"satirical", while BusinessWeek thought all of Parroty Interactive's work was "hilarious". Billboard found it to be funnier than Myst and "all-too-short". Plotting New Media Frontiers thought that the existence of parody games demonstrated that "generic conventions are well established and part of the culture associated with computer game playing", citing Pyst as a prime example. Computer Shopper said the title was "no-holds-barred" and "pulls no punches" in its odd sense of humour, and deemed it a favourable alternative to those who were annoyed by Mysts "inscrutable puzzles". CD Mag thought the game was "somewhat witty". Emil Pagliarulo of The Adrenaline Vault saw Pyst as an example of how Parroty Interactive made games that were "completely original simply by capitalizing on unoriginality". PC Gamer said that Pysts two main problems were that it was not funny as a parody of Myst, and that it was not so much a game than a "series of rendered slides in sequence". Giant Bomb writer Alex Navarro thought he had not enjoyed the game's humour in his youth as he had not played Myst; he retrospectively claimed that the game was "not a very good parody". K. R. Parkinson of Adventure Gamers wrote that the game "ultimately comes up lacking in its attempt to lampoon its best-selling target of derision". BrutalMoose felt the game was a good idea wrapped up in a bad execution. A reviewer from Game Revolution gave it a scathing review, deeming it "pathetic". Entertainment Weekly described it as a "pretension-busting romp through a ripe-for-puncturing cult classic", comparing it to Mad magazine's 201 Min. of a Space Idiocy parody of A Space Odyssey. PC Multimedia & Entertainment initially thought the game was a "stupid idea", but upon playing it found it to be a "very funny multimedia presentation". The Daily Pennsylvanian concluded their review by saying that while Myst sucked the player in, Pyst "just plain sucked". Andy Oldfield of The Independent thought the game was merely a "series of puns and visual gags", not a proper parody. HardcoreGaming101 felt the game only had 30 minutes of gameplay. Legacy The game is considered by many to be the earliest parody video game and the first parody of the Myst series. However, a free "homage" game entitled Mylk was created by Bart Gold using Macromedia Director and released earlier. Mylks PC version was by Wayne Twitchell. The plot of this game involves a