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Pyst
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NeonSocialite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyst
dnovraD Pyst is the sort of painfully unfunny that makes it wish it was in the same league of bad as ToonStuck. But whereas Toonstuck has an occasional, very occasional chuckle, Pyst is just a terrible interactive slideshow though and though.
Not only does it fail to parody parts of the game that would be funny to parody, such as turning an obtuse puzzle into a Rube Golberg machine, it instead decides to stick to a more juvenile approach, as if they had asked a small child or Beavis and/or Butthead without the humor provided by their creator, Mike Judge.
Fully featured in the highly unfunny rich toilet humor of the 1990s and similar grossout humor, along with completely missing the point, Pyst is a series of postcards that would probably be thrown in the trash if you tried to send them via your local postal service.
The first is a trash laden version of the dock where all players of Myst would have started on, apparently from the aftermath of a Woodstock festival. Which in 1996, was a timely reference nearly 30 years old. Sure, the festival was recurring, but most people think of the 1969 original when you say, "Woodstock."
Once one has taken in the garish image including clip art of a rat chewing on a gull, which stands out only for the reason that it neither matches the interactive scraps this parody is, nor the original Myst, one finds that they do not navigate the island as one would in Myst because this is a cheap postcard collection. You're not actually visiting Pyst.
Myst by the way is less of a physical location and more of an alternate dimension, written into existence by the author of the book, using an art that had been all but lost to time created by the D'ni. As such, without a Linking book, there's no way you'd simply "fall" into Myst/Pyst.
Next is the "crash pad." Another garish room to behold sight upon, featuring cigarette butts floating in the holographic reflecting pool. Somehow. Rather than something clever like Sirrus or Achenar having taken over the island as an alternative take of events where one of the players unwittingly freed them, there are instead three unrelated "rulers", each of whom have unfunny messages to deliver, including for some reason, John Goodman as the king of the trash heap. It includes a timely Prince joke, who in 1996 his career was on rocky times. Most people were busy caring about other things.
Next up is the approach to the library next to the observatory. Which for some reason now features a trailer park including a roast squirrel because stereotypes. More concerning is the tornado featured. Normally, that's a sign that an age is starting to fall apart due to a failure to maintain the writing required to keep ages stable.
Also is "The TV Garden", replacing the puzzle to raise the Stoneship. now featuring an unsurprising littering of garbage, a massive CRT masquerading as a jumbotron, and for some reason, toasters in place of the puzzle elements because...?
I suppose I could keep going, but I've already summarized this thing entirely.
uchristensen Just watched a full let's play of this ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fo-DH8VlsM ) and oh my god it is a piece of trash. While the premise (overrun version of Myst island) is fun, the execution is a pile of rubbish like your run-off-the-mill Flash slideshow game (it is made in Macromedia even). While John Goodman is in this (and sings the theme "I'm Pyst"), he is utterly wasted here. Why did he agree to this? I sincerely hope the paycheck was good. Pyst is unfunny, ugly and should just be forgotten.
NoClass77 I'd love to see all the old Parroty Interactive games get a GOG release.
NeonSocialite www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp1ZKRqXPho <Intro/Making of
cyxceven Haha! I kinda wish the hinted at sequel "Driven" had been made.
metalhardchair Pyst may have been dumb but it was cool dumb. I waited years to get it only to not really get much use with the lack of a windows 95 computer. the parody CDrom needs to make a comeback.
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