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Opening the Sandbox

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Opening the Sandbox	comment	The point in a video game, especially a metroidvania or (electronic) RPG, where you're finally able to pursue all the sidequests, go anywhere on the map, and so on. Usually coincides with getting the Global Airship, in games that have that. May still be this even if you technically can't go everywhere; there are many games where the beginning of the Very Definitely Final Dungeon is also the Point of No Return. Usually a very good time to get the Infinity +1 Sword or go for 100% Completion. If the entire RPG is like this, it could be a Quicksand Box. This point can come shortly before the Point of No Return, or after if the game has certain forms of New Game Plus. Alternatively, it might come early in the game instead, with the player going through a guided tutorial/intro and then being set loose. MMORPGs are a special case. Though most do not have a true 'end', they end up becoming more top heavy over time as new content additions target veterans who have seen and done most of the things in the game. This effect is particularly severe if several consecutive updates do not increase the Cap but give already capped players new options, and is the reason that established players tend to perceive more freedom in a game than newbies despite being more aware of its limitations. These points are sometimes near the ending, so SPOILERS.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess lets you out into Hyrule Field once you've freed Ordon and Faron Province from the Twilight curse and completed the first dungeon. However, true to form, the game doesn't truly open the sandbox until you drive back all the Twilight and later get the Master Sword.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_110dcdca	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: The sandbox is opened when you enter Lorule. You need to go through seven dungeons, but you can do each of them in any order you please (with one exception: you can't reach the Desert Palace without going through the Thieves' Hideout first).
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Opening the Sandbox / int_1196ee1e	comment	Steambot Chronicles stops railroading you around when you finish the tournament. You could do some sidequests before, but were forced to remain in the same city or surrounding area until this point.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_14eb91c0	comment	Shadow Hearts likes to open all the side quests when the Very Definitely Final Dungeon appears. First game: After the Float rises. You can't go back to China, however. Covenant: Pretty much anytime, really, but the sandbox truly opens once the Stone Circle activates. From The New World: Once you step into the Gate.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_1852cbb9	comment	Starbound: Once your ship's FTL drive is repaired, you're free to go anywhere.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: Dragon Age: Origins: After you leave Lothering, you're free to go to each of the four armies you need to recruit in any order you wish, as well as visit any other location on the world map. Dragon Age II: The world isn't as open as that in Origins, but after meeting Varric in the very first cutscene of Act I, you're finally allowed to visit any of the locations within Kirkwall or its outskirts, whereas in the Prologue you were confined to linear progression. Dragon Age: Inquisition, for all its trying to be more sandbox-ey than the previous installments, doesn't quite open up until you make yourself at home in Skyhold, about 15 hours in. It does let you out into the Hinterlands—the biggest open area in the entire game—early on (right after the tutorial and Haven), but higher-level locations don't appear on the Point-and-Click Map until Skyhold.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	Might and Magic VI to IX had a gradual opening of sidequests and (to a somewhat lesser degree) locations over the course of the game, as well as an early moment when you can start crossing maps (VI arguably isn't an example, since that moment is when the game starts, but the other three have at least some degree of quest-finishing before that point).
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Opening the Sandbox / int_1bfb9fe0	comment	Endless Sky has two related openings: completing a tier 1 storylinenote as of May 2020 only the Free Worlds one is completed and implemented, and acquiring a jump drive. The tier 1 storyline unlocks the tier 2 storylines and many tier 2 missions, and the jump drive (which is most easily acquired towards the end of a tier 1 storyline, but can be acquired earlier) allows you to go to systems that aren't connected to human space with hyperlinks or wormholes.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_1d2eacd1	comment	In Romancing SaGa, the world starts opening up once you finish your main character's Prologue; as you visit different places for the first time, they're marked on your map and become more easily accessible.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_21e2f10d	comment	Starting with Dragon Quest III, flight is possible and getting the ability to fly opens up the world further.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: While the Great Plateau is a sandbox itself, the rest of Hyrule is opened up when you get the Paraglider, including the final dungeon and final boss.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_2319cc69	comment	Ori and the Will of the Wisps has a linear story up until the end of the first act, after which you can tackle the middle three dungeons in any order, in addition to performing countless sidequests.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_24d953d0	comment	Metroid: You start off with just a meager blaster, and getting the Morph Ball allows you to get past the first few rooms. Getting the missiles and the morph ball bombs basically let you explore anywhere you wantâ€”the rest of the items are needed so you can have a fighting chance of survival while you explore, although the Hi Jump Boots and Ice Beam are needed to access certain areas.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_2e97466d	comment	Most Ys games start out linearly, gradually opening up the rest of the world, and usually providing you with a warp item to quick-travel to previous areas. Usually, there's at least one Point of No Return just before or at the beginning of the Final Dungeon.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_2f203125	comment	Shin Megami Tensei: After the End, whenever relevant in the mainline games. This also tends to happen pretty early when it does. In Persona 5, while your Player Character arrives in Tokyo on 4/9, the game proceeds on a linear path for the first 9 days. On 4/18, you are allowed to explore daytime Tokyo, do Confidants, and go to the Palace. Sojiro allows you to explore nighttime Yongen-Jaya on 4/25 and cuts you loose on nighttime Tokyo on 5/6, and you unlock Mementos the next day.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_30940081	comment	Grand Theft Auto V is an odd example. From the start, after the very first mission, the whole San Andreas map is open to you, but it's only after you unlock all three characters that you can fully explore and interact with the entire world.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_38e1d779	comment	Ever since the LEGO Adaptation Game series introduced fully explorable Hub Levels, they've consistently had it where your ability to access it is initially limited. In the beginning you're always boxed into a super-restricted area of movement, and from there the games differentiate a bit. Some of them have the map opened in chunks, while others have a single specific mission that after completion fully opens the whole map.