I just replayed this game that I first played in 2013. The second time around, I was still impressed by the complexity of the story and the way the game played out. It felt much more like a true Adventure than many HO-based games I've played. I enjoyed it the second time around, but I won't be playing it again. My quibbles:

First, the game had way too much HO compared to the current run of HOAs. This is probably due to its age, but I got tired of having an HO scene pushed in my face every other move. It got tiresome. Also, the HO scenes are a bit "mean spirited," in my view. By this, I mean that quite a few items in each scene are so well hidden by other items overlaying them that you can scan right past them without a clue that you saw it. This is made worse by the fact that many of them do not look like the object you are seeking. A "bowl" might turn out to be that coconut off to side. By the end of the game, I was increasingly aggravated by the whole HO thing.

Second, there is an above-average level of chasing your tail in this game, constantly being sent back and forth through many different screens to retrieve one piece of inventory that you knew you needed but the game would not let you take until you had done Task G-14 first. Not having a game map on the screen made all that backtracking tedious. Again, this is probably due to the age of the game. They all are better about this now.

I played three of the games in this series and generally felt that I got my money's worth. That latest one I played was Shadow of Karkhala, in 2017. My comment on that game applies also to this one: "Another good game with a good story, long and with some excellent and original puzzles. HOs tedious, repetitive and not fun, though. No replay."

My favorite in this series is #2 (The Mists of Ravenwood). I still think the first game is excellent but agree that there are too many hidden object scenes; being older, the number of HOPs in the game was more standard for that time and folks had a higher tolerance for that then, I think.

Thanks for the info on this game Reenie. I still haven't played this series, though I do have it. I sometimes enjoy the older games with more HO scenes, though I agree it does get tiresome when they come one after the other after the other.

It's a really good series, oldbroad. I think you will enjoy them.

I liked this game and will probably re-play it at some time

That's good, Mad. It isn't a BAD game, and you will enjoy the puzzles, it is just not up to par with current game play.

Well I won't be worrying, Reenie, considering I still replay games from 1990

Wow, how do you do that? Do you have an older computer they still will run on, aside from your normal machine? My old Myst game came on floppy disks, and I have no way to play it. I must have dumped 30+ old games more than a decade ago.

Mad has several different computers and operating systems to choose from - she has a really nice set-up!

Apart from using GOG, I use DOSBox on my Windows 7 computer along with another emulator and have pretty much succeeded in running almost any game I ever purchased via this method. I have all of my 1990s games running this way, and I can replay them any time I want. It's great!

I have purchased a few games from GOG that were remastered, notably Grim Fandango, one of my favorites. I don't think I'd ever have time to go back and play many of the older games at this point, though. Too much happening in "real" life these days.

Whatever game you're thinking of, it wasn't Myst.
Myst was only released on CD in the 1990's.
It would have needed something like 180 floppies. That amount of data wouldn't have fit on the tiny hard drives of 1993, so you couldn't have a full installation. You'd have had to constantly be swapping floppies as you played. Remember when CD's held more data than hard drives?

Was it CD's? Oh, well, then I must be thinking of one of the earlier ones. It has been a while.