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Disconnected Side Area
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In video games, normally one expects all playable parts of a level to be reachable from one single point. It might not be a point you can get to without unlocking a whole bunch of things and even backtracking from later in the game, but it still ought to be there. But sometimes, you just can't get there from here (or here from there). You've found a side area that is ostensibly part of the level, perhaps even can be seen from other parts of the level, and in fact playable (not just for show), but you have to go around (often a long way around) to get between. The more infuriating of these are located behind an Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence. On the other hand, you may find an area early on in the game that gives you a sneak preview of a much later level. Or there may be a Door to Before that leads back to the main area. Common in Metroidvania style games and some RPG titles. |
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In Twilight Princess, the Gerudo Desert cannot be reached on foot like every other land-based area and must instead be traversed to with a giant cannon at Lake Hylia. The only way to get out of the area is to warp out. | |
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Lorule in A Link Between Worlds has many of these in contrast to Hyrule, which only has one. Only two dungeons out of seven share a section of the world map with each other, with those two being located in the section containing Lorule's counterparts to Hyrule Castle, Link's house, and Kakariko Village. The only way to access the different sections before inspecting the weather vanes there is to take one of the portals from Hyrule. | |
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The Metroid Prime Trilogy is pretty bad about this a lot of times: In the first game, after obtaining the Spider Ball from Thardus in Phendrana Drifts, a newly accessible elevator leads to a side area of Magmoor Caverns, which has a Door to Before that drops you at the elevator back to Tallon Overworld. Said powerup also allows access to a new area of the Chozo Ruins that wasn't on the Map, where you get the Ice Beam. From here, another elevator leads to a side area of the Overworld behind the Frigate Crash Site, except the gate is locked from the other side until you've obtained the Gravity Suit and been through the Frigate wreckage the long way. Luckily, there's another elevator nearby that goes back to the main Overworld area. In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, there's a portal and blue door right off the central room of Agon Wastes, which nags you as something you missed every time you look at the map. But it's sealed off by an impenetrable gate both in the light and the dark world. It turns out that this particular section of the map is only attainable much later when you have the proper gear, and takes a veeery long roundabout path to get to. Most players even get there via an elevator directly from Torvus Bog followed by a one-way dark world portal. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption contains Bryyo Ice, a very small area of the planet Bryyo which is only accessible through a small portal elsewhere on the world. It gets its own map because of this, and does not show up on the map of Bryyo as a whole. This means players looking for the last power-ups may not realize they're missing something from Bryyo Ice unless they visit it directly. |
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Crash Bandicoot: Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back: Most levels were perfectly linear, but there were all sorts of level segments that were blatantly impossible to get to from their respective levels. You had to find secret elevators from other levels and eventually the secret sixth hub room in order to get to them, rendering 100% Completion for those levels (breaking all the boxes) impossible until very late in the game. Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped: There are two levels that require an alternate entrance to get the Gems. Fortunately, unlike the previous game, the alternate entrances are easier to unlock (or at least it's clear on how you unlock them, namely having the appropriate amount of Relics). |
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The passage that leads to the Core of Ys in Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished – The Final Chapter is walled off from the rest of the Canals, and can only be warped into by using the Gold Pendant at the warp statues. The later parts of the Solomon Palace are also disconnected and must be reached either by the Canals or teleportation. Earlier, the final priest's shrine in the Divine Area is rendered inaccessible by a mine cave-in, and can only be reached by ringing the Evil Bell in the basement of Jira's house to open a secret passage. In the first game, to pass the "Devil's Wind Corridor", you have to break a pillar on the other side of the outer gallery, which must be reached via a separate stairway. | |
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One of the secret teleporters in Pathways into Darkness's "Happy Happy, Carnage Carnage" level warps you to an inescapable deathtrap room in a much later level. After completing "Who Else Wants Some?", you warp back to a previously inaccessable room behind a Door to Before on "I'd Rather Be Surfing". | |
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Descent has many secret rooms that are visible behind a grate from the main level, but are only accessible via well-hidden doors halfway across the map. | |
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Kingdom Hearts II: In the Pride Lands, the oasis, and therefore the Moogle Shop, cannot be accessed. Reaching it leads to a cutscene that automatically sends the party back to Pride Rock, with access blocked by the Groundshaker. Clearing the area reconnects the Oasis with the rest of the world. | |
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Sonic 3 & Knuckles The second acts of Angel Island, Marble Garden, Lava Reef, etc. have disconnected alternate paths only accessible by Knuckles through otherwise unbreakable walls in the first acts. Ditto for Sonic 2. Similarly, Knuckles' low jumping height is used to bar him from places only Sonic and\or Tails should go. Ledges prevent him from just climbing up. |
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The path to Divine Beast Vah Rudania in Breath of the Wild is blocked by a drawn-up bridge that can only be knocked down for traversal with Yunobo's help, in contrast to Link being able to traverse any other path in the game freely. You can't use the Paraglider to fly over there because there's no land high enough for you to jump from (the blocked off path is the peak of Death Mountain, the highest point in the game), and even if you use Good Bad Bugs to try and get around this, there's an invisible wall blocking you anyway. | |
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In Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the starting zone, Inkwater Marsh, has an out-of-reach section that you can only get to via a Door to Before from the Luma Pools much later in the game, or with some precise Bashing and Dashing once you learn said abilities, though you still can't reach the Pools from this direction due to a one-way barrier. Baur's Reach also has a side area adjacent to Veral's soup kitchen in the upper right corner of Wellspring Glades, but it can't be used to access the main part of the Reach at first since the shaft that otherwise connects to it is blocked by a trapdoor that you can only open from the top side. | |
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Rayman 2: The Great Escape includes a few level segments that aren't even accessible from the same level: about 20% of the second level in the game is only accessible through a level that doesn't appear until past the halfway-point. | |
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The 2D Metroid titles have this sometimes too. The first Metroid has a rather large hidden side area in Norfair only reachable through a bombable wall in the High Jump Boots room, which contains the Screw Attack and Wave Beam, and Super Metroid has a few areas partially visible before you can fully access them; notably, this includes the area where Ridley is eventually fought, long before that battle happens.. | |
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The FEAR series is full of rooms that can be seen through windows or grates, but are not accessible until much later, sometimes through secret passages. | |
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In Lunar: The Silver Star, there is an area full of tantalizing treasure chests that can only be accessed from a separate entrance. Later, the Black Dragon Cave is divided into two parts explicitly stated to be sealed off from each other. | |
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Fe, as is usual with Metroidvania and collect-a-thon games, hides several of its collectibles in out-of-reach side areas, for example, two of the Crystals in the Swamp are only reachable via a high path from the Bird People zone after you learn the Tree song, which activates the otherwise intangible jellyfish-like Floating Platforms, and a shoreline area visible from the Lizard Folk zone has to be reached via the cave between the Hub Level and the Bird area, using the springboard flowers activated with the Lizard song. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: During the Ship Level and throughout The Consortium's underground facility, there are various areas that can be spotted from afar, but inaccessible until progressing enough to acquire the items needed to reach them. | |
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Etrian Odyssey features large disconnected hidden paths back and forth through the levels. The Mazes in Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan stand out in particular because they have large swaths of land you can't get to at first; you traverse them as part of the process of unlocking the final dungeon, and the enemies there are as strong as you'd expect endgame enemies to be. | |
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Digimon World 3: There are several disconnected side area in some instances only accessible via the Underground Circuit Board (obtained halfway through the game) in the Wind Prairie, the Kicking Forest. Also, to a less extent, the whole North Sector is only accessible this same way. Some areas accessible thanks to Submarimon may also count like the isolated part of the Pelche Oasis (the player must travel from a lake in the North Sector to reach it) and the other side of the Ether Jungle, where you can get Bearmon by defeating Grappu Leomon there. |
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In SiN, the "preview" of later levels is played in a very interesting fashion. In certain levels, exploring long enough will yield access to rooms that can be seen (but not accessed) in later levels. In addition, most of these disconnected side areas have a feature that you can use (whether it's pulling a switch or disabling an object) that will benefit the player when they reach the later level. For instance, climbing through the ventilation system in the SinTEK Office level will net you access to a control panel located just above the building's main vents; destroying this panel makes the section where you have to climb down through spinning fans in an underground laboratory much easier. | |
