at the time with some nearly equally amazing sequels, but why are they dragging this back from retirement to parade it around again on a platform that's not really suited for it?
One of the things that made Myst so incredible was its atmospheric imagery. You're not going to get this on a DS, even with two screens. I haven't yet played this version, but other reviews have mentioned there's a "zoom in" feature to give a greater view of detail (which apparently doesn't really work that well), and that alone should tell you something.
What's more is that they expect you to pay nearly thirty bucks for it -- for a game that's over a decade old, crowbarred into a new container. Are you kidding? Used copies can be found for pennies.
Do yourself a favor and use the search at the top of this page to look for the Windows version, which is as of this writing listed at prices starting under half a dollar. I'm sure everyone here has a computer of some sort, and even if they have a Mac or run a newer Windows OS like Vista that may not run older apps, they could cheaply and easily set up a virtual machine with Win2k or 98 on it. It might not be portable that way, but this game wasn't really ever designed to be.
The developers of Myst for DS have massacred a great game May 27, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Myst is a great game, but I suggest you find another platform to play it on. This port is riddled with bugs. When flipping through the books, the pages skip around, the upper screen has become distorted, the touch screen controls are finicky, you can't read anything without using the zoom feature, and the screen capture tool (used as a form of note taking) flips books back to page one before taking the shot. I've only played it for about an hour and I can't believe Nintendo let them release the game in this state. Bottom line, don't buy this version of Myst. The developer who ported this doesn't deserve your money.
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