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Riven combined the pre-rendered backgrounds with live action footage, in order to increase the player's immersion level. [6] [11] Riven was the first game in which any of its designers had directed live actors, and Vander Wende was apprehensive about their use. [6] Rand Miller had to reprise his role of Atrus from Myst, even though he hated ...
The climactic ending with Atrus was a later development in the game's story, after Cyan realized they wanted to create a more complicated ending. In retrospect, Robyn felt that Myst did not quite provoke the emotional reaction and ethical quandary they set out to create.
Myst was a commercial and critical success upon release and spawned four sequels—Riven, Exile, Revelation and End of Ages— as well as several spinoffs and adaptations. While the player, referred to as a Stranger, remains faceless and unnamed, Myst and its sequels introduce a variety of non-player characters.
Gehn destroys Atrus' first Age, Inception, because it does not follow Gehn's style of writing. After attempting to escape his father, Gehn traps Atrus in a locked chamber in D'ni, with the only escape to Gehn's own Age of Riven. On Riven Atrus falls in love with a villager named Catherine. Catherine and Atrus hatch a plan to trap Gehn on Riven.
The first sequel to Myst, Riven, was released in 1997 and was followed by three more direct sequels: Myst III: Exile in 2001, Myst IV: Revelation in 2004, and Myst V: End of Ages in 2005. A spinoff featuring a multiplayer component, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst , was released in 2003 and followed by two expansion packs .
Atrus is the writer of special books, which serve as links to worlds known as Ages. Twenty years earlier, his two sons, Sirrus and Achenar, destroyed his library on Myst and trapped their parents in order to plunder the wealth of Atrus' Ages. The player's intervention saved Atrus, who had imprisoned his sons via traps intended for thieves.
Myst III: Exile is the third title in the Myst series of graphic adventure puzzle video games.While the preceding games in the series, Myst and Riven, were produced by Cyan Worlds and published by Broderbund, Exile was developed by Presto Studios and published by Ubi Soft.
Riven is the sequel to the highly successful computer game Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds , it was initially published by Brøderbund . Riven was distributed on five compact discs and released on October 29, 1997, in North America ; it was later released on a single DVD-ROM, with improved graphics and a fourteen-minute " making-of " video.