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Broken Bridge

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Broken Bridge	comment	An obstacle that prevents you from progressing to the next Adventure Town and advancing the plot further. Once this plot advancement has occurred, the bridge is fixed. Named for one of the most common methods, a bridge that's out/fallen. This is often a method of "Railroading", as it allows the game designers or GMs of Tabletop RPGs to follow a specific path until the plot has reached the desired point. Not necessarily a literal bridge — the trope applies to any random obstacle that exists just to keep you from going Off the Rails. Some of the more common non-bridge examples: Avalanche or large boulder blocks the mountain pass. An NPC Roadblock, where a person blocks your path or refuses to allow entry past a certain point. Impassable body of water, and the boat is currently unavailable. A Locked Door blocks your path, and cannot be opened, bypassed, or destroyed until you get the proper key. Adorable little kid asks for your help with some random task, like saving his lost brother or finding medicine for his mom. One or more of the members of your party will feel pity for him and, since they can't resist random chivalry, demand that you stop and help. If you try to leave anyway, they'll whine and stop you. You've been declared an outlaw in a particular place, and can't return there until you've cleared your name. You're supposed to meet an NPC in a particular place, but they either haven't arrived yet or have gone off somewhere for a brief while. They won't show up until after you've wandered around town for a while and gotten yourself into trouble. You've commissioned an NPC to make an essential item or perform some other task for you, but they warn you that it's going to take a while. Since you can stand around for days or weeks without the requisite time passing, the time elapsed in-game is instead measured by the plot advancement. A strong enemy that is utterly invincible against your abilities stands in your way. If you follow the plot railroad properly, then you will either get an upgrade that allows the undefeatable enemy to become beatable, someone else will come along to defeat it, or it will wander off. A puzzle thwarts the player's progress until a "correct" solution is discovered. Common in adventure games, and usually accompanied by the player's character saying I Can't Reach It or Informing the Fourth Wall. If you're lucky, the removal of the broken bridge will logically follow from solving the Fetch Quest (i.e., the person who removes it will be the one you helped in the fetch quest), but many game designers aren't that devoted. Often the fetch quest is just a Solve the Soup Cans puzzle, and the broken bridge just happens to be solved independently while you're off retrieving the girl's necklace or whatever. Another logical solution is to use The Great Repair on a damaged transport. If the heroes go off to fix the bridge, there may be villains to defeat or some plot twist revealed. Tool used by designers to keep you on the One True Sequence. Event Flags are how they implement this. A poorly-designed broken bridge (from a mechanical standpoint) will often be the victim of clever gamers. Don't go crying if there's an Empty Room Psych on the other side though. May overlap with Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence, if the characters should logically be able to bypass or remove the obstacle but can't because the plot says so. Border Patrol is a variant of the "impossibly strong enemy" idea mentioned above. In mythology, a similar concept is called Threshold Guardians and finally the Beef Gate for when the threshold in question can be overcome if your character(s) have become strong/skilled enough to overcome the aforementioned threshold. While they both use monsters, Beef Gates are different in that a Beef Gate could be beaten by Level Grinding, skilled play, or exploits. If the monster is made of invincibility until the plot says otherwise, it's a broken bridge. Contrast Go Wait Outside, when despite a Non-Player Character saying a commission will take a while, no out-of-universe time is needed to go retrieve it. If something appears to be a broken bridge, but never actually lets you by at any point in the game, see Missing Secret. When the bridge blocks the direct path but there's a long way around, it's likely just a Door to Before. Ability Required to Proceed is a sub-trope of Broken Bridge. In this case, gaining new powers serves as a way to "repair" the bridges and move forward in the game. If a broken bridge or other obstacle prevents you from returning to earlier areas, it's a Point of No Return. Compare Inescapable Ambush. If you are crossing a bridge and it breaks mid-crossing, forcing you to hang on for dear life, or if you are supposed to break a bridge to trap or defeat an enemy, that's Rope Bridge.
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Broken Bridge / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has at least three literal examples. In two cases, you even have to use the game's portal system to literally go get the bridge yourself. You go all the way to the first dungeon near the beginning of the game, but its entrance is blocked with boulders. Sometime between the Ordon children in the woods plot and purging Faron of the twilight, the boulders get replaced with a web you can burn with your lantern. In the first case, if you save and quit at the wrong time after the bridge is stolen, you will be reloaded on the wrong side of the bridge, making the game Unwinnable, as all other paths are blocked by indestructible barriers or other broken bridges at this point. Another one happens in the Forest Temple, where Ook cuts down the central bridge with the Boomerang and you have to rescue the captive monkeys throughout the temple to cross.
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Broken Bridge / int_11795605	comment	Clock Tower 3 uses what is possibly the most flimsy broken bridge of all. This LetsPlay describes it quite well. Alyssa is a girl who was violently pulled through time by magic, and ends up in London during World War II in the middle of a bombing run. She then runs towards a concert hall, but can't enter because a flyer on the door says "Entry by invitation only. The Management." Let me reiterate. Bombs are going off in the streets. She has seen no one besides ghosts. There is no magic seal or anything on the door. And she still won't enter because she doesn't have an invitation.
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Broken Bridge / int_11fd6993	comment	inFAMOUS: Like many wide-open sandbox games, Empire City is made up of three islands connected by damaged or raised bridges, which get repaired or lowered as the player progresses. The game strands Cole on the island of Neon, where he fights Reapers. A certain amount of plot later, and he's stranded in the Warrens, where he fights Dust Men. Then he helps repair the bridge between the two, and can travel freely between them. And so can the Dust Men and Reapers. A few missions from then on involve the two factions fighting for dominance. A more subtle example is the use of power outages in sections of the city. While Cole can technically go to these places, he has no source of recharging himself and is quickly killed.
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Broken Bridge / int_11fd7982	comment	The Metroid Prime games can actually be pretty bad in this department. There's a lot of materials that can inconveniently only be broken by one certain weapon. There's always free side quests, but the main plot uses a lot of these.
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Broken Bridge / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact has the entire Japan-inspired nation of Inazuma subjected to "A Nation Closed By Storms". The entire nation is surrounded by magical storms, and will force players back to a location on the mainland if they were trying to enter without completely the requisite quest, or back to Ritou on Inazuma if they try to leave without a teleport. This example is especially egregious in that players making the trek through icebridging (where one freezes water with ice powers of certain characters), not only can they reach another major island - giving the impression that island travel through icebridging is possible - but they're finally sent back to shore once they're so close to Inazuma's shores that details begin to resolve. No warnings are given ahead of time, resulting in the player losing potentially an hour or more of monotonous icebridging unceremoniously.
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Broken Bridge / int_12ce6b61	comment	GreedFall: The entrances around DÃd e kÃden nÃ¡daigeis will be blocked off by fences, in addition to one wall being made unclimbable, to prevent players from going to the area before the main quest takes them there. If players are on the correct stage of the quest, the ways open. A wall of rock prevents the player from discovering Saint Matheus' final resting place in VÃ©dvÃlvie before progressing far enough in the Eden questline. Although it looks much more natural than the other broken bridges, and De Sardet comments they had no idea there was a path there. The map shows the path anyways. About midway through the game De Sardet will need to speak with the leader of the natives' high council; however, they will be blocked from doing so until you complete the "The Suffering of Constantin" main quest. There is a dead tree blocking a path in TÃr Dob preventing the player from discovering the corrupted guardians before they need to.
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Broken Bridge / int_13f21e09	comment	In Company of Heroes, several skirmish maps feature literal destroyed bridges, which can be renovated by engineers, sappers and pioneers. This process is somewhat lengthy and potentially expensive, but oftentimes the strategical advantages gained by this process can grant the player a more direct route to victory, so it's essential to start work on one side of the bridge before the enemy. In the US campaign, however, there is a broken bridge in the truest sense of the trope, which gets blown up (alongside your supposed recon) in the opening cutscene by a remote-controlled Goliath, and forces you to make a large u-movement over another river crossing.
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Broken Bridge / int_143f82e6	comment	Zigzagged in SnowRunner. There are several roads blocked by rock slides, fallen bridges, and blocked tunnels. However, only two of these can't be circumnavigated (the bridge between the town and garage in Black River and the tunnels between the Drowned Lands and Quarry maps in Taymyr). Circumnavigating the other ones usually requires driving on an almost impassible dirt road (especially for larger trucks), so repairing the bridges makes the route easier rather than possible. Also justified in that the reason the bridges get repaired is that you're the one delivering the materials to repair them.
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Broken Bridge / int_15b0f79b	comment	This is the main gimmick of Happyland Adventures. With the exception of two levels in the X-mas Edition—including the tutorial level—every single level cannot be completed until the player guides the required number of Happylanders to a safety zone. The required number is shown in the upper-right corner of the screen, just below the time limit.
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Broken Bridge / int_17c40956	comment	Justified in Dark Chronicle — you couldn't go around all the hazards because you can't get a train around boulders or broken bridges.
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Broken Bridge / int_17e3e6e9	comment	In Fancy Pants Adventure: World 3, the NPC variation of this trope appears in Pirate Cove. A number of enemies decide to make a pyramid to block your progress, as during that part of the game, you can only defeat enemies with Goomba Stomping or a running slide, neither of which will fetter the pyramid. Instead, you have to search underwater for a pencil, used as a sword to knock the enemies down.
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Broken Bridge / int_18e5537e	comment	LEGO City Undercover has three bridges that you cannot cross until you've progressed past certain points of the game. Auburn Bay Bridge cannot be crossed at first, due to a roadblock. However, the roadblock is cleared very early on during the game's story, before starting the first special assignment. Heritage Bridge cannot initially be crossed, due to undergoing repairs, while Blackwell Bridge, a drawbridge, cannot be lowered due to a man refusing to move his sailboat out from under it. Both of these bridges open up upon completion of the "Kung-Foolery" mission.
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Broken Bridge / int_196b618d	comment	PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 are just as bad. They really seem to have given up on legitimate ideas for roadblocks. Since they use mostly the same map as Black and White, but have you access areas in a different order, there are a lot of extremely lame excuses to prevent you from accessing certain areas. At one point your progress is blocked by a line-up of random dancing fat men, who lampshade the whole thing by stating that they're there for no reason at all and will eventually leave, also for no reason. Not too far from the line of fat men, the road to Nimbasa City is blocked by a random line of boulders. And just in case you were wondering, there's even a worker nearby that explains that they can't be moved with HM Strength for whatever reason. Only after you finish everything else in Castelia City will Colress show up, explain that the boulders are actually Crustle, and pull out the device necessary to wake them all up. At one point, entering a new town cuts off your path back out by having an elevator break. Attempting to leave Castelia to the east results in a guard telling you to bugger off since the bridge is being inspected for the first time in two years. You're actually allowed to enter Chargestone Cave this time before you fight Clay... However, you can only access a part of the first floor; the rest of it will be blocked off by Bianca and a random worker saying the bridge is out until you get the Quake Badge and enter the PokÃ©mon World Tournament. Of the five bridges in Unova, three of them are inaccessible until postgame: Skyarrow Bridge is undergoing the aforementioned inspection, Marvelous Bridge is under maintenance, and Tubeline Bridge is in the middle of a social experiment to see how many people can fit on it. Another pair of Plasma Grunts block off the Giant Chasm while having a conversation about the group meeting up at Route 21, which is a clue to get you to return to Seaside Cave and use the Colress Machine that you got a short while back to get a Crustle to move out of the way and open the path to where the Plasma Frigate is docked. That's a Broken Bridge inside another Broken Bridge, and a reference to an earlier Broken Bridge.
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Broken Bridge / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon: Digimon World has an actual broken bridge blocking off access to the eastern part of File Island, which can only be fixed after the player finds Coelamon, at which point Jijimon says the inhabitants of File City got around to fixing it. The west has a pile of boulders from an avalanche, which only clear away once Meramon's dealt with. Played for laughs and only explained after it's opened in Digimon World DS. Almost all of the Digital World can be reached through a warp in front of the main building of the Hub Level. The only exception requires the player to pass through the Chaotic Gate, which is the inconspicuous piece of floor a plot-important NPC was standing on which you're unlikely to have realised by this point was a warp. A less amusing variant is from Digimon World 3. The bridge to Amaterasu City is guarded by a squad of Knightmon which can't be beaten by any attack unless you show them the relevant passes. Dawn and Dusk use these in the form of walls of data, used to prevent you going too far off the main path if the mission only requires you to explore part of a zone, or to make sure you don't gain access to parts of the game you shouldn't be able to access yet when using the warps. Though, even after you completely beat the game several data walls will remain in the Data Zone. That's propably because it would connect all the areas and turn it into a gargantuan maze. There is also a Starmon in the Coliseum that blocks the way to a teleporter, saying that it's forbidden to unauthorized person. You actually never get the permission to use it, and Starmon will not let you pass even after completely beating the game. Digimon World -next 0rder-: The way to the Ohguino Wastelands is blocked off by... a massive pile of sand, which GrapLeomon needs to remove, which requires a small Fetch Quest to accomplish. Apparently the player cannot just climb over it, or have their partner carry them. The bridges in Faulty Ex Machina aren't working properly, requiring going the long way around (i.e., across the other side of the map) to get to the control center.
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Broken Bridge / int_1a8119af	comment	Also in Dragon Quest VIII, your route back to Trodain is blocked by a LITERAL broken bridge. The real irony is that one of your party members is the one who destroyed it.
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Broken Bridge / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	Might and Magic X features two examples: a bridge blocked off by a guard while they clear away the rubble from a bandit attack and scout the area for any remaining bandits (he disappears once you complete another, non-bandit-connected, quest for the lord of the attacked castle) and a city which is in lock-down until you enter the city (via the sewers — you can't get in before the right point) for the main quest. The actual broken bridge remains broken throughout the game, and only serves as a shortcut once you get the ability to walk on water.
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Broken Bridge / int_1adee40d	comment	The World Ends with You: at any given time, many areas are blocked off with Some Kind of Force Field. This makes sense in-game, as it's about people forced to play a game where they're largely led around like rats in a cage. Only the Reapers, the ones running the game, have the Keypins necissary to break the forcefields... Which leads to this trope being Double Subverted in the third week. Your partner there is a former Reaper, and he still has his keypin, which lets you pass some walls and pull the In-Universe version of Sequence Breaking. But then you run into walls you need a higher level keypin to break, forcing you to defeat higher-ranked Reapers and take their keypins to progress.
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Broken Bridge / int_1ae3c0f3	comment	Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard: Like in the first game, you won't be allowed to proceed to the second floor of the labyrinth (in this case, the second floor of Ancient Forest) until you show a properly-drawn map of the first. It's justified this time: The guards explain that if you can't survive long enough to draw a map of the first floor, you're guaranteed to die if you go any further.
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Broken Bridge / int_1b4a1cef	comment	One in Fantasy Quest takes the form of a literally broken bridge, which you eventually fix with a bow, hammer and nails.
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Broken Bridge / int_1d45e6aa	comment	Occurs a few times in Gaia Online. For example, the entrance to the The Very Definitely Final Dungeon is sealed off for most of the game because It's a whirlpool, and you'd drown without the Water-breathing blessing you get from the ruins. Most broken bridges can be avoided by crewing with a player who already has completed the requirements to pass it.
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Broken Bridge / int_21e321da	comment	In a weird and inventive version of this trope, Dragon Quest VII had a broken bridge that would be fixed "tomorrow". Of course, the world is stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, so "tomorrow" doesn't come until you fix that little problem.
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Broken Bridge / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Downplayed. When you first emerge on the Great Plateau at the very beginning of the game, you find that the cliffs are too steep for you to safely get down. You need to complete the four Shrines on the Plateau so that the Old Man will give you his Paraglider. But once you have gotten the runes from the Shrines and the Paraglider from the Old Man, there's nothing, besides your upgradable stamina and the occasional Beef Gate, keeping you from traveling to any place in Hyrule, including The Very Definitely Final Dungeon. You can make a beeline straight for the Final Boss with nothing but your underwear, three hearts, and swinging whatever weapons you scrounged upon the way... and it's actually possible to win.
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Broken Bridge / int_24d953d0	comment	Metroid: The entrance to Tourian is cut off by a very high ledge with a hole that only the Morph Ball can squeeze through, with an acid pit below it. Normally, you have to kill Kraid and Ridley to activate their statues near the entrance, which will create a bridge across when you shoot them. A very skilled player can get across by using luring an enemy into the room, freezing it with the Ice Beam and Morph Ball Bomb jumping off of it.
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Broken Bridge / int_2523494e	comment	Alwa's Awakening features a literal one early on in a village. Rather than it getting fixed, you must find an ability that lets you jump across the gap.
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Broken Bridge / int_2654a385	comment	In Problem Sleuth, doors are frequently blocked by gigantic stone busts of Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, and Snoop Dogg for no apparent reason.
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Broken Bridge / int_26674ed5	comment	In some of the alternate canon "Snake Tales" of Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, the game map is round, so there should be two routes to each sector. At least one of the missions sees the game regularly close the door leading to the quick route to force the player to go the long way.
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Broken Bridge / int_283badac	comment	In Dark Cloud 2: There is a drawbridge in the middle of Palm Brinks. It remains raised all during Chapter 1, blocking you from the other half of the town. However, in Chapter 2 it is lowered, and it is never raised again for any reason. Furthermore, the train tracks just past the stations in Chapters 2, 3, and 4 are either blocked by boulders or broken, preventing the train from going to the next Chapter's area. The train's crew works on repairing the track while you explore the dungeon, rebuild the future, and defeat the boss. Coincidentally, they finish fixing the track right after you do everything that needs to be done in that area.
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Broken Bridge / int_28b53408	comment	In the Exeunt Omnes level of FEAR a pair of Bouncing Betty landmines blocks your path. Shooting them will only take out the fuse box and block the way again with electrical discharges, so you have use a nearby Air-Vent Passageway instead and deactivate the electricity from the other side. At other times, your immediate path is blocked by security shutters, immovable furniture, insurmountable fences, jammed doors, etc.
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Broken Bridge / int_290fb562	comment	Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand has a similar Bridge to Before that doesn't get fixed until you've been to the other side the long way.
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Broken Bridge / int_297f346	comment	In the Western GTA clone Gun, the main character is trapped in the initial town because the only bridge over the canyon was destroyed by Native Americans and he can't progress until he undertakes a mission to protect the bridge builders from further attacks.
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Broken Bridge / int_2a04866b	comment	Guild Wars has a lot of these in the factions and Nightfall campaign. Factions uses doors to stop people entering mission outposts before they have completed the primary quest leading to that outpost. Nightfall will block players from entering regions ahead of their point in the story. Both games also use doors during missions, to keep the mission area smaller than the explorable area it takes place in. These techniques were not used in the original campaign, leading to a thriving economy of high level players getting payed by low level players for their Sequence Breaking services, such as the Droknar run which made use of a long, dangerous path which nevertheless led straight from a low level to a high level area with no story missions in the way.
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Broken Bridge / int_2acb12c5	comment	X-Universe: In X3: Terran Conflict and its expansion pack, the inner Sol system is unlocked progressively, starting with Mars, by playing through the game's main plot. Justified in game, as the Earth State is extremely isolationist and protective of Earth and its Torus Aeternal; any ship — Terran or not — that uses a trans-orbital accelerator without the proper credentials will be hunted down by AGI Task Force flotillas, or in Earth, instagibbed by the Torus's point defenses. In the Xtended Terran Conflict total conversion Game Mod, the universe starts out relatively small as most of the jumpgate network is still offline. As time passes and the solar systems are colonized, jumpgates begin to activate in waves, expanding the universe. In X: Rebirth, the universe starts with the jump gate network shut down following the Guilt-Free Extermination War of X3: Albion Prelude, but it begins to reactivate and open up new systems about every half-dozen missions in the plot. Prior to this, you are limited to one solar system, Albion. Using one of the Multiple Game Openings allows you to skip the plot entirely and start with all systems already open.
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Broken Bridge / int_2ae3b7fc	comment	One of the quests in Darkstone involves a literal broken bridge. It becomes necessary for the resolution of the quest for your character to reach Bartaman's Island, which is accessed only by a small broken bridge. There's a man wandering around with an axe who is willing to work in exchange for food. You have to steal a fish out of a fisherman's basket and give it to the man, who will then repair the bridge for you.
