"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Warp wrote:
>>   I have two games of the series, and both are too difficult for my 
>> taste.
>
> I'd be happy to give hints. Playing Riven without playing Myst is sort of 
> like coming into a soap opera in the middle, tho. Lots of the fun is 
> seeing how it links back to what you learned in Myst.
>
> There's also a great web site called "UHS" (Universal Hint System, I 
> think). Google for "UHS Riven". You ask a question like "How do I work the 
> elevator?" The first hint will be "It needs something somewhere else." The 
> second will be "you already passed it getting to the elevator." The third 
> will be "It needs a power source." The fourth will be "The power source is 
> electrical."  By the time you get to the 15th hint or so, you have a 
> pretty complete walkthru on how to solve that one puzzle.
>
> Which particular part did you get stuck on? One of the things I liked 
> about Riven was that when I got stuck, and then later figured it out, it 
> was like a "duh!" moment. Oh, well of course! That was obvious! (Like, 
> where the dome on the island with the frogs is, for example; that took me 
> quite some time to figure out.) But there were some really unobvious 
> things, yeah.
>
> Exile, I thought, was a bit more straightforward. Pretty obvious what 
> you're supposed to do (except right at the end). At least you know what 
> the goal of each age is. :-)
>
> If you find Riven difficult, I'd suggest staying far away from Revelation. 
> The skinny brother's Age (sirus?) was pretty much impossible to figure out 
> without cheating. :-)
>

Riven was the only one I played, and like some others here I got stuck, then 
lost interest, then one of the discs was damaged 2 years later when I tried 
installing again. It was absolutely beautiful though. I would turn off all 
the lights and wear some headphones like suggested. I was totally in awe. I 
should go back and play the original then?

Does anyone have a site that has high quality screenshots of Riven? It would 
make for some good desktop background I think. Off to search for some :)

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