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WARNING Cheating required to ever see this entire game
Or even more than 25% of it. I'm not kidding. You may have read in other reviews of the so called `monkey puzzle'. I laughed to myself when I read it and ordered the game anyway. I am a veteran gamer of over 20 years, surely with time and patience, I would be able to get through. I am also a graphic artist, so needless to say, accuracy shouldn't have been my problem. <
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>What actually happens in the puzzle can only be labeled a glitch in the software. I progressed from mild frustration to wild rage over the day and a half I spent trying to solve this thing. Even when I broke my own rules and read the exact solution online, I could not get it done. Why? Because the actual game will not let me. That's right. Some sort of glitch prevents me from activating the right wheels so that no matter how fast or perfectly I operate them, I can't make the puzzle go past the point when the monster is in the pit. I use the exact combo to get the white monkey to come out and throw fruit on him. <
>Nothing. He sure comes out AFTER the monster is free, though. He also comes out any other time, so I know I'm doing it right. He comes out except when I need him to to solve the puzzle. And yes, that is the only solution to it. There is no other way. <
>So after getting all the patches and cheats and everything else, I've finally gone totally dishonest. I have downloaded a save game with absolutely no guilt whatsoever. <
>I will see the rest of this game anyway. Ubisoft should offer a patch to remove that puzzle because it's defective and so hard as to border on absurdity. <
>I just don't understand what happened here. Myst has never had twitch gaming in it. I play Mario or Donkey Kong for that stuff. And you know what? Those games were actually well programmed and WORK. <
>I warn any Myst fan to stay as far away from this as they can unless they have a save file. Now I can see the lush landscapes and try to piece the rest of the story together. I'm just sorry that Ubisoft took away my chance to enjoy this game the right way. <
>I guess I can see why they have ended the franchise. After the other 4 games, this was such a come down. Myst was always known as a thinker's game, that encouraged taking time and savoring the various locations, the kind of thing that you could be immersed in without action game type puzzles. It's a little hard to enjoy the lush graphics when you are shaking with rage. At least if they wanted to change genres, couldn't they have done it right? <
>Don't say you weren't warned. <
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Amazing production value, but far too challenging
Myst IV starts out really good. The puzzles in the beginning age are just the perfect difficulty, but once you leave they take a huge leap into rediculousness. <
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>Most of the difficulty in Myst IV's puzzles comes from searching for extremely obscure hints instead of actually challenging puzzles. It is far too easy to overlook these hints, and in the case of one age you have to search with a fine tooth comb through a very intricate maze in the jungle with hidden paths all over the place. Even if you find the hints though, a lot of the time they make nearly zero sense. <
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>One thing I can say though, is that this is the most graphically impressive game I've ever played. The only problem is that the game has crazy system requirements. Even if you meet the requirements, certain screens take a long time to load and a few effects have extreme slowdown and lag. <
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>Overall, the game would have been so much better if the hints hadn't been hidden in such obscurity. It would have been a stellar game.