Let's Play: Myst V - part 5 - Taghira

We head into the first Age, Taghira, and learn about the slates.

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• yeesha
• d'ni
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• puzzle
• taghira

[Phanto5692]

Interesting. You're choosing to tackle the ages immediately instead of doing the stuff in the shaft which is what i see some walkthroughs do. Anywho, nice job.

[Dilandau3000]

It's how I've always played the game. I think it balances the story a bit better by spreading out Yeesha's journals as well.

[shadowofforms]

Esher.... Very annoying

[MASON1246]

Esher uses some kind of journey cloth gizmo.

[solgae1784]

@ProkoLokor Or maybe the protagonist is too much of a doofus to jump over the fence or reach the lever or climb the ladder while carrying the tablet or etc.......

[thedragonb0y]

I always thought it was cool that the slates were very elemental to it's environment.

Having a slate of ice to command with must be very cool and painful. ^^;

[CopycatStudios]

"Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"

[Keklawlawlawl]

why walk when you can link?

[ProkoLokor]

I guess that dr. Watson is just too fat to jump.

[thetopcrusader2]

I agree with Sven - and have to wonder what Cyan was thinking when they structured the game this way. In the other Myst games, we were given a hub Age, "exploratory" Ages, and a "final" Age that must be reached (or in Myst IV, completed) by finishing everything else. But here, the non-linearity that made the other games great is pretty much destroyed by almost forcing the player to complete everything in a certain order - and if a different order is chosen, some things don't make as much sense.

[Relatharr]

It's either insurmountable waist-high fences, or we have tiny little T-rex arms! :P