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Bad Mojo maybe?

In this episode it is said that "Myst clones" are what gave Myst a bad name. I'm racking my brain here. What is an example of a "Myst clone"? Are you referring to the sequels? I feel like the reason Myst was popular at the time was how amazing those pre-rendered scenes looked on a CRT monitor and how it would run well as long as you had a reasonably fast CD-Rom drive. Low specs and pretty. The esoteric and sometimes inconveniently arranged puzzles were what gave the game a bad name in my opinion. As a 10 year old kid, its riddles went completely over my head and what drew me in was the atmosphere and imaginative world. Later as an adult I realized that pretty much every solution was in the game somewhere as long as you were willing to read several novels worth of in-game books. I have very mixed feeling about the Myst series. Thank god for "Let's Play" videos so I can be nostalgic and let someone else suffer through the actual game.