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Some levels of Blaster Master have one-way passages by way of respawning block floors that you can't destroy from above, forcing you to take a different route back. In Blaster Master Zero II, there are multiple planetoids that require items to reveal its location and they consist of a few rooms which contain about half the game's collectables. | |
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Super Mario 64 has a partial example in Wet-Dry World. The "town" section is isolated from the rest of the level, uses a separate set of water controls, and can only be easily accessed if you enter the level in a specific way — otherwise, you need to make a relatively difficult cannon shot. Also, although Eyerok is nominally in the pyramid area of Shifting Sand Land, it is sealed off from the rest of the pyramid and has a separate hidden entrance that is used to access it. | |
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In the PlayStation 2 release of Hot Pursuit 2, unlike the other maps, the two Alpine circuit tracks, "Fall Winds" and "Alpine Trail", never overlap or intersect each other, although an otherwise unused road connects them for "Autumn Crossing", the point-to-point variation. | |
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Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back: Most levels were perfectly linear, but there were all sorts of level segments that were blatantly impossible to get to from their respective levels. You had to find secret elevators from other levels and eventually the secret sixth hub room in order to get to them, rendering 100% Completion for those levels (breaking all the boxes) impossible until very late in the game. | |
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In Haven (2020), some of the Islets are fractured into two or more pieces, requiring Yu and Kay to find an alternate flow bridge to access the other parts. Notably, the segment of Chogeko you can first access, where the Gyro Stabilizer is located, is only a small fraction of the Islet; to reach the rest, you have to take a much longer path. Similarly, the cluster of islets in the swamp zone lacks flow bridge connections to the rest; the only way in and out is by hitching a ride on the pacified Katefulai, an Underground Monkey version of Birble. The Final Dungeon is completely out of reach until you fully repair the Nest and fly it there, which marks the Point of No Return. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero, there's a few clearly visible treasure chests in Crossbell's back alley, but no obvious way to get to them. The only way to access them is through the Revache hideout, when you raid the place near the end of the game. | |
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Final Fantasy XII In the Paramina Rift, there's a frozen lake which has a huge gap in the ice; you can see the other side, but you have to go around to get to it. There's a few in the Dalmasca Westersand, too; one of them is used to hide one of the keys to an Optional Boss. And some places in the Garamsythe Waterway can't be reached because there's some inch-deep water separating two platforms which are, at best, a foot away from each other. It is sufficient to say that this occurs frequently. There's also the section of the Nam-Yensa Sandsea that can only be reached via entering a specific path in the Zertinan Caverns from the Ogir-Yensa Sandsea. There's a very fun Mark Hunt that takes place in that area, but it can be a huge pain to figure out how to get there (lampshaded by the hint they give you to the location of the Mark as being isolated and hard to find). |
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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King added a new subzone to the level 50-55 zone of Un'Goro Crater, high in the cliffs and unreachable by foot. You only get to access it at the intended level 77, more than twenty levels later after questing through all of Outland and most of Northrend, after activating a teleport there from another continent. (Of course, with Cataclysm, you can just fly there on a flying mount at level 60.) Cataclysm also added a new subzone to the low-level Alliance zone of Redridge Mountains: the Redridge Highway, which is high in the mountains, inaccessible from the rest of the zone, and instead serving to connect the much higher-level zones of Burning Steppes and Swamp of Sorrows. |
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In Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, after you open the third locked door in the Focus Tower and are on your way to Windia, you have an opportunity to take a detour into a closed-off section of Doom Castle, where you can fight a group of enemies and open a chest that contains the Aero spell. | |
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Variation in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, also a Metroidvania. One of the "maps" you can acquire reveals all the rooms in the Wizardry Lab. Most of the rooms are accessible the first time through, or are clear Doors to Before. But, wait... what's this one section marked out below everything else? Of course, you don't get to that part until much later, if you do at all. | |
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The NES version of Strider, being a Metroidvania-type game, has a number of these, including some only accessible from other levels (e.g., a tube in Australia warps you to a previously inaccessible part of Africa). | |
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In EarthBound (1994), there's a cave in the Lost Underworld leading to a single small ledge◊ separated from a larger path containing a silver tentacle-like structure and a destroyed machine (later revealed to be the Phase Distorter I), with an eerie fanfare (specifically the first few notes of the French national anthem) constantly playing. Once Ness and co. complete the Phase Distorter II, they can travel to this larger path and interact with the destroyed Phase Distorter I to obtain a Horn of Life and speak with a Mr. Saturn. Sadly, aside from that, there's nothing much to do in this area save for learning PSI Starstorm Ω and entering the Phase Distorter III to travel to the Big Bad's lair. | |
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Safe Cracker has a room in the Crabb & Sons headquarters that's completely walled off from the others. The only way in is to complete a checkmate on the boss' chessboard upstairs, which reveals a hidden staircase leading down into the room. | |
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Obsidian has a couple of these, both justified by being in dream worlds. One of them, set in a cube-shaped office building has one side that you can't walk onto using the ramps that change your gravity. You have to call the boss' phone for him to give you access to a Warp Zone. And in the second dream realm, a control room in an oil tower has to be reached by flying through space after solving an elemental puzzle, with an elevator that takes you down to the hub that leaves without you once you get off, and without any way to call it. | |
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In Mario Kart 7, you can see the first bridge of Wuhu Loop (the first track of the Flower Cup) from the starting line of Maka Wuhu (the final track in the Star Cup), but you can't access the bridge and the rest of Wuhu Loop's track due to barriers blocking the way. | |
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This trope occurs throughout the Resident Evil series in spades. Some areas don't even appear on the map until later. The only way to get to the library area in Resident Evil is to take the elevator from the basement, unless you get the passcode from Barry as Jill. This bypass is in fact required to get the best ending in that scenario. In the remake, the main library door is jammed, disconnecting it from the aforementioned elevator-accessed hallway, so the only entry to the library is via the mezzanine, which requires the Helmet Key from the guest house. In both versions, the fountain where you enter the Laboratory is in a disconnected area of the Courtyard, although accessed by different routes in each version. Ditto the Heliport, which would be directly connected to the fountain area, but the gate is welded shut. The Sewage Disposal area in Resident Evil 2 is only accessible through air ducts, as the doorway in is shuttered. Also, Leon and Claire follow mutually exclusive paths from the police station to the sewers, and the other character's path can be seen on the map and even accessed via Door to Before in the B scenario, though not the A scenario. |
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Fallout: New Vegas continues with this trope: One office in the REPCONN launch facility that is accessible from the Labs but not the rest of the main building. The maintenance level of Vault 21 is only reachable from Benny's secret express elevator in the Tops Casino (and was not intended to be accessed by the player anyway). The Vault 34 Security Station is in the same cell as the Armory, but there is no direct access between the two. The HEPA filter room in Vault 22 is barricaded off from the main Oxygen Recycling floor and accessed through a locked cave on the Food Production level, which is also the only way to access the Pest Control floor prior to repairing the elevator, as the main stairway is blocked. In Vault 11, the hallway to the Atrium is caved in, thus the only way around is through the flooded Reactor level. Dead Money has several out-of reach rooms in the Villa cells only reachable through doors from other cells, and other semi-isolated areas whose only exit is through a Door to Before to an earlier cell. In the casino itself, the Cantina Madrid kitchen is initially sealed off from the main restaurant due to the gas leak triggered by Dog, so you have to retrieve the key from the restaurant lobby and go back and unlock the emergency door from the casino office area. After dealing with Dog, a Door to Before is unlocked with the Maintenance Pass Key. In Old World Blues, the X-8 Institutional Test facility, whose second half is itself a disconnected side area of the first and has a window overclocking the Residential testing area, also has an alternate exit leading to a hidden side area of the Nightstalker kennels. Cottonwood Crater is one of the few overworld locations that cannot be directly walked to; Fire Root Cavern is the only way to access it. Caesar's Fort is completely isolated from the rest of the overworld, and the only entrance is via raft from Cottonwood Cove after you obtain the Mark of Caesar. The Lonesome Road DLC has Dry Wells, a Bonus Dungeon unlocked after redirecting the nukes towards Legion territory, also only accessible by boat from the Cove. |
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SackBoy: A Big Adventure: Each of the first four worlds has a Flower Cannon that shoots you to a small plateau on a different world, with a sampler of levels to play and no way to reach the mainland that comprises the rest of the world. | |
