How does his latest score measure up? Body Now, Robyn is back after 16 years to score for Obduction, Cyan’s spiritual successor to Myst, and has created 28-track album for the game. Miller’s return marks a working reunion for him and his brother Rand, who co-founded Cyan together before their creation and release of Myst. I can't say that there's no indication as to what spurs the bad ending, but it's really obscure - it relies on the player exploring a certain area and somehow learning which part of Earth a certain character originates from.Robyn Miller recently returned to Cyan, Inc., in order to compose for his first Cyan game in over a decade. The difference between the good and bad ending is something that seems relatively insignificant and isn't really explained to the player in any depth, so the fact the story's outcome hinges on something so seemingly insignificant/poorly explained is a bit harsh to say the least.There are a large number of side characters mentioned, but only a handful of them are actually important, so it can feel a bit like information overload at times.It's literally just the one achievement, all the others are either story related or can be obtained even at the end-game point. I am going to have to replay half the game to obtain the final achievement I missed because there was no indication that I wouldn't be able to go back and claim it after completing the world.

I feel like a lot more effort should have been spent on trying to mitigate this so that region-swapping was more fluid. The region-swapping mechanic is fun, but it's marred by the fact the new world has to load every time you swap between worlds. In the first world it's bearable, but as soon as you're dealing with puzzles that span multiple worlds, it becomes horribly tedious, especially on the worlds that have more height to them.

Everyone else has said it, and now I'm saying it: Traversing the world takes too much time.

A few places where the established lore has been used to good effect.

Modern use of full motion video (FMV) is used effectively.

Some of the navigation relies on the player being contained in a spherical space that 'wraps around' - if the player tries to walk out of the sphere, they reappear on the opposite end of the sphere.

Several of the puzzles involve swapping spherical regions of the world with regions in other worlds.

I certainly enjoyed it, but not as much as Cyan's other works.

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