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An [[RPG]] trope, especially console RPGs. See also [[Warp Whistle]] and [[Hub Level]].

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== Action Adventure Games ==

== Video Game Examples ==

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=== Action Adventure Games ===

* ''[[Terranigma]]'' gave you an airplane for this purpose. In a nod to reality, you have to touch down at airports (which you must help create.)

* The [[Donkey Kong Country]] series gave you an airplane also through Funky's Flights. You can only take off from Funky Kong's airports but you can land anywhere you've been before.

== Adventure Games ==

=== Adventure Games ===

* About halfway through ''[[Little Big Adventure]]'', you get to purchase your own catamaran which allows you to sail the entire southern hemisphere for free. Once reaching the northern hemisphere, you meet a flying dinosaur which will take you nearly anywhere in the northern hemisphere.

* [[King's Quest VII the Princeless Bride|King's Quest VII]]: In a late chapter, Valanice gets a magic flute that can summon lord Tsepish's horse Necromancer, which can take her from anywhere in the game to Etheria, from where she can travel to any of the game's major locations.

== Hack and Slash ==

=== Hack and Slash ===

* You start with a Global Airship in ''[[Drakengard]]'' (you have ''a dragon'', after all), but due to [[Convenient Questing]] it paradoxically doesn't matter if you can go everywhere.

== Miscellaneous Games ==

=== Miscellaneous Games ===

* ''[[Half Minute Hero]]'' pays homage to this by giving you a dragon late in the game, complete with a [[wikipedia:Mode 7|Mode 7]] [[Retraux|imitation effect]] while you're riding it.

* The Gyrocopter in [[Donkey Kong Country]] 3, which opens up a few areas and allows you to obtain the complete ending.

== MMORPGs ==

=== MMORPGs ===

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has flying mounts that players at level 60 or above can purchase. Recently they have become a correct example of that trope, as now you can fly across the whole explorable world, not only Northrend and Outland.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has flying mounts that players at level 60 or above can purchase. Recently{{when}} they have become a correct example of that trope, as now you can fly across the whole explorable world, not only Northrend and Outland.

== Role-Playing Games ==

=== Role-Playing Games ===

* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series [[Alternate Continuity|don't share a world]] for the most part, but one of the recurring parallels is a character named Cid, who provides an airship in the late game.

** ...except in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', where Balthier's airship was a prototype model scheduled to be scrapped, but he obtained it before Archades could do so. But the building of the ship itself was probably on Cid's orders. {{spoiler|Seeing as Balthier is ''related'' to Cid, this is probably close enough.}}

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* ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]'' At the halfway point in the game the party will set to tame a wild Synard. After taming it, it will act as a flying transport that can quickly take you to any location on Nede (except [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|one]], which is conveniently blocked off by a force field), and will avoid all random encounters.

== Shoot Em Ups ==

=== Shoot Em Ups ===

* In ''[[Star Control]] 2'', [[Subspace or Hyperspace|hyperspace]] travel between planets is equivalent to a normal RPG's wilderness travel between towns, complete with [[Random Encounters]]. One particular alien race, if befriended, gives the player character advanced technology allowing access to a different type of hyperspace (called "QuasiSpace") where travel is faster, more fuel-efficient, and Random Encounter-free; the catch is that although you can enter QuasiSpace from anywhere, you can only leave in one of about 20 pre-defined locations, and must continue from there the normal way. One of the pre-defined locations is, naturally, right near [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]].

== Simulation Games ==

=== Simulation Games ===

* ''[[Tradewinds]]: Legends'' has several inland 'ports' which can only be visited by the flying dragon-ships acquired late in story mode, and are necessary to complete the plot. Unfortunately, since you are a pirate/trader captain whose entire fleet travels together, it's necessary to spend a while saving up to replace ''all'' your sailing ships with airships. And that's without even mentioning the expensive upgrades they need so they don't get instantly <s>sunk</s> shot down.

== Wide Open Sandbox ==

=== Wide Open Sandbox ===

* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'', Brucie's friendship bonus is a helicopter airlift to anywhere on the map. However, the game has several other public transport options including trains and taxis, so while the chopper is a fair bit faster it's not revolutionary.

** Similarly, the stagecoach in ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]''.

=== Non-Video Game Examples ===

== Non-Video Game Examples ==

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===

* ''[[Eberron]]'' has a family/guild of Airship users.