Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 40 minutes ago

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I'm a pretty big Myst fan, which a handful of you might be aware of! I've been waiting for Firmament almost as long as I've been a fan, so I was pretty excited. This game has ended up kind of divisive, and I get it! I ended up positive on it overall, but I get where the criticism is coming from and I have plenty of my own. I wish I had more to say!

I gave myself a challenge for this video, one to make my analysis of this game be truly unique. I wanted to have the only Firmament video scored exclusively by music from a Yaoi BL game.

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Firmament feels…off, though, in ways hard to describe. Most of their uniqueness is still here; it’s undoubtedly another game in this atmospheric, what-the-hell-am-I-doing genre, but Cyan seems to have tried to modernize their approach? I guess I see why they did this, and I don’t think doing it was necessarily a bad thing—and to make it immediately clear for those who want me to get to the point, I don’t think Firmament’s a bad game. I do think that it is on the weaker side of the vast Cyan catalog, though. Maybe it didn’t help that I started playing it hot off the high of Riven, the best point-and-click game I’ve ever played, but my playthrough was spread out long enough for me to get my expectations in check so I don’t think that mattered overall. Firmament was not a game I was able to form a connection with after all was said and done, but one I can appreciate all the same.