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In Sensory Overload, the thirteenth floor of the main building has neither elevator nor stair access, and is only enterable via air vent passageways from the fourteenth floor. In turn, it contains an express elevator to the hidden sub-basement. | |
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Cave Story's Labyrinth camp area has a room with a treasure chest in it. The only way to get there is to go through the hidden passage outside blocked with a breakable block. | |
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The only way to get to the library area in Resident Evil is to take the elevator from the basement, unless you get the passcode from Barry as Jill. This bypass is in fact required to get the best ending in that scenario. In the remake, the main library door is jammed, disconnecting it from the aforementioned elevator-accessed hallway, so the only entry to the library is via the mezzanine, which requires the Helmet Key from the guest house. In both versions, the fountain where you enter the Laboratory is in a disconnected area of the Courtyard, although accessed by different routes in each version. Ditto the Heliport, which would be directly connected to the fountain area, but the gate is welded shut. | |
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The Sewage Disposal area in Resident Evil 2 is only accessible through air ducts, as the doorway in is shuttered. Also, Leon and Claire follow mutually exclusive paths from the police station to the sewers, and the other character's path can be seen on the map and even accessed via Door to Before in the B scenario, though not the A scenario. | |
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The initially visible stairways in Dragon Quest's Charlock Castle lead to dead-ends. To find the real entrance, you must Search behind the throne. | |
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In Silent Hill 2, the east wing of the Hotel's first floor and most of the basement are only accessible via a service elevator that requires you to leave all your belongings behind, at least until you unlock the Door to Before. | |
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Banjo-Tooie likes to put Jiggies in these side areas, though other items are hidden here as well. The game isn't consistent about which Jiggies count for which levels: one of the Jiggies counting for Hailfire Peaks has to be reached from Terrydactyland, while another is in a side area of Grunty Industries. Yet another Hailfire Peaks Jiggy is in an ice cave that doesn't connect to anywhere else on the Icy Side. | |
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In Fallout 3, Meresti Metro Station has neither connection to the rest of the Metro nor direct surface access; the only way in is through the Trainyard Service Tunnels or a sewer manhole in Northwest Seneca. A side area of Dupont Circle, which you first enter from the back door of Galaxy News Radio, is disconnected from the main cell; access is either through a collapsed car tunnel or Metro Junction. The bow of Rivet City is broken off from the rest of the ship, forcing you to swim or take a hike to a Very Hard-locked door. The switch to open the National Guard Depot Armory requires a long round trip through the Training Wing and Offices, unless you shortcut with fancy jumping. Fort Constantine's Bomb Storage has a basement area that is not immediately accessible from the main building if you picked your way in, because the key is locked in there with its deceased owner Tara, so you have to obtain the three "You Gotta Shoot 'Em In the Head" keys and enter from the CO Quarters and Launch Control Bunker. Vault 106 has a door from the Science Labs to an isolated side room of the Living Quarters that contains little of value. The basement of Tenpenny Tower has three areas that are partitioned off from each other; the storeroom with the containment door that keeps out the Feral Ghouls, the generator room that contains the switch to said door (requires a key from Gustavo or Dashwood), and the room behind the door accessed from Warrington Metro. The upper levels of the Statesman Hotel are initially inaccessible from the ground floor, with the only entry being an improvised bridge from the nearby Our Lady Hope Hospital. After you rescue Reilly's Rangers and fix the express elevator, said elevator serves as a Door to Before back to ground level. The White House ruins are in the same exterior cell as Pennsylvania Avenue, but are blocked off from surface access by barricades and rubble. Access is through a sewer tunnel that also connects to the Presidential Metro in Broken Steel. One room of the children's wing of Arlington Library is only accessible from the media archives, with a one-way Hole to Before leading back to the rest of the wing. The Museum of Technology has a semi-disconnected secret room(the normal entry door is blocked) found by jumping to a narrow ledge in the rocket exhibit. The Armory area of the Citadel (not the quartermaster's vending booth) is inaccessable unless you call a Kill Sat strike on it at the end of Broken Steel and enter a door revealed by the resulting crater. Herein lies the unique Callahan's Magnum revolver. A one-way Door to Before leads back to ground level. |
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Fallout 4: The Institute has several of its rooms contained in one map. This can cause quest markers to mislead you into thinking that your target is somewhere in the same room, but you actually need to go back to the main hub and enter another room. In Fort Hagen, Kellogg's Supervillain Lair is visible from the entry hall behind a fence, but you have to take a long roundabout path to reach him, only after killing him can you unlock the security doors as a Door to Before. Marowski's chem lab in the Four Leaf Fishpacking plant is isolated from the main plant save for a one-way Door to Before, and to enter, you have to solve the laser tripwire puzzle as directed in Trish's Note. The Castle's armory is sealed with a blast door that cannot be opened from the outside, so you have to take an underground route after using the Workshop to clear a pile of rubble. Vault 81 has a secret Abandoned Laboratory wing whose entrance is concealed by a fake wall panel in the reactor room, with an Elevator To Before leading back to the main Vault entrance behind a locked-from-the-inside door. The second area of Kendall Hospital, where the main Raider stronghold is, does not have a pedestrian connection to the first part, so the sole path of access is an elevator to the top floor, then it's all downstairs from there to the basement, where a locked security gate leads to a side exit. There is a door between the two areas, but it's blocked by an upended metal shelf. At the National Guard training facility, the only immediate passage to the Barracks is an enclosed outdoor breezeway from the Offices building. As with most of the above examples, a Door to Before leads you back outside. Milton General Hospital is a clusterfuck of these. When you go down to the basement, the room where Sinjin resides at the end of the Silver Shroud quest is apparently on the same floor that the first elevator drops you at, but to reach him, you have to go up a couple flights of stairs, then take another elevator to the second floor, which you couldn't reach from the first floor, then drop down a hole and take a third elevator. Vault-Tec Workshop has another Door to Before example in the University Point Pharmacy, which is ostensibly a back door to Vault 88, except that the stairway down to the Vault proper is boarded up and must be cleared from the other side with the Workshop in the Vault's Northeast Sector. In the Hallucigen building, it first looks like you can reach the MacGuffin for the Vault-Tec Workshop quest "The Watering Hole" by just going down the ramp to the basement from the entrance. But like Milton General Hospital, you first have to go up before descending back to it. |
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Dynasty Warriors is rife with this, seemingly as an artifact of having all the maps being square-ish in shape. Often a thin row of fences or small river is all that stands between you and an objective, but getting there requires going halfway around the map. The sister series Samurai Warriors actually takes advantage of this with its "ninja paths". The small handful of ninja characters can use their double jump to reach certain areas too high for most characters, allowing them to take significant shortcuts. | |
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Pokémon Gold and Silver You can surf east of the starter town to cross the Kanto border, but without Waterfall you can go no further. Johto has no less than three caves that are completely optional to fully explore but require HMs should you choose to do so: Dark Cave (which can only be explored incrementally with as the player collects new field moves), Union Cave (which connects to the normally untouchable regions of the Ruins of Alph), and Mt. Mortar (which has an upper region only possible to reach via Waterfall). There's a tree blocking the way for easy access to Goldenrod City from Violet City. The solution to make the tree go away? It's in Goldenrod City, through which you have to take a long detour through caves and a forest. Also, the Silver Cave is visible on the Town Map from the very beginning of the game, but without any discernible paths leading to it. It becomes reachable at the very end of the Playable Epilogue, and requires the player to travel through a second region in order to reach it. Finally, while standing at the top right of Cherrygrove City (the first town past the start point) one can see a pond and a small shore past the trees. It's entirely inaccessible and has spawned theories about what rare pokemon are available there. HeartGold and SoulSilver made it possible to access it from the route to the North, but there's still nothing important there. |
