Alan D
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Posted: Mar. 18 2008, 13:50 |
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Exploring Terrain (2)
Flying with dinosaurs
Terrain is one of the most beautiful worlds to explore, and one of the ways to explore it is to hitch a ride with a flying dinosaur. There are four flying dinosaurs in Terrain.
The easiest one to find is the large one (it's artificial - built from circuit boards), and if you hang around the central two mountain areas (east and west of the exit tube), you'll soon see it, flying into view. You can easily hitch a ride by flying close enough to lock onto it. It doesn't travel very far, but just circles around the central mountains. You can just see the exit tube far below, in this shot. (This big flying dinosaur plays an important part in the game, because when you release the three sets of acrobats, it will reward you with a medal.)
There's another dinosaur you can hitch a ride with. This is a smaller pterosaur, and isn't artificial. You can find it flying around the mountain range in the far northeast of Terrain. It flies along a fairly complicated route, but if you wait in the valley that runs through the mountains, you'll see it sooner or later. It will take you over the hills and dales of the northeast mountain range, and during part of its flight, it flies over the forbidden forest. Normally, you can't get into this forest because of the barrier around it, but if you drop off as the pterosaur flies over it, you'll land in the forest. In Maestro, dinosaurs are our friends.
Another, very similar, pterosaur flies around the central two mountain ranges, near the exit tube. Here's a close encounter with the big artificial pterosaur.
There's one more flying dinosaur in Terrain. It flies (rather quickly) in the air above the maze. If you shoot apples at this dinosaur, and hit it, you'll be transported outside Terrain, and indeed, out into space, outside the spaceship. I don't know if it's possible to hitch a ride with this dinosaur - it moves quickly, and I've never been able to lock onto it.
Additional note by a r schultz:
I have actually managed to lock to the Pterodactyl at the labyrinth in Terrain, and got carried around. The point about getting locked is that you are dragged to the ground at the labyrinth, and the dactyl is flying above. So, the only chance to get a lock is to hit it while coming in and moving down from the outside.
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