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Broken Bridge / int_2c49204d	comment	Lunar: The Silver Star has two literal broken bridges that need NPCs to fix. Fixing the first bridge, connecting Caldor Isle to the mainland, requires a Fetch Quest. The second bridge, in Meryod, is actually broken by your party when they try to walk over its rotten planks.
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Broken Bridge / int_2cf275ca	comment	Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis has areas cordoned off by barriers to ensure that you don't go where the plot doesn't let you. Given how these areas and the plot threads behind them are power- and level-gated, this is to ensure you aren't in over your head when you try to enter them. This includes the bridges between regions.
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Broken Bridge / int_2d644371	comment	Most of Tales Series games have some sort of a broken bridge appearing, but some of the games implement it in more unusual ways. Tales of Rebirth plays the broken bridge scenario for laughs. The Dark Wings decide to destroy the game's first bridge, to stop Veigue and co. and show their mightiness. Which is pretty mean and evil... until the bridgebuilders show up and get pissed off because of it. They force the Dark Wings to fix the bridge themselves. You still have to take the long detour to get to the city over the bridge, but at least you know those responsible for it are being properly punished (the bridge eventually gets completed and saves a lot of walking later). Tales of the Abyss Inverts the trope THEN plays it straight by repeating the scenario of The Dark Wings destroying the first bridge in the game to prevent their pursuers from catching them, only this time AFTER the main characters have crossed in a carriage carrying Luka and Tear "to the capital", at which point they learn the capital in question is that of Malkuth, the nation Luke's Kingdom of Kimlasca is at war with, preventing them from turning around immediately. In Tales of Zestiria, if you try to head into an area you don't belong in yet, you might find it blanketed in incredibly dense Malevolence which slows down your movements outside of battle and cripples you in battle. If you somehow manage to get further into the area, you might end up running into Heldalf with obvious results if you're foolish enough to try to get past him in your weakened state and a Bad Ending if you somehow defeat him.
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Broken Bridge / int_2e8079b2	comment	Red Sonja: Lord Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is on his way to the Talisman's temple to attend its destruction by the priestesses. Unfortunately, a bridge he has to cross in a valley to reach the temple has collapsed, forcing him to make a long detour. That crucial time lost allows Queen Gedren to assault the temple with her forces, kill the priestesses and take the Talisman for herself. Sonja (Brigitte Nielsen) has to cross a gated passage at one point. Said passage is guarded by Lord Brytag and his army. Brytag expects a sexual favor from Sonja in order for her to cross the gate. She's having none of it, duels Brytag, kills him, takes his key for the gates, and escapes with the help of Kalidor.
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Broken Bridge / int_2e97466d	comment	Ys: Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ Omen has invisible doors that require the Mask of Eyes (which has the side effect of making enemies invisible) to pass through. Another "broken bridge" in II isn't really broken, but you must first rescue the bridgekeeper's son before he'll admit that the bridge isn't actually broken and lower it (the villains had threatened to kill his son if he let Adol pass). In Ys III, your passage through Valestine Castle is blocked by a statue that later becomes a boss; you must find the Bracelet first to pass. Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand has a similar Bridge to Before that doesn't get fixed until you've been to the other side the long way. Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim opens with Adol on Quatera Island, which used to have a bridge to nearby Canaan Island before it was sabotaged. The only way to Canaan is through an underground tunnel; the bridge isn't rebuilt until much later in the game, becoming a Door to Before. In a bit of a relief from "Sorry, you have to wait here, and don't think about going via X", nobody knows about the tunnel until the game's first boss smashes through the wall in front of it. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana has various terrain obstacles (including a literal broken bridge) that cannot be passed until a certain number of castaways have been recruited (on the grounds that it will take at least X people to clear the obstacle — at one point you need slightly more people because one person refuses to work and thus doesn't count), as well as others that cannot be passed until Dana does something (usually planting a prayer tree) to alter the past.
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Broken Bridge / int_3055fc61	comment	Golden Sun: One drawbridge is stuck up because the guy who would gladly lower it for you is transformed into a tree. Coincidentally, the villains you're chasing are at the place you need to go to cure the guy's curse. A cuter example of a "broken bridge": "There are puppies playing here. Let's not disturb them." (or words to that effect) There's also a a literal broken bridge (you see a bunch of NPCs headed toward it, when the bridge is broken by a Psynergy Stone crashing into it, propelled there by a volcano; the NPCs turn around and head for a bandit-infested town, causing problems down the line) that prevents you from accessing an area you'll reach by an incredibly roundabout way too early. The bridge is repaired once you reach it. An aversion after you cross the inland sea. You can literally reach the final town before going through all the relevant plot. It's not easy, though, and most of the events won't activate.
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Broken Bridge / int_30940081	comment	Averted in Grand Theft Auto V, the entire map is open from the start. However Los Santos closes off for a period of time for Michael and Trevor after Trevor goes rogue and takes Martin Madrazo's wife, and Martin responds by having his underlings target both characters with heavy gunfire the moment either character enters Los Santos city limits until his wife is returned to him. A few locations still trigger wanted levels if entered before certain parts of the game, however.
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Broken Bridge / int_30c1ffd0	comment	Stardew Valley, a Spiritual Successor to Harvest Moon, also has a few: Part of the beach is on the other side of a literal broken bridge that takes 300 wood (about two dozen trees worth) to repair. The Mines are blocked off by a landslide which isn't cleared until the 5th day of your first Spring. The path to the train station and the Spa is locked until an earthquake on the 3rd day of your first summer clears the path. The Secret Woods are blocked by a fallen tree which you can't break until you have the Silver Axe. (There's a trick to hop over it, though.) The Sewers are locked until you get the key by donating 60 items to the Museum. The bus to the desert is broken down, and there is another literal broken bridge to the Quarry, both of which require completing bundles at the Community Center (or Joja Community Developments) to fix. After you gain access to the bus, you need to find the Skull Key on the 120th floor of the mine before you can access Skull Cave. Finally, Ginger Island, the Witch's Hut, and the Movie Theater are inaccessible until after you complete all the Community Center Bundles (or Joja Community Developments), which then unlocks the quests to unlock the areas.
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Broken Bridge / int_311aac2c	comment	Omega Quintet has dense walls of Blare blacking off deeper areas of dungeons that your Verse Maidens can't clear, but mysteriously disappear when you've proceeded far enough through the plot. The Hand Wave is that the Quintet's actions are weakening the overall Blare corruption and causing these barriers to fall along with it. There's also roiling black-and-white clouds that never go away, although these are pretty obviously a no-so-Invisible Wall at the entrance to a zone (necessary because pretty much everywhere without them rewards you for exploring backwards from your starting point).
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Broken Bridge / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: At the Freeway 42 biological research area, the center bridge leading to the control center is flooded by sewage water that has to be drained by valves located on opposing sides.
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Broken Bridge / int_318fe3d2	comment	Etrian Odyssey: Etrian Odyssey: On the first floor of the Labyrinth, a guard stands posted at the entrance to a particular area to keep you from progressing to the second floor until you wander the rest of the current floor and create a perfect map for it to prove your worth (or something to that effect), despite the fact that there must be a million maps of the first floor created by the countless other exploration groups that came before you. It should be noted that drawing your own maps of the floors as you go is half the work of the game, with the other half being the encounters you can face. Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard: Like in the first game, you won't be allowed to proceed to the second floor of the labyrinth (in this case, the second floor of Ancient Forest) until you show a properly-drawn map of the first. It's justified this time: The guards explain that if you can't survive long enough to draw a map of the first floor, you're guaranteed to die if you go any further.
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Broken Bridge / int_31e1eca3	comment	PokÃ©mon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum: Random people block your way for no legitimate reason. Route 212 is blocked by a reporter and a cameraman from the northern side, even after you've beaten Hearthome City's Gym. And they disappear once you reach Solaceon Town (in Diamond and Pearl) or Pastoria City (in Platinum). All this does is make you take a longer path. No badges, no special events, nothing. Route 210 is blocked by a group of Psyduck, which you could defeat easily, but instead you have to get a Secret Potion because they have headaches. (Then again, with other PokÃ©mon media's implication of what happens when a Psyduck gets a headache, they'd probably curbstomp you. That or there's just a metric ton of them.) A man next to route 222 won't let you pass because of a blackout in Sunyshore City until after you've beaten the Big Bad. (Slightly justified by the fact that it was caused by Volkner, meaning it would've shut down the gym.) In Platinum, a battle is blocking the entrance to Canalave City if you manage to Surf there before picking up the HM from Celestic Town. Also in Platinum, after you escape from the Distortion World, you're placed outside the entrance to Turnback Cave. Cynthia just happens to be standing in front of the entrance, and will remain standing there until you defeat her at the PokÃ©mon League.
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Broken Bridge / int_331e008	comment	Borderlands: These take two forms. First, there are the area transition stages, which usually don't work until a quest unlocks them. Most of these have a Claptrap next to them who tell you that "your DNA Sequence has not been cleared for this area." In Rust Commons East, however, there are a pair of literally broken bridges (well, raised bridges, anyway) which can't be lowered until you've finished a certain part of the main quest.
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Broken Bridge / int_334120fc	comment	Parodied in 8-Bit Theater, where the the Light Warriors decide that "King Steve's Kickass Bridge" is an incredibly sucky reward for saving a princess.
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Broken Bridge / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2: Episode Two: Several examples. In the beginning, Gordon and Alyx stop in a communications shack to try to contact the headquarters of the resistance, and in the back of the shack is a "locked" door that cannot be opened for any reason, which, after the communications have taken place, mysteriously swings open on its own.Episode Two also features a literal broken bridge, near the end of "Freeman Pontifex"; it's not otherwise an example of the trope, though, since the bridge's only relevance to the plot is that the player has to retrieve a car from the other side of it and jump (in the car) back.
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Broken Bridge / int_34d22793	comment	A less amusing variant is from Digimon World 3. The bridge to Amaterasu City is guarded by a squad of Knightmon which can't be beaten by any attack unless you show them the relevant passes.
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Broken Bridge / int_359666b7	comment	Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (pictured above) has a lot of these. The first five or six towns are connected by warp shrines; each time, something prevents you from moving on until the next quest is done: locked door, broken bridge, royal permission...
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Broken Bridge / int_36fda48b	comment	Need for Speed: World, which took place in a world combining Most Wanted 2005's Rockport and Carbon's Palmont City, had holo-barriers preventing players from accessing the roads connecting Downtown Palmont and Kempton on the western Carbon-based side with Downtown Rockport on the eastern Most Wanted-based side. This is because the area was literally broken; EA Black Box / Quicklime Games never finished the small area as they pivoted towards adding more cars and other features, especially since the map was essentially complete anyway. There was also a holo-barrier placed just after the toll booths of (ironically) a bridge leading south of Downtown Rockport that would have supposedly led to the Tri-City Bay area from Undercover when that was ever developed, but again, the map stopped being expanded.
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Broken Bridge / int_382f2d3b	comment	Driver: San Francisco has red barriers that are removed as the story progresses, and respawn you facing the other way if you try to drive past them. It's justified in-story as the game takes place in Tanner's coma dream and the barriers being removed represents his condition improving. In a bit of Gameplay and Story Integration, one Stalking Mission actually ends early when the suspect drives past the barrier and forces Tanner to stop there (much to the confusion of his partner). The barriers also don't appear in the New Game Plus mode, though the aforementioned mission still plays out the same.
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Broken Bridge / int_38304f2a	comment	Phantasy Star IV: A forest of carnivorous plants blocks your path to Garuberk Tower. Attempting to cross it will ensue a boss fight with the carnivorous trees. Fallen plants will be instantly replaced by more plants growing from the ground, making the fight unwinnable by conventional means. The correct course of action involves fleeing the battle (which is the only boss fight in the whole game when you can run away), and returning later with the Eclipse Torch from the local temple which gets conveniently stolen in front of your very eyes. Not to mention a literal broken bridge, between the starting towns and Aideo which is repaired after you get Rika, a wall of rock which you need a character to blast through, town guards that won't let you procure medicine, and numerous other examples. This game's full of them!
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Broken Bridge / int_39fe00f1	comment	The third game, Dragon Age: Inquisition, also has plenty of literal broken bridges. You need to return to the War Table and spend Power to have your engineers repair them to proceed to the other side. In addition, all main story missions are also blocked behind having to pay Power to access them, acquired from closing Fade Rifts and completing side quests.
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Broken Bridge / int_3ad44f6c	comment	Vampires Dawn features several freely explorable dungeons which may seem like Beef Gates, but practically every chapter of the storyline has a point where you simply can't progress unless you've done everything in order. You can enter Shadow Forest as soon as you've eavesdropped on the knight in Uruya's brothel, which can be done as soon as you get the Bat Spell. But you won't be able to open the door in the cave before you get the key in Tradan. Given enough grinding and listening to the old couple in Limm, you could fight your way through Abraxas's lair in the mountains as early as you please. Only to be stopped by a magically locked door, the key for which you only obtain after fighting Molona. You'll never be able to meet the cult in Asdion before talking to the vampire on the jungle island. The cult leader then provides you with the item you need to find Abraxas's tower â€“- which you weren't even able to see before, let alone enter.
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Broken Bridge / int_3c1f955d	comment	In Yandere Simulator, Ayano is stopped from going into the boy's locker room by an invisible wall. She can go into the boy's bathroom, but she's considered to be trespassing.
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Broken Bridge / int_3c294634	comment	Anachronox: "Someone's on fire just around the corner. This area's closed off until he puts himself out."
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Broken Bridge / int_3d532d77	comment	Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ Omen has invisible doors that require the Mask of Eyes (which has the side effect of making enemies invisible) to pass through. Another "broken bridge" in II isn't really broken, but you must first rescue the bridgekeeper's son before he'll admit that the bridge isn't actually broken and lower it (the villains had threatened to kill his son if he let Adol pass).
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Broken Bridge / int_40b716af	comment	Because the majority of Assassin's Creed takes place inside a computer interpretation of a modern day character's ancestral memories that requires that character to complete one set of memories to unlock others, areas that cannot be accessed are simply blocked off by transparent walls of DNA memory codes. Although never stated outright in the game, it's implied that, because the character's ancestor did not go to the part of the city at that particular time, there are no memories to fill in the city.
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Broken Bridge / int_4407fa9a	comment	Carver's Camp in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn takes this to literal extremes. The bridge to Bilibin has been severely damaged (as in, the middle plants are missing), and repairs are suspended due to the Vortex nearby. Carver uses a Lumberjack Bridge variant to catapult across the gap and away from the Vortex, but nothing significant comes of it. Sadly, you never get to see the bridge repaired, as the Konpa Ruins get blockaded off once you're through them and Border Town is on lockdown due to armistice. The game has too many to count, but that stands out in particular.
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Broken Bridge / int_44ebe34f	comment	In Haven (2020), the protagonists regularly run into broken bridges, sometimes literally, while exploring Source to find the parts for their ship. Such as uncrossable chasms due to islets splitting apart, forcing an alternate route, aerial Flow Threads that require you to upgrade your Hover Skates, NPC roadblocks that can only be dislodged with the Flow Burst, and buried Flow that must be dug up by the Daiko to unlock new bridges.
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Broken Bridge / int_4767f599	comment	In Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, some levels change wherever a particular level is beaten; for example, the tide rises in Rice Beach replacing quicksand with water pools and revealing the first Treasure; defeating a certain miniboss in Teapot Mountain causes the floating "teapot lid" island to crash down into the mountain.
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Broken Bridge / int_48776b21	comment	In Potion Permit, there are some parts of the overworld blocked off by debris, broken transport, or a literal broken bridge, and you need to clear them by gathering enough materials and leveling up your badge.
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Broken Bridge / int_49a84be6	comment	Final Fantasy III is just a string of Broken Bridges. First, there is a massive rock in the way. The only person who can destroy it has been turned into a ghost along with everyone else in Sasune and Kazus. Next, you need to Get on the Boat, but there's a sea monster in the way. Then there's a whirlpool in the way of your boat... Followed by two fangs that have been stolen... And then you get put in prison... After that, you need to lower the water level for the next Crystal. Then your ship gets chained up... ...and to fix it, you need the Floating Shoes. Then you end up in the middle of a Civil War when your airship gets shot down. Then you have to wake up Unne. And then you need to use the Invincible to get the last Fang. And then you can finally get to Dorga's House and get the keys for the Very Definitely Final Dungeon.
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Broken Bridge / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII did the "commission-an-NPC-to-do-a-job-for-you" gambit — attempting to ignore Cosmo Canyon caused your vehicle to break. While you can run around on the Overworld Not to Scale without it, you can't cross the river you need to cross to head towards the next town, Nibelheim, without it, forcing you to enter Cosmo Canyon, where a man in a builder's hat will fix your buggy free of charge and only get it finished when you've finished the Backstory-important quest in the town.In a strange case, if the buggy breaks down and you don't talk to the guy, it will magically be fixed. If you enter Cosmo Canyon willingly, the buggy never breaks down, but the same guy will offer to fix it for you! Additional FFVII broken bridges include the typical "you can ride the ferry from A to B, but not until after beating the boss and the plot sequence in this town (Junon boat)"; this is then reversed with the tactic of having the ship out of commission and unable to return, forcing the player to explore the western continent rather than immediately high-tailing it back to safer areas. Once sufficient plot is completed, the ship is again available. This process is repeated with other vehicles and methods of travel in the game. A variation of this pops up after leaving Midgar. What you're supposed to do is head straight for Kalm so the party can regroup and Cloud can tell the story of the Nibelheim Incident or rather his version, of the incident. Try to skip this and you'll find your path blacked by a Midgar Zolom. Where this trope comes into play is the method to get past the beast (riding a Chocobo) won't become available until after Cloud tells his story. And even if you somehow manage to sneak past the Zolom, your Party members will tell you to turn back in the next area.
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Broken Bridge / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII, which allows the player to explore a much larger and interconnected world than most previous Final Fantasies, employs this trope nearly everywhere to keep players from getting too far away from the plot. The route is blocked by tree, a "roiling mist" is too thick to pass, an Imperial edict prevents you from entering the further deserts, a ferry has mysteriously stopped working, boulders blocking, and so on. Largely averts Solve the Soup Cans, however, in that the opening up of the areas figures in neatly (if oh-so-conveniently) with the story. However, in some instances extremely dangerous areas, such as the Garamsythe Waterways (the stronger area with Malboro Overkings) or the Zertinan Caverns, are accessible at points when the player might not be sufficiently leveled to survive them. Hilariously, in The Zodiac Age, there are several licenses on each class's grid cut off from the rest of it, requiring either a Quickening or an Esper to bridge the gap. The latter is a little problematic because an esper can only be assigned to one person at a time, and if two people need a certain esper to access one of these "floating" licenses, well...
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Broken Bridge / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV is more forgiving with its broken bridges. At the beginning of the game, players start out in one of three regions: Thanalan, the Black Shroud, or La Noscea. For all intents and purposes, players are locked into their starting region until they are given clearance by the local government to travel by airship to the other regions by progressing the story. In theory, it is possible to travel between Thanalan and the Black Shroud by foot, but that entails moving through high level areas that you may not survive should you draw a monster's aggro. La Noscea, on the other hand, is an island nation, and you won't be able to swim to the other regions - even a ferry service traveling between the main city on La Noscea and the westernmost town in Thanalan doesn't open until you've unlocked airship travel. Beyond these regions, other areas are locked out by story progression and whether you have the expansion needed to enter newer areas such as Ishgard or Othard.