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In Kingdom Hearts, at Hollow Bastion, you must go through an underground part of the castle and flip a bunch of switches to maneuver a bunch of different in-room gates to reach the switch that opens the castle's main doors. In the room of many gates and switches, there are two corners that are gated off with switches behind the gates. There is no way to open those gates and reach the switches. Those particular switches are not needed to beat the game, luckily. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: The Dark World's Death Mountain, where Turtle Rock and Ganon's Tower are located, is cut off from the rest of the Dark World; the only access to it is through warp tiles in Hyrule's Death Mountain. The Swamp of Evil, which has to be visited to complete the game due to the fact that it is the home of the Misery Mire dungeon, is walled off from the rest of the Dark World map, and can only be reached via a warp tile in the Light World on a cliff that you need the Warp Whistle to get to, and said cliff happens to be a case of this trope to the Desert of Mystery in the Light World. The Skull Woods dungeon consists of three disconnected areas only accessible from different above-ground entrances in the Skeleton Forest portion of the Dark World's overworld. More examples are the second half of the Desert Palace (which happens to be located in the above-mentioned Desert of Mystery), accessed by a separate entrance on the cliff above the main palace, and two of the Heart Pieces on Death Mountain, which are reached by using the Magic Mirror at certain points in its Dark World counterpart, which itself is disconnected from the rest of the map. Used again in Ocarina of Time: The Shadow Temple, which can only be accessed with the ocarina warp song because it's located on a ledge which cannot be climbed up. The Bottom of the Well is implied to be this to the Shadow Temple itself. Both dungeons share a similar aesthetic and are located near each other, but there is no path that directly links the two of them together. And the Spirit Temple, the first half of which you must enter as Child Link to obtain the item to access the Adult Link half of the dungeon. And again in Oracle of Seasons... three times. Part of Hero's Cave can only be accessed from an alternate entrance, and then the Snake's Remains level has one area walled off from the rest, which has to be accessed by exiting the dungeon through a separate entrance and re-entering through yet another one. Finally, the Tower of Spring is walled off from the rest of the Temple of Seasons and must be accessed through an underground passage. The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords: The game map, oddly enough. Despite the game's stage-based progression through a small handful of worlds, close inspection of the game's map reveals what looks to be a detailed overworld, with paths, shortcuts, ledges, and even cave entrances in places you never actually visit. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Very common in the overworld. Some of these become accessible in a more direct fashion later in the game (e.g. the part of the Minish Woods near Syrup's hut), while others remain only indirectly accessible (e.g. a piece of land at the bottom of Veil Falls which can only be reached via neighboring regions). In Twilight Princess, the Gerudo Desert cannot be reached on foot like every other land-based area and must instead be traversed to with a giant cannon at Lake Hylia. The only way to get out of the area is to warp out. The Fairy Queen's Fountain on the "mother" of Mother and Child Isles in The Wind Waker is only reachable by playing the Ballad of Gales after you learn it from Cyclos. Lorule in A Link Between Worlds has many of these in contrast to Hyrule, which only has one. Only two dungeons out of seven share a section of the world map with each other, with those two being located in the section containing Lorule's counterparts to Hyrule Castle, Link's house, and Kakariko Village. The only way to access the different sections before inspecting the weather vanes there is to take one of the portals from Hyrule. The path to Divine Beast Vah Rudania in Breath of the Wild is blocked by a drawn-up bridge that can only be knocked down for traversal with Yunobo's help, in contrast to Link being able to traverse any other path in the game freely. You can't use the Paraglider to fly over there because there's no land high enough for you to jump from (the blocked off path is the peak of Death Mountain, the highest point in the game), and even if you use Good Bad Bugs to try and get around this, there's an invisible wall blocking you anyway. Most of the Depths in Tears of the Kingdom is connected, with it being possible to explore almost all of it without going to the surface. An exception is the part of the Depths under Eventide Island, which is completely enclosed by an impassable cave wall that stretches from the ground to the ceiling. World-wise, impassable walls in the Depths correspond to bodies of water on the surface, and with Eventide Island being an island as the name implies, its underground counterpart is entirely surrounded by such walls. Conversely, the surface of the Lost Woods is inaccessible by any means other than coming up from the Depths, as the path from the previous game is blocked off (and straying still teleports you back to the entrance). |
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The Donut Secret 2 and Chocolate Secret levels in Super Mario World are located on the Valley of Bowser map. They are not connected to any of the other levels there, and have to be reached by warp pipe. | |
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In BioShock's Neptune's Bounty stage, the immediate path from the Upper Wharf to the Fighting McDonagh's/Jet Postal area is sealed with a locked gate (which later becomes a Door to Before), so you have to go upstairs, in a circle, and through the Wharfmaster's Office before jumping down on the other side. | |
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In the third GrailQuest book, Gateway of Doom, the Level III map◊ conspicuously has a massive room numbered 200... which has no doors leading in or out of it.note Room 164 suggests that the Zone of Darkness might be hiding a door into it, but it isn't, just a very nasty fight that's all the harder because you can't see your opponent. | |
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Milon's Secret Castle has a room within the first room that taunts you with a large stash of money. The room is only accessible once you reach the third floor of the castle. | |
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The second to last level of Medal of Honor: Frontline has one of the "next level preview" type at the end. No, you can't climb over the barrier. | |
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Common in the Fallout games, with many immediate passages between areas blocked by insurmountable rubble, collapsed ceilings or floors, lethal radiation, or permanently locked doors: In Fallout 3, Meresti Metro Station has neither connection to the rest of the Metro nor direct surface access; the only way in is through the Trainyard Service Tunnels or a sewer manhole in Northwest Seneca. A side area of Dupont Circle, which you first enter from the back door of Galaxy News Radio, is disconnected from the main cell; access is either through a collapsed car tunnel or Metro Junction. The bow of Rivet City is broken off from the rest of the ship, forcing you to swim or take a hike to a Very Hard-locked door. The switch to open the National Guard Depot Armory requires a long round trip through the Training Wing and Offices, unless you shortcut with fancy jumping. Fort Constantine's Bomb Storage has a basement area that is not immediately accessible from the main building if you picked your way in, because the key is locked in there with its deceased owner Tara, so you have to obtain the three "You Gotta Shoot 'Em In the Head" keys and enter from the CO Quarters and Launch Control Bunker. Vault 106 has a door from the Science Labs to an isolated side room of the Living Quarters that contains little of value. The basement of Tenpenny Tower has three areas that are partitioned off from each other; the storeroom with the containment door that keeps out the Feral Ghouls, the generator room that contains the switch to said door (requires a key from Gustavo or Dashwood), and the room behind the door accessed from Warrington Metro. The upper levels of the Statesman Hotel are initially inaccessible from the ground floor, with the only entry being an improvised bridge from the nearby Our Lady Hope Hospital. After you rescue Reilly's Rangers and fix the express elevator, said elevator serves as a Door to Before back to ground level. The White House ruins are in the same exterior cell as Pennsylvania Avenue, but are blocked off from surface access by barricades and rubble. Access is through a sewer tunnel that also connects to the Presidential Metro in Broken Steel. One room of the children's wing of Arlington Library is only accessible from the media archives, with a one-way Hole to Before leading back to the rest of the wing. The Museum of Technology has a semi-disconnected secret room(the normal entry door is blocked) found by jumping to a narrow ledge in the rocket exhibit. The Armory area of the Citadel (not the quartermaster's vending booth) is inaccessable unless you call a Kill Sat strike on it at the end of Broken Steel and enter a door revealed by the resulting crater. Herein lies the unique Callahan's Magnum revolver. A one-way Door to Before leads back to ground level. Fallout: New Vegas continues with this trope: One office in the REPCONN launch facility that is accessible from the Labs but not the rest of the main building. The maintenance level of Vault 21 is only reachable from Benny's secret express elevator in the Tops Casino (and was not intended to be accessed by the player anyway). The Vault 34 Security Station is in the same cell as the Armory, but there is no direct access between the two. The HEPA filter room in Vault 22 is barricaded off from the main Oxygen Recycling floor and accessed through a locked cave on the Food Production level, which is also the only way to access the Pest Control floor prior to repairing the elevator, as the main stairway is blocked. In Vault 11, the hallway to the Atrium is caved in, thus the only way around is through the flooded Reactor level. Dead Money has several out-of reach rooms in the Villa cells only reachable through doors from other cells, and other semi-isolated areas whose only exit is through a Door to Before to an earlier cell. In the casino itself, the Cantina Madrid kitchen is initially sealed off from the main restaurant due to the gas leak triggered by Dog, so you have to retrieve the key from the restaurant lobby and go back and unlock the emergency door from the casino office area. After dealing with Dog, a Door to Before is unlocked with the Maintenance Pass Key. In Old World Blues, the X-8 Institutional Test facility, whose second half is itself a disconnected side area of the first and has a window overclocking the Residential testing area, also has an alternate exit leading to a hidden side area of the Nightstalker kennels. Cottonwood Crater is one of the few overworld locations that cannot be directly walked to; Fire Root Cavern is the only way to access it. Caesar's Fort is completely isolated from the rest of the overworld, and the only entrance is via raft from Cottonwood Cove after you obtain the Mark of Caesar. The Lonesome Road DLC has Dry Wells, a Bonus Dungeon unlocked after redirecting the nukes towards Legion territory, also only accessible by boat from the Cove. Fallout 4: The Institute has several of its rooms contained in one map. This can cause quest markers to mislead you into thinking that your target is somewhere in the same room, but you actually need to go back to the main hub and enter another room. In Fort Hagen, Kellogg's Supervillain Lair is visible from the entry hall behind a fence, but you have to take a long roundabout path to reach him, only after killing him can you unlock the security doors as a Door to Before. Marowski's chem lab in the Four Leaf Fishpacking plant is isolated from the main plant save for a one-way Door to Before, and to enter, you have to solve the laser tripwire puzzle as directed in Trish's Note. The Castle's armory is sealed with a blast door that cannot be opened from the outside, so you have to take an underground route after using the Workshop to clear a pile of rubble. Vault 81 has a secret Abandoned Laboratory wing whose entrance is concealed by a fake wall panel in the reactor room, with an Elevator To Before