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_39fe00f1	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition, for all its trying to be more sandbox-ey than the previous installments, doesn't quite open up until you make yourself at home in Skyhold, about 15 hours in. It does let you out into the Hinterlands—the biggest open area in the entire game—early on (right after the tutorial and Haven), but higher-level locations don't appear on the Point-and-Click Map until Skyhold.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_45501b8c	comment	Super Metroid: As shown in this video analysis by Game Maker's Toolkit, the game holds your hand a bit longer, as the game railroads you down a pretty linear path until you get the Ice Beam and Power Bombs and work your way back to your starting ship, essentially making a giant loop. From this point, not only can you revisit every area you've been previously, whole swathes of the map are now open to you to explore freely.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Disc 3. Also near the end of Disc 1 when you get the Tiny Bronco.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_4b434423	comment	PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield is a Zig-Zagged example. The main quest of the game is linear, with the justification that you can't enter certain cities until you have a prerequisite number of badges. This restriction is lifted in the postgame. At the same time, however, players get access to the Wild Zone, a sandbox area, fairly early in the game.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_5075737a	comment	Golden Sun: The Lost Age: Unlike its predecessor, which is quite linear, The Lost Age opens up several locations at once when you first Get on the Boat, and the game emphasizes exploration without obvious signposts for the rest of the game, even after you complete the Eastern Sea section of the game. Once the Lemurian Ship is outfitted with wings and especially once you acquire the Teleport Psynergy, you can access every sidequest location in the game.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_526d4c5c	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic, once you get off Dantooine, you can go to whichever planet you want any time you want. Except, you know, Taris.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_52f6626	comment	Jak II: Renegade starts off with the linear Prison level and drops Jak in the sprawling Haven City after escaping it. However he only has access to the Slums; periodically through the game he can pick up coloured passes that let him access new parts of the city, including the Port, the Markets, the Stadium and the Palace Grounds, each with their own linear levels connected to them.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_53df806a	comment	Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy: After Layton and company venture through Froenborg, Kodh and London (in that order) to investigate the mystery of the Azran civilization, while also dodging Targent's clutches more than once (and, in the process, exposing Detective Bloom as The Mole near the end of Chapter 3), they begin the quest for the Azran eggs across the world to unveil the ultimate secret of the aforementioned civilization. Thus, during Chapter 4, a whopping five major locations are unlocked and they can be visited in any order; and as they're cleared, new content is unlocked in the aforementioned three initial areas as well.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto games frequently have a form of this, as access to the full map is typically restricted until progressing to specific points in the story. Grand Theft Auto III starts with you restricted to Portland Island, the easternmost island of Liberty City, as the bridge to Staunton Island and the rest of the city gets blown up by a bomb in the introduction and the underground tunnel is still under construction. Once you get to Staunton Island by a boat, the bridge is completed and that portion of the tunnel is opened, but access to Shoreside Vale is still blocked off as its lift bridge is out of commission and that part of the tunnel is sealed off for repairs. At the start of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City you have several questlines to choose from and it's not immediately obvious which one is the "main" quest, giving you a good bit of freedom to play on the half of the map you have open. However, pretty soon you usurp the local mobster, the bridges are reopened to the other half of the city, and the full sandbox opens up with the ability to buy properties and doing missions at your choosing. Played with in San Andreas: Just like the previous games, the other areas of the map are blocked off from the one you start in by closed off bridges and water. What's different is CJ doesn't have Super Drowning Skills like his predecessors and can cross the water no problem. The problem is as soon as you get on land you will get an automatic 4-star wanted level you can only remove after you have gone back to the areas you can explore. As for the actual Opening The Sandbox moments, they include San Fierro and the rural counties Whetstone and Flint County to its south after "The Green Sabre" and Las Venturas and the rural areas Tierra Robada and Bone County to its north and west after "Yay Ka-Boom Boom." In addition, optional Safehouses in certain areas are locked from purchase until certain story quests are done even if you had access to them. These include Red County (the rural areas north and west of Los Santos) after "The Green Sabre," San Fierro until after "Are You Going To San Fierro," and Las Venturas after "Learning To Fly." Grand Theft Auto IV confines you to Broker, Dukes, and Bohan at first due to an ongoing terrorism alert closing most of the bridges, and you unlock the other areas as you progress. Algonquin is unlocked when you meet Playboy X, and Alderney is unlocked after the bank robbery mission. You can get to the other islands fairly easily before this (in particular you can just walk on the subway tracks from Broker to Algonquin) but you'll be greeted with an immediate six star wanted level, meaning you'll struggle to get virtually anywhere else without being shot to ribbons by NOOSE. Grand Theft Auto V is an odd example. From the start, after the very first mission, the whole San Andreas map is open to you, but it's only after you unlock all three characters that you can fully explore and interact with the entire world.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_5921531c	comment	In Persona 5, while your Player Character arrives in Tokyo on 4/9, the game proceeds on a linear path for the first 9 days. On 4/18, you are allowed to explore daytime Tokyo, do Confidants, and go to the Palace. Sojiro allows you to explore nighttime Yongen-Jaya on 4/25 and cuts you loose on nighttime Tokyo on 5/6, and you unlock Mementos the next day.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas employs a downplayed version: The game attempts to confine you to find the man who tried to kill you in the early parts of the game with Beef Gates. But the game also leaves options open for more perceptive players to device a way to sneak past the Deathclaws at Quarry Junction or evade the Cazadors and Giant Radscorpions north of Goodsprings to get directly to Vegas. The game even has special dialogue from various NPCs if the player opts for this option. The 188 Trading Post north of Novac is the point where the entirety of the map is within reach of the player, where previously Beef Gates and terrain obstacles kept you confined.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_5f71a70b	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles and its sequels usually start in a smaller area, where the player gets to get acclimated to the controls and sets up the characters and story. Once the plot truly gets underway, that's usually when the game gives you access to the first major area (Gaur Plains, Primodia, Gormotti, etc...)