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Broken Bridge / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: The Stonewrought Pass barred off Searing Gorge from the much lower-level Loch Modan. Unusually, the quest for the key required you to enter the zone by another path (a long roundabout path through Badlands or Burning Steppes, or picking the lock, or having another player open it) and kill a specific monster there. It was a great timesaver in the early game, but became of little relevance once Searing Gorge had its own flightpoint. The gate is now kept open, but the same NPC who (grudgingly) granted you the key still guards the pass and pretends she can stop players from passing. Old habits die hard. Areas that exist in canon but are not used in-game are often given a long-term version of this. The path from Eastern Plaguelands to Quel'Thalas was completely blocked off by boulders before Quel'Thalas was created in the Burning Crusade. A similar situation existed with the Greymane Wall barring Gilneas which opened in the Cataclysm expansion. Most of these were accessible if players were creative enough, there just wasn't anything to do there. Several dungeons are full of these. Grim Batol, for example, has at least four. While it sounds annoying, it's actually a very effective way to keep the dungeon linear and simple, allowing story events to play out as needed and stopping the group from dispersing and getting lost (a common problem in early dungeons, especially Blackrock Depths). Kologarn in Ulduar stands in a chasm, blocking the way from the first part of the dungeon to the second. Ironically, once he is broken, he becomes the bridge. In a similar vein, the Firelands has a magic drawbridge leading to Ragnaros. The player has to kill a boss to make the lever clickable, the lever then makes the bridge appear. The Throne of Four Winds had a similar mechanic, where the player had to defeat all the minor bosses in order to get to the major boss's floating platform. Icecrown citadel also had teleporters that functioned as this: so that players had to kill the bosses in the canonical order at least the first time around. Afterwards it functioned as a way for players to conveniently farm loot from specific bosses, without having to do the entire raid. that being said, for some reason the entire continent of Kalimdor has zero of these until the Uldum region (blocked off by a wall until level 85). This was a bit of a problem before the recent level-scaling change, because low-level players could easily get to high level zones without realizing what they were doing. Nowadays,the monsters scale to the player so it's not a big deal.
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Broken Bridge / int_4b434423	comment	PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield: There are two ways through Route 1: a straight path directly from Postwick to Wedgehurst, and a side path with tall grass. On the first time in the zone, you have no PokÃ©mon, and are advised to stay away from the grassy path; on the second time, a flock of Wooloo are taking a nap in the middle of the road, forcing you to take the detour. Shortly after that, when you take the train to Motostoke, the train is forced to divert because of a flock of Wooloo on the tracks. Throughout the entire game, Team Yell members will constantly block the way forward wherever you go, forcing you into a very linear experience. It'd be more forgivable if that happened a few times, but almost EVERY roadblock is just Team Yell. Using the same two models every time.
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Broken Bridge / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun: Golden Sun: One drawbridge is stuck up because the guy who would gladly lower it for you is transformed into a tree. Coincidentally, the villains you're chasing are at the place you need to go to cure the guy's curse. A cuter example of a "broken bridge": "There are puppies playing here. Let's not disturb them." (or words to that effect) There's also a a literal broken bridge (you see a bunch of NPCs headed toward it, when the bridge is broken by a Psynergy Stone crashing into it, propelled there by a volcano; the NPCs turn around and head for a bandit-infested town, causing problems down the line) that prevents you from accessing an area you'll reach by an incredibly roundabout way too early. The bridge is repaired once you reach it. An aversion after you cross the inland sea. You can literally reach the final town before going through all the relevant plot. It's not easy, though, and most of the events won't activate. Golden Sun: The Lost Age has a single boulder that blocks the only sea passage to the East and the rest of the game. The Psynergy to remove it is in Lemuria, which requires a puzzle to get to and defeating a boss. The boss is invulnerable until you find a weapon that's been broken into three parts in three separate dungeons and fixed by an NPC in a fourth area. Carver's Camp in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn takes this to literal extremes. The bridge to Bilibin has been severely damaged (as in, the middle plants are missing), and repairs are suspended due to the Vortex nearby. Carver uses a Lumberjack Bridge variant to catapult across the gap and away from the Vortex, but nothing significant comes of it. Sadly, you never get to see the bridge repaired, as the Konpa Ruins get blockaded off once you're through them and Border Town is on lockdown due to armistice. The game has too many to count, but that stands out in particular.
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Broken Bridge / int_4ea10091	comment	Grandia II had you attempt to get across a massive crevasse via a Sky Rail which won't depart until you had saved the town from the curse of food not having any taste.
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Broken Bridge / int_4eddc919	comment	S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky features a literal broken bridge. Not much of an obstacle in an open-world FPS game, right? Wrong. The player character goes so far beyond Super Drowning Skills that even touching the water with the tip of your toe means instant death. You need to find a guide who will lead you around it.
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Broken Bridge / int_5075737a	comment	Golden Sun: The Lost Age has a single boulder that blocks the only sea passage to the East and the rest of the game. The Psynergy to remove it is in Lemuria, which requires a puzzle to get to and defeating a boss. The boss is invulnerable until you find a weapon that's been broken into three parts in three separate dungeons and fixed by an NPC in a fourth area.
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Broken Bridge / int_507dfb6a	comment	EarthBound will put everything and its mother in your way, including policemen, rocks, ghosts, timid cactus people, even a traffic jam in the middle of the desert. And let's not forget inexplicably placed statues. However, to its credit, it lampshades it liberally. The police force in Onett repeatedly talk about how their claim to fame is that they are constantly erecting road blocks, to the point where they don't actually bother to deal with real crimes. They actually do have a broken bridge in Peaceful Rest Valley when you arrive. Guess what gets repaired by the time you've rescued Paula?
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Broken Bridge / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck features a literal broken bridge on this page. It's there presumably to prevent the player from facing his final boss too early, though Terezi has another plan to engage in a bit of Sequence Breaking. ...demonstrating that sometimes the broken bridge is there for a reason. In Problem Sleuth, doors are frequently blocked by gigantic stone busts of Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, and Snoop Dogg for no apparent reason.
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Broken Bridge / int_5144055f	comment	In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, You can't leave Scabb Island until you run Largo LaGrande off the island.
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Broken Bridge / int_51bf1801	comment	Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion: Parodied in one section of the game, where you're unable to progress past an NPC's "specifically placed box collection", and they assure you "They're totally not here to keep you in the level or anything, that would be wackyyyyyy!"
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Broken Bridge / int_526d4c5c	comment	Knights of the Old Republic: While searching for the Star Maps, the game will always prevent the player from just heading straight to it. Most of the time, this is well-justified. This isn't always the case, however. On Dantooine, the ruins containing the Star Map are initially locked. The doors will mysteriously open by themselves after you're promoted to Padawan, which only happens once you've taken care of Juhani, as part of a quest with no connection to said ruins. On Korriban, the tomb where that world's Star Map is located is on the other side of a local Sith Academy. The only way to get to the other side is to join said Academy, but even then, the Tomb itself remains locked (for no apparent reason) until you've done enough sidequests to impress the Academy's leaders, who will take you in there to pass a final test. Twice, the player will encounter impenetrable force fields that can only be opened by a certain party member, who will refuse to help you unless you do something for them first. On Taris, the character is Mission Vao, who won't open the back entrance to the Black Vulkar base unless you rescue Zaalbar from slavers. On Kashyyyk, the character is Jolee, who will refuse to join your party until you've cleared out some Czerka goons camping near his hut. The latter case is undeniably the worse one, since there doesn't seem to be any reason for a shield to be there at all other than to force the player to recruit Jolee. At least the shield on Taris is in a tunnel, but the one on Kashyyyk is in the middle of a forest, so there's no reason why you couldn't just climb one of the path boundaries and walk around it, if it weren't for the invisible walls. Taris as a whole is a long line of Broken Bridges, but also a serves as a perfect example of why this isn't necessarily a bad thing, since every step is Justified in-story, either by the setting or being a logical progression from the last one. Late in the game, the Temple on the Unknown World where Bastila is being held captive is blocked, again, by an impenenetrable force field. This time you have to win the favour of one of two local native tribes, who will use their magic chants to disable it.
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Broken Bridge / int_52f6626	comment	Jak II: Renegade has invulnerable security walls around Haven City that you have to get the right clearance to go through; hilariously, they are just as broken for the Krimzon Guard, meaning that you can set off an alarm and watch as the KG jetbike slamms into it and exploded.
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Broken Bridge / int_53b04f6e	comment	In the first dream world of Obsidian, the chief of an office building you're in extends a bridge to his office for a meeting. It crashes into an Atlas statue midway and remain stuck, upon which said chief tells you to fix it by going through the proper channels. With the place being filled to the brim with unhelpful bureaucrats and miles of red tape, and having to literally climb the walls to get around, the way to fix the bridge is impossible to do legally, and you instead have to ally yourself with a group of rebels to find a way to get to the bridge, by scaling the Bureau's Atlas statue.
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Broken Bridge / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto series: Grand Theft Auto III prevents you from heading to the other boroughs of the city before you're supposed to with the oh-so-popular broken bridge (the first is blown up by your starting escape, but the subway is out, too.). Of course, once you complete the required missions, it's fixed. There are ways to circumvent this, but since the other boroughs aren't "activated" until the bridge (and later the subway) is fixed, they're empty save for traffic and thus completely pointless.note Or almost — collecting the hidden packages gives you a bit of ammo at your safehouse. Of which you never can have enough. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City also prevents you from reaching the west island by issuing a hurricane warning, causing every bridge to be closed. Once you finish the required missions, the hurricane warning is cancelled due to the storm in question changing course to miss Vice City entirely. note Again, numerous tricks are known to get over nonetheless. This time, they're very useful — you can purchase hideouts over there, such as the Hyman Condo and Skumole Shack. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has a series of broken (or closed) bridges that block you from the rest of the state, initially from an earthquake. The in-game explanation is that the police told you to not leave town, you appararently become fugitive at that point. It is possible to cross over by swimming (and in one case by executing a particularly spectacular stunt jump) or even commandeering a train and driving it backwards (for some reason, it can only break through the rail blockades this way), but your wanted meter immediately shoots up to four stars, and won't go down as long as you're in the restricted area (plus, if you chose to take the train, the cops will blow it off the tracks, forcing you to get off it). Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories handles this a bit better; as a prequel to GTA 3, it's set when the bridge and tunnel are under construction, and the ferry workers — about to be put out of a job — are on strike. It's still essentially the same trope, but the issue is worked into the plot, with the Mafia manipulating the union throughout the strike. Also, the timing isn't quite as nicely convenient as usual; there are still several feet missing from the bridge when you first cross it, forcing you to make a daring stunt jump to lose the police. Grand Theft Auto IV handles this very simply; at the beginning of the game, the Mayor has raised the terror alert to "Magenta", or some such colour, and the bridges are closed as a result. You can run the blockade (or simply walk across one bridge that remains open to pedestrians), but you get an instant 6 star rating for your trouble. This is (slightly) handwaved in-story as Niko is an illegal immigrant. Johnny and Luis, the stars of the DLC, are Americans and are under no restriction even though Niko is at the same canonical point in time. Strangely, however, the broken bridge appears to only apply to Niko. Computer-controlled pedestrians can cross back and forth at will (at least via the several pedestrian bridges), and in the DLC The Lost and the Damned, which is set concurrently with the main game, the player can travel cross the city at will even during missions where Niko was restricted! Avoided in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars — you can cross any bridge to any island at any time. (Though the cops are still called if you pass without paying a toll bridge; this is the only GTA game in which there are tolls charged.) Averted in Grand Theft Auto V, the entire map is open from the start. However Los Santos closes off for a period of time for Michael and Trevor after Trevor goes rogue and takes Martin Madrazo's wife, and Martin responds by having his underlings target both characters with heavy gunfire the moment either character enters Los Santos city limits until his wife is returned to him. A few locations still trigger wanted levels if entered before certain parts of the game, however.
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Broken Bridge / int_55ce85cb	comment	Death Park: In the game, you come across the bridge with a big part of its floor missing.
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Broken Bridge / int_5645c1a0	comment	In Wandering Hamster, there are rocks blocking the path out of town until you talk to James. These are explicitly referred to as "Plot Boulders." If you look at them before you talk to James, there will be a message saying you must do so. If you then talk to James, he denies they ever existed. Yeah, it's that kind of game.
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Broken Bridge / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil series In Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil 4 broken bridges actually force you to keep going. RE 4 is also notorious for breaking bridges behind Leon, thereby preventing the player from returning to previous areas. Most notable are the bridge out of the village, the castle drawbridge, and the boat ride with Ada. In Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica, there is one room protected by a metal detector, and to enter you must place your metal items in a box that is not connected to any of the normal item boxes. Don't leave anything behind, such as the fire extinguisher, which is required to fix another (semi-optional) broken bridge later, or they will be lost forever when you pass the Point of No Return. Same with any items you are carrying when you play as Claire for the last time.
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Broken Bridge / int_59215319	comment	Persona 2: After handing the sweepstakes magazines over to the friendly NPC who will fill them out and mail them in for you, you have to go kill some time in a dungeon before any prizes will arrive. In The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, there's an optional section of the dungeon that holds a valuable item. Unfortunately for you, the door is guarded by a powerful demon called Ahzi Dahaka, which is invincible against ALL attacks, even almighty (!). The only (and vaguely hinted upon) way to make it killable is to equip Faeriedone on an active party member, and then attempt to fight it. Faeriedone and the enemy have a conversation, which berserks the character who summoned Faeriedone but makes the Ahzi Dahaka vulnerable to attack.
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Broken Bridge / int_5921531a	comment	Persona 3: Several floors throughout Tartarus act as dead ends that halt progress through the dungeon, but each becomes a regular floor after the relevant plot-related events occur.
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Broken Bridge / int_5b95bc94	comment	Grand Theft Auto III prevents you from heading to the other boroughs of the city before you're supposed to with the oh-so-popular broken bridge (the first is blown up by your starting escape, but the subway is out, too.). Of course, once you complete the required missions, it's fixed. There are ways to circumvent this, but since the other boroughs aren't "activated" until the bridge (and later the subway) is fixed, they're empty save for traffic and thus completely pointless.note Or almost — collecting the hidden packages gives you a bit of ammo at your safehouse. Of which you never can have enough.
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Broken Bridge / int_5bd9e7b7	comment	Dark Souls II: While most of the game favours the Beef Gate approach — even the pit into the Grave of Saints and the Gutter is useable without finding Laddersmith Gilligan if you have enough HP and the Silvercat Ring — the Shaded Woods contains two: the entrance is sealed by the petrified form of Rosabeth of Melfia, and the Shrine of Winter within it will only open if you gain the four Great Souls or have a soul memory of 1,000,000+.
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Broken Bridge / int_5c2bda82	comment	In Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure, as you progress through the game, you will start to find that Woody Woodpecker will stop letting you enter the attractions because the lines to get in are too long. You can circumvent this by using the points you earn to purchase each ride's cap from Woody back at the park's entrance, and you can earn more points by clearing attractions or picking up trash and putting it in trash cans.
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Broken Bridge / int_5c66fff9	comment	In the first act of Neverwinter Nights 2, the player must go through a lengthy quest chain just to gain very limited access to the closed Blacklake District of Neverwinter (only two plot-relevant buildings). In the second act, the district is conveniently opened to everyone without the player's intervention.
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Broken Bridge / int_5dc630cf	comment	The Simpsons Hit & Run inverts this trope by having the bridge blocked off at the end of the game. The final level takes place in the same area as levels 1 and 4 but part of the circuit is blocked off, leaving a direct route that most of the missions focus on going from one end to the other (and sometimes back again). The signs at the blockade indicate that the in-world reasoning is due to the current crisis.
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Broken Bridge / int_5e29729	comment	ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal: Various obstacles keep the player from advancing to certain areas, such as boulders and thorny bushes blocking the roads. These can gradually be removed as you gain special items.
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Broken Bridge / int_5e91c79	comment	In Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil 4 broken bridges actually force you to keep going. RE 4 is also notorious for breaking bridges behind Leon, thereby preventing the player from returning to previous areas. Most notable are the bridge out of the village, the castle drawbridge, and the boat ride with Ada.
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Broken Bridge / int_6053d9f9	comment	In the Silent Hill series, the Genius Loci frequently creates broken bridges with Bottomless Pits, walls that weren't there before, locking doors, and insurmountable waist-height obstacles, to railroad the player through town. The earlier games would tell you flat-out that a door was totally inaccessible by stating the lock was jammed and drawing an "X" over it on the map.
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Broken Bridge / int_610c498	comment	Need for Speed: Underground 2, Most Wanted 2005, and Carbon do it by blatantly plopping a "holo-barrier" with glowing padlocks in the roads that connect the boroughs.note Explained in Underground 2 as "construction". Once you clear one of the campaign tiers, you get a message that simply says the next borough is open. Sort of makes sense, since the game also uses holo-barriers to define the corners at road intersections. The 2012 Most Wanted doesn't have this, unless you did not buy the Terminal Velocity Pack DLC (which contains the Hughes International Airport area), in which case it will be blocked by a holo-barrier and a prompt telling you to press a button to buy the DLC will appear on the screen if you get near it.
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Broken Bridge / int_61de95d6	comment	Freelancer first prevents you from leaving the New York system by not giving you the access codes to the Jump Gates. You can travel to the California, Colorado and Texas systems after clearing the third mission; however, you can't travel to the rest of the Sirius sector until you clear the fifth mission, only to declare you an outlaw in Liberty until you clear the game. In addition, you must also be above a certain level in order to be able to get a job at some bases, thus rendering many systems accessible but useless.
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Broken Bridge / int_6223529c	comment	Peasant's Quest has a guard blocking the way, which requires certain conditions before he lets you up to fight the final boss (basically, three quarters of the game is to prove to this guy that you're a for-real peasant).
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Broken Bridge / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, there's a literal broken bridge in the Deep Roads that never gets fixed because it's possible to just go around it. There are also several paths that are blocked by fences, barriers, rubble, locked doors, and NPCs with arbitrary reasons, until some sort of advancement in the plot. Most of the reasons make at least some sense, such as "you must obtain permission/a key to come here". Some, however, are completely ridiculous. During the first Denerim plot it is impossible to enter the Alienage because a riot is being put down. The same guard who stops you the first time will then cheerfully let you through during the second Denerim plot, even though this time round there is an outbreak of plague and the king is secretly selling its citizens as slaves. The third game, Dragon Age: Inquisition, also has plenty of literal broken bridges. You need to return to the War Table and spend Power to have your engineers repair them to proceed to the other side. In addition, all main story missions are also blocked behind having to pay Power to access them, acquired from closing Fade Rifts and completing side quests.
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Broken Bridge / int_6572cd2f	comment	Played for laughs and only explained after it's opened in Digimon World DS. Almost all of the Digital World can be reached through a warp in front of the main building of the Hub Level. The only exception requires the player to pass through the Chaotic Gate, which is the inconspicuous piece of floor a plot-important NPC was standing on which you're unlikely to have realised by this point was a warp.
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Broken Bridge / int_67ed82fa	comment	The Godfather thankfully averts this. While at the beginning the game is clearly set up like GTA in a section-after-section of the city way, after some poking around the player can very quickly discover that they can get to any point on the map even at the start of the game. Played regrettably straight in the sequel, however. A surly ticket agent refuses to speak with you until you've beaten Carmine Rosato, only after which you can go to Florida. There is a similar issue with Cuba. Furthermore, some fronts just don't register on the map until a certain point in the plot is reached.
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Broken Bridge / int_68959735	comment	In Suikoden II, there is a block on the Matilda Kingdom because the leader is being a Jerkass. However, if you push on the block, you can go from Muse to Matilda at level 7, and, with enough luck and skill (not to mention massive Level Grinding), gain Humphrey and Futch out of sequence.
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Broken Bridge / int_69110fdc	comment	Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana has various terrain obstacles (including a literal broken bridge) that cannot be passed until a certain number of castaways have been recruited (on the grounds that it will take at least X people to clear the obstacle — at one point you need slightly more people because one person refuses to work and thus doesn't count), as well as others that cannot be passed until Dana does something (usually planting a prayer tree) to alter the past.
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Broken Bridge / int_6af78ff5	comment	Metroid II: Return of Samus has a hazardous liquid that rapidly depletes your health and can only be drained by killing all the Metroids in an area. One section of liquid near the end of the game even has a set of spikes added to the end of the tunnel to prevent a Dungeon Bypass. Metroid: Samus Returns introduces the Hand Wave that the Chozo built several shrines that control the liquid in order to contain the Metroids underground; Samus must bring a certain number of Metroid DNA samples to the shrines to activate the draining.
