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What are y'all's favorite moments in the Myst games?

One that always stands out to me particularly, is when you solve the animal puzzle in the Moiety caves. The ripple effect, the sound, the music, it amazes me every time I play through that part.

I'll be the first to say the Amateria marble coaster ride.
The Aero-Zeppelin in Voltaic is sweet too

The elevator on survey Island.

The Bahro swarming Kerath's arch and Ae'Gura during Uru Live.

The boat ride to Tay.

Amateria roller coaster.

Voltaic floating island.

Seeing Ahnonay from Kadish' lab for the first time.

Finding/opening Kadish's vault.

The very first Mag-Lev ride, from Riven's Temple to Jungle Island. I was blown away, and even the error I used to get during the switching of disks immediately after didn't put me off.

Forgot to add:

The Riven minecart ride

Capturing the squee in Edanna

The wahrk hitting the glass

Gehn's speech

Saavedro going home

Atrus yelling at us during the fire on Tomahna

Descending the shaft in Myst V

When you first enter the bahro caves and hear the screeching in the dark

Falling through the fissure at the end of Riven

All the bad endings with Gehn (What a psycho!)

Falling to D'ni at the end of Yeesha' first journey

Arriving in K'veer after completing Ahnonay

Achenar's temple

All of Todelmer

The bahro attack on Wheely Engberg and how powerful it was.

The intro to Myst

If I had to pick one it would be:
The Riven Intro,

But a few more are...
Solving the Moiety Puzzle,
Exile opening,
Amateria Rollercoaster,
Pretty much everything on Narayan,
Solving the Mangree puzzle,
Discovering the first linking book in Myst.

the first time you get in the elevator in the library on Myst island and ride it up. This simply amazed me as a kid... I felt like I really was in this elevator, and I had all these fears like, "how long as this been here? what if it gets stuck? who built this?" It was the first animation I saw and that moment... I'm gonna say that moment hooked me on Myst forever.

I also really love the Whark swimming past the underwater observatory in Riven, and basically everything Brad Dourif did in Myst III. Descending the shaft in Myst V was awesome (despite exposition-man appearing every three seconds to lecture at you...). Also, simply entering the Dn'i city in the Uru expansion pack...!! All the invisible waist-high fences were totally worth it just to see such a seemingly expansive environment that was neither an island nor a canyon.