This game has numerous bugs. It is a terrible version of Myst so do yourself a favor and buy Real Myst and skip this piece of junk. Here are the bugs I found. 1) Elevator indicator does not work when elevator reaches Library. 2) In roaming mode cannot look down in tower to see all the dates needed for Observatory. 3) Door does not open after entering correct sound sequence from towers in Selenitic Age. 4) Un able to use key to open chest in roaming mode in Stoneship Age. 5) If you use the hints, you have to move the cursor above the hint until it goes dark rather than directly on the hint. This frustrated me for a few minutes until I ACCIDENTALLY found the secret. 6) When you look out opening in tower atop library there is nothing to see except random patterns. There may be more bugs, but the game is so buggy and I could not open door in Selenitic age even after entering correct sound sequence (I checked the help file to be sure I had correct sequence), that I stopped playing and went back to Real Myst. I can't stress enough what a lousy game this is and i would give it zero stars if that option were available. It seems as though they threw this game together and put it on the market without testing it thoroughly.
The quality of the scenery is spectacular, but it does not offset the problems with this game. The navigation has been changed so that it is necessary to use two hands to move and look around. Real Myst allowed point and click navigation with the mouse. Now the player has to use keystrokes to move and right clicks on the mouse to look around. This is a terrible system, even though it may conform to navigation used on other games it is a step backward for Real Myst. While the graphics are much better there are some game changes that I do not like. 1) On Myst Island the ocean waves are much too calm, the roaring surf of Real Myst was much better. 2) The storm in Stoneship Age is not as convincing as it was in Real Myst. 3) Tree that accesses Channelwood drops much too fast, forcing the player to fiddle around with the gas valve in the hut. 4) The game save feature does not work, so that the player cannot save progress during the game, only the automatic save feature on exit works. That means that the player cannot experiment with the pages at the end of the game. There are other complaints, but I am going to stop here. All in all, this game is okay at the sale price, but if I had paid full price, I would be angry. I recommend buying "Real Myst" and not "Real Myst Masterpiece Edition."
