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This is always [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]. The teleportation here has no bearing on the plot; its only purpose is to reduce player fatigue. It can become a problem, however, if the player becomes overreliant on it and constantly skips over an area where something plot-critical has changed, or overlooks some detail of a particular room because they never spend any time there.
Compare [[Door to Before]], a shortcut to a previous location, [[Global Airship]], a vehicle that can get you to any part of the [[World Map]] quickly, [[Warp Whistle]], an in-game teleportation device between fixed areas, and [[Sprint Shoes]], an item required to make Dash Mode work. See also [[Run, Don't Walk]], a tendency in later games for characters to just run everywhere.
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== [[Role Playing Game]] ==
* A large number of RPGs, especially [[Eastern RPG|Eastern RPGs]], utilize some form of Dash Mode, usually offering an alternative between run and walk modes. Games which don't offer this usually expect you to [[Run, Don't Walk]].
* All Infinity Engine games had the issue of characters taking ''very long'' to leisurely walk across vast locations, so ''[[Planescape Torment]]'' added the option to make all characters run while not in combat. It was enabled by default.
* In ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'', party members told to hold position will later teleport to your controlled character's location when taken off hold (if they are far enough away). Since you can change which character you control at any time, this can make for some easier exploring and backtracking in some areas, though it is disabled in combat. Even more strangely, however, a rogue can stealth through groups of enemies and then teleport his allies to his location. All this despite being told that there is [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|no such thing as teleportation in-universe]].
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