Posted on: June 28, 2024

PraetorianWolfie
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It's Riven with more exploration freedom
This review is from the perspective of someone who played the original, too many times, and loved it. The remake is in many ways a dream come true. It allows much more freedom of exploration, adds new locations or expands the original ones -- and shuffles some around a bit. Some changes feel a bit more chaotic than others. I also get the feeling that design choices were made for accessibility in puzzle solving (and in spotting that something is a puzzle), but those took a bit away from the puzzle integration in the game's world which was masterfully done in the original. The game is still the original at its heart. It's not a lesser experience. Well, excluding the replacement of FMV actors with 3d models with animations that are a bit off, eyes that look a bit dead and glitched clothing physics. But it's also not much more. A Riven veteran will probably be familiar with the premise and at any time will be aware of what is needed to be done despite any changes. They will be able to finish the game relatively quickly. Unfortunately, the puzzles this time around won't feel as smart or original as they did back in 1997. Music is still excellent. It seems that they used the original tracks and added a few new ones. And that's ok in my book. Sound ambiance is very well done in general. And we also now get subtitles and multiple localizations! The visuals are awesome. The art direction is very close to the original and there's still much attention to detail. As of yet (day one release version), there are a few bugs with being stuck on level geometry, or floating at impossible space. The color subtitles also work in one location but not on another, leaving me guessing at some point. And the journals are unfortunately still as unreadable as they were in the original. The zoom function might have helped, but there's only two modes for it - either too zoomed in (with no camera panning option) or zoomed out -- and it only works in single pages not journals anyway.
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