Myst V End Of Ages Walkthrough

Myst V: End of Ages Table of Contents Walkthrough

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WALKTHROUGH 5. NOTES OF INTEREST 1. JUNK 'End of ages' came out in 2005 and like 'Revelation' from 2004 I didn't buy it. Pretty much because I didn't know about either game, I had the Myst 10th anniversary edition and URU ages beyond Myst. See our member submitted walkthroughs and guides for Myst V: End of Ages. Help for Myst V: End of Ages on PC. More help, hints and discussion forums for on Supercheats.

What follows is a list of the Ages visited in the game of Myst V: End of Ages.

Direbo[edit]

• Creatures: Fireflies
• Geography: A purple cavernous Age with underground streams and bridges.
• Inhabitants:Esher
• Vegetation: Strange round plants on long stalks.
• Written by: Unknown

Direbo is the 'hub' Age of the game, consisting of a small underground cavern with several 'islands', linked by bridges. Each 'island' contains a 'linking bubble' with a special pedestal to link the player to other Ages in the game. Each island also contains a linking book on a pedestal back to various Eder Tomahn (rest houses) in the paths back to D'ni.

Tahgira[edit]

• Creatures: Thermophilic bacteria
• Geography: A frigid ice world of several icebergs in an endless sea.
• Inhabitants: None
• Vegetation: Giant mushroom-like trees.
• Written by: Unknown
• Slate power: Thermal steam.

Tahgira — a desolate and snowy wasteland that sits on floating icebergs, Tahgira was written as a prison Age. The worst of the D'ni criminals would be sent there to live out the remainder of their life; their graves are visible at the end of the Age. The prisoners confined to Tahgira built during their stay a complex system to heat parts of the Age. The heating system can be used to a great advantage as it attracts thermophilic bacteria which can then be walked upon. The Tahgira Slate, when used properly, can heat the Age, thus warming various frozen controls vital to the heating system.

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Todelmer[edit]

• Creatures: Fireflies
• Geography: Composed of tall rock spires and large telescopes.
• Inhabitants: None
• Vegetation: Grasses
• Written by: Unknown
• Slate power: Time acceleration.

Todelmer — An astronomy Age where the D'ni studied the heavens, Todelmer is an observatory complex built on stone pillars perched high above a planet's surface. A tram system runs between the two major observatories, each of which has controls to move viewing scopes. A huge blue-ringed planet is clearly visible from Todelmer; an observation pod similar to the one planned for the Age of Negilahn floats above its surface and holds the Keep for the Age. In Todelmer it is possible to manipulate time by means of the Bahro slate.

Noloben[edit]

• Creatures:Bahro, snakes, pelicans, other sea birds
• Geography: A small grassy island, with a large white stone building in the centre, and surrounded by a calm beach. Also features many other smaller islands.
• Inhabitants:Esher
• Vegetation: Tall grasses.
• Written by: Unknown
• Slate power: Rain.

Noloben — The 'beach Age'. Here Esher, a D'ni archivist who fled to the Age after D'ni's fall, experimented with the Bahro's linking powers. In a large stone building built through the island itself he kept Bahro in cages and, during his stay there, learned of their great linking powers and the Tablet that, if possessed, could control them. On Noloben, one can call upon the Bahro with the slate to make it rain for approximately 90 seconds, thus facilitating the movement of the Noloben Tablet to the Keep at the end of the Age. It is also where it is hardest to attract the Bahro, as the laboratory is guarded by their worst fear, snakes.

This Age's internal name at Cyan Worlds was 'Siralehn'. However, the Age's design was based on images that had circulated for years. It was already known to fans that the Age in the pictures was called 'Noloben', so Cyan used that name for reasons of nostalgia.

This world can also be seen in the beginning of the Myst V Trailer.

Laki'ahn[edit]

• Creatures: Laki (nearly extinct), Pirahna Birds (small vicious birds)
• Geography: A beach-like Age, filled with palms.
• Inhabitants: None
• Vegetation: Grass, palms.
• Written by: Unknown
• Slate power: Wind.

Laki'ahn — a large, flat sandy island characterized by towering rounded rocks and palms. During the D'ni Empire, a great gladatorial arena, holding pens, and trading house were built on the Age to exploit its one natural resource: red gemstones. These stones, found in the stomach of the aquatic laki for which the Age was named after, were highly prized in D'ni. Laki were captured and killed by the Kresh, the native people of Laki'ahn, in the arena to the great amusement of the D'ni spectators. The gemstones were then removed and taken into the trade house to be sorted and presumably sent to D'ni. The main source of power on the Age is wind; when a symbol is drawn on the Laki'ahn Slate the Bahro will make a sandstorm, thus turning the windmill and repowering the Age for around 90 seconds.

Other Ages[edit]

• Age of D'ni — The planet Earth. Contains the underground cavern of D'ni, The Cleft on the surface, and nearby Tomahna. In Myst V, players can visit the interior of a building on the island of K'veer (including Atrus' prison from the original game Myst), the inside of the dormant volcano near the Cleft, and the Great Shaft, a three mile long shaft connecting the surface to the lower system of tunnels.
• Myst - The 'hub' Age from the original game. Players may link to Myst and explore most of it during the endgame. The Age is in ruins and none of the devices are operable.
• Releeshahn — The Age Atrus wrote for the surviving D'ni refugees. In the victorious ending, players catch a glimpse of Releeshahn, although they cannot explore it themselves.

