Myst V: End of Ages Limited Edition

I love all of the previous MYST games, but this one is the worst so far. Many of the puzzles are terribly designed and some have no feedback whatsoever in terms of showing you what a lever does, even though it makes no sense to have no animation occur, since the thing you're changing is right next to you. For example, there is a level where you have to tension a cable, but the cable doesn't actually animate or move at all. Also, a wheel spins a belt that spins a big wheel up above to tension the cable, but the belt just goes up and clips through the ceiling--there's no hole or anything, it just goes through solid metal, so it looks like two ropes hanging instead of a belt that drives something else you can't see. This is just an example of how the bad design can affect your understanding of a puzzle. The slate mechanic is interesting, but the game is really unreliable when it comes to recognizing the symbols you are drawing, even if you draw it very accurately. Some of the environments look really nice, some of them don't. The characters are very bland and uninteresting and are obsessed with pacing slowly in silence, which is so boring to watch. I did not care about the story at all, though the final "level" is a cool idea. Overall, the game is fairly short, though the time you spend in it will be stretched out by dumb, uninteresting puzzles, some of which are so esoteric I don't know how someone could figure them out without help. The main positive is the look of some of the locations. That's it.

To a huge fan of the Myst series, Myst V (and Uru, for that matter) were giant letdowns. The first four games were, as most of you will know, point and click adventures where you moved through static, pre-rendered environments, exploring increasingly fantastic worlds (ages) and occasionally interacting with FMV characters. The stories were engaging, the characters memorable, the gameplay simple yet refined. By the time Myst IV rolled around, they had it down to a science, with full 360 degree panoramas to explore, huge lush ages to puzzle through, etc etc. Then for some unfathomable reason, they decided to take Myst V, the finale, in a completely different direction. A full 3D environment that was a massive step backward in terms of visual fidelity from Myst IV (which was a photo-realistic world, if still a pre-rendered slide-show). The gameplay had you regularly interacting with other characters (where the previous games were largely a solitary experience). The story was... bizarre (and not bizarre like the other four games...bizarre like I had no idea what was going on and still have no lasting memories of the plot other than how disappointing it was). I could go on. Even taken on its own terms, this wasn't a good game. Graphically it was subpar, the controls were clunky, the characters were ... ok at best ... A big letdown to a great series. For me, the Myst games end at IV, and I'd still recommend them to anyone who wants to experience a fantastic fictional world and play through a great story. But skip this one.

A great game.

I'm just wondering if anyone has played this with windows 10 yet and did it work well?

Riven was the most symbolic episode, while puzzles in Exile were the greatest, and the Revelation had the most stunning graphic effects among the whole series, in my own opinion of course.