leading back to the main Vault entrance behind a locked-from-the-inside door. The second area of Kendall Hospital, where the main Raider stronghold is, does not have a pedestrian connection to the first part, so the sole path of access is an elevator to the top floor, then it's all downstairs from there to the basement, where a locked security gate leads to a side exit. There is a door between the two areas, but it's blocked by an upended metal shelf. At the National Guard training facility, the only immediate passage to the Barracks is an enclosed outdoor breezeway from the Offices building. As with most of the above examples, a Door to Before leads you back outside. Milton General Hospital is a clusterfuck of these. When you go down to the basement, the room where Sinjin resides at the end of the Silver Shroud quest is apparently on the same floor that the first elevator drops you at, but to reach him, you have to go up a couple flights of stairs, then take another elevator to the second floor, which you couldn't reach from the first floor, then drop down a hole and take a third elevator. Vault-Tec Workshop has another Door to Before example in the University Point Pharmacy, which is ostensibly a back door to Vault 88, except that the stairway down to the Vault proper is boarded up and must be cleared from the other side with the Workshop in the Vault's Northeast Sector. In the Hallucigen building, it first looks like you can reach the MacGuffin for the Vault-Tec Workshop quest "The Watering Hole" by just going down the ramp to the basement from the entrance. But like Milton General Hospital, you first have to go up before descending back to it. |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 plays with this trope a bit: many maps contain contain areas that are inaccessible by any means... in the current time period. Which usually means that you will discover a time gate leading to the same location at a different time, whether past or future, when whatever blocks the player's access is not there. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: The Donut Secret 2 and Chocolate Secret levels in Super Mario World are located on the Valley of Bowser map. They are not connected to any of the other levels there, and have to be reached by warp pipe. Super Mario 64 has a partial example in Wet-Dry World. The "town" section is isolated from the rest of the level, uses a separate set of water controls, and can only be easily accessed if you enter the level in a specific way — otherwise, you need to make a relatively difficult cannon shot. Also, although Eyerok is nominally in the pyramid area of Shifting Sand Land, it is sealed off from the rest of the pyramid and has a separate hidden entrance that is used to access it. Super Mario Odyssey has magic paintings that take you to disconnected side areas in worlds other than the one you're currently in. In a few cases, it can be a world you haven't unlocked yet. These side areas always contain a Power Moon and a checkpoint flag (allowing you to warp to and from them, which is handy if you want to return to the world you just left.) Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Throughout the overworld, there are hidden pipes that take Mario and co. to a disconnected area in a new location where they encounter Captain Toad who gives fifty flower coins to assist them. |
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In Carbon, the canyons and San Juan can't be accessed in free roam, despite the former being featured in a lot of courses in career mode, and the latter being used for the initial game tutorial. | |
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Runescape The obelisk of water is located a small island only a couple squares from the beach of Catherby. It is possible to leave the island using a crossbow and a grapple to get to the beach but not to go the other way. To get there, you have to travel though Taverley Dungeon, whose entrance is located on the other side of a mountain range from Catherby. The same trope also applies to the obelisk of air. It is located in the middle of the wilderness but there is no way to reach it from the surface of the wilderness. It can only be accessed by going through Edgeville Dungeon, whose entrances are located outside of the wilderness. The game also treats the northern section of the dungeon as part of the wilderness, which allows other players to attack you, even though it isn't reachable from the surface. There are several small islands and enclosed areas that are visible from other areas of the game but can only be reached by teleporting there using a fairy ring. Lucien's camp is visible from the wilderness near the chaos temple but can only be reached by teleporting there using a teleorb located in the black knight's catacombs. |
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Final Fantasy X-2 takes advantage of this phenomenon by giving Yuna the ability to jump, allowing her to surmount certain waist-high fences to explore new parts of areas from the first game. | |
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Final Fantasy XI loved doing this. Many zones had areas that were only accessible by taking long routes through other zones. Most of which had quests or long spawning Notorious Monsters, and a few had doors that required multiple people to open. King among them would have to be Jugner Forest, which contained a small fenced off area around a pond on its northern edge. You could see in but there was no way around the fence, and every 21-24 hours a level 55 NM that dropped a very desirable belt would spawn inside. To get there you had to travel through King Ranperre's Tomb, a tunnel crawling with level 80 mobs, but the entrance to the Tomb was in East Ronfaure — a full 4 zones away. | |
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If different characters have the same level in Sonic Adventure, they will frequently cover completely different parts of what is nominally the same place. For example, Tails and Knuckles both go to Speed Highway, but their game areas are completely different (and sealed off from one another). Sonic usually will visit a given level in its entirety, though there are occasionally areas that are off-limits to him and designed for someone else (like Twinkle Park's mirror rooms). Amy takes over Sonic's role in doing this on the level Hot Shelter, the only one in the game Sonic doesn't visit. She runs through the entire level, while Big goes through the first few rooms and Gamma most of the rest. Big the Cat can see Sonic's path in Emerald Coast (and Sonic can see parts of Big's fishing area), but Big can't go up the slopes and get to Sonic's part of the level, and a gust of wind prevents Sonic from falling down to Big's area. In Red Mountain, Sonic can see tall pieces of rock in the distance (and they're not just for decoration), as well as some floating item boxes and a few items on ledges, but only Knuckles can access these things. Tails can see parts of Windy Vally that can only be accessed by using Light Dash - a move that only Sonic can use (and he can only use that move once he has the Light Speed Shoes, which you find on the way to the level that Sonic goes to after this). Knuckles can see the doors to the slot/pinball and card/pinball games in Casinopolis, but only Sonic can go inside those doors. Similarly, every character can see the switch for opening the door to the Hot Shelter, but only Amy, Big and Gamma are ever allowed to go inside. |
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Donkey Kong 64 has a ton of apparently closed-off rooms that only Tiny Kong can access, due to her abilities to shrink and teleport. There are also a few instances where certain Kongs must go to areas they can't access through their own ability, requiring another Kong with the right abilities to open the way for them. | |
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Pokémon Red and Blue In this game (and, naturally, FireRed and LeafGreen), once you get to Route 2 you may notice an inaccessible area on the other side of the line of trees. This area is first accessible only as an extension of the Diglett Cave dungeon until you obtain the Cut HM and get the corresponding badge. Also, at the bottom of Pallet Town is a small body of water that leads off the bottom of the screen. If you remember to come back after getting Surf (and the corresponding badge), the path opens up into the ocean, leading to a small patch of grass (the only place where you can catch a Tangela) and Cinnabar Island (the second-to-last gym). There's several of these, especially in the early games. West of Viridian City is the path to the Pokémon League, but until you reach the end of the game it's just one of these. |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1 has this in spades. The areas are humongous, with fully visible side-areas which you only get to visit later in the game. Technically, because of the way the game is set up, every part of an area is accessible once you clear the plot events required to get there in the first place. The main blockade tends to be overleveled enemies - say, aggressive level 70-ish monsters in a level 20-ish second area. Still a straight example, as some bluffs, overlooks, and other ideal locations for a photo op require some much legwork and exploration the game awards a "hidden landmark" bonus. | |
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Dishonored: High Overseer Campbell's Secret Chamber is visible from a drainage culvert just off the courtyard of the Overseer's Office building, and the game even displays the Title In there, but the only entrance is through a Bookcase Passage in the basement. In "Return to the Tower", Burrows' rooftop safe room is on the same sub-map as the courtyard, and you can detect a Rune there with the Heart, but there is no direct way to reach it from the main exterior, instead you have to take a stairway from the piano room inside. |
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In The 7th Guest, the art gallery has no physical connection to any of the other mansion rooms. Entry is through a portal in the floor of the main hall. In the sequel, it is entered through a passageway in the grandfather clock. There's also the secret playroom reached through a miniature door in the doll room. | |
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The Avernum series does this a lot, at least in part 4 and 5. There are rooms you can see fairly early in the game, but you can't actually get there until you've moved all the way around. | |
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Pitfall! II for the Atari 2600 is perhaps the earliest and most profound example of this trope. The game ends when Pitfall Harry rescues Quickclaw, but he can be seen by the player on the very first screen. If you go underground and try to backtrack to rescue him, a very aggressive rat pushes you back. The only way to reach him is to take an extremely circuitous and difficult route. | |
