Riven: Catherine is a prisoner, but she has an army of badasses who think of her as a divinity and she's not so much in distress as "trapped by Book Dad's Dad on a collapsing world and needs an exit to Book Dad before the place implodes". She does, and then the player falls into a hole in the universe and floats forever. The books further expand on her being a sexy genius who's also basically a paragon of virtue. I get the sense that one of the Miller brothers was a wife guy.
Exile: No one is in distress except the antagonist, and that's resolved if you get the good ending.
Revelation: Yeesha is arguably in distress, but really she's being used as a bargaining chip in a scheme perpetrated by one of her brothers. She appears in the beginning as a precocious know-it-all and at the end as a precocious know-it-all who learned something about family maybe? She's only a damsel in the most literal sense because she's like 12.
End of Ages: This one basically start's with Book Dad's suicide note. Yeesha has succumbed to the madness that runs in her family, but she's a framing device rather than someone you're trying to rescue. There's only one good ending and it's pretty good in the context of how fucked this family has been to the multiverse.
I dunno any of the Uru stuff offhand, so I guess it's possible that they have sexist themes, but my takeaway from the Myst canon is that women are basically the only reason that the men in this terrible family haven't just wound up dead. Book Dad literally almost dies as a child from volcano-poisoned celery or something and is only saved by the cat his grandma gives him which eats it first, and the only reason they weren't starving to death in the first place is that she spent all day painting and growing herbs and trading with traveling merchants around the New Mexico desert. Yes, that New Mexico.
The strongest themes in the Myst series are "DADS FUCKING SUCK" and the madness that inevitably results from studying The Art (the special D'ni practice of creating linking books to other branches on the world tree, these links followed by touching a moving image plate like the one suggested by the image in the post).
Myst: The only person in distress is Book Dad.
Riven: Catherine is a prisoner, but she has an army of badasses who think of her as a divinity and she's not so much in distress as "trapped by Book Dad's Dad on a collapsing world and needs an exit to Book Dad before the place implodes". She does, and then the player falls into a hole in the universe and floats forever. The books further expand on her being a sexy genius who's also basically a paragon of virtue. I get the sense that one of the Miller brothers was a wife guy.
Exile: No one is in distress except the antagonist, and that's resolved if you get the good ending.
Revelation: Yeesha is arguably in distress, but really she's being used as a bargaining chip in a scheme perpetrated by one of her brothers. She appears in the beginning as a precocious know-it-all and at the end as a precocious know-it-all who learned something about family maybe? She's only a damsel in the most literal sense because she's like 12.
End of Ages: This one basically start's with Book Dad's suicide note. Yeesha has succumbed to the madness that runs in her family, but she's a framing device rather than someone you're trying to rescue. There's only one good ending and it's pretty good in the context of how fucked this family has been to the multiverse.
I dunno any of the Uru stuff offhand, so I guess it's possible that they have sexist themes, but my takeaway from the Myst canon is that women are basically the only reason that the men in this terrible family haven't just wound up dead. Book Dad literally almost dies as a child from volcano-poisoned celery or something and is only saved by the cat his grandma gives him which eats it first, and the only reason they weren't starving to death in the first place is that she spent all day painting and growing herbs and trading with traveling merchants around the New Mexico desert. Yes, that New Mexico.
The strongest themes in the Myst series are "DADS FUCKING SUCK" and the madness that inevitably results from studying The Art (the special D'ni practice of creating linking books to other branches on the world tree, these links followed by touching a moving image plate like the one suggested by the image in the post).