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Overworld Not to Scale

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Overworld Not to Scale	comment	A traversable representation of a Video Game's region at large, or 'overworld', slightly abstracted and depicted at a much smaller scale than the other areas of the game, so that the player can travel between distant areas faster than they could if it were all depicted "to scale". That distant town that's said to be 100 miles up yonder mountain range? You'll get there in just a few minutes of walking by map. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Largely an RPG trope, made famous by Eastern-style RPG's like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy where (especially in the days of tile-and-sprite based 2D graphics) the party character(s) were always rendered the same onscreen size, regardless of the overworld map's actual scale. Like other areas in the game, the player is free to travel pretty much anywhere on this map they have access to, with Chokepoint Geography being the only (or at least primary) thing to prevent them from potential Sequence Breaking (no, you can't walk around that plot-important town to reach the mountain range behind it). Also like other areas of the game, expect to be ambushed by Random Encounters as you travel across it. For the sake of convenience, most of these maps ultimately 'wrap around' in all four directions; that is, if you can travel indefinitely in the same direction, you'll end up looping back to where you started. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Don't expect to find many scripted events or NPC's to interact with, or places to shop (or rest and heal) directly on the overworld map — this world map exists for Travelling at the Speed of Plot between point A and B, nothing more. So if you know you're about to embark on a long, cross-continent trip, better stock up (and save your game) before you leave town. On the other hand, many RPG's will allow you to save your game anywhere on this map, where you'd otherwise have to find a specific Save Point to do the job. Note that despite its small scale, traveling between two very distant destinations can still take awhile (mostly due to aforementioned Random Encounters) — one of the reasons you can look forward to getting your hands on a Warp Whistle or Global Airship. If the game reveals that there is a second world (dark or otherwise) or time period with its own map, see Alternate World Map. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Compare The Overworld proper which is more detailed and closer to scale, and Point-and-Click Map, which is abstracted even more, and you basically just click on the destination you wish to enter. For even one more step in the abstract direction (popular with non-RPG games) to the point that the map is essentially cosmetic trimming, see "Risk"-Style Map. Tangentially related to Units Not to Scale, which is more of a Strategy Game trope than RPG. See also Thriving Ghost Town. Not to be confused with the Fantasy World Map often included in works of literature set in a Constructed World.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_14d341dc	comment	In Star Trek Online, ships are huge in sector space compared to stars and planets, planets are huge compared to their stars, and everything is huge compared to space itself (the stars ought to be pinpricks compared to each other at the distances given, and nothing else even ought to be visible). Justified: Sector space is implied to be a depiction of an actual map in your ship's stellar cartography or astrometrics lab, rather than what someone on your ship would actually see out the window as you travel. This was made a bit less severe with the revamping of sector space in Season 10.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_1a7918e3	comment	In Terranigma, Walking the Earth (the Earth) is made easy by the small-scale overworld, with Chokepoint Geography being the only obstacle to travel.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_2d644371	comment	The Tales Series, excepting Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World and Tales of Xillia, which use a Point-and-Click Map instead.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun also features it: the first game only takes place on one-and-a-half continent with no other means of transportation than your feet, but the second lets you visit the entire flat world (aside from the parts available in the first): after a while, you gain a Cool Boat, then wings to put on your boat, then a Teleport Psynergy in the Very Definitely Final Dungeon.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_5c66fff9	comment	Neverwinter Nights 2 got an overworld of this type in its second expansion Storm of Zehir. Random encounters and the party are modeled very much out of scale with the map and the locations, though at the start of an encounter the action shifts to a smaller map of correct scale.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_5d056e18	comment	The Glory of Heracles games have world maps as such. Uniquely, the world map in Glory of Heracles III does not loop around, and at one point in the game, you have to fly off of the world map entirely to reach the Underworld.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_5e50079	comment	Lunarosse has its world map as such. It's mostly notable if you pay attention to how long ocean voyages are supposed to take once you get your ship. A ride to the nearest continent from your island base is supposedly an hour and a trip between two continents is indicated to take a day, yet you can accomplish both within seconds if you know where you're going.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_6c1234ed	comment	In adventurer mode of Dwarf Fortress, you can walk from one town to the next by walking in fully zoomed-in modenote and if you want to cross a mountain range, you must do it this way, and it will take the same amount of in-game time as walking across the fully zoomed-out map, so in this case it really is nothing more than a convenience for the player (not just in saving in real-world time, but also in navigating across long distances). When near or in a town/city, the "overworld" map has a zoom-factor between the two extremes, letting you see the overall layout of the town and letting you quickly move down long streets (though you still have to shift down to the to-PC-scale map to do anything but move).