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Pokémon Pokémon Red and Blue In this game (and, naturally, FireRed and LeafGreen), once you get to Route 2 you may notice an inaccessible area on the other side of the line of trees. This area is first accessible only as an extension of the Diglett Cave dungeon until you obtain the Cut HM and get the corresponding badge. Also, at the bottom of Pallet Town is a small body of water that leads off the bottom of the screen. If you remember to come back after getting Surf (and the corresponding badge), the path opens up into the ocean, leading to a small patch of grass (the only place where you can catch a Tangela) and Cinnabar Island (the second-to-last gym). There's several of these, especially in the early games. West of Viridian City is the path to the Pokémon League, but until you reach the end of the game it's just one of these. Pokémon Gold and Silver You can surf east of the starter town to cross the Kanto border, but without Waterfall you can go no further. Johto has no less than three caves that are completely optional to fully explore but require HMs should you choose to do so: Dark Cave (which can only be explored incrementally with as the player collects new field moves), Union Cave (which connects to the normally untouchable regions of the Ruins of Alph), and Mt. Mortar (which has an upper region only possible to reach via Waterfall). There's a tree blocking the way for easy access to Goldenrod City from Violet City. The solution to make the tree go away? It's in Goldenrod City, through which you have to take a long detour through caves and a forest. Also, the Silver Cave is visible on the Town Map from the very beginning of the game, but without any discernible paths leading to it. It becomes reachable at the very end of the Playable Epilogue, and requires the player to travel through a second region in order to reach it. Finally, while standing at the top right of Cherrygrove City (the first town past the start point) one can see a pond and a small shore past the trees. It's entirely inaccessible and has spawned theories about what rare pokemon are available there. HeartGold and SoulSilver made it possible to access it from the route to the North, but there's still nothing important there. |
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In Medal of Honor: Allied Assault's Level 4-2 (Diverting the Enemy), the end area is visible through a window earlier in the level, and you can preemptively snipe some of the enemies from here. Halfway through level 3-4, you can see the church that marks your objective location behind a barbed wire barricade, but to get to it, you must go through a large graveyard covered by multiple machine guns. As for the objective itself, three of the Nebelwerfers are separated from the first by barbed wire and a minefield, and to reach them, you must run through their line of fire and negotiate an enemy-filled trench. | |
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In Monster Tale, the last area has warps to disconnected side areas in each of the other four areas. | |
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The Fairy Queen's Fountain on the "mother" of Mother and Child Isles in The Wind Waker is only reachable by playing the Ballad of Gales after you learn it from Cyclos. | |
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The upside-down ice city of Glacia in Skies of Arcadia has a small section just off to the side from the entrance that can't be reached when you first visit. Shortly after completing the dungeon, your Cool Airship gets an upgrade that lets you fly under the continent and enter the city from below. | |
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La-Mulana, among other disconnected side areas, has a side area of the Chamber of Extinction leading to a side area of the Surface leading to a side area of the Inferno Cavern. It also has a walkway that connects the Temple of Moonlight with the Graveyard of the Giants, which crosses through exactly one room of the Tower of the Goddess but does not provide access to that area. | |
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Final Fantasy Final Fantasy X: During your initial pilgrimage through Spira, you may come across visible areas containing treasure chests and/or save points, but you can't access them just yet, even though it seems plausible that Tidus could just climb or jump down to get there. You eventually gain access to these areas...by unlocking secret Global Airship locations, either with passwords or just picking out the correct coordinates. In other words, you need to call upon an airship just to access some treasure chests on top of some ruins in Besaid — and there's two separate destinations in the same area — or to enter a ravine in Mushroom Rock Road that's maybe a 20-foot drop at the most. Final Fantasy X-2 takes advantage of this phenomenon by giving Yuna the ability to jump, allowing her to surmount certain waist-high fences to explore new parts of areas from the first game. Final Fantasy XII In the Paramina Rift, there's a frozen lake which has a huge gap in the ice; you can see the other side, but you have to go around to get to it. There's a few in the Dalmasca Westersand, too; one of them is used to hide one of the keys to an Optional Boss. And some places in the Garamsythe Waterway can't be reached because there's some inch-deep water separating two platforms which are, at best, a foot away from each other. It is sufficient to say that this occurs frequently. There's also the section of the Nam-Yensa Sandsea that can only be reached via entering a specific path in the Zertinan Caverns from the Ogir-Yensa Sandsea. There's a very fun Mark Hunt that takes place in that area, but it can be a huge pain to figure out how to get there (lampshaded by the hint they give you to the location of the Mark as being isolated and hard to find). Final Fantasy XIII-2 plays with this trope a bit: many maps contain contain areas that are inaccessible by any means... in the current time period. Which usually means that you will discover a time gate leading to the same location at a different time, whether past or future, when whatever blocks the player's access is not there. In Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, after you open the third locked door in the Focus Tower and are on your way to Windia, you have an opportunity to take a detour into a closed-off section of Doom Castle, where you can fight a group of enemies and open a chest that contains the Aero spell. |
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The dev team's commentary of Portal 2 states that their game almost completely averted this, that is everything is exactly where it should be with reference to everything else, save for one single room: the room Wheatley moves into your path during your escape where you're ambushed by faulty turrets. That one room has you actually warped elsewhere when you enter it via portal. | |
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The Witness: The mangrove with the treehouse has its land access initially locked. You must reach it by boat, then unlock a Door to Before once there. A good portion of the tunnels under the windmill are initially inaccesible. They must be entered from the system of caves underneath the island. |
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Ikenfell: The Snatcher's Lair isn't seen on the map, and is initially reached by travelling through the Unseen; once you reach the end, you travel back to the school using a toilet. There's also the Ruins, which is seen on the map, but can only be travelled to by having the Raven take you there and back. | |
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Alida The Enigmatic Giant has a small island with a greenhouse, separate from the main one where the giant guitar is. It has no entrances anywhere, and the way in requires using a vehicle that can teleport from the guitar to inside the greenhouse. Similarly, a tower has a Locked Door that has to be opened from inside, and getting into the tower involves the same type of vehicle. | |
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Used again in Ocarina of Time: The Shadow Temple, which can only be accessed with the ocarina warp song because it's located on a ledge which cannot be climbed up. The Bottom of the Well is implied to be this to the Shadow Temple itself. Both dungeons share a similar aesthetic and are located near each other, but there is no path that directly links the two of them together. And the Spirit Temple, the first half of which you must enter as Child Link to obtain the item to access the Adult Link half of the dungeon. |
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Done primarily through the Teleportals in Metroid Dread. With them, Samus can visit certain areas earlier than intended (or revisit previous ones), but she's usually confined to a specific, walled off portion of said areas. | |
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In the first game, after obtaining the Spider Ball from Thardus in Phendrana Drifts, a newly accessible elevator leads to a side area of Magmoor Caverns, which has a Door to Before that drops you at the elevator back to Tallon Overworld. Said powerup also allows access to a new area of the Chozo Ruins that wasn't on the Map, where you get the Ice Beam. From here, another elevator leads to a side area of the Overworld behind the Frigate Crash Site, except the gate is locked from the other side until you've obtained the Gravity Suit and been through the Frigate wreckage the long way. Luckily, there's another elevator nearby that goes back to the main Overworld area. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic 3 & Knuckles The second acts of Angel Island, Marble Garden, Lava Reef, etc. have disconnected alternate paths only accessible by Knuckles through otherwise unbreakable walls in the first acts. Ditto for Sonic 2. Similarly, Knuckles' low jumping height is used to bar him from places only Sonic and\or Tails should go. Ledges prevent him from just climbing up. If different characters have the same level in Sonic Adventure, they will frequently cover completely different parts of what is nominally the same place. For example, Tails and Knuckles both go to Speed Highway, but their game areas are completely different (and sealed off from one another). Sonic usually will visit a given level in its entirety, though there are occasionally areas that are off-limits to him and designed for someone else (like Twinkle Park's mirror rooms). Amy takes over Sonic's role in doing this on the level Hot Shelter, the only one in the game Sonic doesn't visit. She runs through the entire level, while Big goes through the first few rooms and Gamma most of the rest. Big the Cat can see Sonic's path in Emerald Coast (and Sonic can see parts of Big's fishing area), but Big can't go up the slopes and get to Sonic's part of the level, and a gust of wind prevents Sonic from falling down to Big's area. In Red Mountain, Sonic can see tall pieces of rock in the distance (and they're not just for decoration), as well as some floating item boxes and a few items on ledges, but only Knuckles can access these things. Tails can see parts of Windy Vally that can only be accessed by using Light Dash - a move that only Sonic can use (and he can only use that move once he has the Light Speed Shoes, which you find on the way to the level that Sonic goes to after this). Knuckles can see the doors to the slot/pinball and card/pinball games in Casinopolis, but only Sonic can go inside those doors. Similarly, every character can see the switch for opening the door to the Hot Shelter, but only Amy, Big and Gamma are ever allowed to go inside. |
