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Where the Worlds of Cyan Take Us (Myst, Riven and Firmament)
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@ActuallySanFrancisco 6 ай бұрын
you remain one of my positively favorite youtube channels, no matter how underrated your subscriber count is. i always look forward to periodically checking your channel for new uploads. hope you never stop making videos!
@VZed 6 ай бұрын
No plans to stop, but sadly it seems like time is getting more and more difficult to find these days.
@ActuallySanFrancisco 6 ай бұрын
@@VZed i hear you on that. well, when time allows, your videos are always worth the watch 🙏
@EricAAnderson 5 ай бұрын
This was a risky click for me, but I genuinely appreciated this video. Thanks so much for visiting our places.
@VZed 5 ай бұрын
It's been a full-on honour! Thank you for giving me these places to explore. This channel has become a document of how much these kinds of games have affected me over the years and for good reason. Not a stretch for me to call them life changing experiences.
@gregkrazanski 4 ай бұрын
Myst is great, Riven is perfect, Obduction is near-perfect, and Firmament is highly underrated. I thought the gameplay and puzzle design was very good in the ways you described, the environments were fantastic, and I could not stop thinking about the story afterward. Riven and Myst have deep and interesting lore and larger than life characters, Obduction's premise/lore was fascinating and beautifully cosmic and spiritual, but Firmament's story felt much more... i dunno.. darkly human and emotional to me. I think they knocked it out of the park. Suffice it to say, Cyan has an incredible catalogue, they are geniuses. I'm sort of feeling like the riven remake will be beyond perfect.
@pakkitman 11 ай бұрын
I'm curious what you'd think of Cosmo D's games... they're more narrative and less puzzly but theyre still games about inhabiting and making sense of the world. And jazz its also about jazz
@VZed 11 ай бұрын
I played the original Off-Peak, and LOVED it. I have the rest of the Cosmo D catalogue in my Steam library and so far am only missing enough time to play everything I want to. They are very exciting prospects on the horizon for me. Maybe I'll have to bump them up the list with your suggesiton.
@aaronh6489 3 ай бұрын
Love Cosmo D
@PerrydactylShow 11 ай бұрын
Not a puzzle gamer, but I wont lie you do make em seem quite interesting!
@VZed 11 ай бұрын
It's a trick! don't believe my lies! But seriously, I think these games are cool as heck.
@epicfox567 8 ай бұрын
Check out Myst even if just for the vibe and story and atmosphere. It has a great universe that will hopefully be expanded more soon.
@ughaghost 11 ай бұрын
So nice to have a lil collab in here with another youtuber i enjoy. I heard Cullen's voice and was immediately like "hey wait i know that guy lol". i haven't played Firmament yet but your take on it has definitely been more generous than some and it really makes me want to give it a chance so thanks for that. It must really suck to spend decades creating and have your whole audience fixate on exactly one thing you made and very early in your career as well, then have all your future work compared to it.
@YouFightLikeACow 3 ай бұрын
Man, seriously great stuff. Now I gotta watch all your Myst videos.
@VZed 3 ай бұрын
hope you enjoy :)
@rawky1986 11 ай бұрын
I’m about a third of the way through and you said there’s an element of discovery missing. That’s why Firmament has sat in my collection having played only about 1h. I Will try and get back to it but it’s really not what I hoped for. P.s. have you played Quern?
@VZed 11 ай бұрын
I have played Quern, though I didn't finish it. I really liked what I played and I feel like I left it largely because of distraction and not because it lost me. I should probably give it another go soon.
@rawky1986 11 ай бұрын
@@VZedman I really recommend it, it's kind of the only proper Myst-alike that's had the depth of puzzling that Riven had. That and Xing. If you fancy something similar, which I really enjoyed but it wasn't quite the same was Ether One, it's more obtuse with its puzzle solving, not quite as latch-key satisfying, but I do like the world building.
@goatqueen1 Ай бұрын
loved that game>>>
@TurboBass 4 ай бұрын
That's such a perfect way to describe it!!! Picking at the loose corners of unknowing until you are able to peel it back and reveal understanding hiding beneath. This video gets a thumbs up, but if it didn't then this sentence would win me over!
@trapez77 4 ай бұрын
I feel like the real time 3-D breaks the illusion of it being made by pictures of a real place
@thenothing2786 11 ай бұрын
Hey buddy, love your videos. Did you ever play The Journeyman Project games? I can’t find any good retrospectives on that series. Would love to see you do a series on all three.
@VZed 11 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! I have not played The Journeyman Project, and hadn't heard of them until now. They seem interesting though. I may have to drift into that series and see what I think. It'll be a while before I'm ready for a retrospective though, haha.
@thenothing2786 11 ай бұрын
@@VZed They are great! Have all the hallmarks of a classic 90s point and click adventure. Beautiful pre-rendered graphics, fun puzzles, and fantastically bad fmv. They are a little easier than MYST and RIVEN and not quite as clever but if classic pc first person adventure games are your favorite genre, you won’t be disappointed. You have lots of fun new/old adventures ahead of you.
@gregyoungman 11 ай бұрын
I hate puzzles and puzzle games but you and your puzzle positive propaganda mill are making me interested
@VZed 11 ай бұрын
Well, there's a reason I keep stumpin' for 'em. I've got some other stuff in the pipeline next, though.
@miguelbranquinho7235 9 ай бұрын
If you hate how puzzles make you feel there's a way to get revenge: solve them!
@epicfox567 8 ай бұрын
@@VZedmore puzzle positive propaganda please
@tonyallen4265 6 ай бұрын
Great video, but Firmament was a huge disappointment. It felt like I was at work doing a job. I already have a job. Myst and Riven felt like discovery. Give me discovery, not work.
@VZed 6 ай бұрын
Yeah I think I can agree with that. Firmament was ultimately not what I was hoping for but I did appreciate what I managed to find in it.
@weirdalexander8193 3 ай бұрын
I think that was kind of what they were going for; you are a keeper, and keepers have a lot of work to do when there’s only one of them. Personally, I saw it less as a world to be lived in (that’s exclusive to the swan section), but as portal with humor replaced with atmosphere. Boy howdy, does it have good atmosphere, except for Juleston. The air quality is mediocre at best in that age 🙃
@mnibecke 3 ай бұрын
What about an obduction video?
@VZed 3 ай бұрын
I haven't ruled it out, but I never felt like I stumbled on my "in" for that game. It's great, and I've really enjoyed playing it but I'm not sure what I'd say about it is all.
@MrBooone 11 ай бұрын
my dude out here making videos on the most esoteric games lmao
@VZed 11 ай бұрын
Are you quoting my brain back when it was saying exactly that the whole time I was working on this? lol But seriously, the next one's gonna be a bit more accessible :)
@Yohoat 11 ай бұрын
More cyan content, this is what I live for 🙏
@MrBooone 11 ай бұрын
I got into your channel through Donkey Kong, so every time I see a game like this or Dredge I'm just like 😵@@VZed. Great video as always, but I have zero idea what these games are all about. ;____; I'd love to see some videos that branch the esotaric to more accessible stuf, kind of like Jacob Geller. Feels like your videos really tap into that style of video making. Just can be a bit alienating to dinguses like me lmao
@michelottens6083 11 ай бұрын
Not esoteric to people alive in the 90s! I still live for these games, or for the bits in other games that resemble these (the best bits in assassin's creed!). Even if proper good myst-likes seem to come out only twice a decade now, released close together. That's enough, for a game form so purely and influentially its own (can't explain it but these games feel foundational to me, with no filler).