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Opening the Sandbox / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins: After you leave Lothering, you're free to go to each of the four armies you need to recruit in any order you wish, as well as visit any other location on the world map.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_63fe06a0	comment	Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon: The tutorial and prologue mission are entirely linear and confine you to the southwest corner of the map. Only afterwards do you get to explore.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_6af78ff5	comment	In Metroid II: Return of Samus and by extension its remake (Metroid: Samus Returns), the big "I'm free!" moment is getting the Spider Ball upgrade which allows you to cling to crawl walls in Morph Ball form. The Space Jump is the point where you can go literally anywhere in the game.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 confines you at first to an underground vault, which serves as a tutorial level to teach you about combat and using your Pip-Boy. You eventually escape after the Vault falls into chaos, gaining access to the rest of the world.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 starts you off in the year 2077, mere minutes from when the bombs start dropping, to create your character and assign your SPECIAL points. After awakening from cryostasis, your fight to leave the abandoned Vault serves as a combat tutorial. Once you're out of the Vault, the Commonwealth opens up to you.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_6d8311c4	comment	PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver are a notable example. The game is divided into two parts or quests: Johto and Kanto. The first quest is mostly linear, but by the time you reach the second one, you have all HMs, and roadblocks are almost nonexistent, giving you access to almost all of Kanto as soon as you set foot on it. To emphasize this, the Johto gyms are beaten mostly in a set order (specifically the first four, as well as the final one; gyms 5-7 can be beaten in any order), while the Kanto gyms can be beaten in any order (with the exception of the final gym in the remakes).
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Opening the Sandbox / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda series tends to do this multiple times each game. In most games, after the introductory village and dungeon, most of the world map opens up, though in the first game the world could be explored right away (though getting a sword, which is in a cave on the first screen, is a good idea). And then, once you've completed about half of the dungeons, a large chunk of the map that was hidden or inaccessible is revealed, usually through some specialized game mechanic like Dual-World Gameplay. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past lets you explore Hyrule freely once you rescue Princess Zelda from the catacombs. Once you complete four dungeons and defeat Agahnim for the first time, the entrance to Hyrule Castle becomes a gate to the Dark World (which holds eight more dungeons). In fact, if you already know where to go, completing the first dungeon isn't even necessary: once you have the Magic Hammer from it, the sandbox is busted wide open. You can even leave King Helmasaur for until you've gotten everything else in the game short of the Red Mail and a single Heart Container. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: After you leave Kokiri Forest (which can only be done after completing the first dungeon), all of Hyrule Field is open to you. When you get the Master Sword, you then gain full access to most of the areas you visited previously, even if you're still missing some key pieces of gear. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: When you finally break the Skull Kid's curse in Clock Town. As a human, you finally have a decent melee weapon and can leave town. The town itself also has various activities for Hylian Link. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: The games open up three times each, namely when you gain a new method of time travel (Ages), or a new season to summon (Seasons). The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Your boat won't let you leave a small linear path at first. After you complete the second dungeon, you're free to sail wherever you want and explore the whole map. Most people wait until they get the Ballad of Gales, though, because otherwise you'd have to sail all that distance by yourself. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess lets you out into Hyrule Field once you've freed Ordon and Faron Province from the Twilight curse and completed the first dungeon. However, true to form, the game doesn't truly open the sandbox until you drive back all the Twilight and later get the Master Sword. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: The sandbox is opened after you open all three portals; getting the Clawshot also opens up a couple more opportunities. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: The sandbox is opened when you enter Lorule. You need to go through seven dungeons, but you can do each of them in any order you please (with one exception: you can't reach the Desert Palace without going through the Thieves' Hideout first). The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: While the Great Plateau is a sandbox itself, the rest of Hyrule is opened up when you get the Paraglider, including the final dungeon and final boss. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Just like its prequel, all of Hyrule is opened up shortly after you open the giant doors in the Temple of Time, and getting the Paraglider shortly after that makes it practical to fully explore the Sky Islands, and enter the Depths without taking lethal Falling Damage. It's even possible to skip the Paraglider and defeat the final boss without it, although you'll need to use some Good Bad Bugs to survive the drop.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_76686539	comment	Mass Effect hands you your ship and turns you loose after a couple hours of gameplay. Some people feel slightly intimidated by this. However, you still can't access all the star systems until you complete missions that unlock them, and there's no point at which you can freely go to any of the available planets; when you unlock the Very Definitely Final Dungeon, you lose the ability to go back to the Citadel.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3 opens up the sandbox after escaping from Mars, but more and more the star systems are gradually unlocked after each Priority mission.