![]() Warm, refreshing feeling to the outdoors and a coy, candlelit feeling to the indoor scenes. Where you turn a rusting lever, you get a rough, creaking sound of metal on metal. ![]() Creaking doors, rolling stones on wood surfaces, old machinery starting up. Sound effects are also deployed when you take action. The game has been cleverly crafted to use ambient sounds such as wind, trees rustling and bug wings buzzing as you travel around. The imagery is not the only thing that stirs an interest in each scene. It’s this play on the senses that makes Riven so engaging. Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind All iPhone Apps iPad Apps. The occasional animation of bugs flying, leaves blowing or a flickering candle only heightens the sense of realism about the world. Now at times that was easier said than done, as levels got increasingly more. Each beautifully rendered scene has something to explore or observe which will, at some stage be a part of a larger puzzle leading you towards the endgame. A puzzle strategy game with a simple goal: get a certain amount of Lemmings to the exit. A freedom to explore out with the structure of expectation, deadlines and threat. This, for me was always one of the great attractions in Riven and the Myst series. You are, for the most part, alone and at peace with the world. Players to interact with, no battles with an evil-doer and nothing to run from. One thing worth noting (without giving too much away) is that, aside from the occasional cut scene in which another NPC (non player character) appears, there are no other people in the game. ![]() Through some video cut scenes and a written journal, you are charged with the investigation, and possible rescue of the D’ni people. This culture, known as the D’ni have disappeared and their island world is in a state of deterioration. Riven is about an adventure on a small archipelago consisting of five islands on which an ancient culture once lived. Bringing to life a world that could only exist in our minds and making it look as though someone had actually visited and taken photographs. For its time (early 1990’s) Riven was, and still is hailed as a triumph in realistic world creation with almost photographic quality. The world of Riven, like all of the games in the ‘Myst’ series are beautifully imagined. ![]()
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