Riven: The Sequel to Myst: Alternate Endings and Good Ending
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- This video shows 9 alternate and one "good" ending to Riven. All endings display the production credits and conclude the game, but there's only one "good or correct ending"; the rest occur by different (wrong) decisions during the game. The list of possible endings is below. Only the good ending includes the entire Gehn's dialog.
00:00 Alternate Ending 1 - Open the Star Fissure Before Visiting Gehn or Catherine
02:36 Alternate Ending 2 - Visit Gehn, Trap Him, Go to Fissure w/o Freeing Catherine
06:24 Alternate Ending 3 - Visit Gehn, Do Not Trap Him, Open Fissure w/o Catherine
10:29 Alternate Ending 4 - Visit Gehn, Refuse to Link to Trap Book Three Times
15:05 Alternate Ending 5 - After Capturing Gehn, Link to Trap Book
17:11 Alternate Ending 6 - After Capturing Gehn, Return to Moiety & Touch Trap Book
20:08 Alternate Ending 7 - Touch Trap Book in Moiety Age After Keta Gives It to You
21:27 Alternate Ending 8 - Touch Trap Book in Riven After Keta Gives It to You
23:31 Alternate Ending 9 - Visit Gehn First, Then Go to Moiety, Get Book, Touch It
27:09 Good Ending - Go to Gehn, Trap Him, Rescue Catherine from Prison - Ігри
John Keston's acting as Gehn can never be over-praised. By the time you meet him, you have ample evidence that Gehn is a mad tyrant, yet the style and poise with which he delivers his blend of truths, half-truths, and straight up lies is so phenomenal, you can't help but admire the man.
I love how in some of the bad endings his entire demeanor changes right before he shoots you- shows you how his entire speech was an act put on to convince you... SO many levels to John Keston's performance
The whole business about being trapped in trap books for eternity is more horrifying than most things horror writers can come up with.
To be fair, it's not canonical, it's been attributed to artistic license in order to make a playable game.
@@micahbush5397 Aren't the games themselves canon!? Myst the game came out long before other media for Myst did I believe. So that would literally make them canonical.
@@robotoboy30 Myst uses the "literary agent hypothesis"; the idea is that Cyan used "real histories" to create the Myst games, and they had to use artistic license in order to make the games playable, since the "real events" would be difficult to reproduce in-game.
Thanks for posting this - some of these endings I hadn't come up with, and it's nice to see them all.
One correction for your timestamp listings: the person who gives you the book back in Tay (the Moiety age) is Nelah, not Keta. Keta is Ghen's wife, who died giving birth to Atrus. She shows up in the credits because of the mementoes Ghen keeps in his living quarters on the 233rd Age (where the dome books take you) Nelah is mentioned by name a couple of times in Cathrine's Journal, including in the note she tucked in it that addresses the player directly.
Easy mistake to make, they're both extremely minor characters who could have easily been credited as Moiety Woman and Ghen's Wife, much like how all the other side characters were credited.
Thank you for the comments and clarification.
Love how even in the "good" ending you still end up floating endlessly in a void for all eternity. But at least Atrus is grateful for you.
No - at the end Atrus says that his friend is able to go home.
@@123boink Atrus probably thinks his friend's home is the endless eternal void.
@@fluffycritter Considering it's that same endless void that got the Myst book to his friend's hands in the first place it makes sense.
It can't be forever, since the Stranger turns up in two more Myst games.
That “void” leads to earth
The alternate ending 9 is the same as 7. To get a different ending you need to link to the trap book from Riven, and then you get a slightly different ending than ending 8
Thanks, I was going to save state back through all of the other endings after getting to the good ending, but this was far faster than having to wait though 8 credit screens.
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Ending 3 theoretically shouldn't be possible because you get the combination to the telescope in Moiety, from Catherine's journal.
So what happened with Ending 3? Did Atrus just...not show up for some reason? That's weird...seems almost like the game just didn't know what to do with that ending.
Must admit, I'm somewhat disappointed that ending 6 doesn't end with Ghen getting darted by the Moiety and dragged off. He is, after all, fully in their stronghold at that point.
For me, this ending is very ominous, just falling into the fissure not knowing what's coming after while regretting not succeeding after all the work.
Ending 3 triggers if the Star Fissure is opened while the player is not in possession of the Trap Book. This can be achieved by legitimate gameplay as shown (Gehn is in possession of the Trap Book), or by cheating (saving, getting the code, and reloading). The other bad endings show Atrus receiving the Trap Book from the player, so if the player does not have the book in their possession, Ending 3 is the only one that could be shown.
It's likely that they realized this was possible during development, and it was easier to just have you fall straight into the Fissure rather than re-record one of the other endings. Funnily enough, Ending 3 is the only one that allows you to technically side with Gehn and survive; if you listen closely, you can hear the linking sound of Atrus' imminent arrival just before you fall in.
Ending 6 might make it seem like Gehn intends to single-handedly take down the entire Moeity, but he probably just takes out any guards that are positioned nearby, then retreats back to Riven to discern the linking book's location and return with an army at his back.
My guess is that the Moiety don't keep a constant guard at the linking chamber (after all, there isn't one during our subsequent return), there was just one when we first arrived because the "prisoner" knew we were likely to find the book to Tay after we attempted to set him free.
If you think about it, though, setting Gehn free on Tay is probably the worst ending short of signaling Atrus before capturing Gehn: The Moiety will die, Catherine will remain imprisoned, Gehn will get a new Age on which to resettle his loyalists (thereby fulfilling their expectation of being delivered to a better Age for their loyalty), and he will now have free access to the mineral needed to make the Book Windows, giving him much greater freedom to write and subjugate new Ages.
Those guys in cave speak French lol