Alan D
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Posted: Feb. 20 2011, 05:22 |
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Quote (Syd B @ Feb. 19 2011, 22:59) | I've read a lot of people talking about these 'unofficial worlds', what's the deal with that? Are they areas of the game that were unfinished and weren't intended to be seen? |
There are two aspects to it. First, there are the artificial barriers - such as the one that surrounds the island and prevents you getting to the Daliphant on the horizon. There are certain tricks that can be used to nudge the game into a phase where the barriers aren't there, so one can go and explore the Daliphant, etc.
But also there are worlds that were only ever intended to be passed through as part of a 'ride' - the beautiful winter night of the world we ride through on the snowy owl's flight, for instance. Or the solar system we pass through on the space arrow flight. Or when we run with the ants - and so on. We found ways of interfering with those flights so that instead of being merely carried through those worlds, we could stop and explore them properly, for as long and as far as we wanted to. Some of them are simply awesome, frankly. The bleakly beautiful world of the space arrow, in particular, will haunt me for the rest of my life. So will the warm summer evening world of the firebeings.
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