\n

I hate it when, partway through a fantasy series, the characters start skipping back and forth between locations that used to take three episodes and multiple frostbitten limbs to bridge. Game of Thrones, The Rings of Power, they all do it. And I get it, because I too cannot resist the temptation of fast travel. We already did the ‘it’s hard to get from this place to that place’ subplot. Why do it again?<\/p>\n

It damages the illusion a little though, doesn’t it? The more the rules of the world are bent, the less weight the whole story seems to have. Some people hated the long boat rides in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. I loved ’em. I used to try to walk across all of EverQuest with low level characters for fun. But like fantasy authors who don’t want to describe the same gusty mountain pass for the third time, when I get the option to fast travel in most games, I take it. How can I resist?<\/p>\n