External links[edit]

• Mysterium.ch Gallery - Contains many pictures of all of the Myst V Ages

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Most of us that love videogames will have found ourselves defending them at some point with the old 'they teach valuable problem-solving skills' line. 'Kids aren't stuck inside gloomy bedrooms wallowing in meaningless and mechanical slaughter; they are learning the lateral thinking and logical rigour that will equip them for the arduous odyssey that is Life!' Normally you trot this argument out and frailer, less confident opponents wilt or begin to back-pedal. Few debaters are actually sufficiently well-informed to point-out that most game brainteasers wouldn't trouble an unusually dense baboon.

If your verbal sparring partner is aware of this shameful truth then there's always the old Myst gambit: 'I'd like to see the unusually dense baboon that could think there way through baffling adventure games like the Myst series!' On extremely rare occasions your opponent may leave the room for a few moments reappearing with a triumphant grin and an unusually dense Myst-proficient baboon but generally this is checkmate. Who could possibly accuse videogames of mushing the minds of their users when there are mental assault courses like Myst around?

Myst V is all about the puzzles. Like its predecessors, play consists largely of wandering around bizarre, beautiful lands attempting to solve complex mechanical conundrums. To make progress you'll need to be methodical, mathematical, observant and above-all, very patient. Even old-hands can expect to spend hours deciphering some of the fiendish devices in this game. What does this lever do? Why does that symbol appear when I press this button? How do I move that cog? Why didn't the engineers that built this thing leave a flippin' manual? Expect a constant stream of these types of questions.

The biggest departure in Myst V is that many of the puzzles can't be solved alone. Assistance must be sought from the shy Bahro - a race of spell-weaving bipedal reptiles that scamper around the six 'Ages' (lands) in the game. Being Myst you cant just stroll up to one of these scaly fellows and ask them for a hand. They have to be encouraged to appear and perform with the aid of the new drawing slates - stone tablets on which you scribe (and erase) various arcane symbols. Again, being Myst, you don't get handed the Idiot's Guide To Bahro Pictograms at the start of play. It's up to you to find symbols in the various environments and figure-out when to use them.

The slate calligraphy sometimes has to be rather too precise but overall it's a nice enhancement to an increasingly tired 10+ year-old formula. Myst has traditionally been a lonely game and the occasional appearance of a friendly lizard-man helps to alleviate this a little. The only other intelligent beings you'll encounter on your journey are Yeesha, the daughter of series star Atrus, and Esher, a sneery self-appointed advisor with mysterious motives. Both want you to succeed in your quest - freeing a power-bestowing tablet - by completing the challenges in the various Ages. Both, naturally, have their own agendas which gradually become clearer as you progress.

In previous episodes, encounters with characters like Yeesha and Esher would have taken the form of dodgy FMV cut-scenes. In End of Ages you actually get to see them strutting around in front of you as masterfully motion-captured polygonal figures. Expressive faces, decent lip-synching, naturalistic gestures, swaying robes.. it's not quite Half Life 2 but their presence is pretty impressive all the same. Voice talent is top drawer too. Remember Major Winchester from Korean war sitcom M.A.S.H? The actor that plays him voices Esher. Remember the woman that played Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard? Sensibly she wasn't chosen to play the role of Yeesha.

The style of the dialogue and journal entries (as you explore you find diaries that provide clues and fill-in back story) in Myst V is not going to be to everyone's taste. Bland and vapid, it's criminally short of memorable phrases and humour. It would be far easier to love this series if it occasionally pricked its own pomposity.

One thing you've never been able to accuse a Myst game of is ugliness. Whether pre-rendered, as in the early titles, or fully 3D as they are now, the atmospheric dream-like worlds have always been breathtaking. In End of Ages you'll explore strange tropical islands littered with bizarre skeletons, towering lunar escarpments topped with giant astronomical instruments, and vast cathedral-sized caverns before you reach the dilemma that ends the game and the entire series. As stunning as these locations are they do have their immersion-sapping inconsistencies. Direbo, the gloomy swamp 'hub' world features four islands linked by four gated bridges. Logic would suggest that you could hop over the low bridge gates but in fact it isn't possible. One challenge I've just completed involved using a counterweight to lift a pillar up to the level of a platform. Get the sums wrong and you end-up standing on the pillar a couple of feet above the platform. Again common sense and FPS experience would suggest that you could jump down but in fact the game forbids it.

Talking of FPS conventions, the other big change in End of Ages is the movement system. Now, if you wish to, you can abandon the awkward click-and-glide technique (click to move between various fixed locations) and opt for much more natural WASD walking. This makes the exploring that is so crucial to the game a lot more pleasurable but it may also leave you itching for the firearms that Myst V so studiously boycotts. (We're still hoping that Cyan has snuck in a Bahro hunting mini-game somewhere).

With this episode the Myst series goes out in respectable fashion. There's still nothing on offer for anyone that craves action, exhilaration or an easy ride but frankly that's no great surprise.

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