As some of you may have seen recently, in honor of the 25th anniversary of MYST, I finally stopped over-preparing for, and actually did my play-through live on twitch the other day.
It was not a blind, nor semi-blind play-through. I’ve played this game multiple times, in multiple versions, through the years. While I don’t have every key memorized, I know how to get through it. My aim in the stream was to move purposefully through the game and its puzzles in a way that viewers could follow along with.
NB from the future: originally this post also included links to the edited-for-YouTube version of this playthrough, but I've privated those videos in the last few years for various reasons. The rest of this post has been written in place of that since I'd like to talk a bit more about why this game is so important to me and why I wanted to do a live play-through.Continue reading Once More unto the Linking Book