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Dark Arcanine Her better half (moderator) (neocrs) Action [Wii] GameGrep Announcements and Changes GameGrep Approvers GameGrep Bugs GameGrep Feedback & Suggestions GameGrep Help and Best Practices General Wii U NEOCRS Staff total posts: 24304 neopoints: 11623 GameGrep pts: 15420 since: Apr 2007	Dec 01, 11 at 8:02am ^ Easy Travel?
	Log in to remove this sponsored message One of the first things I noticed about SS is how easy it is to travel around the place. The flying is easy and quick if you know your stuff; you can drop to several locations in each main area, cutting out the bits of footslogging you'd normally suffer; and something that particularly caught my interest is stuff like pushing a log or cart to create ways of getting to where you are from previous bits. This last bit is fantastic, since you do need to explore it all once to reach said places, but after that dancing across the map is much easier, while the first time you're contending with elements like not knowing the place and the whole "everything's a dungeon" concept. So what do you guys think about the travel in this game and the ways to do so? Could it have been improved in any way? And do you really enjoy the easy backtracking, or should it have been toned down a bit? ------------------- MH3U < Wii U Community > Trine 2 GameGrep - Video Game News
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Fifth Column Neo: Essential since: Nov 2002	Dec 01, 11 at 8:09am ^ re: Easy Travel?
	It's a little too simple sometimes. I miss the need for long treks across the world map like in Ocarina and Majora's Mask. They really did something to add to the adventure aspect of the games. The sky gimmick is cool and a good fit for the Wii, but I would have much preferred an expansive Hyrule Field. ------------------- BOO YOU HEEL
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Mystic Aurora no-stoppin-me-now since: Nov 2005	Dec 01, 11 at 1:02pm ^ re: Easy Travel?
	I think it's a step in the right direction. It's similar to the progression of Metroid games, where suit upgrades allowed you to skip over entire parts of the map. In this case, new items or a change in the environment allows Link to bypass unnecessary parts of the overworld. I see it as being a simpler version of warping via a whistle, ocarina, or other catalyst. You can tell EAD considered tedium the antithesis of Skyward Sword, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Let's do away with these big, empty fields. I'm 100% in favor of the overworld-as-dungeon concept. Partitioning it isn't such a great idea, but it worked for Skyward Sword.
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Fifth Column Neo: Essential since: Nov 2002	Dec 01, 11 at 11:32pm ^ re: Easy Travel?
	Since you guys both brought it up, anyone want to explain the whole "everywhere's a dungeon" approach that's supposed to be so new in this game? Most of the maps still feel the same to me, and nothing really seems like a dungeon besides the actual dungeons. ------------------- BOO YOU HEEL
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bond007106 Head goes: BOOM! Neolithic total posts: 6422 since: Apr 2008	Dec 02, 11 at 12:56am ^ re: Easy Travel?
	quote FiFth Column Since you guys both brought it up, anyone want to explain the whole "everywhere's a dungeon" approach that's supposed to be so new in this game? Most of the maps still feel the same to me, and nothing really seems like a dungeon besides the actual dungeons. There are puzzles and lots of enemies throughout the whole overworld. It's also more condensed, with less vast, featureless spaces. You tell me Hyrule Field was like that. ------------------- "I swear on the name of Dumuzid, the Shepherd, consort of Ishtar! Your ass is mine, punk!" - Thomas Mutton
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Fifth Column Neo: Essential since: Nov 2002	Dec 03, 11 at 1:04am ^ re: Easy Travel?
	Not Hyrule Field, cause that was no doubt an overworld. But places like Haunted Wasteland, Death Mountain, Lost Woods, etc all contained a ton of puzzles and enemies, so I wouldn't consider the changes to be too drastic. I see what you mean though, and I've got to say I think a lot of areas in SS feel stifled due to it. ------------------- BOO YOU HEEL
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Dark Arcanine Her better half (moderator) (neocrs) Action [Wii] GameGrep Announcements and Changes GameGrep Approvers GameGrep Bugs GameGrep Feedback & Suggestions GameGrep Help and Best Practices General Wii U NEOCRS Staff total posts: 24304 neopoints: 11623 GameGrep pts: 15420 since: Apr 2007	Dec 03, 11 at 7:25am ^ re: Easy Travel?
