![]() Most of those problems don’t concern what I want to talk about, so we can take the canon as the Cyan-developed games, including Uru, and the three novels. Myst’s canon is a mess: the rules of the universe had to fit the needs of the games and many important parts were retconned. The D’ni are kind of racist patriarchal bastards and I’m not sure how much of that is intentional. I’ve recently reread the novels and replayed the games and, now, as a queer adult, there’s a lot about the plot that I missed when I was younger. Riven felt like a place people could live in and Uru, Cyan’s ambitious project to create a multi-player online puzzle platform, took that to another level. Part of what made Myst so engrossing is the care that Cyan put into building a world. I’m not much of a gamer and Myst is a unique game and even now, at the 25th anniversary of the original, there haven’t been many successful imitators. Myst and its sequels have always been my favourite video games. Myst and D’ni: an Intersectional Analysis
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