>>55392624>forced to visit the large city in the middle constantlyIt's not that bad since it's only three times and only the last one truly feels like backtracking.
>a bunch of dead-ends for no reasonOnly one I can remember is that empty cave at the end of the water route but I think it's supposed to be for some kind of event.
>>55392661>picFalse equivalence and you know it.
Bottom one outright tells that you can't go there and nothing implies otherwise.
Top one has multiple doors telling you that you need a pass to open and after you find the pass, you can only open one door with it and the other doors mysteriously change to tell you that they won't open.