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* If you can count ''Animal Crossing'', then ''[[My Sims]]'' is another example. The town proper is where you start, and where you spend a lot of time, given that your workshop is there, and the only way to the other sections ({{spoiler|the forest and the desert}}).
* Toad Town in ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]''. Sure, you don't get to explore it much the first time you're there, as you automatically go right to the castle, but after you return, it's pretty much the hub to all other locations.
** Rogueport in ''[[Paper Mario:
** Flipside {{spoiler|and Flopside}} in ''[[Super Paper Mario]].''
** ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' has the return of Toad Town (although it's not explicitly called that) as its very first area that you explore.
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* This happens in about half the Infinity Engine games. In ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', Sigil is not just the First Town but also where you find the portal to the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]], despite traipsing all over the planes since starting, and is easily the largest area in the game. ''[[Icewind Dale]] II'' features the walled city of Targos, which you defend from an attack, and then venture from, and then return to; it makes up at least the first third of the game. ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldurs Gate]] II'' has Athkatla, a big city that for as much as half the game will serve as your base of operations.
** More specifically in Sigil the Hive serves as the First Town, while in ''Baldur's Gate'' the town of Beregost is likely to be this: It has some of the best stores early on, and more quests than any other early area until you get to the titular metropolis. Alternatively, Candlekeep also qualifies.
* Played with in ''[[My World, My Way]]''. The big castle the princess lives in is actually ''named'' "First Town", but you don't get to do any sort of interaction there (other than traveling between lands and the occasional cutscene wherein the princess ''doesn't'' get her way). The actual First Town that fits the trope is called "Grass Town".
* Averted in ''[[Arcanum:
* In ''[[The Witcher]]'' the "First Town" is a village on the outskirts of the character's destination city; it's cursed, corrupt, fraught with more danger than the city, and it's left in ruins by the player character. The sleepy pastoral village comes later halfway through the game.
* The village of Tenuto in ''[[Eternal Sonata]]''. Talk about sleepy pastoral villages! The narrator in one of the opening [[Cutscene|cutscenes]] informs us that it's also called "The Village of Flowers". Although gameplay doesn't start there, it ''does'' start on the path to Tenuto. You leave it fairly early and don't return for a while, though.
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