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Dino Crisis: The Underground lab cannot be accessed from the B1 Level because there is a security shutter blocking the way. Regina has to head back to the ground level and use the elevator to get down. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords: The game map, oddly enough. Despite the game's stage-based progression through a small handful of worlds, close inspection of the game's map reveals what looks to be a detailed overworld, with paths, shortcuts, ledges, and even cave entrances in places you never actually visit. | |
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Several examples in Disco Elysium: The dock area is visible and accessible via a shack in the hostel backyard, very close to the game's starting point. However, unless you pass a semi-difficult Motorics check, you have to use a much longer way to get in. The hostel's rooftop (and Klaasje enjoying her smoke there) are visible from many early locations, but you can only get there later in-game. Kim's room, which is right next door to yours, can only be entered late in the game — and only via the joint bathroom, not from the hallway. |
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The brick section of The Goonies II is the very first in the game. There are several areas of it that don't seem to be accessible; they're even shown to be part of separate buildings, blocked off from the player's location by exterior walls. That's the path to the endgame, requiring the Ladder (one of the very last Magic Implements) to reach. | |
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In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, there's a portal and blue door right off the central room of Agon Wastes, which nags you as something you missed every time you look at the map. But it's sealed off by an impenetrable gate both in the light and the dark world. It turns out that this particular section of the map is only attainable much later when you have the proper gear, and takes a veeery long roundabout path to get to. Most players even get there via an elevator directly from Torvus Bog followed by a one-way dark world portal. | |
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Final Fantasy X: During your initial pilgrimage through Spira, you may come across visible areas containing treasure chests and/or save points, but you can't access them just yet, even though it seems plausible that Tidus could just climb or jump down to get there. You eventually gain access to these areas...by unlocking secret Global Airship locations, either with passwords or just picking out the correct coordinates. In other words, you need to call upon an airship just to access some treasure chests on top of some ruins in Besaid — and there's two separate destinations in the same area — or to enter a ravine in Mushroom Rock Road that's maybe a 20-foot drop at the most. | |
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Super Mario Odyssey has magic paintings that take you to disconnected side areas in worlds other than the one you're currently in. In a few cases, it can be a world you haven't unlocked yet. These side areas always contain a Power Moon and a checkpoint flag (allowing you to warp to and from them, which is handy if you want to return to the world you just left.) | |
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: The Dark World's Death Mountain, where Turtle Rock and Ganon's Tower are located, is cut off from the rest of the Dark World; the only access to it is through warp tiles in Hyrule's Death Mountain. The Swamp of Evil, which has to be visited to complete the game due to the fact that it is the home of the Misery Mire dungeon, is walled off from the rest of the Dark World map, and can only be reached via a warp tile in the Light World on a cliff that you need the Warp Whistle to get to, and said cliff happens to be a case of this trope to the Desert of Mystery in the Light World. The Skull Woods dungeon consists of three disconnected areas only accessible from different above-ground entrances in the Skeleton Forest portion of the Dark World's overworld. More examples are the second half of the Desert Palace (which happens to be located in the above-mentioned Desert of Mystery), accessed by a separate entrance on the cliff above the main palace, and two of the Heart Pieces on Death Mountain, which are reached by using the Magic Mirror at certain points in its Dark World counterpart, which itself is disconnected from the rest of the map. |
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Born Under the Rain: The first hole of The Northern Sands leads to a cave that looks out onto the boss of the area, but can't reach that boss. | |
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Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate: These are found everywhere. This includes having to obtain a gadget that is found in another area according to the map, but beyond disconnected areas which are frustratingly nowhere to be seen on the map. | |
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Bug has several of these, mostly because the game is a 2½D platformer. In order to get to many of them, you have to do a Leap of Faith (usually into the foreground)- and if you're lucky, you'll land in the secret area. | |
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And again in Oracle of Seasons... three times. Part of Hero's Cave can only be accessed from an alternate entrance, and then the Snake's Remains level has one area walled off from the rest, which has to be accessed by exiting the dungeon through a separate entrance and re-entering through yet another one. Finally, the Tower of Spring is walled off from the rest of the Temple of Seasons and must be accessed through an underground passage. | |
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In Halo 2's "Delta Halo", you can see the buildings from the next level, "Regret", fairly early on, but unless you find a hard-to-reach shortcut, you'll be going the long way around. Similarly, at the beginning of "Uprising", you can see the area where "The Great Journey" takes place, but the only way down is through a long Space-Filling Path, and there are no shortcuts this time. "High Charity" consists mainly of previously inaccessable side areas of the previous level, "Gravemind", which were also visible in earlier cutscenes. Earlier, the Banshee combat sequence at the end of "The Arbiter" gives you previews of the outdoor parts of "The Oracle", the next level. | |
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Riven has a number of these, such as the latter half of the Golden Dome on the first island, which must be accessed by the bridge from Crater Island until you activate a Bridge to Before. The most extreme example is Prison Island, which is completely isolated and out of sight from the other four islands, and must be warped to through the Fire Marble Dome Portal Network, the hub of which is Gehn's Age. The section of Village Island with the Dome and the observatory chair (where the switch to the Wahrk Gallows is located) accessed by the maglev from Survey Island seems to be one of these, with a Stairway to Before leading out of the Wahrk Idol, but there is a hidden switch that opens said stairway from the lower side. | |
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Rygar for the NES has an impenetrable wall at the beginning, beyond which you can see a much later part of the game. | |
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In Turok 2's Death Marshes, the first ammo storage facility is on a ledge right above the starting point, but is only reachable by a hidden side path much later in the level. One of the prison cages can be previewed on the far side of an insurmountable quicksand pit. The other levels have many examples of this too. | |
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In F-Zero (1990), in addition to having two mixes of its theme music, White Land is unique in that its second track is not connected to the first track. | |
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Stage 2-3 in Purple has a chamber with a switch to Bonus Stage right above a room with a Checkpoint. The only way to reach the switch is somewhere in another stage. | |
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Ori and the Blind Forest: One secret area is situated in the Moon Grotto portion of the map, as indicated by the music change, but is not connected to the rest of that region. Instead, you have to take a side passage from Hollow Grove after you have learned the Stomp. In the Updated Re-release, yet another area needed for 100% exploration in Moon Grotto is only accessible through the new Bonus Dungeon area. After clearing the Ginso Tree, you land in the eastern half of Thornfelt Swamp, which is isolated from the first half and could not be accessed beforehand, due to barriers that can only be broken from the inside with the aforementioned Stomp power, which is learned from an Ancestral Tree in this area. The Misty Woods has a side area you need to reach for the Good Eye achievement, and you can only get there if either you have earned the Triple Jump (or in the Updated Re-release, the Light Burst), or you return after completing the Forlorn Ruins and use the wind currents to Glide to it. In Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the starting zone, Inkwater Marsh, has an out-of-reach section that you can only get to via a Door to Before from the Luma Pools much later in the game, or with some precise Bashing and Dashing once you learn said abilities, though you still can't reach the Pools from this direction due to a one-way barrier. Baur's Reach also has a side area adjacent to Veral's soup kitchen in the upper right corner of Wellspring Glades, but it can't be used to access the main part of the Reach at first since the shaft that otherwise connects to it is blocked by a trapdoor that you can only open from the top side. |
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In Repton 2, a few levels are split into distinct sections, each reached via a separate transporter on the Hub Level. Some of the additional scenarios in the PC remake have even more complex geography: for instance, in "Caverns", Level 18 contains an enclosed room that can only be accessed from Level 4. | |
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In Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge, you can see the second floor walkway from the moment you enter Vohaul's asteroid fortress, but there's no elevator button for that floor. You'll be taking a long side path to it, solving many puzzles along the way. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Very common in the overworld. Some of these become accessible in a more direct fashion later in the game (e.g. the part of the Minish Woods near Syrup's hut), while others remain only indirectly accessible (e.g. a piece of land at the bottom of Veil Falls which can only be reached via neighboring regions). | |
