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Crikey, who puts their Myst conquests up on YouTube!?? Just shows you how dull & unimaginative I've become! I liked the old PC puzzler, back in the day (and I got the spaceship to work, too!) But avoid the Nintendo DS port. It's waay too small, and waay too titchy, and way too dim, dark and unintentionally puzzling. Max out your screen brightness and play in the dark, it helps. Buy it used, if you must, but it's not worth full price, and avoid "Zip" mode if your copy comes without a manual. Good luck figuring out which is which — my guess is green means ON, so Yes means "jerky screen transitions" to speed things along, while No means "glacially slow but normal." Ahhh, human interface guidelines...! Who needs 'em?! To get past the tedious opening titles, logos and narcissistic melodrama, just use your NDS sense — touch the stylus to the screen. Incidentally, I trust you noticed that D'Ni is pronounced Deny? Myst screams for an Oedipal parody. The best ending is NOT giving Atrus the white page, then listening to his impotent fulminations as you blithely turn him off. Don't give the final red or blue pages to Achenar (sic) or Sirrus (sic-er) either — there's sibling rivalry to be considered! If I could rewrite the ending nearest heart's content, I'd have Riddick kidnap the much-neglected Catherine and carry her off to the solar furnaces of Crematoria. Heh.