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* [[Better on DVD]]: The digital version of ''Riven'' is ''much'' smoother than the original version, which came on a whopping five CD-ROM's that required you to swap them every time you went to another of Riven's five islands. In fact, ''Riven'' was one of the earliest PC games to receive a DVD release for this reason.
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: In most of the ages, the linking books are just sitting out in the open. In the Stoneship Age, it rises out of a table for no explainable reason. This is not foreshadowed at all, it seems somewhat magical even by the game's standards, and it's never spoken of again, or really at all. Of course, it could just be [[Rule of Cool]] in play, since it ''is'' a pretty nifty effect.
* [[Complete Monster]]:
** [[You Bastard|YOU]], if you get the Releeshann book back from Saavedro and leave him trapped.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Examples are few and far between, given the ambient nature of the games, but the one that stands out the most is "Curtains" from ''Myst IV'', sung by none other than [[Peter Gabriel]].
* [[Even Better Sequel]]: ''Riven''.
* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: Depending on your perspective, ''Myst V'' and ''Uru'', the novels, or even ''the first four games'', largely due to the series' massive [[Retcon|Ret Cons]] and [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|Literary Agent Hypotheses]].
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Saavedro's been through a lot of shit thanks to Sirrus and Achenar, and deserves the chance to finally go home, but he's still a gigantic dick about the whole thing; several of the bad endings
** For the other bad ending,
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]
** Kadish
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]
▲* [[Paranoia Fuel]] - Riven, full stop.
** The intro actually has a too-fast-to-see frame of Gehn looking at you as a subliminal message to give you the feeling someone's watching.
** There's a door on "Temple Island", where you start
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** There's a throne room (of sorts) near the temple, connected to it by surveillance camera and holographic imager. If you enter the temple, sometimes the imager will be running and you can see Gehn hurriedly switch it off - and you can't catch him before he escapes.
** There's a periscope in the middle of the lake on Village Island, which turns out to be connected to another hidden surveillance room. When you're out wandering around the lake
** When you break into Gehn's office, there's a D'ni rifle and smoking-pipe sitting on a desk. But [[Missed Him by That Much|if you break in a second time, they're gone...]]
* [[Porting Disaster]]: Porting the original game to the Nintendo DS did not go so well, given the DS's lower resolution and lack of a context-sensitive mouse cursor.
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** The 3DS version isn't much better than the DS version. It uses a cursor at least, but it doesn't use the 3D functions, nor does it use the touch screen for anything important. The cursor is controlled by the Circle Pad, and it re-centers whenever the Circle Pad is released, making it a real pain to control. What makes it worse is the blatant false advertising of the promotional materials, which claim that it displays in 3D, when it doesn't.
** Many of the early ports could also be considered this, since they were often put on consoles that had lower resolution than the PC versions allowed. They also had clunky controls and [[Loads and Loads of Loading]], which especially got bad in ''Riven'' where you had to make really long treks.
* [[Player Punch]]
** The show of missing his family was an act to ingratiate himself to his mother, since it's all built within the survey of the viewer. His own journal entry reveals his motive.
{{quote|"Perhaps if I play upon her guilt. Create a sculptural vignette which she can see inside their viewer. If I choose the appropriate memory, it should convince her that I, too, have my regrets."}}
** There's also the moment in ''Riven'' where you read one of Gehn's journals. He's crying about his deceased wife
▲** There's also the moment in Riven where you read one of Gehn's journals. He's crying about his deceased wife, Keta, and unlike the neat and ordered previous pages, the pages on this one are stained with tears. {{spoiler|The worst part is is that you have to trap him before you can learn about this.}}
*** Just in case you didn't know how much he misses her, there is also a photograph of her and a short video message where she promises always to love him "to the greatest extent".
** Saavedro's journal in ''Myst III: Exile''. It starts off as a straightforward journal about the details of his revenge, but as you collect pages for it (which are scattered around various ages), more of Saavedro's backstory forms
*** [[Tear Jerker|"Atrus, I'm not you."]]
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny
* [[Squick]] Gehn
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]
* [[That One Puzzle]]: In ''Riven'', the marble puzzle, sometimes given the [[Fan Nickname]] "the waffle iron from Hell." It's extremely tedious to solve, as not only do you have to pinpoint every dome on a hard-to-see 3D map of each island, you also have to physically go to each of those domes, look at the switch that opens them, have a ''very'' close eye on which symbol is yellow (they strobe by very quick), then match that symbol to a corresponding color in ''another'' room way far and off, then place that corresponding colored marble where it corresponds to map-wise on the waffle iron. To figure all of this out at once is incredibly unintuitive, but the amount of trekking you have to do just to piece together all the right information to get ''one'' marble is insane, let alone five! Oh, and if you're playing the original five-disc release, that also means the game brings out the worst of the disc swapping during this puzzle. The game's plot almost completely stops dead in its tracks when you hit this part, and is widely considered the worst part of what is otherwise an [[Even Better Sequel]].
* [[The Woobie]] - Saavedro, and possibly Achenar in ''Revelation''.▼
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: Hi there, Teledahn... world of ''giant mushrooms''.
** And also novels-only Torus, as mentioned in [[World of Chaos]].
** In general, Catherine's ages seem to have this in universe. Yeesha even calls her the "writer of dreams".
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