Riven for iPad Reviews – Page 5
4/5 rating based on 54 reviews. Read all reviews for Riven for iPad.
Riven for iPad is paid iOS app published by Cyan Worlds, Inc
Dated
TCF Inc
I thought this would be good. Unfortunately the game is very dated. The graphics are old compared to what is available nowadays. If you are nostalgic for this game, then you won't be disappointed. However, the makers need to make an updated version for the iPad as this was a disappointment.
ONLY if you've never played
jon5261960
If you have played the PC version, then stay away. This is merely a shadow of the original, which I loved when I played it years ago. If you have never played this game before you may enjoy it, but be warned it is nothing like the original game.
Horrid graphics = unplayable
GERIJO
I had played Myst with my mother as a teen, but we had never gone on to Riven. When I found the games were available for my iPad, I became excited and decided to start again from the beginning. The graphics and visual flow that Cyan accomplished with realMyst were incredible, so I had expected far more from Riven than what I have received. Honestly, I want my money back. I haven't even been able to play for five minutes past the introductory videos because the graphics and visual flow are so incredibly horrid. Movement is nothing compared to Myst. It doesn't even feel like a continuation of the same game. Definitely not what I thought that I was paying for. INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED!
Sick joke
SarBearBuff
After playing realmyst with the moving and flowing screen just as the original computer game worked. This is merely screen shots! I want to CRY!
Highly Recommended with One Provision
player58z
This app is a port of an old PC game. Like most adventure puzzle games - even those developed today, Riven did NOT have free roaming movement when it was developed, and this port doesn't have it either. It's a port, not a rewrite. Riven was the sequel to a PC game called Myst. The original version of Myst had the same kind of gameplay as this port, but in later years, Cyan released an updated version of Myst with free roaming movement and 3D graphics; this updated version of Myst was called realMyst, and realMyst was the version that was ported to the iPad. Unfortunately, this difference in graphics and movement between realMyst and Riven has led to a number of unfairly negative reviews and ratings for the Riven app due to the number of people who played realMyst as an app and expected the Riven app to have the same kind of free roaming movement. If the lack of free roaming movement will ruin the game for you, don't get this app. Although Riven is a sequel, you don't need to play Myst. However, Myst provides some interesting backstory for Riven, so if story is important to you, you might want to consider playing Myst first. The triumph of Riven's design was not the graphics or sound - though they were cutting edge when the game was first developed - but the integration of the puzzles into the game environment. Instead of using what has become the industry standard for adventure puzzle games in which the player has a random, meaningless puzzle pop up that he must solve in order to access the next screen or area, each "puzzle" in Riven has the player interacting with a realistic environment in which each object has a reason for being there beyond just to give the player puzzles to solve; the objects with which the player interacts in Riven all have a reason for being there to the characters who live in the world of Riven. Unlike most of today's adventure puzzle games which rely heavily on having the player hunt for a dozen or more random, meaningless hidden objects on a static screen in order to get a single useful inventory item that then usually must be applied to every interactive spot until the correct one is found, every object in Riven has meaning and purpose to the inhabitants of Riven. ** SPOILER ** Even the children's toy used to teach a player the symbols for D'ni numbers tells a chilling story of what life is like for Riven villagers. You have to take the time and make the effort to think about the implications of the things around you or you'll miss much of the game's story, but no matter how much time a player spends trying random actions on a difficult puzzle, when the solutions are finally revealed, they make sense. Riven is not a game for the impatient. It rewards people who are willing to take the time and make the effort to study the game's environment and to understand the story that is being unfolded through the environment itself rather than through extensive cutscenes. But that is what makes the game so immersive, despite the lack of free roaming movement. Taken purely from the point of view of story, atmosphere, and puzzles, Riven is the best game I've ever played.
Finished yet
Yourmotherisapig
I played this game two years ago and it was never finished. I emailed and they said it would be done soon. They wouldn't give me my money back knowing they sold me a game that was not done. So is it done?
Navigation is horrible
flydiversd
Loved Myst on my iPad and expected at least the same from Riven. There is no smooth flow walking around. You can't look up, down or move around. Just swipe from one screen to another. It's hard to tell if you've turned a quarter turn or all the way around, losing all perspective of the surroundings. The frustration of not knowing which direction I was looking or moving was too hard to get past and quit after about two hours of never finding anything interesting.
Riven/IPad
DEiler5
My Riven download for my IPad is excellent, I use the book to cheat but I enjoy it that way, I have probably played it 10 times without any problems, love it, I sure hope you can develop Exile for IPad, I"m waiting I had more problems with Myst and navigating, so I deleted it. Some problems I wonder if people have too many things on their IPad slowing it down, I have Riven memorized now except the marble dome code, but I still play it over and over, so what's up with the bad reviews, it's not the game, it's YOU