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{{trope}}
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In an [[RPG]], the time will eventually come when you've done all you can on the continent you start out on. Since you know that you're eventually going to have to visit every location on your [[Fantasy World Map]], there's nothing to be done for it except to head to the nearest [[Port Town]] and find someone to ferry you to the next continent so that you can continue with the adventure.
The game will usually require you to perform some sort of [[Fetch Quest]] before it will let you [[Get
This is also sometimes a major mode of transport around the [[World Map]], allowing you to travel across the world map much faster (possibly free of [[Random Encounters]]!). In this case, it will inevitably become obsolete once you acquire your [[Global Airship]] later on (unless you can still navigate and dock the boat [[Bubblegloop Swamp|in areas]] [[The Lost Woods|too dense]] for the Airship to make a landing -- but these are few and far between). There are even a few cases where the boat ''is'' the [[Global Airship]], but the player doesn't get the latter functionality until someone gives the boat a major upgrade near the end of the game.
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== Action Adventure ==
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** ...[[But Thou Must!|Except where the King of Red Lions says you can't]].
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== First Person Shooter ==
* Every major mission in ''[[
** The way the boat/helicopter worked required to have a player finish saying a line of dialog before the trigger happened. However, pirate copies released had unimportant audio (and sometimes, all audio) removed from the game due to connection speeds at the time, causing pirates to be in an [[Unwinnable]] situation. Obviously, dialog that never started can never finish. With cheating, the game could be finishable, but not very enjoyable, as this affected all the Infolink conversations, making it very hard to know what you're supposed to be doing.
* Despite being an FPS and not an RPG, the elevators in ''[[
== Four X ==
* ''[[Civilization]]'' is a [[
* The ''[[Europa Universalis]]'' also doe this, as you'll need transport ships to ferry your armies to islands and other continents, as well as faraway countries (it's a lot faster and more convenient than having to slog it on foot through a bunch of foreign provinces).
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== Real Time Strategy ==
* The demo campaign in ''[[
** Of course, Thrall fixes his boats, and sails to the continent of Kalimdor, which he... crashes into. Orcs don't seem to be big on sailing.
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* Arguably overused in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'', where ''four'' space ships with the player onboard end up being gunned down and crashing. One of them is the [[Global Airship]], which actually crashes twice throughout the game.
* Some ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games give you control of the boat, and some don't. They all have one at one point or another, though.
** ''[[
** ''[[
*** And actually getting back on the boat is ''necessary'' to get Aerith's last limit break, at least {{spoiler|while she's still alive.}}
*** ''[[
** Every ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' game, in fact, has a boat that, for some reason, doesn't do what it's supposed to do, or does it in the most roundabout way possible. The only exception is the original ''[[
*** You still get random encounters though, involving everything up to and including Pirates, Flying Sharks, and random horrors of the deep.
** ''[[
** ''[[
*** The trope is initially subverted when the party leaves the first continent originally using underground tunnels. They don't [[Get
** ''[[
** One exception is ''[[
* You had control of the boat in ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'' as well.
* ''[[Vandal Hearts]]''
** ''[[Vandal Hearts]] 2'' has this... but without the boat. {{spoiler|The hero, in fact, flings himself through a closed window into the water.}}
* ''[[Romancing
** Also later on {{spoiler|If you completed the First mummy quest, when you leave the port on the same boat with the merchant selling the corpse on to Melvir, the Mummy will come back to life that night and wreck havoc on the passengers of that boat, failing to inform them makes the fight with the mummy harder since every victim it attacks turns them into the undead, said merchant is the first to die though so you have to fight one other zombie regardless}}
* ''[[Lunar Silver Star Story Complete|Lunar: The Silver Star]]:'' Alex and his friends [[Get
* Done in every game in the ''[[
* ''[[
** ''[[
* In ''[[
* The original ''[[Wild Arms]]'' had a lengthy [[Fetch Quest]] required to convince the merchant ship ''Sweet Candy'' to carry you to where you needed to go. This included the female lead pretending to marry the ship's captain to appease the gods of the sea and fighting off the [[Goldfish Poop Gang]].