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Broken Bridge / int_6b5435fc	comment	In Age of Empires II the first mission of the Joan of Arc campaign leaves you separated from your destination by a conveniently broken bridge, requiring a ridiculously long slog with a ludicrously tiny army.
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Broken Bridge / int_6c1d09b2	comment	In Fallout 2, the player character's home village is eventually wrecked by the big bad. Not that there was much to begin with. The only way into the village was on a rope bridge over a canyon. Guess what happens to that bridge.
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Broken Bridge / int_6c96b7	comment	Etrian Odyssey: On the first floor of the Labyrinth, a guard stands posted at the entrance to a particular area to keep you from progressing to the second floor until you wander the rest of the current floor and create a perfect map for it to prove your worth (or something to that effect), despite the fact that there must be a million maps of the first floor created by the countless other exploration groups that came before you. It should be noted that drawing your own maps of the floors as you go is half the work of the game, with the other half being the encounters you can face.
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Broken Bridge / int_6d8311c4	comment	PokÃ©mon Gold, Silver and Crystal/HeartGold and SoulSilver On your quest to deliver a mysterious egg (because apparently a pair of old folks are too senile to tell if an egg is edible or a PokÃ©mon egg), two trainers are in the middle of a battle and blocking the path that would lead to Violet City. Once you're done with the egg business, however, their battle has finished. Just like in Pewter City in Gen I, a guy outside Violet City wonâ€™t let you pass until you defeat the local gym leader. Either these guys honestly have nothing to do with their time other than denying people access to the road beyond, or they are secretly being hired by the Gyms to try and bring in more competition. The PokÃ©mon Sudowoodo is blocking the crossroad between Violet, Goldenrod and Ecruteak. To wake it up, you have to squirt it with water — and no, you can't get your Totodile to use Water Gun on it, you have to obtain a particular Squirt Bottle from a certain NPC. The woman won't give you the bottle until you defeat the Goldenrod Gym Leader. Why? Because it's too dangerous to give a 10-year old with mons that could destroy cars a watering can! (Think about how much damage that could do in the wrong hands!) Not to mention that, to even get to that NPC, you have to go all the way from Violet City to Union Cave, Azalea Town, and Ilex Forest, plus the routes in-between. In terms of geography, that's a detour through nearly half of Johto just to get around a damn walking tree. Mt. Silver is this as well. There's a guard who won't let you in because 'Scary strong wild PokÃ©mon live there', until after you beat the Elite Four and Champion and talk to the professor, who will then call ahead to tell them to let you through. However, the PokÃ©mon aren't really any stronger than what you've already faced. You probably would end up on the wrong end of a Curb-Stomp Battle with Red, though, if you went in too early. What's in Kanto really isn't that tough, but you can't go there either until you defeat the Elite Four. Access to the western half of Kanto is blocked by the Snorlax napping at the entrance of Diglett Cave and the flotsam blocking the beach south of Fuchsia City. Only half of the Kanto Gym Leaders (Surge, Erika, Sabrina, and Janine) are available to fight initially, and the others (Brock, Misty, Blaine, and Blue) cannot be reached until the power plant crisis is resolved and you gain the Expansion Card needed to deal with the Snorlax. The southern beach won't open up until you approach it from the other side.
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Broken Bridge / int_6ee9416d	comment	In the first installment of The Legend of Kyrandia there are several broken bridges that stop you getting to the next area until you have completed a specific thing, ranging from an actual broken bridge that is repaired by an NPC to a frozen cave mouth and several bottomless pits.
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Broken Bridge / int_6f0288b5	comment	Villages in StarTropics will typically feature somebody guarding the exit so that you can't leave until some requirement is met. In the first village on C-Island, for example, the guard prevents you from entering the cave until you speak to everybody in town (even the ones who have nothing helpful to say), after which he suddenly recognizes you and allows you through.
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Broken Bridge / int_71b1808d	comment	Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy: There's an island you need to get to from your hometown. There's a boat there, but you can't use it unless you talk to the right NPC after completing a mission involving him in the nearby jungle. You can try to swim, whereupon a fish eats you. There's a segment on the island set over a lagoon, and the only way around the lagoon is on your hover-bike. You can swim it too, but guess what happens then?
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Broken Bridge / int_72a1ac51	comment	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has a series of broken (or closed) bridges that block you from the rest of the state, initially from an earthquake. The in-game explanation is that the police told you to not leave town, you appararently become fugitive at that point. It is possible to cross over by swimming (and in one case by executing a particularly spectacular stunt jump) or even commandeering a train and driving it backwards (for some reason, it can only break through the rail blockades this way), but your wanted meter immediately shoots up to four stars, and won't go down as long as you're in the restricted area (plus, if you chose to take the train, the cops will blow it off the tracks, forcing you to get off it).
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Broken Bridge / int_747d9a6f	comment	[PROTOTYPE]: The bridge is never broken, but anyone who tries to cross it during quarantine will get a massive missile strike rained down on them. Surprisingly however despite the amount of missiles, the bridge cannot be damaged. Attempting to cross over before the quarantine comes into full effect just results in an obvious invisible wall at a certain point of every bridge. The game even tries to discourage exiting via bridge progressively, such as stalling the camera's position at a certain point, disabling gliding and air-dash, etc.
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Broken Bridge / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda games are quite fond of this. You will very often find paths blocked by boulders, pits, etc., that usually require a specific dungeon treasure to get past. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: In the beginning, guards block all paths that don't lead to the castle until after you've rescued the princess. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has a couple of interesting subversions, such as a literal Broken Bridge that will not be fixed until after you figure out how to cross over it anyway, and an NPC who can be commissioned to do something for you that, when he tells you to wait a few days for it to be done, actually means it. No plot advancement necessary. Just wait a few days, really. And you can speed this up with your ocarina. That said, the game does have some classic broken bridge scenarios, such as King Zora being directly in the way of getting to the third Spiritual Stone dungeon until you bring him a note from his daughter that convinces him to move out of the way, Sheik standing directly in front of the Master Sword's pedestal to prevent you from returning to the past until after you've cleared one Temple, various Kokiri boxing you in during the beginning of the game until plot points are fulfilled, etc. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: The Groundhog Day Looping has a variation where a pass blocked by a rock would, if you waited for workers to clear it, only be opened after it was far too late. You had to show up with a huge bomb once you unlocked it and blast it open ahead of time. You want to go the Swamp? Just dandy! Wanna go to the mountains? Well you have to shoot down an icicle with an arrow (found in the swamp) that breaks the ice blocking your path. You wanna to go the beach? Well you're going to need a horse (which can only be gotten by going to the mountains to get a big enough bomb to unclog the path) to jump over a fence. Wanna go to the canyon? Get ready to write this one down. You're gonna need to find the horse to hop over fences, then ditch the horse and use the hookshot to get past a cliffside, and then, here's the kicker, use ice arrows to freeze octoroks so you can cross the river. (Fortunately, as with OoT, when you reach a new area you can learn a warp song that flies you back as often as you want.) At the beginning of the game you're stuck in Deku scrub form, so the guards bar you from leaving town because it's too dangerous outside the walls...until it's too late and they have bigger things to worry about. You can only pass by completing the first quest, retrieving your Ocarina of Time and escaping deku scrub form. However, even once you do this, the guards will continue to stop you from leaving town if you're in the wrong form. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: While the games often allow minimal sequence-breaking in the form of collecting items in a dungeon, ignoring the boss, and moving on to the next dungeon, there are a few hard-wired Broken Bridges that stop this for no discernible reason. One of the most frustrating examples is an old man NPC in Oracle of Seasons who is supposed to give you a jewel used to access Tarm Ruins; for no adequately explained reason, he will refuse to speak to you if you have not collected a certain number of the game's otherwise useless MacGuffins, the Essences of Nature. This is in spite of the fact that Link's only goal in this game is to collect the Essences; there's no in-universe reason why he should need to collect them in a particular order, and there are no plot events that would be missed if the One True Sequence were broken. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has at least three literal examples. In two cases, you even have to use the game's portal system to literally go get the bridge yourself. You go all the way to the first dungeon near the beginning of the game, but its entrance is blocked with boulders. Sometime between the Ordon children in the woods plot and purging Faron of the twilight, the boulders get replaced with a web you can burn with your lantern. In the first case, if you save and quit at the wrong time after the bridge is stolen, you will be reloaded on the wrong side of the bridge, making the game Unwinnable, as all other paths are blocked by indestructible barriers or other broken bridges at this point. Another one happens in the Forest Temple, where Ook cuts down the central bridge with the Boomerang and you have to rescue the captive monkeys throughout the temple to cross. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Boulders, grass, and people block off all passages away from the path directly north to the castle. New areas can only be accessed once the player gets an item or skill that remove the obstacles. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass does this right at the beginning. As soon as you're told (and allowed) to go off to the east, the bridge crumbles from an earthquake. The two people you can talk to about it say "Oh, the bridge is broken? Well, the only safe thing to do is to wait for it to be repaired, don't even think of going up north..." The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Downplayed. When you first emerge on the Great Plateau at the very beginning of the game, you find that the cliffs are too steep for you to safely get down. You need to complete the four Shrines on the Plateau so that the Old Man will give you his Paraglider. But once you have gotten the runes from the Shrines and the Paraglider from the Old Man, there's nothing, besides your upgradable stamina and the occasional Beef Gate, keeping you from traveling to any place in Hyrule, including The Very Definitely Final Dungeon. You can make a beeline straight for the Final Boss with nothing but your underwear, three hearts, and swinging whatever weapons you scrounged upon the way... and it's actually possible to win. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Much like Breath of the Wild before it, you can't leave the Great Sky Island until you complete the four Shrines and investigate the Temple of Time, after which the Light Dragon dispels the cloud barrier that had kept you from skydiving back down to Hyrule. Then, you need to go to Lookout Landing so you can get the Paraglider from Purah. But there's otherwise nothing else keeping you from rushing straight to the Final Boss.
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Broken Bridge / int_764768c	comment	In The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and many other games in this franchise has the protagonist stop the player from proceeding if they're in the middle of an important event mission or that they are currently undergoing an area Guild mission.
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Broken Bridge / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2 you start in the same system as the Omega 4 relay, which leads to the Collectors' base. However, unlike other relays, you don't have the option to jump through since you are informed that no non-Collector ship that passed through the relay ever returned and thus presumably your crew won't cross it until they have a better idea of what's on the other side. This turns out to be a wise decision since the aforementioned base turns out to be in the Galactic Center. You remain unable to cross the relay until you aquire a piece of technology that allows the Normandy to use it without being sent flying into a black hole.
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Broken Bridge / int_780bfe03	comment	Halo Infinite: The space in the open world which can be freely explored gradually expands as you complete story missions. It is possible to get to other areas early with some trickery, but otherwise, the four main landmasses in this game are disconnected, with bridges extending to connect them either once you're reached them in-story, or via a switch if you've crossed the gap.
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Broken Bridge / int_79f5dbd5	comment	Lampshaded in Act 2 of Inscryption; the four islands of the map are connected by bridges. The one that leads to the leftmost islands is literally broken at first, but is in the process of being fixed by an NPC. If you talk to her, she'll tell you that it'll take her exactly as long as it'll take you to beat one of the other bosses for her to fix the bridge, so you should go and do that first.
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Broken Bridge / int_7a7102f5	comment	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City also prevents you from reaching the west island by issuing a hurricane warning, causing every bridge to be closed. Once you finish the required missions, the hurricane warning is cancelled due to the storm in question changing course to miss Vice City entirely. note Again, numerous tricks are known to get over nonetheless. This time, they're very useful — you can purchase hideouts over there, such as the Hyman Condo and Skumole Shack.
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Broken Bridge / int_7ac0e0b0	comment	In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, all the random events outside the colony block your way, and you must interact with them in order to proceed, but mastering your Perception skill lets you bypass them.
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Broken Bridge / int_7bf640ee	comment	Medal of Honor: Frontline: In Eye of the Storm, the last truck you have to destroy doesn't appear until you acquire the delivery schedule. Destroying it collapses part of the scenery, creating a bridge to the next level. In Yard By Yard, you have to clear each checkpoint for the medical truck before the door to the next part of the level unlocks. In Derailed, the door to the last area and exit is locked until you blow up the fuel depot, at which point it magically opens. Allied Assault also has a few locked doors that are opened in scripted events, either by enemies or allies. In one level, your path is blocked by an impassable window until an enemy tank blows up the wall. The tank level has a number of literal broken bridges to railroad you.
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Broken Bridge / int_7bfecbd3	comment	A Bridge Too Far is all about this. For Operation Market Garden to succeed, several bridges must be captured intact by airborne forces so their relief force can cross them. Blown bridges and enemy resistance impede the advance with ultimately fatal results.
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Broken Bridge / int_7cf1b706	comment	In Escape from Monkey Island, Guybrush is framed for a crime and stuck on Lucre Island because they give him a cursed Voodoo anklet. It would become very uncomfortable if he tried to leave.
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Broken Bridge / int_7d3d9346	comment	Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories handles this a bit better; as a prequel to GTA 3, it's set when the bridge and tunnel are under construction, and the ferry workers — about to be put out of a job — are on strike. It's still essentially the same trope, but the issue is worked into the plot, with the Mafia manipulating the union throughout the strike. Also, the timing isn't quite as nicely convenient as usual; there are still several feet missing from the bridge when you first cross it, forcing you to make a daring stunt jump to lose the police.
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Broken Bridge / int_7e850e47	comment	Bravely Default: The intrepid heroes steal an airship quite early on... but it can only land in water, and there's just one inland sea that hasn't been turned into a festering corrosive, so you have to go there first. And then an enemy comes aboard to break the flying part, so they're stuck sailing around that area until they fix the Water Crystal and can traverse the ocean without ruining their ride. There are several caves which you can bring your party to, only for them to refuse to enter because they don't see the point — i.e., it's not important to the plot yet.
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Broken Bridge / int_7eceb06d	comment	Played with in Fable II, where there is a broken bridge destroyed by bandits. However, instead of finding an important plot point, you easily just dive into the water that the bridge was over and take a detour through a dungeon full of hobbes. Also, before completing the first quest, the road to Bowerstone is blocked by guards, as it has been overrun by Bandits.
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Broken Bridge / int_7efb3a4e	comment	Landstalker has the classic version of this, which you are informed of just as you leave the first town.
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Broken Bridge / int_80ddf5c1	comment	In the first God of War, there's a drawbridge that works perfectly, but somebody on the other side refuses to lower it because he's afraid of all the monsters on Kratos' side. The solution? Go get Zeus' Lightning and kill him, which causes his corpse to conveniently fall on the lever that lowers the bridge.
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Broken Bridge / int_8292d2de	comment	In The Game of the Ages, a wide desert keeps you from progressing until the plot sees fit to offer you a horse and a map.
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Broken Bridge / int_8555968c	comment	Legend of Kay features a very literal broken bridge: the items you have to go get in the Fetch Quest are precisely the items needed to extend the bridge.
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Broken Bridge / int_86814cd0	comment	In Final Fantasy IV, Mt. Hobs is blocked by a pillar of ice and Mt. Ordeals is blocked by a pillar of fire. The right spell-casting party members destroy these obstacles at the appropriate times.
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Broken Bridge / int_86814e56	comment	In Final Fantasy VI you cannot enter the imperial palace because a massive robot bars your way. If you're foolish enough to fight it, you'll find you can do no damage, and your death is assured unless you run away.
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Broken Bridge / int_86814e94	comment	Final Fantasy XI is pretty bad about these. Most often show up in the form of a cliff that can't be climbed up but can easily be jumped down in order to force 1-way access to "secret areas" in zones. To access these areas the player must take very long out-of-the way routes through other (usually dangerous high level, and often require passing doors that need multiple people to open) zones. One has to wonder why no one has bothered to build a ramp or ladder in the literally thousands of tracked in-game years that have passed.
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Broken Bridge / int_87056d17	comment	In Sonic Adventure, the game prevents you from not only sequence breaking, but also playing stages out of order. One instance is when the Egg Carrier shoots down the Tornado I. Sonic ends up back in Station Square and Tails in the Mystic Ruins. Easiest thing to do is hop back on the train and go to the other locations, right? Wrong. At that point, you find out a strike is going on, conveniently preventing the two heroes from reuniting. Thus, Sonic has to deal with Amy Rose and ZERO while Tails goes to find a Chaos Emerald to power his newest plane.
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Broken Bridge / int_87225682	comment	The Firemen has this in spades — most of the length in any given stage comes from trying to find your way around jammed or locked doors, or piles of rubble. Completely justified in this case since you are working your way through a burning chemical plant. Also lampshaded when the player character (the fire unit's chief) calls the architect out on the convoluted design, unreliable doors, and lack of fire safety measures.
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Broken Bridge / int_881d35b	comment	Digimon World -next 0rder-: The way to the Ohguino Wastelands is blocked off by... a massive pile of sand, which GrapLeomon needs to remove, which requires a small Fetch Quest to accomplish. Apparently the player cannot just climb over it, or have their partner carry them. The bridges in Faulty Ex Machina aren't working properly, requiring going the long way around (i.e., across the other side of the map) to get to the control center.
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Broken Bridge / int_8b5820ed	comment	Red Dead Redemption has literal broken bridges that prevent you from accessing areas of the game (Mexico, West Elizabeth) before you've completed missions that unlock those areas. Trying to get past them will cause John to demonstrate his Super Drowning Skills. This is despite the fact that, in a lot of places, the river between New Austin and West Elizabeth is narrow enough that he could probably jump across with a decent run up.
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Broken Bridge / int_8cf75fa	comment	Brave Hero Yuusha: A whirlpool prevents entrance into the northern ice area with the Whale.
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Broken Bridge / int_8d318bad	comment	In Super Mario RPG, Bowser's Keep is rendered inaccessible by a literal broken bridge, which cannot be crossed until the end of the game when you are able to use a floating bus to travel there.
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Broken Bridge / int_8da0ea80	comment	PokÃ©mon Red, Blue and Yellow/FireRed and LeafGreen You can't leave Viridian City unless you deliver Oak's Parcel because the exit is blocked by an old man. In the Japanese versions he's passed out drunk. Why can't you just walk around him? In the English release he's merely grumpy and hasn't had his coffee. Amazingly, by the time you obtain the PokÃ©dex, the man has had his coffee and will let you pass. The guy outside Pewter City leading toward Route 3 and Mt. Moon won't let you pass until you win the Gym's badge. Although he kinda-sorta implies he's blocking the way for Brock. There is a sapling blocking your path to Lt. Surge's Gym. The only way around it is to do a sidequest on a ship in order to obtain the Cut HM, which will allow you to remove the tree. (Instead of, you know, sucking in your stomach.) One has to wonder why anyone would plant a tree in front of their door anyway. And why it comes back every time you leave or enter a building. In order to reach the top floor of the PokÃ©mon Tower, you must have the Silph Scope, otherwise the Marowak there will remain as a spirit that your PokÃ©mon will be too scared to attack. You actually have to bribe a guard of a "closed road" to Saffron City with drinks which can only be brought from a specific vending machine in a specific town, or in the remake, a nice cup of tea. To share, evidently, as the city was blocked on four sides but delivering the drink to just one of the guards means all of them let you through. Speaking of Saffron City, the entrance to Silph Co. will be blocked by a Team Rocket Grunt until you have defeated the grunts in the PokÃ©mon Tower in Lavender Town, which will cause the grunt in front of Silph Co. to conveniently fall asleep. The other grunts blocking the other buildings (most importantly the one blocking the real Gym) won't go away until you defeat Team Rocket in Silph Co. Let us not forget the most quintessential of all "broken bridges": Snorlax, an extremely large and extremely lazy PokÃ©mon that decided to take a nap in the middle of busy roads. The only way to wake it up is with a PokÃ©flute, which can only be obtained from Dr. Fuji.
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Broken Bridge / int_8ec33a86	comment	In Xenoblade Chronicles 1, there are exactly two literal Broken Bridges, one in Makna Forest which leads to Valak Mountain where you can't get the quest to fix it until after you've found a way around it, and a broken teleporter where you have to save the worker who was supposed to fix it from monsters in a story quest. All other broken bridges are locked doors or NPCs blocking the way until you complete the required part of the story.