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_7529056	comment	Super Mario World uses this, and it gets a homage in both Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game and I Wanna Be the Guy: Gaiden.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_7988cb68	comment	In Mass Effect, you control a planet-sized Normandy as you go around the galaxy doing stuff.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_83f8495b	comment	Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is a fairly straight example, in keeping with its RPG Elements: About the only purpose it serves is to connect existing locations, with occasional wandering monsters to harass you. In fact, the entire map of the previous game fits into a small plot of land south of Death Mountain.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_9c3ad747	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword use a hybrid approach; you can freely go pretty much anywhere the ocean water (or train tracks, or sky) permits you, and there are a few things to keep you occupied (like shooting rocks or monsters) in the process, but these maps exist primarily to facilitate travel, and most actual gameplay interaction is inside each given destination.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_a2dee471	comment	Averted in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: The ocean is depicted at the same scale as the islands occupying it, leading to long sequences of sailing across blue waves from point A to B with nothing but the occasional monster harassing you (or ocean storm) to break up the voyage with. The Wii U remake makes travel faster, though.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_a4e6a00a	comment	Skies of Arcadia has you literally fly around the overworld in whatever airship you have at the time. It's the only time you can save freely, the world itself is scaled down to fit, and it's actually notoriously bad about the high random encounter rate, which the Gamecube port fixed a bit.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_a606596a	comment	Chrono Cross is set entirely on a single archipelago, so its map is limited to the archipelago, but it is freely explorable (and with no Random Encounters!) and there are a variety of destinations.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_a68c19b8	comment	In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, this is actually where almost the entire game takes place: while the characters appear at reasonable size within the castle, that's just a base for preparations and the arena, with the vast majority of the game taking place directly on the massive overworld. Without Fight Wooshes, the units fight tactically across the map squares, and Word of God is that players should assume that each unit actually represents a whole battalion of soldiers.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_a7b43431	comment	Games created with Unlimited Adventures can include "overland" levels, which is basically a big, static map with a white token representing the player party which can be moved around.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_a81325d3	comment	The Final Fantasy series has used one in most of its games, the first nine in particular. The aversions come from Final Fantasy X (and its sequel), which don't have one - your Global Airship travels by Point-and-Click Map. Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XII don't have any either. The latter game does have distinct world map areas, almost completely bereft of friendly Non Player Characters and littered with monsters to keep you entertained. However, these are entirely to scale. One quickly comes to appreciate the numerous fast-travel options provided when the sidequesting begins in earnest.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_ac0de2f6	comment	Ultima I or Akalabeth (depending on how you figure things; Akalabeth is pretty abstract in how it handles the world map) is probably the Trope Maker here, unless somebody can come up with something that predates 1981 or 1980, respectively. Starting with Ultima VI, the series' overworlds became to scale and seamless.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_b4622158	comment	Early maps of Rakenzarn Tales worked like this. The day/night cycle did help create the illusion that the distance was bigger than it seemed, but you'd still be plodding through the regions at a fairly fast rate. This was later dropped in version four for a Point-and-Click Map.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_b5cce938	comment	1/1 Heroine (or RPG Heroine Who Looks Giant On The World Map But Actually Is That Big) is an animation series that subverts this. As the title implies, YUU-chan really is as big as she appears to be on the overworld. Hilarity ensues as she ends up in typical RPG situations that don't account for this size change, like fighting Mooks that are smaller than her heels, or recruiting party members that are regular-sized and trying to find a good role for them.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger has the world map loop at the edges, giving the impression that what you see is the entire world (and shaped like a donut).
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_d557c9a2	comment	The Lufia series uses this, too.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_da72cf97	comment	The Legend of Heroes "Trails" series uses an interesting variation: it avoids making the entire world seem too small by limiting its various game sub-series to typically single countries or parts of countries, like the Liberl Kingdom, the Crossbell Free State, etc. and making the "overworld" seem more conventionally walkable, with multiple zone maps between towns. However, the zone maps themselves are still not quite to scale; as one example, the first trip the Crossbell hero team takes out of the city is a walk that will take about 10-15 minutes of playtime, while the narrative treats it as if it was a multi-hour hike that leaves two team members — a former dilettante and a computer science nerd — completely exhausted, and even the other two fairly winded.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest is the Japanese Trope Codifier, using some variation of it in almost every game to the series. Averted with Dragon Quest VIII, whose world map is drawn to roughly the same scale as the areas inside it. You can still explore pretty much anything you can access on foot, and you do have a Warp Whistle (the "Zoom" spell) at your disposal from early in the game.
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Overworld Not to Scale / int_e701d3ad	comment	Quest 64 has what could be considered a world map, but it's built to the same scale as the rest of the game instead of being shrunken down (as in, say, Final Fantasy VII). Played straight in the Game Boy port Quest RPG, though.
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