** It eventually gets destroyed by a [[Bonus Boss]] and is ironically fixed for your use by the Captain's rival.
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* In the original ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'', Kalas and Xehla used commercial ferries to cross between continents until they saved Diadem, after which the King lent them the use of his personal cruiser as thanks. In the [[Prequel]], Verus gives you the high-tech ''Sfida'' ship after you begin working for him.
* The main characters of ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Blazing Sword'' enlist the help of good-hearted [[Pirate|pirates]] to carry them to the Dread Isle of Valor.
* The original ''[[
** The first game actually closed with Isaac's party Getting On The Boat to set off to find the other two lighthouses. They later meet up with Felix's party in the second game. What exactly happened to Isaac&company, and their boat, following the first game's end is never explained.
** Of course, in the second one, a good part of the plot is centered around your boat. {{spoiler|Meet at the boat, why won't the boat work, who has a boat, fix the boat, take the boat, the boat is stolen, the boat is that guy's, we need the thing to make the boat go, our boat can't go that way right now (twice), your boat needs wings, your boat needs a cannon...}}
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* ''[[Ultima IV]]'' is one of the strongest aversions to this trope. Not only can you reach many of the important places in the game without ships, but once the ships appear, acquiring one is a matter of letting one come to shore and winning an easy battle against its crew. Since the pirates spawn continuously, you can keep stealing their ships and build your own private navy, and it is common to jack a ship just to cross a short distance with less hassle. The game essentially treats ocean-going vessels as quick, disposable transportation, the way ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' treats cars. The only requirement to get a ship is to reach level 4, which does not take much time.
** In ''[[Ultima IX]]'', you will travel between islands in a ship piloted by the story's love interest. Near the end of the game you also learn to sail the ship yourself.
* This is a staple of the ''[[
* In the first two ''[[Paper Mario (
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Earthbound]]'', you can take a ferry...which gets ambushed by {{spoiler|the Kraken}}.
* In the ''[[Sonic Chronicles]]'' RPG, you're frequently hustled onto the (space) ship and on to the next zone upon beating a boss, with the ship usually disabled immediately when you arrive.
* The first three islands in ''[[Albion]]'' are left this way. Before you can do that you must solve a Murder Mystery, Fetch Quest and Racial Conflict fueled by a [[Government Conspiracy]]. The fourth island has a teleporter and a [[Barrier Maiden]] who can use it.
* Inverted in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] III: [[Morrowind]]''. The game starts as the player is a prisoner on a boat headed to the titular province, once there you get off the boat and it goes away. Smaller boats offer some local transportation as well, but they're more of a [[Warp Whistle]].
* While the boat in ''[[
** And Mr. Briney's boat serves as Ye Boat for the [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
** Actually ''subverted'' in the [[Pokémon Red and Blue
* Common in the ''[[Phantasy Star]]'' series, although given the sci-fi fantasy setting the "boat" is as likely to be a hovercraft, ground-based tank or sandcrawler that serves effectively the same purpose, although you still get [[Random Encounters]].
** In ''[[Phantasy Star]] III'', your [[Transforming Mecha|cyborg party member Wren]] becomes this when you find the right parts. He can also turn into a submarine, which is only needed to access one undersea dungeon.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Being based on an [[RPG]], ''[[Pokémon (
== Literature ==
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== Theatre ==
* The entire plot of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/archives/000405.html Pericles, Prince of Tyre]'' revolves around an improbable number of shipwrecks as characters travel from place to place. While not directly related to [[Get
* [[PDQ Bach]]'s ''The Abduction of Figaro'': At the end of first act of the opera, the protagonists set sail, and immediately their ship is seen sinking in the mother-loving sea.
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