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Broken Bridge / int_8ec33aad	comment	Averted in Xenoblade Chronicles X. From the moment the game lets you off the leash, you're quite welcome to explore everywhere you can reach — not just Primordia, but Noctilum and Oblivia if you so desire. You can even hoof it to those islands way out in the north sea if you like — you can't swim across the open ocean, but there are sandbars and shallows to traverse. The only areas off-limits to you are realistically so, since nobody from NLA is getting there without Skell flight modules.
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Broken Bridge / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Persona 2: After handing the sweepstakes magazines over to the friendly NPC who will fill them out and mail them in for you, you have to go kill some time in a dungeon before any prizes will arrive. In The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, there's an optional section of the dungeon that holds a valuable item. Unfortunately for you, the door is guarded by a powerful demon called Ahzi Dahaka, which is invincible against ALL attacks, even almighty (!). The only (and vaguely hinted upon) way to make it killable is to equip Faeriedone on an active party member, and then attempt to fight it. Faeriedone and the enemy have a conversation, which berserks the character who summoned Faeriedone but makes the Ahzi Dahaka vulnerable to attack. Persona 3: Several floors throughout Tartarus act as dead ends that halt progress through the dungeon, but each becomes a regular floor after the relevant plot-related events occur.
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Broken Bridge / int_9005d128	comment	College Saga parodies this (and many other tropes): "A huge chair blocks your path." The chair is regular sized, made of plastic, and could be walked around if the heroes would walk on grass.
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Broken Bridge / int_91684031	comment	PokÃ©mon Black and White hilariously don't even try coming up with good reasons anymore. When trying to exit Opelucid City from the east before defeating the final plot portion, a policeman stops you and says "There is something ahead, and the road is closed now." It's like they just gave up. Also, if you try and get to Opelucid before going back to Relic Castle, your path will be blocked by two Plasma Grunts who talk to each other about how they're currently doing things at Relic Castle. If you try to leave Nimbasa City to the west, two guards will stop you and say that the bridge is being checked. Elesa has to use some political muscle to lower the Driftveil Bridge so you can head onward once you've bested her. If you try to enter Pinwheel Forest to head to Castelia City before fighting Lenora, you will be walled off by more Plasma Grunts. Also serves as Foreshadowing, as they steal the Dragon Skull once you've defeated Lenora, and not a moment sooner. You can't enter Chargestone Cave outside of Driftveil City until you've beaten Clay and gotten the badge. There's a Galvantula nest in the cave mouth, and it's only after you beat him that he'll show up with his Krokorok to take it out. The roadblocks do feel particularly egregious in Gen V. In earlier games much of the limit on your progression was due to terrain obstacles that required an HM, so a PokÃ©mon could get you past them, but in Black and White there's only one point early in the game where you need an HM. Instead there's a ragtag of random reasons to limit your progress. Oh, and some of the earlier games gave you a fair bit of choice in the order you tackled things in, for example in Gold and Silver you can choose which of Mahogany Town or Olivine City to visit first. Black and White keep you strictly and obviously on-rails, due to the map itself being more linear than previous games.
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Broken Bridge / int_9175542a	comment	Ecco the Dolphin has barrier glyphs, which force you to retrieve the correct password song before you can get through. Without it, they'll repel you and the message will read "YOU MAY NOT PASS YET".
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Broken Bridge / int_924b6d63	comment	Shows up in Xenogears, where the completely impassible obstacle is... a child's stuffed animal. The characters immediately declare that they must find the child and get her to move it, otherwise they'll never be able to pass. To add insult to injury said "stuffed animal" is actually a sentient creature that is capable of speaking and understanding human speech and yet just decided to remain in front of the door despite people wanting to get in for no apparent reason.
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Broken Bridge / int_93f31be7	comment	In X: Rebirth, the universe starts with the jump gate network shut down following the Guilt-Free Extermination War of X3: Albion Prelude, but it begins to reactivate and open up new systems about every half-dozen missions in the plot. Prior to this, you are limited to one solar system, Albion. Using one of the Multiple Game Openings allows you to skip the plot entirely and start with all systems already open.
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Broken Bridge / int_93fc1d2b	comment	Of course, the Paper Mario games use this trope often. In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the 'gatekeeper' form of it is lampshaded by Goombella's fourth-wall breaking comments about Twilight Town's gatekeeper:
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Broken Bridge / int_959e84f	comment	In Dragon Quest VI, you cannot enter Turnscote before completing Mt.Snowhere because a man stops you at the entrance. Luckily, he pretty much tells you where to go.
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Broken Bridge / int_959e88d	comment	In Dragon Quest XI many are featured in the game from landslides to the traditional broken bridges. Though most are there to prevent you from reaching certain areas too early. After Yggdrasil falls most of these paths are opened to allow you to reach areas that are otherwise inaccessible without a boat.
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Broken Bridge / int_98c55b59	comment	Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura uses this (sort of) to get past the first town you visit. To cross rivers while walking on the world map, you generally have to use bridges marked on the map. The first town is in a triangle enclosed by two merging rivers and a mountain range. The only bridge is blocked by a group of thugs demanding a toll; you have to pay, fight (hard) or talk (also hard) your way past them to continue on.
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Broken Bridge / int_9979ce1f	comment	Avoided in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars — you can cross any bridge to any island at any time. (Though the cops are still called if you pass without paying a toll bridge; this is the only GTA game in which there are tolls charged.)
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Broken Bridge / int_99e49e94	comment	Bug Fables: The beginning of the game is set after a rain storm that caused rocks to fall everywhere. The rocks end up blocking the path to the Ant Kingdom and forces Vi and Kabbu to head straight to Snakemouth Den. The Lost Sands are initially gated off until Team Snakemouth needs to go through it in Chapter 3. The area was not gated off when Kabbu travelled through it before the beginning of the game, but was locked due to bandit activity increasing. The northern border of the Lost Sands leading to the Far Grasslands is also blocked by a much larger, metal gate. While Team Snakemouth later gets permission to go there, the gate is destroyed by the Wasp King in his invasion. Vi lampshades that while the gate is gone, by that point they would have been able to cross anyway. Played with in the Foresaken Lands. The path leading there is blocked by rocks, which Kabbu is physically capable of destroying with a charge attack, but he does not start using this ability until a moment in the story where he absolutely needs to. Early in to the Foresaken Lands, there is a gap that could only be crossed if Vi carries Kabbu while Leif floats behind them, but if this area is entered early, Vi will refuse to do that. It's not until the party needs to go there and Queen Elizant II orders Vi to carry Kabbu across the gap that this ability is unlocked. Team Snakemouth could have theoretically crossed the Foresaken Lands and entered the Termite Kingdom early, they just do not because they have no reason to.
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Broken Bridge / int_9a55a6a9	comment	Ahriman's Prophecy: Problem: the bridge isn't actually broken. There's someone standing on it, but you can just walk around them. The person disappears after you rescue the princess anyway, thus proving it isn't intentional.
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Broken Bridge / int_9a8245ab	comment	In Bear & Breakfast, some paths in the overworld are blocked, and you need the right tools to clear them.
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Broken Bridge / int_9c3ad747	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass does this right at the beginning. As soon as you're told (and allowed) to go off to the east, the bridge crumbles from an earthquake. The two people you can talk to about it say "Oh, the bridge is broken? Well, the only safe thing to do is to wait for it to be repaired, don't even think of going up north..."
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Broken Bridge / int_9d12c5b1	comment	Realms of Arkania: Star Trail half-follows this trope. You can murder a local in Gashok to gain a couple powerful weapons, but if you don't clear your name, bad things will happen: you'll be lynched if you stay the night in any inn, and trying to enter or leave will require you to fight past half a dozen armed guards.
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Broken Bridge / int_9df32140	comment	Pikmin 3: The watery portion of the Garden of Hope where Blue Pikmin are obtained is blocked by a cinder block, which is giant from the point of view of the characters. It's not opened until after getting Louie, where he'll run off with the juice and blow up the block.
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Broken Bridge / int_9df32141	comment	Pikmin 4: The entrance to the final cave is initially covered by a boulder that cannot be destroyed or moved by any means. It only becomes available after defeating Louie in the final Dandori Battle and rescuing Nelle from him. The reason why the boulder moves away is not explained, but log files imply that Louie got the Ancient Sirehound to move it so that he could use the cave as his secure hideout.
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Broken Bridge / int_9e003c9	comment	In Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica, there is one room protected by a metal detector, and to enter you must place your metal items in a box that is not connected to any of the normal item boxes. Don't leave anything behind, such as the fire extinguisher, which is required to fix another (semi-optional) broken bridge later, or they will be lost forever when you pass the Point of No Return. Same with any items you are carrying when you play as Claire for the last time.
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Broken Bridge / int_9e9b6ca0	comment	Digimon World has an actual broken bridge blocking off access to the eastern part of File Island, which can only be fixed after the player finds Coelamon, at which point Jijimon says the inhabitants of File City got around to fixing it. The west has a pile of boulders from an avalanche, which only clear away once Meramon's dealt with.
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Broken Bridge / int_9ef055f4	comment	Ratchet & Clank has a ton of these, especially in first two games, and the most of gadgets serve no other purpose that to get around them. Getting an item required to get past one Broken Bridge frequently required others; for example in first game, to get O2 mask to explore a planet with deadly atmosphere you need to finish a jet fighter mission, which requires a Pilot Helmet, which is located on a planet the coordinates of which are accessible only with a Grind Boots.
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Broken Bridge / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon is a prime abuser of this trope, using it quite often and in quite ludicrous fashion at times. The player must spend some time walking to get two paired-up Pokemon to yield an egg in the Day Care Center. In the Generation II games—after giving the Apricorns to Kurt, you have to wait a day before coming back to retrieve the special PokÃ© Balls made from them. The worst is when a uniformed Mook will stand in front of a door and effectively block your way; even though he isn't any different from the other sixty Mooks you just took down. And the fact that you can't seem to fit between two people. As if they're so fat that you can't possibly, say, crawl between their legs. Or just ask them to move. And then there's the mandatory HMs Cut, Surf, Rock Smash, Strength, Rock Climb, Dive and Waterfall. All of them are there to cross Broken Bridges, but can only be obtained after certain plot events and (almost) always require a Gym Badge to use outside of battle. Surf and Fly are particularly egregious. Everyone else in the game just seems to swim wherever they want, plus you can only use Fly to return to already visited locations. PokÃ©mon Red, Blue and Yellow/FireRed and LeafGreen You can't leave Viridian City unless you deliver Oak's Parcel because the exit is blocked by an old man. In the Japanese versions he's passed out drunk. Why can't you just walk around him? In the English release he's merely grumpy and hasn't had his coffee. Amazingly, by the time you obtain the PokÃ©dex, the man has had his coffee and will let you pass. The guy outside Pewter City leading toward Route 3 and Mt. Moon won't let you pass until you win the Gym's badge. Although he kinda-sorta implies he's blocking the way for Brock. There is a sapling blocking your path to Lt. Surge's Gym. The only way around it is to do a sidequest on a ship in order to obtain the Cut HM, which will allow you to remove the tree. (Instead of, you know, sucking in your stomach.) One has to wonder why anyone would plant a tree in front of their door anyway. And why it comes back every time you leave or enter a building. In order to reach the top floor of the PokÃ©mon Tower, you must have the Silph Scope, otherwise the Marowak there will remain as a spirit that your PokÃ©mon will be too scared to attack. You actually have to bribe a guard of a "closed road" to Saffron City with drinks which can only be brought from a specific vending machine in a specific town, or in the remake, a nice cup of tea. To share, evidently, as the city was blocked on four sides but delivering the drink to just one of the guards means all of them let you through. Speaking of Saffron City, the entrance to Silph Co. will be blocked by a Team Rocket Grunt until you have defeated the grunts in the PokÃ©mon Tower in Lavender Town, which will cause the grunt in front of Silph Co. to conveniently fall asleep. The other grunts blocking the other buildings (most importantly the one blocking the real Gym) won't go away until you defeat Team Rocket in Silph Co. Let us not forget the most quintessential of all "broken bridges": Snorlax, an extremely large and extremely lazy PokÃ©mon that decided to take a nap in the middle of busy roads. The only way to wake it up is with a PokÃ©flute, which can only be obtained from Dr. Fuji. PokÃ©mon Gold, Silver and Crystal/HeartGold and SoulSilver On your quest to deliver a mysterious egg (because apparently a pair of old folks are too senile to tell if an egg is edible or a PokÃ©mon egg), two trainers are in the middle of a battle and blocking the path that would lead to Violet City. Once you're done with the egg business, however, their battle has finished. Just like in Pewter City in Gen I, a guy outside Violet City wonâ€™t let you pass until you defeat the local gym leader. Either these guys honestly have nothing to do with their time other than denying people access to the road beyond, or they are secretly being hired by the Gyms to try and bring in more competition. The PokÃ©mon Sudowoodo is blocking the crossroad between Violet, Goldenrod and Ecruteak. To wake it up, you have to squirt it with water — and no, you can't get your Totodile to use Water Gun on it, you have to obtain a particular Squirt Bottle from a certain NPC. The woman won't give you the bottle until you defeat the Goldenrod Gym Leader. Why? Because it's too dangerous to give a 10-year old with mons that could destroy cars a watering can! (Think about how much damage that could do in the wrong hands!) Not to mention that, to even get to that NPC, you have to go all the way from Violet City to Union Cave, Azalea Town, and Ilex Forest, plus the routes in-between. In terms of geography, that's a detour through nearly half of Johto just to get around a damn walking tree. Mt. Silver is this as well. There's a guard who won't let you in because 'Scary strong wild PokÃ©mon live there', until after you beat the Elite Four and Champion and talk to the professor, who will then call ahead to tell them to let you through. However, the PokÃ©mon aren't really any stronger than what you've already faced. You probably would end up on the wrong end of a Curb-Stomp Battle with Red, though, if you went in too early. What's in Kanto really isn't that tough, but you can't go there either until you defeat the Elite Four. Access to the western half of Kanto is blocked by the Snorlax napping at the entrance of Diglett Cave and the flotsam blocking the beach south of Fuchsia City. Only half of the Kanto Gym Leaders (Surge, Erika, Sabrina, and Janine) are available to fight initially, and the others (Brock, Misty, Blaine, and Blue) cannot be reached until the power plant crisis is resolved and you gain the Expansion Card needed to deal with the Snorlax. The southern beach won't open up until you approach it from the other side. PokÃ©mon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald/Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire At the very start of the game, your mother won't let you out of your room until you set your clock. This made sense in the original game as the clock is what determined time in those games (although only a few mechanics actually use time in these games; mainly berry growth, Shoal Cave's tides and evolving Eevee into Espeon or Umbreon), but its a meaningless activity in the remakes as those games uses the Nintendo 3DS's clock to determine the time instead. A PokÃ©maniac won't let you take the western exit from the second town because he's found some rare PokÃ©mon footprints and doesn't want anyone disturbing them. He won't be finished examining the footprints until you get the PokÃ©dex. Amusingly, it turns out that they're his footprints. One exclusive to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: there's a lineup of archaeologists wanting to see the cave paintings in Dewford Cave. They prevent you from delivering the letter to Steven until after you get the Knuckle Badge. A sandstorm prevents you from taking a shortcut through the Impassable Desert and catching some useful PokÃ©mon until you get some goggles. In another one added by the remakes, a Bird Keeper on Route 120 will say it's too dangerous to go ahead until you've beaten Winona. Three Wailmer owned by a Team Aqua/Team Magma Grunt block off the route east of Lilycove City until you defeat the villainous team in their hideout. Particularly egregious in Ruby/Omega Ruby, since Team Magma owning Water-Types (which Wailmer is) makes no sense. PokÃ©mon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum: Random people block your way for no legitimate reason. Route 212 is blocked by a reporter and a cameraman from the northern side, even after you've beaten Hearthome City's Gym. And they disappear once you reach Solaceon Town (in Diamond and Pearl) or Pastoria City (in Platinum). All this does is make you take a longer path. No badges, no special events, nothing. Route 210 is blocked by a group of Psyduck, which you could defeat easily, but instead you have to get a Secret Potion because they have headaches. (Then again, with other PokÃ©mon media's implication of what happens when a Psyduck gets a headache, they'd probably curbstomp you. That or there's just a metric ton of them.) A man next to route 222 won't let you pass because of a blackout in Sunyshore City until after you've beaten the Big Bad. (Slightly justified by the fact that it was caused by Volkner, meaning it would've shut down the gym.) In Platinum, a battle is blocking the entrance to Canalave City if you manage to Surf there before picking up the HM from Celestic Town. Also in Platinum, after you escape from the Distortion World, you're placed outside the entrance to Turnback Cave. Cynthia just happens to be standing in front of the entrance, and will remain standing there until you defeat her at the PokÃ©mon League. PokÃ©mon Black and White hilariously don't even try coming up with good reasons anymore. When trying to exit Opelucid City from the east before defeating the final plot portion, a policeman stops you and says "There is something ahead, and the road is closed now." It's like they just gave up. Also, if you try and get to Opelucid before going back to Relic Castle, your path will be blocked by two Plasma Grunts who talk to each other about how they're currently doing things at Relic Castle. If you try to leave Nimbasa City to the west, two guards will stop you and say that the bridge is being checked. Elesa has to use some political muscle to lower the Driftveil Bridge so you can head onward once you've bested her. If you try to enter Pinwheel Forest to head to Castelia City before fighting Lenora, you will be walled off by more Plasma Grunts. Also serves as Foreshadowing, as they steal the Dragon Skull once you've defeated Lenora, and not a moment sooner. You can't enter Chargestone Cave outside of Driftveil City until you've beaten Clay and gotten the badge. There's a Galvantula nest in the cave mouth, and it's only after you beat him that he'll show up with his Krokorok to take it out. The roadblocks do feel particularly egregious in Gen V. In earlier games much of the limit on your progression was due to terrain obstacles that required an HM, so a PokÃ©mon could get you past them, but in Black and White there's only one point early in the game where you need an HM. Instead there's a ragtag of random reasons to limit your progress. Oh, and some of the earlier games gave you a fair bit of choice in the order you tackled things in, for example in Gold and Silver you can choose which of Mahogany Town or Olivine City to visit first. Black and White keep you strictly and obviously on-rails, due to the map itself being more linear than previous games. PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 are just as bad. They really seem to have given up on legitimate ideas for roadblocks. Since they use mostly the same map as Black and White, but have you access areas in a different order, there are a lot of extremely lame excuses to prevent you from accessing certain areas. At one point your progress is blocked by a line-up of random dancing fat men, who lampshade the whole thing by stating that they're there for no reason at all and will eventually leave, also for no reason. Not too far from the line of fat men, the road to Nimbasa City is blocked by a random line of boulders. And just in case you were wondering, there's even a worker nearby that explains that they can't be moved with HM Strength for whatever reason. Only after you finish everything else in Castelia City will Colress show up, explain that the boulders are actually Crustle, and pull out the device necessary to wake them all up. At one point, entering a new town cuts off your path back out by having an elevator break. Attempting to leave Castelia to the east results in a guard telling you to bugger off since the bridge is being inspected for the first time in two years. You're actually allowed to enter Chargestone Cave this time before you fight Clay... However, you can only access a part of the first floor; the rest of it will be blocked off by Bianca and a random worker saying the bridge is out until you get the Quake Badge and enter the PokÃ©mon World Tournament. Of the five bridges in Unova, three of them are inaccessible until postgame: Skyarrow Bridge is undergoing the aforementioned inspection, Marvelous Bridge is under maintenance, and Tubeline Bridge is in the middle of a social experiment to see how many people can fit on it. Another pair of Plasma Grunts block off the Giant Chasm while having a conversation about the group meeting up at Route 21, which is a clue to get you to return to Seaside Cave and use the Colress Machine that you got a short while back to get a Crustle to move out of the way and open the path to where the Plasma Frigate is docked. That's a Broken Bridge inside another Broken Bridge, and a reference to an earlier Broken Bridge. PokÃ©mon X and Y: The first time you come to Lumiose City, you'll find workers telling you there's a power cut, preventing you from exploring entire parts of the city. Though this one, at least, is justified by an event that's discovered later in the story. As a note, however, there are random NPCs that will randomly walk past the workers without a thought. The other cases are really egregious. A girl blocks your path to Cyllage city just because she dropped some fossils. Some hipsters stand talking in front of the gate between Lumiose and Route 15, refusing to let you past because you're not cool enough to know about route 15. The return of Snorlax sleeping on a bridge. Or just some guy telling you you should talk to the local Champion. One gate is blocked by two workers stating that wild Durant had just ravaged the path ahead. PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon has a few roadblocks. There are literal roadblocks that are manned by Island Trial volunteers. They'll only open them if you have the appropriate Z-Crystal. Likewise, Kahuna Olivia of Akala will keep you from sneaking to Konikoni City early via Diglett's Tunnel until you have the Grassium-Z crystal because the tunnel's full of Diglett that are getting out of hand. An NPC obsessed with using Stoutland Search in Heahea City will block off different parts of the city until you've completed the trials. Sudowoodo return as a roadblock for those trying to go south of the Paniola Ranch. Only you can't battle and capture them. They'll only go away when you've acquired the Waterium-Z crystal. As usual, there's an NPC who prevents you from accessing the rest of Poni Island until you've become champion. PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield: There are two ways through Route 1: a straight path directly from Postwick to Wedgehurst, and a side path with tall grass. On the first time in the zone, you have no PokÃ©mon, and are advised to stay away from the grassy path; on the second time, a flock of Wooloo are taking a nap in the middle of the road, forcing you to take the detour. Shortly after that, when you take the train to Motostoke, the train is forced to divert because of a flock of Wooloo on the tracks. Throughout the entire game, Team Yell members will constantly block the way forward wherever you go, forcing you into a very linear experience. It'd be more forgivable if that happened a few times, but almost EVERY roadblock is just Team Yell. Using the same two models every time. PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet have a few of these, but differ in how you deal with them due to its open-world nature. There are barricades established by Team Star that prevent you from accessing certain parts of the world. Defeating the leader at a nearby encampment will remove them. The natural terrain is an obstacle with cliff faces and walls you can't climb, water you can't swim across, and lengthy gaps you can't jump across. This doesn't change even when you get the cover legendary, which logically should be able to handle these, but feeding it plot-mandated Herba Mystica will gradually enable you to work your way through. It used to have these abilities, but mental blocks and grievous overexertion crippled them, and the Herba Mystica give it its strength back. Even if you somehow get around those, there is a layer of fog at the center of Paldea that you just aren't allowed to dive through. Beneath the fog is Area Zero, which is restricted access by the Paldean Pokemon League and the Academy. Unfortunately, the first time you fall through, your mount - the cover legendary Pokemon - is triggered by the presence of its counterpart enough to not come out of its Poke Ball no matter what you try, and the area's too dangerous for the flying taxis (these games' fast travel system) to access locking you inside Area Zero until you resolve that plotline.
