The game makes excellent use of some key bonfires to make it relatively easy to get to Andre (who is right under the bonfire for both the Gargoyles and Sen’s Fortress), and the Lower Burg, the Depths, and Blighttown are all not too far from Firelink via shortcut, which connects up to the Parish and back to Andre. The areas are interconnected and have shortcuts that lead back to Firelink. You can make some treks outside of this concentration of areas for sidequests, but warping isn’t nearly as important as it is when the adult quest covers areas all over Hyrule that may require switching between the two time periods (having to walk all the way from the Gerudo Desert to the Temple of Time and back, if that were even possible, would be unforgivable).ĭark Souls pre-Lordvessel also doesn’t mandate warping. Death Mountain is near Hyrule Castle, and Zora’s Domain is just south of Death Mountain. You start out in Kokiri Forest and the Deku Tree, the first dungeon, is literally next door.
The child quest in Ocarina of Time doesn’t actually cover that much ground in Hyrule. Ocarina of Time, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls II all feature warping - I would never make the argument that any of these games shouldn’t have warping, there is way too much shit to deal with to not be able to cut down travel time - but there’s a significance to the portions in Dark Souls and Ocarina of Time where you don’t have the ability to warp. Warping in Ocarina of Time and Dark Souls is a convenience It also doesn’t introduce any mobility since warping has been available from the start. Up to that point you’ve pretty much explored the corners of Drangleic and the King’s Ring only opens up a few more areas. The pivot doesn’t make the world feel larger either. The player doesn’t meet Nashandra until much later into the game, and the amount of game left after that is significantly smaller than the amount of game prior. The exact moment of the plot twist is a bit shaky since the signs beforehand are numerous and the exact moment of reveal at the end of the game that Nashandra is evil is not nearly as powerful as the moment where the player meets Vendrick and he is non-hostile, hollowed and wandering aimlessly. In Dark Souls II, the pivot is at Drangleic Castle where the player meets Nashandra and is directed to find and retrieve the King’s Ring from Vendrick. The plot hasn’t twisted, yet, and you’re still going after the fate of the Undead, but it has been migrated from ringing two bells to learn of that fate to collecting lord souls and putting them in the Lordvessel to fulfill that fate. In Dark Souls, the pivot is when the player talks to the Princess. In Ocarina of Time, the pivot is the moment where Link becomes an adult, because the quest opens up and changes venues to reflect the new world, but the primary objective, stopping Ganondorf, is still there. A plot twist recontextualizes previous events, whereas the pivot is the moment where the main objective changes and the quest goes in another direction, but is essentially the same quest. I think the best way to make that assessment is by thinking about where in Dark Souls II the “pivot” is, and whether it happens before or after the halfway point in the game.Ī game doesn’t need a pivot - there isn’t one in Demon’s Souls - and the pivot is not the same as a plot twist there isn’t a significant plot twist in Ocarina of Time, but there is an obvious pivot. There’s been much discussion about whether or not the decision to unlock warping from the start in Dark Souls II was a good one. Examining the “Pivot” in Dark Souls and Zelda They also represent a moment in the game where the main quest changes to encompass the rest of the game. These two items represent in their respective games the world becoming much larger while also being easier to traverse. Acquiring the Lordvessel unlocks the ability to warp around the world between key bonfires and finally, after placing the Lordvessel, the world further opens up to the player. Similarly, in Dark Souls the Lordvessel is given to the player after they reach the Princess in Anor Londo, which is preceded by a shorter portion of the main quest centered around ringing the Bells of Awakening to learn the fate of the Undead and proving yourself to be the Chosen Undead by making it through Sen’s Fortress.
Once you lift the Master Sword out of the pedestal in the Temple of Time and move forward to adulthood, the latter portion of the game opens up and the player can learn songs for the Ocarina that allows them to warp to different areas enabling much quicker movement around Hyrule. In Ocarina of Time, the titular item in the game shows up after you’ve completed the child portion of the main questline and proven yourself worthy of the Master Sword. (This is a repost of an article I wrote for the Dark Insight blog, with some minor adjustments)
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