That maze puzzle is evil. back and forth, back and forth.............................

The ending has been written. I loved Obduction. I finally got a computer capable of running it in December 2020. I whiled away many lock-down hours playing it. The thing that I disliked was not being able to explore the mended world.

MAKE IT HOME??????????????????? that is GENIUS! HOLY CRAP!

Great video btw! I'm a massive MYST fan. I absolutely LOVED Obduction.

Great video!

I want to help clarify all this, just so that no one's left confused. MYST's story involved an entire family drifting apart after the collapse of a civilization. Essentially, a community "torn apart" Obduction's story, on the other hand, involved four species, once living in peace, brought back together. A community melded back together. MYST was about ruined civilizations, Obduction was about reborn civilizations. I hope things are less obscure now.

I really liked Obduction. I think that only Riven may be better than this. I hope that there will be a sequel.

Helpful review. I've actually played the game several times, but felt like I didn't have the races and planets straight. With a name like Vilein you'd think they were the bad guys. One thing I never knew until you mentioned it, I had no idea there was a warning about C.W.”s battery. Where does Farley refer to that?

I must have missed mondo lore in my playthrough, because I didn't understand the ending at all. I didn't trust C.W., and there was journal (someone else's) referring to C.W.'s plans almost like the first nuclear detonation -- "God help me for what I've created" kind of thing. So I disconnected the battery, and got the good ending. "Farley was right!" said C.W. What? Right about what? Where was C.W.'s plan ever explained, and where were Farley's objections noted? Loved those Myst books when I was a kid, btw.

Sounds interesting

I'd like your thoughts on Quern. A similar game that explicitly tried to sequel Myst. I did a comparison of the two myself.

Nice I might get it

Too many swap machines. The exciting parts of the game happened too quickly. One of my favorite parts was seeing the red rocks on the opposite side of the river - you didn't realize they were red from the scrap yard track vantage point, thereby not knowing they needed to be blown up. But the swapping - my goodness - simply too much time consuming - the maze was a cool puzzle, but it was too tedious.

Best game ever

I thought CW was played by Rand Miller. I just learned something.

I beat Obduction without using a walkthrough or hints. Not sure if easier than Myst or Riven, or if I've caught on to Cyan's thought process.

how come no one talks about the bar in the cave or submarine?

Incredibly well put together video and yet only boasting a mere 100 subscbribers. Let's change that.

Who cuts Farley's hair?

Ddoes Farley give anybody else OG Catherine vibes?

I just couldn't get into the world and the pacing of it for some reason.

ich kann das ja auch blöd finden, weil keine deutschen Untertitel sind, aber kann man sich doch selbst übersetzen. Was wäre denn blöd?

I think it's a very beautiful game with an interesting concept, but is very clunky mechanically, and relies far too heavily on written exposition. I couldn't help all the way through thinking how with every unnecessarily long, or tedious, or obscure puzzle how the developers must have thought they were being too clever by half. Any puzzle game that requires an option to activate sprites that directs one around the map probably should've gone back to the drawing board for some radical simplification. Although it may be an unfair comparison, compare 'Obduction' to 'The Witness'; One can barely complete 'Obduction' without the game hand-holding, or providing character direction, whereas 'The Witness' requires zero exposition, linear zone progression, or even a tutorial. This is made possible by Blow's commitment to precise and succint simplicity, designing and redesigning over and over again to pare back as much as possible. Take, for example, the Villeins base four counting system represented by a node pattern. This is explained once and exactly once on an easily overlooked piece of paper at the gas station. Different base counting systems are not something even advanced players will necessarily be familiar with, particularly ones that aren't represented numerically. Most people will first have to go away and research what a different base system is and how to use it before they can even work out how it translates to the node symbols. Any game that requires the player to do external homework is not well designed in the sense that it is not well contained. Most players I've watched doing let's plays of 'Obduction' have simply brute forced the Villein panel solutions with either mistaken ideas or no idea of how or why their solutions worked. Also, the various worlds are packed with dead ends purely for stylistic effect that have no impact on gameplay. Whether a design choice, or deliberate red herrings, they make the game seem confused as to its own layout. The Villein world, for example, has a very distinct trail of bridges and buildings through it, but is peppered with useless dead ends that merely occupy rendering and graphic capabilities instead of advancing or improving the puzzles. Puzzles that are complex are not necessarily better than puzzles that are simple. This is what we learn from the Principle of Parsimony. I think Cyan forgot that axiom somewhere along the way, sadly, and it shows in the labyrinthine wanderings of a game that should be relatively straightforward.

Inverse of Myst? What do you mean by that? You don't answer your title question in your video, most of it is just sumarizing the game and perhaps explaining how the "make it home" idea is clever. Please be more precise.

The puzzles were way too complex, and their solutions way too hidden. I didn't finish the game, because I realized what other things I could do instead of walking around in circles at snails pace. It looked really gorgeous tho.

obduction has a few major flaws, riven was a masterpiece

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