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Broken Bridge / int_9fa025d	comment	Mother 3 often uses the Ultimate Chimera, a boss that instantly kills you without even entering the battle screen. Also the following, in a few places: "There are ants at your feet. If you go any further you might step on them." The ants are not even visible, and they're just gone by the time you're supposed to go to those places.
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Broken Bridge / int_a4e6a00a	comment	Skies of Arcadia has pretty standard broken bridges in terms of RPG mechanics. What makes them noteworthy is the design of the game itself; as a game taking place on a World in the Sky that gives you a Global Airship at the start of the game just to get around, the bridges are obviously going to be a little more visually unique than other games. Sky rifts (hurricane force wind paths that essentially form mid-air walls) and stone reefs (Asteroid Thickets in the form of floating walls) are the two main types. Upgrades received over the course of the game that allow you to bypass these bridges include a ship-sized Harpoon Gun, an engine strong enough to punch through the winds, and altitude modifications that allow you to travel through the top of the stratosphere.
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Broken Bridge / int_a512f762	comment	Clive Barker's Undying: Sure'n you'll be hearing Patrick's Oirish brogue declaring a door to be "Stuck!" or "Won't budge!" an awful lot, boyo.
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Broken Bridge / int_a68c19b8	comment	Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War has this and NPC Road Block. You can't across a few areas without capturing castles in the order because of the closed gates or the water tiles. Sometimes, you can't proceed to a new area without witnessing your NPC allies getting slaughtered by the enemies first. Taken to ridiculous extremes once you get flying units. They should be able to simply fly past the roadblocks, right? WRONG. There are yellow tiles in the place of the normal blue/green tiles to represent the tiles you could fly on if you were allowed to. Justified in Chapter 3; you can't go to the area near a certain castle because stationing troops there would be breaking a promise and an act of war.
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Broken Bridge / int_a6fb0678	comment	La-Mulana: The Feather which gives you a Double Jump, is resting on the Surface in plain sight. What blocks the path to it is a blue giant named Algol, invulnerable until you've obtained a specific item buried deep within the ruins. Even straighter examples are the Endless Key, Pochette Key, Dragon Bone, and Crystal Skull. Unlike most other items, these give you no new abilities; their only purpose is to remove several Broken Bridges scattered across the game world. A more literal example is a room in Hell Temple which is impassable until you figure out how to make a bridge appear. Of course, right in the middle of the bridge is a Fake Platform to fall through.
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Broken Bridge / int_a78204b0	comment	Magi-Nation featured this in the Game Boy Color one, where the bridge in question needs to be built. In order to do that, you must first obtain a specific Dream Creature, which essentially means seeking them out and beating up enough of them to get enough randomly-acquired animite to have someone forge it. Once you get it, the bridge can be built... and collapses immediately afterwards. Some bridge.
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Broken Bridge / int_a796bde8	comment	Metal Gear Solid has the stairs and the elevator in the Comms Tower. The stairs have been smashed and the elevator is out of order, both done on purpose to force Snake to the roof where Liquid and his Hind D helicopter are waiting for him, and the elevator "mysteriously" begins working once you shoot the Hind D down. It turns out a group of enemy soldiers were just holding the elevator at the first floor, and they decide to let the elevator work and deal with Snake themselves after he takes down the helicopter.
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Broken Bridge / int_a895e9d3	comment	In Portal 2, trying to explore areas that are not where the game is trying to railroad you into, often leads into discovering instant death triggers and invisible walls. Sometimes blatantly annoying, as the jump to the platform that kills you instantly for no reason at all might be shorter than some jumps you perform regularly while performing tests.
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Broken Bridge / int_a8a40154	comment	In Postal 2, you will be limited to a few areas on the first day with road tunnels to other parts often closed off with construction signs. Each successive day, new areas open, until the entire map is open on Friday. This also applies to certain buildings which are inaccessible until the day they become necessary. This actually had the disadvantage of limiting the open sandbox nature of the game since the player must beat several days worth of quests to open areas, and some buildings are only accessible during their relevant errand.
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Broken Bridge / int_a90d239a	comment	Psychonauts has a literal broken bridge before the first level. In order to prevent you from wandering around camp before you even enter the first level, the bridge that connects the rest of camp with the kid's cabins area is broken, and Ford will always be "fixing it" until you happen to complete Basic Braining. There's also the lake — you need to get to one of the docks out in the water for one of the levels, but since Raz can't swim, you need to find an Oarsman's Badge in order to use a boat...Another Broken Bridge is inside Waterloo World. You have to get a carpenter to fix it before moving your pieces across. Though it should be said that the player can cross the rivers just fine. It's just that the level doubles as a board game, so only the pieces aren't allowed to cross them.
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Broken Bridge / int_ac9f81ac	comment	One level from about halfway through Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy involves the protagonist heading to Coruscant to talk to a guy who's accused of selling black-market assassin droids. The level starts with him blowing up the bridge between the landing pad you start at and his office; almost the entirety of the level is running alongside other buildings and pathways to try and get around the destroyed bit.
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Broken Bridge / int_ad34ca69	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics A2 opens up new areas as you progress through the story missions. While the mission in question is fair deal (for instance dealing with the bandits blocking the way), you can only get the mission after you got far enough in the story. Additionally, most regions also contain hidden subzones that only become accessible after you do the right mission, often also spawning a sudden surge of new quests that involve the area. Oh, and there is a literal broken bridge, too, but it's just a shortcut and not mandatory.
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Broken Bridge / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has a couple of interesting subversions, such as a literal Broken Bridge that will not be fixed until after you figure out how to cross over it anyway, and an NPC who can be commissioned to do something for you that, when he tells you to wait a few days for it to be done, actually means it. No plot advancement necessary. Just wait a few days, really. And you can speed this up with your ocarina. That said, the game does have some classic broken bridge scenarios, such as King Zora being directly in the way of getting to the third Spiritual Stone dungeon until you bring him a note from his daughter that convinces him to move out of the way, Sheik standing directly in front of the Master Sword's pedestal to prevent you from returning to the past until after you've cleared one Temple, various Kokiri boxing you in during the beginning of the game until plot points are fulfilled, etc.
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Broken Bridge / int_af552e7e	comment	After Metroid Prime was utterly violated in its first release, Retro made some changes for future versions. Most of these were just bug fixes, but one was a blatant cheat. The Player's Choice version prevents you from getting the Plasma Beam before the Grapple Beam... by magically locking the necessary door. There's no message explaining the lock, but if you see it, you know what you were trying to do. Go get Grapple, you damn outlaw.
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Broken Bridge / int_afd530db	comment	King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! has possibly the most aggravating example in the series: a single POOOOIsonous snake blocking the road to the mountains. Graham could easily just walk around it, but instead the player has to spend about half the game exploring elsewhere until he eventually comes across an item to get rid of the snake: a tambourine.
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Broken Bridge / int_b0c8849e	comment	In Kid Radd, at one point the title character and two others are traversing an RPG called Mofo. They discuss skipping a good deal of the game, which is meant to build their characters up for the ending; they themselves don't need/can't use the extra levelling. Naturally, they run into a literal broken bridge, and have to spend several hours questing just to get past it.
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Broken Bridge / int_b0ec41e	comment	Most of the castle in Slime Forest Adventure is blocked off by having unimportant NPCs in the way. Sometimes justified, as the NPC will be a guard who will flat-out tell you that this section of the castle is off limits. Other times, not so much, as the NPC will just be a "confused old man" who can't remember where he's going, so he just stands there, in your way.
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Broken Bridge / int_b2ac2311	comment	Snoopy's Street Fair for the iPad has two of these. The player has to get rid of a wasp nest before expanding the fair to the east, and then dispose of a fallen tree before expanding to the west. Each of these actions requires the player to reach a certain level, spend several thousand Snoopy Coins and either wait a few days or (for a faster expansion) spend a few Snoopy Dollars.
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Broken Bridge / int_b70c0e83	comment	In Metroid: Zero Mission, if you try to explore Norfair without collecting the Power Grip, you find an invincible biological wall. The only way to destroy these things (as you had to figure out earlier) is to grab some bugs and make them eat it. There are no bugs around, so you have to go get the Power Grip instead — and when you come back, the wall is gone.
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Broken Bridge / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	In Disco Elysium, the water lock connecting the Martinaise waterfront and the beach is broken, thanks to an advertising billboard that's been knocked into the canal in a freak accident. It gets repaired on Day 3, allowing you to explore the beach and find the wreckage of your motor carriage, discovering that you were responsible for knocking down the billboard in the first place.
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Broken Bridge / int_b906a721	comment	In Secret of Mana, the hero is banished from his hometown after pulling the Mana Sword from its resting place, as this action is seen to have brought disaster own the town; in other places, further progress is blocked until you have found the correct weapon (the Axe to chop down rocks and the Whip to jump gaps that have poles on either end). Why did he pull the sword out, you ask? He needed it to clear away some Insurmountable Waist Height Shrubs, of course.
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Broken Bridge / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night has some of these situations too. In each route, there's an event where you'll be killed if you don't have enough points with the heroine. In the cases of Rin and Sakura, it's not at all obvious that this is the reason — and in Rin's case, the Tiger Dojo chooses that moment to be very unhelpful (albeit hilarious), turning into a parody of radio advice shows. There's also the issue of unlocking the routes in the first place. You must see the ending of Fate to unlock the early-game choice that sets you on Unlimited Blade Works, and you must see one ending of UBW to be able to trigger Heaven's Feel. It has to be an actual ending, too. Bad Ends or Dead Ends don't count.
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Broken Bridge / int_b9cbc95b	comment	Tales of Rebirth plays the broken bridge scenario for laughs. The Dark Wings decide to destroy the game's first bridge, to stop Veigue and co. and show their mightiness. Which is pretty mean and evil... until the bridgebuilders show up and get pissed off because of it. They force the Dark Wings to fix the bridge themselves. You still have to take the long detour to get to the city over the bridge, but at least you know those responsible for it are being properly punished (the bridge eventually gets completed and saves a lot of walking later).
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Broken Bridge / int_bc1a27b6	comment	All over most of The ClueFinders games. Especially when you consider that it's good material for Alphabet Soup Cans. In 3rd grade, you have to complete a bridge to get across a slime river, then the final activity is a bridge-building activity similar to Dominoes where the words have to have something in common with the word they are touching. (Such as synonyms or antonyms, etc) In 4th grade, the player has to spell words to form a catwalk. The Dominoes-esque games and Spelling Catwalks is re-used in 5th grade, along with a hanging lampshade: 6th grade features building a bridge by putting plants with dates in the correct order. Search & Solve: Later in the game, the player has to build bridges out of Tantrix tiles to form a line of one colour from one end to the next. The Incredible Toy Store Adventure: One has to decode words on toy crocodiles so they could form a bridge.
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Broken Bridge / int_be492827	comment	Metroid Prime 2: Echoes has two examples that occur in in the same general area (Sky Temple Grounds). If you go to the Plain of Dark Worship before you obtain the Dark Suit, you'll discover that the seemingly unguarded Missile Expansion in the tower of Ingworms is actually 'guarded' by a huge cluster of Ingclaws. Ingclaws don't actually attack, but without the Dark Suit, the vapor that Ingclaws produce tears through your health at a frightening rate. This one is optional, and players might obtain the Missile Expansion later and not realize the hazard. Later in the game, the Ing Reliquary is completely covered in an Ingstorm that has a similar effect, and requires the Light Suit to safely pass through. Unlike the previous example, this one stands between Samus and one of the Sky Temple Keys and is not optional.
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Broken Bridge / int_beac6ffb	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: The Groundhog Day Looping has a variation where a pass blocked by a rock would, if you waited for workers to clear it, only be opened after it was far too late. You had to show up with a huge bomb once you unlocked it and blast it open ahead of time. You want to go the Swamp? Just dandy! Wanna go to the mountains? Well you have to shoot down an icicle with an arrow (found in the swamp) that breaks the ice blocking your path. You wanna to go the beach? Well you're going to need a horse (which can only be gotten by going to the mountains to get a big enough bomb to unclog the path) to jump over a fence. Wanna go to the canyon? Get ready to write this one down. You're gonna need to find the horse to hop over fences, then ditch the horse and use the hookshot to get past a cliffside, and then, here's the kicker, use ice arrows to freeze octoroks so you can cross the river. (Fortunately, as with OoT, when you reach a new area you can learn a warp song that flies you back as often as you want.) At the beginning of the game you're stuck in Deku scrub form, so the guards bar you from leaving town because it's too dangerous outside the walls...until it's too late and they have bigger things to worry about. You can only pass by completing the first quest, retrieving your Ocarina of Time and escaping deku scrub form. However, even once you do this, the guards will continue to stop you from leaving town if you're in the wrong form.
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Broken Bridge / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger: There is a literal Broken Bridge that is repaired as soon as you've progressed enough. ...Though the soldiers still block your way until you make a brief sidetrip to the castle. There is also an example of a Broken Bridge mechanic in the opening scenes with Marle; when you stop for candy, Marle will constantly stop if you try and run away. If you do, this is used against you later in your kidnapping trial. If you attempt to go to the year 65,000,000 B.C. before obtaining the broken Masmune and getting Melchior to say he needs Dreamstone to repair it, you can wander around but nothing significant happens. After Melchior asks for Dreamstone, you can return to 65,000,000 B.C, and Ayla happens to show up, telling you that she can help you find Dreamstone (and later becoming a playable character). And yet again with the Haunted Castle near the end-game. It's in disrepair, so you have to get a group of guys to repair the holes in the floor. You have to repeat this several times because of the monsters that must be killed for them to progress. The Lost Sanctum in the DS version contains a literal broken bridge in 600 A.D. that will only be completed once the Reptite Village in 65,000,000 B.C. is saved from the Archeofangs.
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Broken Bridge / int_c1022f1	comment	King's Field II (the first one released in the US) had one or two of these in the form of NPCs who would block your way into an area (sometimes just a house, but a key item would be inside) until certain tasks were completed. Because the NPC characters were not invincible (though the significant amount of damage required to kill one and the lack of a proper death animation suggests that this vulnerability may not have been intended by the developers), ruthless players could slash their way through instead.
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Broken Bridge / int_c2463c46	comment	In Final Fantasy, the main characters are trapped on one continent until they defeat Garland and save the princess. Their reward: the king finally fixes that Broken Bridge to the north. Later, you have to bring an explosive to dwarves so they can build a canal. Parodied in 8-Bit Theater, where the the Light Warriors decide that "King Steve's Kickass Bridge" is an incredibly sucky reward for saving a princess.
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Broken Bridge / int_c2463c53	comment	In Final Fantasy V, a door in ExDeath's castle leads to upstairs. Early in World 2 you're captured, subsequently break out, and will find the door is locked. A few minutes later, you find ExDeath has erected a huge energy barrier field around the castle, and you cannot get anywhere near it. Some time later, you go through the process of disabling the barrier by climbing a huge tower, defeating an inter-dimensional wormhole, and a friend sacrifices himself. Should the party, in grief, decide to go see ExDeath right away and let him have a piece of their mind, they'll find their progress impeded by the same locked door. Later on when the party member really goes to challenge ExDeath, the door has been unlocked for no reason whatsoever.
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Broken Bridge / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X uses this contrivance also, whether it is plot-limited ferry rides, transportation between areas that cannot be backtracked, or simply having characters standing in locations and preventing further progress (such as in various areas on the Mi'ihen Highroad and Mushroom Rock Road, at least until specific plot points have been concluded.
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Broken Bridge / int_c25b78e4	comment	In Albion, a guard is blocking the entrance to the office of the local mining town's leader, only saying You shall not pass! You won't get pass him until you need to speak to the leader directly.
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Broken Bridge / int_c34f83b2	comment	In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the Monobeasts serve this purpose by blocking off access to the other islands. After each chapter, Monomi clears away one of the beasts, allowing access to another island.
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Broken Bridge / int_c4a1d59e	comment	The Call of Duty series has these in spades, as the player can't open doors and must wait for a superior officer to open them for him. It also features other variations such as minefields and 'pockets of radiation' keeping you on the Plotted Line. However, the conclusion of Call of Duty 4 takes this to a ridiculous extreme. It's set aboard an airplane in mid-flight, and the level starts by the strike team using a cutting torch to cut a piece of the roof of the lower floor so they can drop in from above. The team then progresses across the entire plane, up the back stairs to the second level, and moves back across the plane to where the hostage is being held. It's not enough that there is a staircase leading directly here blocked by a couple of suitcases, but as it turns out, the end room of the level is directly above the start of the level. Thus, the strike team started the level in the hostage's room and cut a hole to the lower floor of the plane, just to work their way back to where they started. Sometimes, the plot creates broken bridges such as doors locking behind you, forcing you into a more dangerous alternate path.
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Broken Bridge / int_c4ed1c1f	comment	Lampshaded in Dink Smallwood mod Crowns of Stone.
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Broken Bridge / int_c67a1218	comment	In The Legend of Dragoon, a path to a house in one town needed to progress the plot is blocked by a house cat. Hopping over the cat or picking it up is entirely out of the question for our band of armored legendary heroes, and in the end the cat must be lured away by placing food nearby.
