It's bad and I love it
Peter Gabriel – Gardiner (Myst IV Game)
Cyan's Myst games have a true community theater, a backyard cinema, starting with Myst, where founding developer brothers Rand Miller and Robyn Miller played all the characters themselves in full-motion video. Cyan is known for its use of FMV in its games, but even after Myst and Riven became blockbusters, the closest the Myst series has ever come to having a famous actor was Brad Dourif's (Lord of the Rings) turn as the villain in Myst 3: Exile – which he didn't get from a casting call but because he was a fan of the series.
But there is one big celebrity moment in the Myst series that is also the most mind-blowing musical choice I've ever experienced in a video game: Myst 4: Revelations Unskippable Peter Gabriel Cutscene.
On paper, there is nothing good about the unskippable Peter Gabriel Cutscene. For example, it is impossible to skip. Also, it's out of left field – Myst, the steampunky FMV puzzle adventure series, is emphatically not a "voicing, English-language pop song interlude" kind of franchise. The sequence's images, while clearly the work of custom animation, are full of so many shapes spiraling out from the center screen that it inevitably resembles a Winamp visualization. And it all leads to perhaps the worst puzzle ever put into a Myst game.
