Endless Corridor: Difference between revisions

A corridor is very, very long. No, longer than that. No, longer than ''that''.

 

 

Compare with [[Scooby-Dooby Doors]] and games with [[World Shapes|looping]] [[World Map|world/nation/kingdom maps]].

 

'''Hallway variety'''

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': In the dental plan episode, Homer is visiting Burns' mansion and has to use the bathroom, so he asks and is told it's the 23rd door on the left.

** There's also a [[Couch Gag]] where they chase the couch as it disappears to infinity down one of these.

** And they indeed are. To make them finite, you have to remove the first bit of the "Infinite Corridor" sign above the entrance.

** [[Truth in Television]]: GUE Tech is based on MIT, which has an "Infinite Corridor" (actually 815 feet long).

* Speaking of stairways, ''[[Prince of Persia]]: The Sands Of Time'' has a looong one towards the end, descending this time. It's part of some kind of spiritual magic-induced dream sequence that culminates with {{spoiler|The Prince making love to Farah}}.

* ''[[No More Heroes]]'': The path to the Rank 5 fight is literally a long, long, long hallway.

* The hallways of Eientei in the [[Touhou Project]] game ''Imperishable Night'' were made this way through either eternity manipulation or inducing madness on the protagonists (depending on the stage). The ones made by the former do end, but only because the one who created it decided to just screw it already. It isn't known whether the latter would have been infinite, as the player characters go through an open door.

* The hallway before the final battle in ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' is intended to invoke this, although it's not as long as most examples if the player chooses to run to the end (although they will miss most of the heartbreaking disembodied conversation that plays during the trek).

* ''[[Ultima VII Part II]]'' featured one as a trap in a certain dungeon. Unlike other hallways, this one became endless in either direction. The exit is an invisible side-passage.

* [[The Haunted Mansion]] in the Disney theme parks uses mirrors to create the impression of one of these.

* When in Faerieland in ''[[Neopets]]: the Darkest Faerie'', You have to go down an endless stairway. It seems like it goes on forever, until you realise the fact the statues point the way to the exit.

* The final level of the new version of ''[[Eversion]]'' dispenses with the random eversions of the previous games' final level and throws you into a series of looping corridors, starting with Layer 8 and having to find eversion points after in order to progress through the level until you reach Layer 1. If you missed an eversion point along the way, the part of the level you're currently on loops until you can find it and move on to the next part.

** ''The Lost Levels'' also does this with some of its overworld levels, e.g. 7-2 and 8-2. In the former, you take a pipe to get out, in the latter, you have to climb a hard-to-reach beanstalk.

* In ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 5'' Atlantic City's boardwalk is infinitely long (supposedly), and it will take you the same time to get back as it did to get out there.

* The Woods level in ''[[Mickey Mousecapade]]'' consists of looping corridors where you must shoot the trees to find the secret door to the next section, and in the Winter area, the true door doesn't appear until you loop at least once.

* ''[[Police Quest]] III'' has a [[Game Breaking Bug]] that can cause you to get stuck on an endless highway.

* [[The Path]] has a few examples. First, you can try running away from the house, but each time you pass the telephone, you are somehow pulled back. In the the house, there are two corridors that appear to be short, but suddenly extend when you enter.

 

'''Desert variety'''

** Made particularly evil by the fact that a) there are ''false stars'', and b) you're given the directions verbally, and then given a note with the directions to take with you. ''The written directions are wrong'', and unless you're paying attention, you'll ''never'' notice. Finally, the desert is not an enemy-free zone, and every battle screws up your direction.

* Used in [http://xkcd.com/505/ this] ''XKCD'' strip.

** The dungeon you unlock by beating a Oracle of Seasons/Ages linked game is also like this. If you don't know what you're doing you'll end up wandering the halls forever (unless you're damn lucky). To proceed you need to go through the door that none of the eyes look at (it makes sense when you actually see it).

* The forest mazes in the NES ''[[Metal Gear]]''. And there are no hints anywhere in the game for the correct paths, [[Guide Dang It]]!

* In ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'''s Forest World, if you try to go back through the gate after digging up the key, the same room keeps repeating. You have to leave the key in the apartment, then come back for it through a different hole in the level.

* If you try to pass through the Sleeping Forest without first excavating the Lunar Harp in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', the first screen repeats endlessly whenever you try to move forward.

 

'''Other/Miscellaneous'''

* ''Jade Cocoon'' has the Eternal Corridor which you can keep playing until Corridor 255 at which the game freezes.