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Broken Bridge / int_c834792e	comment	Moneybags in the Spyro the Dragon series. Throughout Ripto's Rage, you must pay him in order to access some bridges, portals, etc. It's the same way in Year of the Dragon, except that he goes a step further and charges you to access the other playable characters. At the end of Year of the Dragon you get a chance to get revenge and retrieve all the money he extorted from you. He only appears once in Enter the Dragonfly, and in A Hero's Tail he does not directly block you from going places, but operates a chain of item shops where you get supplies. Given the humor style of the Insomniac trilogy, this does get lampshaded during the second game.
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Broken Bridge / int_c8c98633	comment	In the first Soviet mission in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, you're in the midst of invading Washington D.C. when you come across a broken bridge. To get across, you need to train an Engineer to repair it. All in all, this broken bridge takes no more than a minute of your time to cross and isn't that big an obstacle, but it does teach the player the crucial gameplay mechanic of using engineers to repair structures and bridges.
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Broken Bridge / int_c96cfe29	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: In the beginning, guards block all paths that don't lead to the castle until after you've rescued the princess.
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Broken Bridge / int_c9777c97	comment	Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim opens with Adol on Quatera Island, which used to have a bridge to nearby Canaan Island before it was sabotaged. The only way to Canaan is through an underground tunnel; the bridge isn't rebuilt until much later in the game, becoming a Door to Before. In a bit of a relief from "Sorry, you have to wait here, and don't think about going via X", nobody knows about the tunnel until the game's first boss smashes through the wall in front of it.
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Broken Bridge / int_ca48bb5c	comment	Fable: Several locations can be reached only through Cullis Gate Portal Network connections that are only enabled for the Hero at certain points in the main quest line. The Witchwood connection only opens when the Heroes' Guild dispatches him there; the Hook Coast connection needs to be brought back online by feeding it undead souls; and the Hero has to summon a Ghost Ship to Snowspire to reactivate its Gates manually. The latter was Invoked by Scythe to prevent the Mole in Charge Maze from tracking him there. The wealthy gated community of Bowerstone North, and, by association, the region to which it acts as a chokepoint, are off-limits to the Hero until a specific point in the main quest line, when he gains sufficient renown to be admitted.
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Broken Bridge / int_cb45dbdc	comment	PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet have a few of these, but differ in how you deal with them due to its open-world nature. There are barricades established by Team Star that prevent you from accessing certain parts of the world. Defeating the leader at a nearby encampment will remove them. The natural terrain is an obstacle with cliff faces and walls you can't climb, water you can't swim across, and lengthy gaps you can't jump across. This doesn't change even when you get the cover legendary, which logically should be able to handle these, but feeding it plot-mandated Herba Mystica will gradually enable you to work your way through. It used to have these abilities, but mental blocks and grievous overexertion crippled them, and the Herba Mystica give it its strength back. Even if you somehow get around those, there is a layer of fog at the center of Paldea that you just aren't allowed to dive through. Beneath the fog is Area Zero, which is restricted access by the Paldean Pokemon League and the Academy. Unfortunately, the first time you fall through, your mount - the cover legendary Pokemon - is triggered by the presence of its counterpart enough to not come out of its Poke Ball no matter what you try, and the area's too dangerous for the flying taxis (these games' fast travel system) to access locking you inside Area Zero until you resolve that plotline.
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Broken Bridge / int_cbae024e	comment	There's an entire Twitter feed dedicated to archiving screenshots of Broken Bridges in video games, "we don't need to go there now".
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Broken Bridge / int_cc9f0389	comment	Titan Quest fairly early on has a literal bridge that would make it possible to cross a river from the first major geographical area in the game world (Greece) into another one that you go to later... if it wasn't broken. The bridge even has some workmen pretending to be hard at work to rebuilt it whenever you talk to them. As for why the bridge is broken, the bridge workers claim it was destroyed by a Cyclops — who turns out to be Polyphemus and is just ahead in the next area.
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Broken Bridge / int_d09253b7	comment	Fortune Summoners has the literal broken bridge as a connection between two cities. You can't access it until the plot demands.
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Broken Bridge / int_d180a59d	comment	Dawn and Dusk use these in the form of walls of data, used to prevent you going too far off the main path if the mission only requires you to explore part of a zone, or to make sure you don't gain access to parts of the game you shouldn't be able to access yet when using the warps. Though, even after you completely beat the game several data walls will remain in the Data Zone. That's propably because it would connect all the areas and turn it into a gargantuan maze. There is also a Starmon in the Coliseum that blocks the way to a teleporter, saying that it's forbidden to unauthorized person. You actually never get the permission to use it, and Starmon will not let you pass even after completely beating the game.
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Broken Bridge / int_d1e1037f	comment	Through much of Night in the Woods, parts of Mae's hometown are blocked off by construction workers.
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Broken Bridge / int_d212a05e	comment	Resonance of Fate: The game takes place in Basel, a tower big enough that it contains several cities, but pretty much all of the walkways are powered down so you'll have to restore them with energy hexes. Certain chokepoints or areas are blocked off with coloured hexes, required an appropriately-coloured energy hex, which of course won't be available until you're far enough into the plot. Some side-quests in the game are even based around fixing the Broken Bridgeyness of Basel, to the tune of 'fix me a path to <place>'.
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Broken Bridge / int_d22e9aa2	comment	Ecstatica starts with the player entering a village only connected by a bridge, and trying to head back will result in the bridge breaking, even though in the final cutscene the bridge is restored and perfectly usable with no explanation.
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Broken Bridge / int_d3357d84	comment	God of Thunder features a literal Broken Bridge, so you must track down a bridge repairman. It quickly turns into a Chain of Deals.
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Broken Bridge / int_d36b8ea7	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: While the games often allow minimal sequence-breaking in the form of collecting items in a dungeon, ignoring the boss, and moving on to the next dungeon, there are a few hard-wired Broken Bridges that stop this for no discernible reason. One of the most frustrating examples is an old man NPC in Oracle of Seasons who is supposed to give you a jewel used to access Tarm Ruins; for no adequately explained reason, he will refuse to speak to you if you have not collected a certain number of the game's otherwise useless MacGuffins, the Essences of Nature. This is in spite of the fact that Link's only goal in this game is to collect the Essences; there's no in-universe reason why he should need to collect them in a particular order, and there are no plot events that would be missed if the One True Sequence were broken.
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Broken Bridge / int_d3c4a6ce	comment	In Trials of Mana, as soon as you get Vuscav (by which point you'll have four out of eight elementals), you're told where the remaining four elementals are. You can get Undine and Salamando in either order, but a bush blocks your path to Luna for no apparent reason until you get those two. And a giant flower blocks the path to Dryad, which can only be removed by using Luna.
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Broken Bridge / int_d4e47577	comment	DoomÂ³ is pretty much a series of broken bridges strung together into a storyline. As well as actual bridges there are security doors needing high level access codes, transport machines that need to be activated, malfunctioning machines that need to be deactivated and plot coupons that must be collected. In all cases the thing you need is some distance away, through the hordes of zombies, imps and assorted other nasties and just over there — yes behind the large salivating creature with the mean look on its face.
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Broken Bridge / int_d4fa523c	comment	In Faria, a guard won't let you cross the bridge to the second town without the king's permission, though that can be easily obtained. Later in the game, the broken bridge leading to Riria has to be repaired by using a Mysterious Seed (don't ask why).
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Broken Bridge / int_d500b17d	comment	If you progress too fast in the World Tour of Forza Motorsport 4, you may come across a message telling you that you have no legal cars for the next event. It wonâ€™t tell you what cars you need, or any information other than to continue earning XP. Somewhat justified, in that the reward cars for levelling up will generally satisfy the upcoming requirements. But if you donâ€™t go to the event list and clear some unrelated events, youâ€™re stuck.
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Broken Bridge / int_d502170c	comment	PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon has a few roadblocks. There are literal roadblocks that are manned by Island Trial volunteers. They'll only open them if you have the appropriate Z-Crystal. Likewise, Kahuna Olivia of Akala will keep you from sneaking to Konikoni City early via Diglett's Tunnel until you have the Grassium-Z crystal because the tunnel's full of Diglett that are getting out of hand. An NPC obsessed with using Stoutland Search in Heahea City will block off different parts of the city until you've completed the trials. Sudowoodo return as a roadblock for those trying to go south of the Paniola Ranch. Only you can't battle and capture them. They'll only go away when you've acquired the Waterium-Z crystal. As usual, there's an NPC who prevents you from accessing the rest of Poni Island until you've become champion.
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Broken Bridge / int_d57d722e	comment	Ōkami: Used a few times, most directly in the form of 'curse zones', which (if stumbled into) turn the background rather trippy, and slowly chip off Amaterasu's health (unless escaped from, or her 'health-bubble' runs out). There are also a couple of literal broken bridges, some of which you immediately fix. One interesting example is the broken staircase that leads to Orochi's lair. Amaterasu must travel through a set of caves as an alternate way to reach Orochi. The interesting part is that, much later on, Amaterasu winds up traveling back in time to before the staircase was destroyed and uses it to confront Orochi again, this time without getting sidetracked. There is the held-up bridge at the City Checkpoint and the closed bridge in between the Commoners and Aristocratic Quarters. Funnily enough, they were invented by the same person.
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Broken Bridge / int_d5a71dd5	comment	In Riven, there is a raised drawbridge you encounter early on with an apparent trigger button on the near side... which doesn't work until you figure out a way to turn on the steam power to the island, and by then you've managed to get to the other side by another path. A recurring theme in the Myst series, in fact; the only way to fix a broken bridge is by circumventing it, and the only reason to fix a broken bridge is that you're going to be backtracking once or twice and it's nice to have a shortcut.
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Broken Bridge / int_d5ae7c22	comment	In Ultima IX, a boulder blocks the way to Yew until completing a quest, when Lord British magically makes it disappear. The rest of the world map must be accessed by completing dungeons and gaining a ship, due to the Avatar's Super Drowning Skills.
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Broken Bridge / int_d5c5e4de	comment	Tomba! 2 has a giant ice pig early on Kujara Ranch. It guards the entrance to Kujara summit, and he cannot be destroyed by any means... Unless you use the Fire Hammer on it.
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Broken Bridge / int_d5e9c73d	comment	Wakfu has four nations, and you're meant to do the bulk of your early adventuring in the nation you first immigrate to; you're given a passport that only allows you into your own country (having in this respect somewhat reduced functionality compared to real passports), while the other three are closed to you once you've made a choice. There are routes from within your own nation to take you to the other three, but they're cannons that shoot you there, and you need to make the gunpowder yourself (which will take extensive adventuring to find ingredients, and a certain amount of level grinding to level up the proper skills high enough).
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Broken Bridge / int_d60b94e0	comment	Jak 3: Wastelander has an array of interesting gadgets and super powers that you need to get before you can enter certain areas.
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Broken Bridge / int_d67b8fb8	comment	Little Busters!: Inverted with the original heroine routes, excluding Rin and Komari. Once you complete a route for one of the other four heroines, a critical choice needed to unlock that route will be grayed out until the player completes Refrain, which requires the player to complete the routes of all six original heroines before it can be accessed. The routes for the Ecstasy heroines in the Updated Re-release remain locked until the player completes Refrain. Saya's route in particular requires Riki going into school on the night of May 15th. While the choice is available from the start, if Riki chooses to go into the school before completing Refrain, he'll be locked out of the school. Similar to the original heroines, after completing Saya's route, her route becomes inaccessible until the player completes the routes for Sasami and Kanata. This trope is lampshaded by Riki during Sasami's route, when the two are unable to leave the school due to being trapped in an artificial world similar to the one created by Kyousuke and the others in Refrain.
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Broken Bridge / int_d7081096	comment	Mother series EarthBound will put everything and its mother in your way, including policemen, rocks, ghosts, timid cactus people, even a traffic jam in the middle of the desert. And let's not forget inexplicably placed statues. However, to its credit, it lampshades it liberally. The police force in Onett repeatedly talk about how their claim to fame is that they are constantly erecting road blocks, to the point where they don't actually bother to deal with real crimes. They actually do have a broken bridge in Peaceful Rest Valley when you arrive. Guess what gets repaired by the time you've rescued Paula? Mother 3 often uses the Ultimate Chimera, a boss that instantly kills you without even entering the battle screen. Also the following, in a few places: "There are ants at your feet. If you go any further you might step on them." The ants are not even visible, and they're just gone by the time you're supposed to go to those places.
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Broken Bridge / int_da3eef3a	comment	Parasite Eve has a few broken bridges. One example is when Aya goes to the basement of the hospital, Eve cuts the cables on the elevator Aya is in and to make sure Aya stays stuck, Eve slashes the power cables to shut off the power to the building so that the other elevator won't work and some of the doors are sealed due to no power. If that wasn't bad enough, trying to take the stairs will make Eve come and collapse them. You'll spend a good portion of your time looking for fuses and card keys before you can go back upstairs.
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Broken Bridge / int_db757f34	comment	Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures: In the Edzilla bonus level of the console version, progress is blocked by bridges linking the four islands that the level is set on. The bridges will not lower until all the buildings in the prevous island are destroyed (except tank stations and hospitals). The moment that bridge is crossed, it will be destroyed, also locking Ed on the next island.
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Broken Bridge / int_dbce0953	comment	Pikmin series: Pikmin 3: The watery portion of the Garden of Hope where Blue Pikmin are obtained is blocked by a cinder block, which is giant from the point of view of the characters. It's not opened until after getting Louie, where he'll run off with the juice and blow up the block. Pikmin 4: The entrance to the final cave is initially covered by a boulder that cannot be destroyed or moved by any means. It only becomes available after defeating Louie in the final Dandori Battle and rescuing Nelle from him. The reason why the boulder moves away is not explained, but log files imply that Louie got the Ancient Sirehound to move it so that he could use the cave as his secure hideout.
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Broken Bridge / int_dc500fbe	comment	In Tales of Zestiria, if you try to head into an area you don't belong in yet, you might find it blanketed in incredibly dense Malevolence which slows down your movements outside of battle and cripples you in battle. If you somehow manage to get further into the area, you might end up running into Heldalf with obvious results if you're foolish enough to try to get past him in your weakened state and a Bad Ending if you somehow defeat him.
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Broken Bridge / int_dc64461e	comment	Graveyard Keeper has both literal and figurative broken bridges, obstacles and questlines that prevent the opening of certain areas of the, avenues for expanding your production and increasing your income, or simply added convenience.
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Broken Bridge / int_dcdb5ca9	comment	In Tsukihime, you'll sometimes find yourself unable to avoid death on a given day. Why? Because of something you did one or two days earlier; if you'd acted differently then, you'd get a choice now. Sometimes there's a clear connection, but not always. For instance, a certain battle in Ciel's route can only be won if Shiki keeps his glasses on and tries to make peace — but if he misbehaved the day before, he's simply not offered this choice. Fortunately, the hint corner usually helps.
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Broken Bridge / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Grand Theft Auto IV handles this very simply; at the beginning of the game, the Mayor has raised the terror alert to "Magenta", or some such colour, and the bridges are closed as a result. You can run the blockade (or simply walk across one bridge that remains open to pedestrians), but you get an instant 6 star rating for your trouble. This is (slightly) handwaved in-story as Niko is an illegal immigrant. Johnny and Luis, the stars of the DLC, are Americans and are under no restriction even though Niko is at the same canonical point in time. Strangely, however, the broken bridge appears to only apply to Niko. Computer-controlled pedestrians can cross back and forth at will (at least via the several pedestrian bridges), and in the DLC The Lost and the Damned, which is set concurrently with the main game, the player can travel cross the city at will even during missions where Niko was restricted!
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Broken Bridge / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest series Lampshaded in Dragon Quest IV, in which a sign reads "The bridge is here for everyone's enjoyment. Please don't destroy it." In Dragon Quest VI, you cannot enter Turnscote before completing Mt.Snowhere because a man stops you at the entrance. Luckily, he pretty much tells you where to go. In a weird and inventive version of this trope, Dragon Quest VII had a broken bridge that would be fixed "tomorrow". Of course, the world is stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, so "tomorrow" doesn't come until you fix that little problem. An irksome string of these starts in Dragon Quest VIII when you find a magic ship. It's stuck on the shoreline, and you have to go to the Trodain Castle to find out more about it. This far into the game, you might have forgotten that the bridge to the east of the castle is gone, so you must keep going past where you found the magic ship. Obviously, information on the magic ship would be in the library, but when you arrive at the castle courtyard, the front entrance of the library is blocked by impassable vines, and the side door is locked from the inside, so you have to use one of the other entrances (potentially missing the chest with a map of the castle) and find the library that way. When you find the book regarding the magic ship, a door to the Moonshadow World opens, which you can enter to ask the soon-to-be-irrelevant NPC Ishmahri for help. He attempts to cast a spell with his harp, but it breaks. You now have to find the Moonshadow Harp for him, which another previous NPC will tell you is in Ascantha. When you get there, King Pavan shows you to the vault where the harp should be, but it's been ransacked. You then need to go through the tunnel in the wall, which leads to a peninsula with the entrance to the next dungeon, a mole tunnel. Here you have to defeat Don Mole to reclaim the Moonshadow Harp, which Ishmahri will then use to carry the magic ship onto the water, finally enabling you to use it. Also in Dragon Quest VIII, your route back to Trodain is blocked by a LITERAL broken bridge. The real irony is that one of your party members is the one who destroyed it. In Dragon Quest XI many are featured in the game from landslides to the traditional broken bridges. Though most are there to prevent you from reaching certain areas too early. After Yggdrasil falls most of these paths are opened to allow you to reach areas that are otherwise inaccessible without a boat.
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Broken Bridge / int_e247f391	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Boulders, grass, and people block off all passages away from the path directly north to the castle. New areas can only be accessed once the player gets an item or skill that remove the obstacles.
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Broken Bridge / int_e500f417	comment	Harvest Moon has a few. For example, Harvest Moon: A New Beginning has two giant spaces left and right of your farm blocked off. Half of the town itself is blocked off until you progress far enough in the game. And those are only a few examples.
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Broken Bridge / int_e5c93c13	comment	In Miitopia, In Wetland Way, Neksdor, the path to the east is blocked by a pile of boulders when you first visit the area. Only by befriending the Genie you can get rid of the boulders.
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Broken Bridge / int_e5d8f914	comment	The tornado in LOOM, which you can easily cross when you get the right spell.
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Broken Bridge / int_e5feb1e	comment	The Ace Attorney games use this in abundance during the investigation sequences. Advancing the story is typically a result of speaking with the right people. However, to ensure the game never becomes unwinnable, people tend not to appear until the player has obtained all the necessary evidence. Perhaps the most notable example is your client at the detention center, who will always initially be "away in questioning." Once you talk with the right people and gather the requisite information and evidence, however, he's finished and ready to let loose The Reveal. What a coincidence. In one case, there actually is a broken bridge that can't be crossed until the player does other things before it is fixed.
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Broken Bridge / int_e6c59cc4	comment	Quake II: Due to the nature of the game, progression is locked in different ways that the player must circumvent: broken bridges, invisible walls, key-locked doors, permanently-locked doors that must be circumvented or destroyed by completing objectives, deadly laser walls, forcefields, forcefield-protected doors, you name it...
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Broken Bridge / int_e6fb021b	comment	Subverted in the mecha-anime-based FPS Shogo: Mobile Armor Division . At one point in the game, you need to get through a gate, and the old lady who lives in the control building stands in front of the open-lever, refusing to let you pull it until you've found her missing cat. You can solve the problem by finding her cat, yes... or you can shoot her in the head (and her enraged husband, who is no more dangerous), then pull the lever yourself. There are no story penalties for doing this, and indeed the game makes no further mention of your heinous crime at all.
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Broken Bridge / int_e7324286	comment	Need for Speed: Undercover has no limitations on where you can go, allowing access to all four "boroughs" from the beginning of the game. However, since you're trying to infiltrate specific criminal organizations, races, and missions are restricted to that gang's borough until you've "cleaned up" and moved on. During races, there are a number of inexplicable road dividers painting the race pathway, and casually blocking off roads for illegal street races.