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VVVVVV has a few of the "sneak previews of a later level" variety: In Space Station 1 (the very first level), there's a series of rooms where you can only reach the top half of each room, even though you can see the bottom halves. Later, the Space Station 2 level goes through the bottom halves of those rooms, many of which have harder versions of obstacles from their respective top halves. One of the computer terminals you come across throughout the game mentions a sealed-away secret laboratory, which gets marked on your world map. Another room in the overworld (along the path to the Warp Zone level's entrance) has a side path which leads to a little alcove on the side of the Secret Lab, which lets you see one room of the lab but doesn't actually let you in. But if you get 100% Completion by collecting all 20 Shiny Trinkets, the trinkets combine to form a warp which grants access the Secret Lab, which contains some of the postgame content. |
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In Hidden Duality, there's a small part of Ganon's Tower that can only be reached by bombing open a secret part of the outside wall and going in an alternate way. It contains one of the 25 keys needed to climb the tower. | |
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In Miitopia, you can get to a point overlooking the Powdered Peaks from the Arid Frontier. There's nothing to do there, however: it's just a preview for the game's second half. | |
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Vexx: One Wraithheart in the Summit of the Sages is hidden away in a strange, floating net connected to a pipe. The only way to get it is to literally go Down the Drain in a different level, Tempest Peak Manor, which drops you there. In the second level, one of the hearts is hidden in the "Sand Castle," which only appears in the level as a literal sandcastle that's too tiny to do anything with. You have to go halfway through the Toy Castle in the first level, hit a hidden switch, and THEN you'll end up in the Sand Castle, which is just a Palette Swapped Toy Castle after all. |
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Throughout the overworld, there are hidden pipes that take Mario and co. to a disconnected area in a new location where they encounter Captain Toad who gives fifty flower coins to assist them. | |
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Quake II has several of these. The second half of Installation is only accessible via Door to Before from the Comm Center, and the Drilling Area has an isolated area only found through a secret door in the Borehole. Same for Quake IV, which sometimes uses the "later level preview" type. | |
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These are rather common throughout the Mega Man Battle Network series, particularly in the recurring Undernet area. | |
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Metroid: The Metroid Prime Trilogy is pretty bad about this a lot of times: In the first game, after obtaining the Spider Ball from Thardus in Phendrana Drifts, a newly accessible elevator leads to a side area of Magmoor Caverns, which has a Door to Before that drops you at the elevator back to Tallon Overworld. Said powerup also allows access to a new area of the Chozo Ruins that wasn't on the Map, where you get the Ice Beam. From here, another elevator leads to a side area of the Overworld behind the Frigate Crash Site, except the gate is locked from the other side until you've obtained the Gravity Suit and been through the Frigate wreckage the long way. Luckily, there's another elevator nearby that goes back to the main Overworld area. In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, there's a portal and blue door right off the central room of Agon Wastes, which nags you as something you missed every time you look at the map. But it's sealed off by an impenetrable gate both in the light and the dark world. It turns out that this particular section of the map is only attainable much later when you have the proper gear, and takes a veeery long roundabout path to get to. Most players even get there via an elevator directly from Torvus Bog followed by a one-way dark world portal. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption contains Bryyo Ice, a very small area of the planet Bryyo which is only accessible through a small portal elsewhere on the world. It gets its own map because of this, and does not show up on the map of Bryyo as a whole. This means players looking for the last power-ups may not realize they're missing something from Bryyo Ice unless they visit it directly. The 2D Metroid titles have this sometimes too. The first Metroid has a rather large hidden side area in Norfair only reachable through a bombable wall in the High Jump Boots room, which contains the Screw Attack and Wave Beam, and Super Metroid has a few areas partially visible before you can fully access them; notably, this includes the area where Ridley is eventually fought, long before that battle happens.. Done primarily through the Teleportals in Metroid Dread. With them, Samus can visit certain areas earlier than intended (or revisit previous ones), but she's usually confined to a specific, walled off portion of said areas. |
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Most of the Depths in Tears of the Kingdom is connected, with it being possible to explore almost all of it without going to the surface. An exception is the part of the Depths under Eventide Island, which is completely enclosed by an impassable cave wall that stretches from the ground to the ceiling. World-wise, impassable walls in the Depths correspond to bodies of water on the surface, and with Eventide Island being an island as the name implies, its underground counterpart is entirely surrounded by such walls. Conversely, the surface of the Lost Woods is inaccessible by any means other than coming up from the Depths, as the path from the previous game is blocked off (and straying still teleports you back to the entrance). | |
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Duke Nukem 3D has a few in its third episode, usually as previews of the next level. Using cheats to get through will reveal messages from "levellord", saying you shoulnd't be there. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: In Kingdom Hearts, at Hollow Bastion, you must go through an underground part of the castle and flip a bunch of switches to maneuver a bunch of different in-room gates to reach the switch that opens the castle's main doors. In the room of many gates and switches, there are two corners that are gated off with switches behind the gates. There is no way to open those gates and reach the switches. Those particular switches are not needed to beat the game, luckily. Kingdom Hearts II: In the Pride Lands, the oasis, and therefore the Moogle Shop, cannot be accessed. Reaching it leads to a cutscene that automatically sends the party back to Pride Rock, with access blocked by the Groundshaker. Clearing the area reconnects the Oasis with the rest of the world. |
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In Forza Motorsport 3 and 4, the three Montserrat circuits (Camino Viejo de Montserrat, Iberian International Circuit, and Ladera Test Track) have roads connecting them, but these are only used for the Camino Viejo Extreme Circuit, otherwise they are inaccessible. Similarly, on the Amalfi Coast, you can see several barricaded roads that are part of the much longer Rally di Positano course, which unfortunately was Dummied Out in Forza 4 (although the short Amalfi course somehow acquired its name). | |
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Hollow Knight has numerous examples: The bottom-most room of the Howling Cliffs, where the Baldur Shell charm resides, can be reached from Greenpath early on, but you can't access the rest of the zone until you have the Mantis Claw. The first shaft of the Fungal Wastes puzzlingly has a passage beyond an acid pool that is uncrossable due to an Impassable Head High Hole, while on the other side, in Fog Canyon, you can hear Cornifer the cartographer humming, but your paths to him there are blocked by a Shade Gate and a one-way breakable wall. To pass the former, you need Isma's Tear, itself found in a side area of the Royal Waterways only accessible with the Crystal Heart Dash, while the latter requires the Shade Cloak, found in the Abyss near the end of the game. There is, however, a hidden alternate entrance to this area from Forgotten Crossroads that can be reached with the aforementioned Crystal Dash before the player has acquired Isma's Tear or the Shade Cloak. At the beginning of Deepnest, there's a walled-off Mask Shard only accessible from the Fungal Wastes Core, which you need the Monarch Wings to get to. The City of Tears' eastern sector is initially locked up and can only be reached from other areas such as the Royal Waterways and Resting Grounds. In turn, Eternal Emilitia's room and the Tower of Love are disconnected side areas of that area, reached via a door from the aforementioned Isma's Grove and the Love Key-locked door from Kingdom's Edge, respectively. The Hive shares a map with Kingdom's Edge, but is in its own secluded area, separated from the main map by another breakable Door to Before and initially only accessible by the Tram from the aforementioned Deepnest. In turn, the Hive has a side area containing a Grub that must be reached from a separate entrance, and another passage from this sub-region leads to a side area of the aforementioned Isma's Grove, where another Grub is hidden. |
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Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped: There are two levels that require an alternate entrance to get the Gems. Fortunately, unlike the previous game, the alternate entrances are easier to unlock (or at least it's clear on how you unlock them, namely having the appropriate amount of Relics). | |
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Need for Speed: In the PlayStation 2 release of Hot Pursuit 2, unlike the other maps, the two Alpine circuit tracks, "Fall Winds" and "Alpine Trail", never overlap or intersect each other, although an otherwise unused road connects them for "Autumn Crossing", the point-to-point variation. In Carbon, the canyons and San Juan can't be accessed in free roam, despite the former being featured in a lot of courses in career mode, and the latter being used for the initial game tutorial. |
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Medal of Honor In Medal of Honor: Allied Assault's Level 4-2 (Diverting the Enemy), the end area is visible through a window earlier in the level, and you can preemptively snipe some of the enemies from here. Halfway through level 3-4, you can see the church that marks your objective location behind a barbed wire barricade, but to get to it, you must go through a large graveyard covered by multiple machine guns. As for the objective itself, three of the Nebelwerfers are separated from the first by barbed wire and a minefield, and to reach them, you must run through their line of fire and negotiate an enemy-filled trench. The second to last level of Medal of Honor: Frontline has one of the "next level preview" type at the end. No, you can't climb over the barrier. |
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption contains Bryyo Ice, a very small area of the planet Bryyo which is only accessible through a small portal elsewhere on the world. It gets its own map because of this, and does not show up on the map of Bryyo as a whole. This means players looking for the last power-ups may not realize they're missing something from Bryyo Ice unless they visit it directly. | |
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