Alan D
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Posted: June 25 2007, 10:23 |
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Quote (bee @ June 25 2007, 14:33) | I'm still thinking about Maestro, what, if any, are the significant differences between the two? We are happy with Tres Lunas for now, it'll take a while to explore but curious about the other game. |
Well, it's horses for courses, and all I can do is give my personal opinion, but whereas I enjoy Maestro, I love Tr3s Lunas. Some differences:
1. Maestro is more 'goal-oriented'. There are two basic progressions - both very different. One is to achieve the level of 'Maestro'; the other is to go on a complex and lengthy medal-collecting odyssey to reach Mike's 'secret place'. Although Tr3sLunas does have a theme of that sort (collecting 7 rings), it's really quite incidental to the experience.
2. There's a lot more music in Tr3sLunas than there is in Maestro.
3. So much of Tr3sLunas takes place in the open air; there's a sense of great open spaces. Maestro, by contrast, can be claustrophobic. There are a lot of tunnels and you do a lot of travelling along them. That said, there are magnificent places and moments in Maestro - a vast land inhabited by dinosaurs, an astounding transition between two spacecraft, a visit to the Taj Mahal (yes, complete with the music from TB2003, and it never seemed so good as it does in here), etc, etc.
4. Maestro is programmed more tightly. There are very few 'unofficial' things you can do in the game. But in Tr3s Lunas the ends are more loosely tied, and it's possible to slip under the guard of the program and explore whole new worlds that are not accessible within the official game at all. Once we discovered these places, Tr3sLunas took on a whole new dimension, and a lot of our activity involved exploring them. All this is documented in The Tr3s Lunas Guide.
That might do for starters. Except to say that I'm really glad you've found your way to that magical place at last, Tracey.
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