Best Video Games for fast travel convenience

#1

Fast travel is praised as well-designed, plentiful, and fast.

#2

Fast travel is strongly praised as instantaneous or highly respectful of the player’s time.

#3

Fast travel is repeatedly praised for making revisits, secret hunting, and post-completion cleanup smoother rather than tedious.

#4

Fast travel and biome teleporting were widely praised as major quality-of-life improvements that reduce tedium.

#5

Fast travel convenience was repeatedly praised for cutting down backtracking and making quest cleanup faster.

#6

One expansion review praised War Plans for saving players from searching the large map.

#7

Fast travel was viewed positively because Eelevators helped players revisit missed content conveniently.

#8

Fast travel convenience receives limited but positive evidence through outposts and houses that make map movement easier.

#9

Fast travel convenience was praised when reviewers discussed bat form and dialogue skipping improving pace and movement around town.

#10

Fast travel is praised in one review for reducing backtracking tedium through well-marked routes.

#11

Fast travel is useful and convenient through the Magellan and waypoint systems, though some restrictions and grading tradeoffs remain.

#12

Fast travel and mount convenience were useful and often praised, though some reviewers felt autopilot or porting reduced exploration and agency.

#13

Fast travel convenience is mixed, with praise for resuming from checkpoints but criticism that players cannot freely warp inside levels.

#14

Fast travel opinions were mixed: one reviewer praised dynamic events, while another found it cumbersome and interruption-prone.

#15

Fast travel convenience is mixed because Shelter return points are useful, but one reviewer wished travel worked between hatches instead of only back to Shelter.

#16

Fast travel convenience was one of the few quality-of-life choices criticized for reducing tension and undermining dungeon-exit magic.

#17

Fast travel was useful only after unlocking points; before then, one reviewer felt they ran around aimlessly.

#18

Reviewer evidence is negative or mixed: fast travel convenience was often criticized, even where some reviewers found redeeming moments across 3 review(s).

#19

Fast travel was specifically criticized as awkward and cumbersome compared with modern RPG expectations.

#20

The lack of fast travel frustrated one reviewer who otherwise accepted revisiting environments as part of Metroid.