It's hard to rate this, the set pieces are easily some of my all time favorite and a lot of puzzles are great and also I really like how the puzzles are cohesive with the game's world and story, which is also very interesting even though the story is told mostly through reading journals, but that kind of minimalism works very well here as you go interacting with the world searching for clues and learning what you can.

My real problem is the backtracking for several of the big puzzles. While the original Myst puzzles were contained in their own small worlds, here the whole game is linked and often you need to backtrack several times with no idea if you are on the right track. Add to that the fact that the big puzzles here are harder than the ones in Myst and it gets frustrating pretty quickly. Because of that despite Riven improving pretty much everything, I still like the original Myst better.