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_78974fd8	comment	In Psychonauts 2, the game's first act is railroaded and very linear. But once the casino mission elapses and Ford is brought to the Motherlobe, the areas you can go to completely widen up, unlocking two major areas in the physical world with tons of collectables to get and a few sidequests to do, and allowing for the next set of mental worlds to be done in a non-linear order.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_792239e5	comment	The point at which everything is available in Tales of Symphonia comes VERY late in the game. Specifically, you need to enter the final room but not use the warp that leads to the final boss. At that point you can leave and do all the quests.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Mass Effect hands you your ship and turns you loose after a couple hours of gameplay. Some people feel slightly intimidated by this. However, you still can't access all the star systems until you complete missions that unlock them, and there's no point at which you can freely go to any of the available planets; when you unlock the Very Definitely Final Dungeon, you lose the ability to go back to the Citadel. Mass Effect 2 lets you loose once you finish Freedom's Progress and receive the Normandy SR-2, but you can't explore all of the galaxy until after Horizon, about a third of the way through the game. Mass Effect 3 opens up the sandbox after escaping from Mars, but more and more the star systems are gradually unlocked after each Priority mission.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_7a7102f5	comment	At the start of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City you have several questlines to choose from and it's not immediately obvious which one is the "main" quest, giving you a good bit of freedom to play on the half of the map you have open. However, pretty soon you usurp the local mobster, the bridges are reopened to the other half of the city, and the full sandbox opens up with the ability to buy properties and doing missions at your choosing.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_7b429ebc	comment	Saints Row: Downplayed in the original. While you can go anywhere and take on any open-world activity in Stilwater from the moment you gain control of Playa, there are hardly any incentives to leave the eponymous neighborhood until you've completed the first few missions for the gang and secured its hold on the Row. It's only after that is done that you are given story missions that take you to other 'hoods, giving Playa an in-story motivation to explore the entire sandbox.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: Fallout 3 confines you at first to an underground vault, which serves as a tutorial level to teach you about combat and using your Pip-Boy. You eventually escape after the Vault falls into chaos, gaining access to the rest of the world. Fallout: New Vegas employs a downplayed version: The game attempts to confine you to find the man who tried to kill you in the early parts of the game with Beef Gates. But the game also leaves options open for more perceptive players to device a way to sneak past the Deathclaws at Quarry Junction or evade the Cazadors and Giant Radscorpions north of Goodsprings to get directly to Vegas. The game even has special dialogue from various NPCs if the player opts for this option. The 188 Trading Post north of Novac is the point where the entirety of the map is within reach of the player, where previously Beef Gates and terrain obstacles kept you confined. Fallout 4 starts you off in the year 2077, mere minutes from when the bombs start dropping, to create your character and assign your SPECIAL points. After awakening from cryostasis, your fight to leave the abandoned Vault serves as a combat tutorial. Once you're out of the Vault, the Commonwealth opens up to you.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins: In contrast to its extremely linear predecessor, this game is far more open. After finishing the tutorial level, the six zones containing the titular coins have no set order to do them in, and players are free to, for example, complete part of one zone and then work on another, leaving the rest of the previous one for later. The only level locked is the last one, which becomes available after the Golden Coins are retrieved. Super Mario Sunshine opens completely after Shadow Mario starts trying to steal FLUDD accesories and a Yoshi egg. When those are retrieved, every Shine Sprite from Delfino Plaza will be ready to be collected and any level yet to be unlocked will be accessible with the help of those powerups. In fact, by that point the only thing needed to unlock the final mission is defeating Shadow Mario in every level at least once each. Super Mario Odyssey is entirely linear through the first two kingdoms. The only part of the Cap Kingdom available is a single route to Topper, and the Cascade Kingdom railroads the player in to getting the first Power Moon and fighting Madame Broode. After that, side Power Moons in the Cascade Kingdom open up, and only one is needed to move on. The player then gets the Odyssey, can backtrack to the Cap Kingdom, or progress to the Sand Kingdom. The Sand Kingdom is comparatively far more open, with several potential Power Moon options and the "story Moons" could be ignored. A set number of Moons per kingdom need to be gathered to unlock the next, but they can be from any number of locations.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_85248c6a	comment	In Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, you enter the main hub world after completing the tutorial level. Normally, you start off in Rainbow Route and end up in Moonlight Mansion, but once you hit the switch before approaching the first boss, King Golem, a mirror portal opens up in the hub world, allowing you to progress through the worlds in any order you please. This can be done before even fighting King Golem in the first place.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_85ccdf78	comment	In Galaxy on Fire 3D, you can travel to other star systems after the end of the (short) main storyline. In the sequel, you get access to most systems shortly after the first few missions, although some systems are only unlocked via the storylines (main plus 2 DLCs) or by purchasing the coordinates from certain people. Most systems are connected to the Portal Network, but some require the use of the Khador Drive (including the system you start in).
