Riven 2024 Remake Game Review

Cyan have just released the 2024 remake of Riven, the 1997 classic point-and-click adventure game. I bought it, I played it and I love it! Watch to find out why.

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[Peeps]

Great video. Thanks!!

I got the original in 1998. The computer wasn’t quite good enough to keep up with some of the videos, but I still adored that game

[mistersurrealist]

The environments look absolutely amazing but boy those stiff and ugly 3D characters kinda ruin the immersion. Myst NEEDS real actors, that's one of the aspects of the original games that sold you on the idea of those worlds being real. I adore the originals and certainly appreciate the remakes, but I'd be happier if they went back into the studio and reshot those scenes with real actors and integrated that footage into the game. It IS possible, just lock the player in place whenever an actor is on screen.

[michaelweare]

Thanks Bruce...takes me back to the 90s. I've still got the original boxed version of these somewhere stashed away.

[TNJX]

Dude you have no idea how much players were savouring and relishing every second of that long cutscene with Gehn in 1997. The player is desperate for information and you finally get some, it's not boring at all :)

[stew.c]

Wow, this looks nuts! I’ve only ever played the original Myst, think I need to get this one!!!

[AussieBloke]

Your observation right at the end ... no toilet in Katherine's prison cell ... I remember thinking the same thing about Myst, when visiting the sons' rooms. Just beds and some furniture, no bathrooms, wardrobes, closets or food prep areas at all? Although they'd supposedly lived in these places for weeks or months at a time, it was clearly impossible, so they were really just suggestive rather than literal living spaces; building out all that other stuff would not have affected the gameplay (although, they could have been used to show more about the men's characters and activities).

[shaynewhite]

Intel-Mac users have a workaround - the game works in Windows using Boot Camp.

One sort of "continuity-error" is that when Catherine escapes from Prison Island and you go back into the Starry Expanse afterward, the central platform is still aligned to Prison Island. There's no way that would be possible - most likely it would be aligned with Jungle Island.

[canuckchuck]

I loved the original Myst! I cannot wait to get my hooks into the remake of Riven.

[BenCB]

Nice comprehensive review. Will have to check it out.

[dizzer]

Pretty sure Brad Dourif is way more well known for playing the part of Charles Lee Ray/Chucky in the Child's play Movies and TV Show.

[v_x]

Really could have done without so many spoilers, was watching this as I download the game

[musicjunk]

Do you know why the bridge (6:05) can go be raised using the lever (5:28)?
It starts off in the down position so I do not understand the purpose for this functionality.

[Sharkspartan]

I cant wait for the console release. I have the original on PS1 and its my favourite P&C game

[IrdinSilverbow]

Does it work on a MacBook Pro M1 using the laptop’s trackpad or is a mouse required?

[jamessutton]

No toilet? Surely you mean, no D'ni?? ;o)

[Atrain]

Too bad about the actor who played Ghen.

I think the only person who could play Ghen now is Charles Dance.

[Quicksilveraus]

Windows users can run this on min spec on 10/11 16 gb ram 780ti / 980 (ti variant), 1080, 2060, 30xx, 40xx range easy, boot-camp ftw :)

[sativares]

This needs attention and concentration, it's not for TikTok users.

[adamrandell]

Im pretty sure that 'Retirn to Zork' launched these style of gsmes not Myst...

[charlesajones]

There really needs to be a quicker way to access screenshots. You can take pictures with one button, but to look at the pictures you have to exit out of whatever you're doing, pull up the menu and select "notebook". You'll either be doing this a LOT or be writing stuff down by hand.