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Broken Bridge / int_e863cc41	comment	Mega Man Battle Network uses this a lot. Sometimes it's justified, sometimes it's not, and sometimes you can only stare in wonder at the lunacy. An example of the last is in the sixth game, Central Area 3. The hub of that game's internet with direct access to every other net area except the Undernet. Sky area is blocked by a cloud, ACDC area is blocked by a guy behind a desk asking for a pass, Green area is blocked by a tree, and Seaside area is blocked by a puddle from a leaky pipe. Though the leaky pipe is fixed after you beat Blastman.EXE the first time, Mick finds a penguin and brings it to the school in the game, and you have to find a plumber navi to fix the pipe so you can find out about the penguin. Nothing can justify the fact that the guy who asks for the pass later turns out to be papier-mache. DIGITAL papier-mache. You could have walked right by at any time.
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Broken Bridge / int_eb2a8ea9	comment	Crackdown and its sequel, unusually for sandbox games, subvert this. All three islands are accessible from the start and the player is free to complete any of the game's main objectives in any order they choose. The restriction comes from the fact that the enemies are tougher on the second island and even tougher on the third, and the player will not have the skills or the weapons to take them on. In addition, the buildings get higher on each island, so lower level players won't be able to climb them.
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Broken Bridge / int_eb3f3551	comment	Mass Effect: Andromeda: On Havarl, there's a massive viaduct in the middle of the level, but the only bridge across it is out, and there's no way to climb it. Fortunately, the Roekaar reactivate the bridge from their side, in their crazed desire to get at and kill Ryder. Later on during Jaal's Loyalty Mission, the Roekaar blow up a different bridge, and Jaal starts suggesting taking a different route. This time, Ryder can just jump across the gap.
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Broken Bridge / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII features Taejin's Tower, a literal Broken Bridge connecting Gran Pulse to the highland areas of Oerba and beyond. It is some sort of space elevator/Tower of Babel thing, only the elevator cars are out of alignment and the power is cut, and there's a Beef Gate Physical God roaming around inside for players to deal with. There are also several earlier instances of this (the game is notorious for the linearity of the first half of its plot), including more literal broken bridges in the first area ("The Hanging Edge"), only these bridges are flying bridges that the party boards, rides while fighting bosses, and then jumps off of when reaching their destination.
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Broken Bridge / int_ec02633a	comment	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt initially seems to play this straight. The bridges across the Pontar are closely guarded by the Redanian army, and you need a pass to get across. You will eventually get a pass if you advance normally through the main quest. But you can subvert this if you like, because you can do a short side quest that starts at the very foot of one the bridges and acquire a pass as a reward. In reality, however, this trope is fully averted, because... at any time, you can just dive into the river and swim across (or find a boat), with no ill effects whatsoever.
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Broken Bridge / int_ecd2d797	comment	Baldur's Gate: The bridge into the eponymous city will only open once you've done some other quests.
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Broken Bridge / int_ed1edf37	comment	Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: Portals to other areas and some doors are closed off until the rest of the story quests are done.
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Broken Bridge / int_eda23648	comment	Mini DAYZ has actual broken down boats on the east cost of every island, each requiring a different item in order to repair and travel to the next island. While itâ€™s technically not necessary to keep traveling islands - and indeed the gameâ€™s objective is to survive at all costs - the RNG nature of distributing loot each day in the towns/cities/military bases doesnâ€™t guarantee youâ€™ll get everything you need to survive, sometimes forcing you to travel to the next island or die from mundane reasons (e.g. starvation). Furthermore, each time you travel to a new island, the loot you find becomes higher quality, albeit you must now contend with stronger zombies and bandits who are sometimes armed with firearms.
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Broken Bridge / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077 restricts the player's access to Night City to the district of Watson for the entirety of Act I by way of a police lockdown on the district. The only way to open up the rest of Night City is to advance the main story to Act 2.
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Broken Bridge / int_f04b4111	comment	The Metroid games are usually pretty flexible, but now and then a Broken Bridge creeps in: Metroid: The entrance to Tourian is cut off by a very high ledge with a hole that only the Morph Ball can squeeze through, with an acid pit below it. Normally, you have to kill Kraid and Ridley to activate their statues near the entrance, which will create a bridge across when you shoot them. A very skilled player can get across by using luring an enemy into the room, freezing it with the Ice Beam and Morph Ball Bomb jumping off of it. Metroid II: Return of Samus has a hazardous liquid that rapidly depletes your health and can only be drained by killing all the Metroids in an area. One section of liquid near the end of the game even has a set of spikes added to the end of the tunnel to prevent a Dungeon Bypass. Metroid: Samus Returns introduces the Hand Wave that the Chozo built several shrines that control the liquid in order to contain the Metroids underground; Samus must bring a certain number of Metroid DNA samples to the shrines to activate the draining. In Metroid: Zero Mission, if you try to explore Norfair without collecting the Power Grip, you find an invincible biological wall. The only way to destroy these things (as you had to figure out earlier) is to grab some bugs and make them eat it. There are no bugs around, so you have to go get the Power Grip instead — and when you come back, the wall is gone. After Metroid Prime was utterly violated in its first release, Retro made some changes for future versions. Most of these were just bug fixes, but one was a blatant cheat. The Player's Choice version prevents you from getting the Plasma Beam before the Grapple Beam... by magically locking the necessary door. There's no message explaining the lock, but if you see it, you know what you were trying to do. Go get Grapple, you damn outlaw. The Metroid Prime games can actually be pretty bad in this department. There's a lot of materials that can inconveniently only be broken by one certain weapon. There's always free side quests, but the main plot uses a lot of these. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes has two examples that occur in in the same general area (Sky Temple Grounds). If you go to the Plain of Dark Worship before you obtain the Dark Suit, you'll discover that the seemingly unguarded Missile Expansion in the tower of Ingworms is actually 'guarded' by a huge cluster of Ingclaws. Ingclaws don't actually attack, but without the Dark Suit, the vapor that Ingclaws produce tears through your health at a frightening rate. This one is optional, and players might obtain the Missile Expansion later and not realize the hazard. Later in the game, the Ing Reliquary is completely covered in an Ingstorm that has a similar effect, and requires the Light Suit to safely pass through. Unlike the previous example, this one stands between Samus and one of the Sky Temple Keys and is not optional.
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Broken Bridge / int_f0688fff	comment	PokÃ©mon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald/Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire At the very start of the game, your mother won't let you out of your room until you set your clock. This made sense in the original game as the clock is what determined time in those games (although only a few mechanics actually use time in these games; mainly berry growth, Shoal Cave's tides and evolving Eevee into Espeon or Umbreon), but its a meaningless activity in the remakes as those games uses the Nintendo 3DS's clock to determine the time instead. A PokÃ©maniac won't let you take the western exit from the second town because he's found some rare PokÃ©mon footprints and doesn't want anyone disturbing them. He won't be finished examining the footprints until you get the PokÃ©dex. Amusingly, it turns out that they're his footprints. One exclusive to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: there's a lineup of archaeologists wanting to see the cave paintings in Dewford Cave. They prevent you from delivering the letter to Steven until after you get the Knuckle Badge. A sandstorm prevents you from taking a shortcut through the Impassable Desert and catching some useful PokÃ©mon until you get some goggles. In another one added by the remakes, a Bird Keeper on Route 120 will say it's too dangerous to go ahead until you've beaten Winona. Three Wailmer owned by a Team Aqua/Team Magma Grunt block off the route east of Lilycove City until you defeat the villainous team in their hideout. Particularly egregious in Ruby/Omega Ruby, since Team Magma owning Water-Types (which Wailmer is) makes no sense.
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Broken Bridge / int_f10619d8	comment	Tales of the Abyss Inverts the trope THEN plays it straight by repeating the scenario of The Dark Wings destroying the first bridge in the game to prevent their pursuers from catching them, only this time AFTER the main characters have crossed in a carriage carrying Luka and Tear "to the capital", at which point they learn the capital in question is that of Malkuth, the nation Luke's Kingdom of Kimlasca is at war with, preventing them from turning around immediately.
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Broken Bridge / int_f123a7d3	comment	Avencast: Rise of the Mage has a particularly immersion-breaking example: Once the player character finds the Plot Coupon potion necessary to defeat the Big Bad, he can't go farther into the level without picking it up. If the player tries, the door forward locks itself and pops up a reminder to add the potion to the character's inventory.
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Broken Bridge / int_f3cbb86a	comment	BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm has these pretty much everywhere: First, youâ€™re stuck in Reddit until youâ€™ve found the missing ship captain, and you canâ€™t reach the dungeon where he is until youâ€™ve found the rest of his crew. The bridge out of DeviantART is blocked by barrels until youâ€™ve fixed the local river crisis. When you first visit Wikipedia, the east exit is blocked by a crime scene and a crowd of bystanders. The fourth chapterâ€™s boss is blasted into the sky and ends up crashing through a bridge in the next area. Luckily you donâ€™t need to go that way yet, and the bridge is â€œfixedâ€� by the time you do. (Actually they just lay a plank of wood across the gap -â€“ good enough). The Hype Trainâ€™s ticket booth has a huge line that doesnâ€™t clear up until the plot says itâ€™s time for you to ride the train. You canâ€™t climb The Spire until one of the locals agrees to escort you, because itâ€™s a sacred tower and off-limits to strangers. Lastly, thereâ€™s a pair of towns that canâ€™t be visited until the epilogue, with guards in place to keep you from getting into either of them beforehand.
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Broken Bridge / int_f5855286	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Much like Breath of the Wild before it, you can't leave the Great Sky Island until you complete the four Shrines and investigate the Temple of Time, after which the Light Dragon dispels the cloud barrier that had kept you from skydiving back down to Hyrule. Then, you need to go to Lookout Landing so you can get the Paraglider from Purah. But there's otherwise nothing else keeping you from rushing straight to the Final Boss.
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Broken Bridge / int_f6f5617d	comment	Luxaren Allure: The bridge leading from Erdengard to Castle Darkloft gets destroyed by the Big Bad after the prologue. Later the Ichor Bridge, leading from Parvian to Springsmouth, gets destroyed in a monster attack. Karuna lampshades it:
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Broken Bridge / int_f858847a	comment	PokÃ©mon X and Y: The first time you come to Lumiose City, you'll find workers telling you there's a power cut, preventing you from exploring entire parts of the city. Though this one, at least, is justified by an event that's discovered later in the story. As a note, however, there are random NPCs that will randomly walk past the workers without a thought. The other cases are really egregious. A girl blocks your path to Cyllage city just because she dropped some fossils. Some hipsters stand talking in front of the gate between Lumiose and Route 15, refusing to let you past because you're not cool enough to know about route 15. The return of Snorlax sleeping on a bridge. Or just some guy telling you you should talk to the local Champion. One gate is blocked by two workers stating that wild Durant had just ravaged the path ahead.
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Broken Bridge / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes has security gates throughout Paragon City that formerly kept characters out of hazard zones if they weren't high enough level. With the Issue 16 changes to the sidekick system, most now allow characters of any level through. Ironically, the only one that still works looks like it shouldn't: the shattered, unmanned gate that leads to The Hive, home of the Hamidon.
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Broken Bridge / int_faf84cd	comment	In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, new areas of the Los Angeles region become accessible when your business in the main quest first takes you there, after which you can travel to them freely. The Taxi that transports you between areas can be justified as acting on your boss's orders, but there's no explanation for the sewer tunnels not working until the story allows it.
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Broken Bridge / int_fb72d73c	comment	Enchanted Arms is a notable subversion: Early in the quest, a general blows the hell out of a bridge which you need to cross. The epic quest you have to undertake to bypass this obstacle is walking down to the riverbank and swimming across. The game does feature legitimate broken bridge-type scenarios, but this one subversion makes them all worth it.
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Broken Bridge / int_fd3487b9	comment	In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, there's a bridge that will remain broken (they're fixing it as fast as they can, honest!) until you talk to the Sledge Bros. who will charge you with getting a Hoohoo block so that they can make the Mario Bros. a pair of hammers. In fact it is more than that. You have to speak to a few certain NPCs, as well as witness Fawful block your path with a stone statue that you need the hammers to break (the Sledge Bros. aren't even home until this happens). There's also a broken bridge, both literal and in the form of large stone barriers, in Beanbean Castle Town, that blocks access to the eastern half of town until you clear Chucklehuck Woods.
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Broken Bridge / int_fd5d7b47	comment	Certain games in the Need for Speed series: Need for Speed: Underground 2, Most Wanted 2005, and Carbon do it by blatantly plopping a "holo-barrier" with glowing padlocks in the roads that connect the boroughs.note Explained in Underground 2 as "construction". Once you clear one of the campaign tiers, you get a message that simply says the next borough is open. Sort of makes sense, since the game also uses holo-barriers to define the corners at road intersections. The 2012 Most Wanted doesn't have this, unless you did not buy the Terminal Velocity Pack DLC (which contains the Hughes International Airport area), in which case it will be blocked by a holo-barrier and a prompt telling you to press a button to buy the DLC will appear on the screen if you get near it. Ironically, a broken bridge at the end of Most Wanted 2005 is what allows you to escape the police at the game's final climax as you jump over it. Even so, the road with the broken bridge (the only one leading out of the city) has its own figurative broken bridge: being blocked off by boulders until you get a call about the bridge five minutes into the final chase. Need for Speed: Undercover has no limitations on where you can go, allowing access to all four "boroughs" from the beginning of the game. However, since you're trying to infiltrate specific criminal organizations, races, and missions are restricted to that gang's borough until you've "cleaned up" and moved on. During races, there are a number of inexplicable road dividers painting the race pathway, and casually blocking off roads for illegal street races. Need for Speed: World, which took place in a world combining Most Wanted 2005's Rockport and Carbon's Palmont City, had holo-barriers preventing players from accessing the roads connecting Downtown Palmont and Kempton on the western Carbon-based side with Downtown Rockport on the eastern Most Wanted-based side. This is because the area was literally broken; EA Black Box / Quicklime Games never finished the small area as they pivoted towards adding more cars and other features, especially since the map was essentially complete anyway. There was also a holo-barrier placed just after the toll booths of (ironically) a bridge leading south of Downtown Rockport that would have supposedly led to the Tri-City Bay area from Undercover when that was ever developed, but again, the map stopped being expanded.
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Dragon Quest IX (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Dragon Quest VI (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Dragon Quest VII (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Dragon Quest XI (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Dragon's Dogma (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Dragonstomper (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Dreaming Sarah (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Dropsy (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Drug Dealer Simulator (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Dungeon Siege (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Eastward (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
EcoQuest (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Edge of Eternity (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Endless Stairwell (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Epic Battle Fantasy 4 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Eredia The Diary Of Heroes (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Etrian Odyssey (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Fable (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Fable II (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Fable III (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Fancy Pants Adventures (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Final Fantasy (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Final Fantasy III (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Final Fantasy IV (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Final Fantasy Legend II (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Final Fantasy Type-0 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Final Fantasy X-2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Final Fantasy XII (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Fire Emblem Gaiden (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Fortune Summoners (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Freddi Fish (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Freddi Fish 4: The Case of the Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Freelancer (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Full Throttle (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Gagharv Trilogy (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Garden Story (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Gardens Inc (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Geometry Dash (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ghost Recon Wildlands (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Gloomwood (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
God of Thunder (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Golden Sun (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Graffiti Kingdom (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grand Theft Auto (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grandia II (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Graveyard Keeper (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
GreedFall (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grim Dawn (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Grim Tales (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Half-Life (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Halo Infinite (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Hardwar (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Harvest Moon: A New Beginning (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Haven (2020) (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Hero of the Kingdom (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Hitman: Codename 47 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
ICO (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ikachan (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ikenfell (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Inscryption (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Jak and Daxter (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Jesus Christ RPG Trilogy (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Jinx (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Journey (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Journey (2012) (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Judgment Rites (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Kameo: Elements of Power (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Kid Klown In Crazy Chase (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage- (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Kings Quest (2015) (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Landstalker (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Last Dream (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Laura Bow (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Legend of Mana (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
LEGO City Undercover (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Lenna's Inception (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Littlest Pet Shop: Friends (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Lone Siren (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Lone Survivor (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Lufia (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Lufia & The Fortress of Doom (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Lunar (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Lunar: The Silver Star (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Lunarhill (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Luxaren Allure (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Magi-Nation (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Mana Series (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Math Blaster: In Search of Spot (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
MediEvil: Resurrection (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Colonel and Team ProtoMan (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar and Cybeast Falzar (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Mega Man Legends (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Megadimension Neptunia VII (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Menzoberranzan (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Metroid (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Metroid II: Return of Samus (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Metroid Prime (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Metroid: Samus Returns (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Miitopia (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Mini DAYZ (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Minit (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
My Time at Portia (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Nancy Drew (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed: Carbon (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed Rivals (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed: Underground (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Need for Speed: World (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Neopets: The Darkest Faerie (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Neutopia (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ni no Kuni (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
NieR (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Night in the Woods (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Obsidian (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ōkami (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ōkamiden (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Operation Na Pali (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Overlord: Raising Hell (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Pajama Sam 2: Thunder And Lightning Aren't So Frightening (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Pajama Sam in No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Paladin's Quest (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Paleo Pines (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Paper Mario 64 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Paper Mario: The Origami King (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Pathfinder (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Pathfinder (Video Game) (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Persona 2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Petz: Catz - Dogz 2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Phantasy Star I (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Phantasy Star IV (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Pikmin 3 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Black and White (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Pokemon Blue Kaizo (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Fusion Generation (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Ranger (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Red and Blue (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Potion Permit (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Primordia (2012) (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Puyo Puyo (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Quake II (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Quest 64 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Quest: Brian's Journey (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Rabi-Ribi (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Rakenzarn Tales (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Red Dead Redemption (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Resident Evil 4 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Resident Evil Gaiden (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Resident Evil: Outbreak (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Riddle School (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ridgeside Village (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
River City Girls Zero (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Roadwarden (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Rocket Power: Beach Bandits (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Rogue Legacy 2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Rubber Dinghy (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
SPISPOPD (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
SPY Fox (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
SaGa 2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Saints Row (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Scarface: The World Is Yours (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Scooby-Doo! Classic Creep Capers (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Scratches (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Scurge: Hive (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Secret of Evermore (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Secret of Mana (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Secrets of da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Shadowrun (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Shanghai.EXE: Genso Network (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Shantae: Risky's Revenge (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Skies of Arcadia (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
SnowRunner (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Song of Horror (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Sonic Adventure (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Space Pirates and Zombies (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
State of Decay 2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
State of Decay (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Story of Seasons (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Super Mario Maker 2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Super Mario RPG (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Super Mario Run (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Sword Art Online (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
System Shock 2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
System's Twilight (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Tales of Arise (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Tales of Asteria (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Tales of Berseria (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Tales of Phantasia (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Tales of Rebirth (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Project (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Ascent (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Bard's Tale Trilogy (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Brains And The Brawn (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The ClueFinders 6th Grade Adventures: The Empire of the Plant People (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Evil Within (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Final Fantasy Legend (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Godfather (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Hobbit (2003) (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Last Guardian (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Legend of Dragoon (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Legend of Kyrandia (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Lord of the Rings Online (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Park (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Pedestrian (2020) (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Planet Crafter (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Saboteur (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Simpsons Hit & Run (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Sword of Hope (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Twilight Forest (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Witcher (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Wizard Sniffer (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The World Ends with You (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
This War of Mine (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Titan Quest (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Tomb Raider III (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Tradewinds (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Transarctica (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Underrail (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Unicorn Overlord (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Unterwegs in DÃ¼sterburg (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Wandering Willows (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Wario Land (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Wario Land 3 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Whispers of a Machine (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Widget the World Watcher (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Xenogears (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Yoshi's Crafted World (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished â€“ The Final Chapter (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Yume Nikki (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Zone of the Enders (Video Game) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
PaladinsQuest	seeAlso	Broken Bridge
Dark Parables / Videogame / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Dark Tales / Videogame / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division / Videogame / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Stardew Valley / Videogame / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim / Videogame / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Little Busters! (Visual Novel) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Something About (Web Animation) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
GTA... but with talking trains!! (Web Video) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
The Kaskade Region (Web Video) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special (Webcomic) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
Kid Radd (Webcomic) / int_c5f23623	type	Broken Bridge
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