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Opening the Sandbox / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX: You can explore the ocean when you receive the Blue Narciss (ship) on Disc Two, then the whole world when you gain control of the Hilda Garde II (Global Airship). You upgrade your airship to the Invincible when you return from Terra at the start of Disc Four, but it does nothing that the Hilda Garde didn't.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI notably opens, then closes, then re-opens the sandbox a couple of times as your airship breaks down and is repaired. It finally re-opens for good after you get the second airship in the World of Ruin.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_86814ea1	comment	Inverted in Final Fantasy XV, where the game starts as a sandbox and stays that way for 9 out of 15 chapters, but once you begin Chapter 10 the remainder of the game is entirely linear, and the world and characters have changed so irreversibly that the only way to get back to the sandbox part of the game is via time travel.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_8c87469c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: The sandbox is opened after you open all three portals; getting the Clawshot also opens up a couple more opportunities.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_8da0ea80	comment	Downplayed in PokÃ©mon Red and Blue. The games proceed pretty much linearly until you return to Lavender Town and rescue Mr. Fuji from the PokÃ©mon Tower. At that point, you can claim your reward and complete the next four major storyline locales in almost any order (the PokÃ© Flute you get from Mr. Fuji is required to reach the Fuschia Gym, which is required to unlock the Cinnabar Gym, and Silph Co. is required to unlock the Saffron Gym) before the story bottlenecks at the Viridian Gym.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_959e6bc	comment	Dragon Quest II is the first game to include sailing. Your party obtain their ship when they reach Rippleport, whereupon you can finally explore the whole world rather than just the central landmass whatever you please.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_959e6cb	comment	However, Dragon Quest IX doesn't give the player the ability to fly until after completing the main story, so the ship is the main mode of travel until then.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_9962bb82	comment	Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins: In contrast to its extremely linear predecessor, this game is far more open. After finishing the tutorial level, the six zones containing the titular coins have no set order to do them in, and players are free to, for example, complete part of one zone and then work on another, leaving the rest of the previous one for later. The only level locked is the last one, which becomes available after the Golden Coins are retrieved.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_9d34190a	comment	Throughout The Elder Scrolls series, this happens very early on compared to most other series. In most of the games, this happens right after character creation and escaping the Noob Cave tutorial level, which can be mere minutes into the game. Morrowind takes this to an extreme, releasing you into the world immediately after character creation. At that point, Beef Gates are the only thing preventing you from accessing absolutely everything.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: In most games, the sandbox opens to some extent when you can use Surf and Fly outside of battle. If you can use all the HMs, you've definitely reached this point. The Gen IV games make you see (not catch, thankfully) all of the PokÃ©mon in the Sinnoh PokÃ©dex before opening everything up, though. Downplayed in PokÃ©mon Red and Blue. The games proceed pretty much linearly until you return to Lavender Town and rescue Mr. Fuji from the PokÃ©mon Tower. At that point, you can claim your reward and complete the next four major storyline locales in almost any order (the PokÃ© Flute you get from Mr. Fuji is required to reach the Fuschia Gym, which is required to unlock the Cinnabar Gym, and Silph Co. is required to unlock the Saffron Gym) before the story bottlenecks at the Viridian Gym. PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver are a notable example. The game is divided into two parts or quests: Johto and Kanto. The first quest is mostly linear, but by the time you reach the second one, you have all HMs, and roadblocks are almost nonexistent, giving you access to almost all of Kanto as soon as you set foot on it. To emphasize this, the Johto gyms are beaten mostly in a set order (specifically the first four, as well as the final one; gyms 5-7 can be beaten in any order), while the Kanto gyms can be beaten in any order (with the exception of the final gym in the remakes). PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield is a Zig-Zagged example. The main quest of the game is linear, with the justification that you can't enter certain cities until you have a prerequisite number of badges. This restriction is lifted in the postgame. At the same time, however, players get access to the Wild Zone, a sandbox area, fairly early in the game. Being a much more open game than previous entries in the series, Legends: Arceus give you rideable Pokemon to open up the areas for you. Basculegion allows you to swim, Sneasler allows you to climb sheer cliffs, and Hisuian Braviary allow you for full flight. PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet are a full Wide-Open Sandbox, but traversal is made more difficult by various terrain features. Completing parts of the Path Of The Titans quest, increases the power of Koraidon/Miraidon, allowing for a dash, two levels of jumping, swimming, climbing, and gliding. A smaller version also happens at the beginning, where the player is stuck in the first area of the southern province of Paldea until they reach the school and start up the Treasure Hunt.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_a0376038	comment	In Go Vacation, once you get twenty Stamps (i.e., once you've played around half of the available minigames), you'll have the entire game open to you: All four Resorts, every minigame, and the Villa.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_a2dee471	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Your boat won't let you leave a small linear path at first. After you complete the second dungeon, you're free to sail wherever you want and explore the whole map. Most people wait until they get the Ballad of Gales, though, because otherwise you'd have to sail all that distance by yourself.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_a6f6433c	comment	Jak and Daxter: Jak II: Renegade starts off with the linear Prison level and drops Jak in the sprawling Haven City after escaping it. However he only has access to the Slums; periodically through the game he can pick up coloured passes that let him access new parts of the city, including the Port, the Markets, the Stadium and the Palace Grounds, each with their own linear levels connected to them. Jak 3 starts in the metaphorical sandpit of Spargus before giving you the literal desert of the Wasteland. Eventually you return to Haven City as well, although it is much more linear than in the previous game due to the war. Both Jak II and 3 feature this for the linear levels as well; after picking up a new gadget/ability and/or reaching a certain point in the story, you revisit an earlier level and get to explore new areas of it. For example, the second visit to the Strip Mine in II lets you use the JetBoard to explore the upper areas.