	I dunno, I mean what did those areas really have in the way of puzzles? Haunted Wasteland is just following the Poe and the lightning essentially, it's quite linear and I wouldn't consider it to have any substantial puzzle/dungeon element so much as a "follow me" air to it. Similarly Death Mountain (outside) is just walking up it and blowing up a few boulders to progress to the inside, unless we count Goron City which has a few little things to do inside. All the outdoors areas in OoT are relatively open/straight forward or both, and it's perceivable once you compare them to the dungeons of the game. So yeah, thematically you're going to notice the same sort of things being rehashed, but progress through said areas I think has been changed to quite a noticeable degree and for the betterment of the series at that. A wide space like Hyrule Field was impressive because it was OoT and during that period of time and video game development, but in there here and now I think something with more meat to it is definitely what the doctor ordered. We're no longer marveling over such things as the transition to a 3D world in other words, haha. ------------------- MH3U < Wii U Community > Trine 2 GameGrep - Video Game News
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Fifth Column Neo: Essential since: Nov 2002	Dec 03, 11 at 7:47am ^ re: Easy Travel?
	Played through the Lanayru Dessert earlier and I think I'm starting to get it. The change is cool, but I do wish there were some more areas to roam around without everything feeling like one long battle. I guess it does fit in with the theme of the game with The Surface being a wild area, but I would have liked at least one or two more towns to interact in between all the challenges. I like to mess around a lot with Zelda, a lot of the times I play I'll just do some sidequests or screw around cause I like to stretch playing the game out as much as possible. With Skyward Sword it feels like I'm obligated to kick ass every time I do. It's long enough of a game that I can do that while still managing to take plenty of time, but I dunno, it just feels like something's missing from it all. ------------------- BOO YOU HEEL
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bond007106 Head goes: BOOM! Neolithic total posts: 6422 since: Apr 2008	Dec 03, 11 at 10:30pm ^ re: Easy Travel?
	quote FiFth Column Played through the Lanayru Dessert earlier and I think I'm starting to get it. The change is cool, but I do wish there were some more areas to roam around without everything feeling like one long battle. I guess it does fit in with the theme of the game with The Surface being a wild area, but I would have liked at least one or two more towns to interact in between all the challenges. I like to mess around a lot with Zelda, a lot of the times I play I'll just do some sidequests or screw around cause I like to stretch playing the game out as much as possible. With Skyward Sword it feels like I'm obligated to kick ass every time I do. It's long enough of a game that I can do that while still managing to take plenty of time, but I dunno, it just feels like something's missing from it all. You can still do that. Every time you complete a section of the story (i.e. beat a dungeon) a new sidequest or two will open up in Skyloft, and as you progress through the game, more and more mini-games will open up for you to sink time into. The only Zelda game to have more sidequests than Skyward Sword was Majora's Mask. ------------------- "I swear on the name of Dumuzid, the Shepherd, consort of Ishtar! Your ass is mine, punk!" - Thomas Mutton
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Dark Arcanine Her better half (moderator) (neocrs) Action [Wii] GameGrep Announcements and Changes GameGrep Approvers GameGrep Bugs GameGrep Feedback & Suggestions GameGrep Help and Best Practices General Wii U NEOCRS Staff total posts: 24304 neopoints: 11623 GameGrep pts: 15420 since: Apr 2007	Dec 03, 11 at 11:36pm ^ re: Easy Travel?
	I rather liked that. It made the side-quests more of a suggested feature of the game, rather than one that's just there if you find out about it and want to do it, if that makes sense. Like the game encourages you to engage with them, I felt. To get back onto travel, getting to drop to or rise back from any bird statue outdoors is a fantastic feature and something I've found myself using constantly. It's great to have such flexibility so easily accessible at your fingertips, and again has a big influence on backtracking in SS. ------------------- MH3U < Wii U Community > Trine 2 GameGrep - Video Game News
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