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_a81325d3	comment	The Final Fantasy series: Final Fantasy unusually has this at the halfway point (or if you're like most players, slightly before), when you get the Global Airship. Not that the sandbox in this game is so crowded... Final Fantasy VI notably opens, then closes, then re-opens the sandbox a couple of times as your airship breaks down and is repaired. It finally re-opens for good after you get the second airship in the World of Ruin. Final Fantasy VII: Disc 3. Also near the end of Disc 1 when you get the Tiny Bronco. Final Fantasy VIII: Once the Missile Base, MD Level, defeating NORG, and the situation on Fisherman's Horizon are said and done with, you are free to pilot the Garden around. You can go everywhere except Esthar and the Bonus Dungeon in the ocean. In disc 3, you are given a proper airship and can truly go anywhere you please. Final Fantasy IX: You can explore the ocean when you receive the Blue Narciss (ship) on Disc Two, then the whole world when you gain control of the Hilda Garde II (Global Airship). You upgrade your airship to the Invincible when you return from Terra at the start of Disc Four, but it does nothing that the Hilda Garde didn't. Final Fantasy X: The game opens up a bit when you get to the Calm Lands, but really this happens when you get the airship permanently. Final Fantasy XIII has No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom up to the point where Lightning's party reaches Pulse... in chapter 11 (out of 13). There's a living but utterly inaccessible cityscape around the straight path, which is the main reason most people accuse the game of being too linear (though the linearity is justified by the story). Inverted in Final Fantasy XV, where the game starts as a sandbox and stays that way for 9 out of 15 chapters, but once you begin Chapter 10 the remainder of the game is entirely linear, and the world and characters have changed so irreversibly that the only way to get back to the sandbox part of the game is via time travel.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_a993be1f	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, you are finally permitted free roam of the galaxy once you reclaim the Ebon Hawk for the second time and get yourself off Telos.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: After you leave Kokiri Forest (which can only be done after completing the first dungeon), all of Hyrule Field is open to you. When you get the Master Sword, you then gain full access to most of the areas you visited previously, even if you're still missing some key pieces of gear.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_b7c72249	comment	Castlevania: Symphony of the Night follows a linear progression through Dracula's castle. Once you get to the Inverted Castle, you have enough mobility that you can do the bosses and get the Plot Coupons needed to unlock the Final Bosses in any order you want.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_b87de35b	comment	Super Mario Sunshine opens completely after Shadow Mario starts trying to steal FLUDD accesories and a Yoshi egg. When those are retrieved, every Shine Sprite from Delfino Plaza will be ready to be collected and any level yet to be unlocked will be accessible with the help of those powerups. In fact, by that point the only thing needed to unlock the final mission is defeating Shadow Mario in every level at least once each.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_b906a721	comment	In Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana, gaining access to Flammie allows the party to travel through the air, providing access to previously unseen locations.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_beac6ffb	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: When you finally break the Skull Kid's curse in Clock Town. As a human, you finally have a decent melee weapon and can leave town. The town itself also has various activities for Hylian Link.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger: After beating down Dalton the second time, the party finally reclaims the Epoch, which Dalton has modified to allow flight. From this point on you have the ability to access any part of the world from any point in time.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_c2463c46	comment	Final Fantasy unusually has this at the halfway point (or if you're like most players, slightly before), when you get the Global Airship. Not that the sandbox in this game is so crowded...
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Opening the Sandbox / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: The game opens up a bit when you get to the Calm Lands, but really this happens when you get the airship permanently.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_c35ec21c	comment	Super Mario Odyssey is entirely linear through the first two kingdoms. The only part of the Cap Kingdom available is a single route to Topper, and the Cascade Kingdom railroads the player in to getting the first Power Moon and fighting Madame Broode. After that, side Power Moons in the Cascade Kingdom open up, and only one is needed to move on. The player then gets the Odyssey, can backtrack to the Cap Kingdom, or progress to the Sand Kingdom. The Sand Kingdom is comparatively far more open, with several potential Power Moon options and the "story Moons" could be ignored. A set number of Moons per kingdom need to be gathered to unlock the next, but they can be from any number of locations.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_c67a1218	comment	The Legend of Dragoon: There is a point near the end of the game where the party acquires a strange manta-ray creature called Coolan, who can fly them to any destination (although if you plan to go too far back through the game, have the relevant disc ready).
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Opening the Sandbox / int_c96cfe29	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past lets you explore Hyrule freely once you rescue Princess Zelda from the catacombs. Once you complete four dungeons and defeat Agahnim for the first time, the entrance to Hyrule Castle becomes a gate to the Dark World (which holds eight more dungeons). In fact, if you already know where to go, completing the first dungeon isn't even necessary: once you have the Magic Hammer from it, the sandbox is busted wide open. You can even leave King Helmasaur for until you've gotten everything else in the game short of the Red Mail and a single Heart Container.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_cdac637a	comment	Jet Force Gemini: Initially, each of the three main playable characters has a predefined route to reach Mizar's Palace, and each planet or space vessel will only be accessible for a specific character. However, after they reach the central destination and Mizar is defeated for the first time, they will be able to explore any planet available up to that point as they initiate The Great Repair, which grants access to locations that were unavailable for their original visitors.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_cf6ccaa7	comment	Unlike other games in the series which unlock the sandbox from the get-go, Animal Crossing: New Horizons locks you to the area around Airport at the beginning as the player has no ability to cross the river that cuts through the island. The player can unlock the vaulting pole DIY recipe after getting Blathers to your island, which requires giving Tom Nook 5 bugs or fish to entice Blathers there. Eventually, Tom Nook will give you the ladder DIY recipe to climb cliff sides with, mainly so you can gather materials to build furniture to entice more villagers to come. Once you upgrade the Resident Services to a permanent buildingnote which requires the Museum and Nook's Cranny to be built and three additional villagers having moved in Tom Nook will offer to build bridges and inclines (with donations) in order to make island traversal easier without having to use the vaulting pole or ladder as much.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_d1702e57	comment	Being a much more open game than previous entries in the series, Legends: Arceus give you rideable Pokemon to open up the areas for you. Basculegion allows you to swim, Sneasler allows you to climb sheer cliffs, and Hisuian Braviary allow you for full flight.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_d36b8ea7	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: The games open up three times each, namely when you gain a new method of time travel (Ages), or a new season to summon (Seasons).
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Opening the Sandbox / int_d57d722e	comment	Ōkami: You can go back and get most of the missing collectibles once you've bought the Double Jump and unlocked Kabegami's brush technique, allowing you to climb walls, but it's a lot less traveling to wait until you've gotten the Mist Warp technique (available after completing the fourth dungeon, Imperial Palace) so you can teleport between certain sacred mirrors.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_d5b84b32	comment	Spore: After passing the first four objective-based levels, you are free to explore and colonize the universe as you see fit.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_d60b94e0	comment	Jak 3 starts in the metaphorical sandpit of Spargus before giving you the literal desert of the Wasteland. Eventually you return to Haven City as well, although it is much more linear than in the previous game due to the war.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_d6e2146d	comment	Diablo III puts you on a linear path during the Campaign mode, but once you complete it, Adventure mode is unlocked and you can go wherever you want on the game map, with sidequests and Bounties as incentives to explore Sanctuary. Several areas exclusive to Adventure mode open up, as well. This is averted in the console ports, where Adventure is available from the get go.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_d8c87ad8	comment	Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy: After Katrielle manages to solve her first four cases, she receives the following four at the same time, allowing her and her friends Ernest and Sherl to tackle them in any order.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_d98ab15	comment	Rave Heart: The player is mostly railroaded into new locations until they clear Kor's Facility, at which point the Atlas can take the party to almost any location in the galaxy to complete sidequests.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_dbce0953	comment	Pikmin: The first two games after you get Blue Pikmin, as that will allow you to explore the aquatic portions of each area (they're not a problem for Olimar or any of the other playable captains, but they are for the Pikmin of the other colors except Pink). To a lesser extent, this also applies to Pikmin 3 once you get the Yellow Pikmin and rescue Charlie, since the game up to that point has been extremely linear and requires you to visit the first three areas in a specific order.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II: The world isn't as open as that in Origins, but after meeting Varric in the very first cutscene of Act I, you're finally allowed to visit any of the locations within Kirkwall or its outskirts, whereas in the Prologue you were confined to linear progression.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Grand Theft Auto IV confines you to Broker, Dukes, and Bohan at first due to an ongoing terrorism alert closing most of the bridges, and you unlock the other areas as you progress. Algonquin is unlocked when you meet Playboy X, and Alderney is unlocked after the bank robbery mission. You can get to the other islands fairly easily before this (in particular you can just walk on the subway tracks from Broker to Algonquin) but you'll be greeted with an immediate six star wanted level, meaning you'll struggle to get virtually anywhere else without being shot to ribbons by NOOSE.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest: Most games once you obtain a ship. Dragon Quest II is the first game to include sailing. Your party obtain their ship when they reach Rippleport, whereupon you can finally explore the whole world rather than just the central landmass whatever you please. Starting with Dragon Quest III, flight is possible and getting the ability to fly opens up the world further. However, Dragon Quest IX doesn't give the player the ability to fly until after completing the main story, so the ship is the main mode of travel until then.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_e5d6d049	comment	Fuel: New Zones are unlocked as you accumulate Career Stars.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_e605dad8	comment	Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! is the only game in the original trilogy where this trope is in effect. About half of each of the three Homeworlds is available to you from the start, with Spyro needing to buy a skill from Moneybags in order to progress further. Conversely, the first and third games avert this by allowing you to go nearly anywhere in each hub world from the start, even the secret flight stage in Artisans you aren't supposed to know about until a dragon in Magic Crafters tells you about it.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_eb2a8ea9	comment	The 360 game Crackdown is already a GTA-ish sandbox game to start with. But once you've beaten all three gangs and finished the end-game you can roam freely around the city with all your powerups available and the option of re-starting any of your previous missions in a mode that feels much more like opening the sandbox than just having finished the game and being able to run around. There is also an DLC that adds God Mode, which has an option that also effectively gives you an opening the sandbox mode.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_eb6719f6	comment	Final Fantasy VIII: Once the Missile Base, MD Level, defeating NORG, and the situation on Fisherman's Horizon are said and done with, you are free to pilot the Garden around. You can go everywhere except Esthar and the Bonus Dungeon in the ocean. In disc 3, you are given a proper airship and can truly go anywhere you please.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII has No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom up to the point where Lightning's party reaches Pulse... in chapter 11 (out of 13). There's a living but utterly inaccessible cityscape around the straight path, which is the main reason most people accuse the game of being too linear (though the linearity is justified by the story).
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Opening the Sandbox / int_ec02633a	comment	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt starts out in White Orchard, a relatively small and simple tutorial map to get the player used to the basics. After killing the Royal Griffin and going to Vizima's Royal Palace, the game's main areas of Velen, Novigrad, and the Skellige Isles all open up, along with quests from the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions. While the game encourages going through them in that order, the player can complete the arcs in whatever order they please so long as they can get through the Beef Gates and Cash Gates.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_ecd2d797	comment	In Baldur's Gate, the main opening happened immediately after Gorion was killed, with new maps unlocked as the chapters progress (it takes a fair while until you actually get to the eponymous city, for example). In the sequel, the moment you step out of Irenicus' dungeon (with a second opening after you step out of the Underdark).
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Opening the Sandbox / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077 uses a two-tiered system. After the on-rails prologue and tutorial, you have the run of your local neighbourhood, but due to a police cordon, you can't leave. After completing the Konpeki Heist mission, the cordon ends and you can access the other 4/5 of the map. In the Phantom Liberty DLC, you start off by entering the new Dogtown neighbourhood and going through a long set of on-rails missions. Finally you reach a safehouse with your NPC ally, receive your next task, and can then roam Dogtown as you wish.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: In most of side-scrolling games, getting the High Jump boots is the point when suddenly you can go (plot allowing) practically anywhere. Metroid: You start off with just a meager blaster, and getting the Morph Ball allows you to get past the first few rooms. Getting the missiles and the morph ball bombs basically let you explore anywhere you wantâ€”the rest of the items are needed so you can have a fighting chance of survival while you explore, although the Hi Jump Boots and Ice Beam are needed to access certain areas. In Metroid II: Return of Samus and by extension its remake (Metroid: Samus Returns), the big "I'm free!" moment is getting the Spider Ball upgrade which allows you to cling to crawl walls in Morph Ball form. The Space Jump is the point where you can go literally anywhere in the game. Super Metroid: As shown in this video analysis by Game Maker's Toolkit, the game holds your hand a bit longer, as the game railroads you down a pretty linear path until you get the Ice Beam and Power Bombs and work your way back to your starting ship, essentially making a giant loop. From this point, not only can you revisit every area you've been previously, whole swathes of the map are now open to you to explore freely.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_f5855286	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Just like its prequel, all of Hyrule is opened up shortly after you open the giant doors in the Temple of Time, and getting the Paraglider shortly after that makes it practical to fully explore the Sky Islands, and enter the Depths without taking lethal Falling Damage. It's even possible to skip the Paraglider and defeat the final boss without it, although you'll need to use some Good Bad Bugs to survive the drop.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_f6bb880b	comment	Professor Layton games typically follow a linear progression, and each area is available only after the story calls for it. However, the following two games do have a more open-ended progression, thus invoking this trope: Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy: After Layton and company venture through Froenborg, Kodh and London (in that order) to investigate the mystery of the Azran civilization, while also dodging Targent's clutches more than once (and, in the process, exposing Detective Bloom as The Mole near the end of Chapter 3), they begin the quest for the Azran eggs across the world to unveil the ultimate secret of the aforementioned civilization. Thus, during Chapter 4, a whopping five major locations are unlocked and they can be visited in any order; and as they're cleared, new content is unlocked in the aforementioned three initial areas as well. Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy: After Katrielle manages to solve her first four cases, she receives the following four at the same time, allowing her and her friends Ernest and Sherl to tackle them in any order.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_f6e2c23d	comment	EarthBound Beginnings starts off fairly linear for the first few areas. Once you complete Duncan's Factory, you're given free reign to go anywhere you want provided you can make it through the battles, the only caveat being you can't fight the Final Boss until you sing the Eight Melodies to Queen Mary.
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Opening the Sandbox / int_f7c8e36e	comment	Octopath Traveler: After completing the first chapter of your chosen hero, you are free to explore the game's entire world, limited only by your ability to fight enemies.
Opening the Sandbox / int_f7c8e36e	featureApplicability	1.0
Opening the Sandbox / int_f7c8e36e	featureConfidence	1.0
Octopath Traveler (Video Game)	hasFeature	Opening the Sandbox / int_f7c8e36e
Opening the Sandbox / int_f97683ef	type	Opening the Sandbox
Opening the Sandbox / int_f97683ef	comment	In Hollow Knight, for the first handful of hours, the game lightly leads players through the Forgotten Crossroads, Greenpath, and the Fungal Wastes through subtle context clues and following the trail of Hornet. Once you obtain the Mothwing Cloak and Mantis Claw allowing you to dash and climb walls respectively, you're free to go in several directions, though this is less apparent for first-time players. Shortly thereafter you'll meet Hornet at the Hollow Knight memorial in the City of Tears, giving you a goal, and marking the point where the game kicks the crutch from under your feet and opening up almost all of Hallownest to explore. A second instance is obtaining the Dream Nail from your first visit in the Resting Grounds, where you're now free to challenge Dream Bosses, open up new areas, and the location of the three Dreamers get added to your map.
Opening the Sandbox / int_f97683ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Opening the Sandbox / int_f97683ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Hollow Knight (Video Game)	hasFeature	Opening the Sandbox / int_f97683ef

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Alter A.I.L.A. (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Angry Birds (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
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Banjo-Tooie (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Brain Lord (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Candy box! (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Chained Echoes (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Deathloop (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Digimon World (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Disney Dreamlight Valley (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Dragon Quest II (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Dragon Quest VI (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Dungeon Encounters (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Dungeons & Dragons Online (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Endless Ocean (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
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Final Fantasy XII (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Freelancer (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Galaxy on Fire (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Ge.ne.sis (2009) (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Glory of Heracles IV: Gift from the Gods (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Go Vacation (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Immortals Fenyx Rising (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Jet Force Gemini (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Knytt Underground (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
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Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
LEGO Dimensions (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Light & Darkness: Heroes of Calradia (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
MARDEK (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Megami Tensei (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Metal Walker (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Metroid (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Metroid II: Return of Samus (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Monster Girl Island (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
MySims Kingdom (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Octopath Traveler (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Ōkami (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Pikmin (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
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PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Project Downfall (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Psychonauts 2 (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Quest 64 (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
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Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Rave Heart (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Shadowrun (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Silent Hill: Downpour (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
Space Rangers (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
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Super Mario Maker (Video Game) / int_4ac55d49	type	Opening the Sandbox
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