History Main / FastForwardMechanic

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Chulip}}'', sleeping would automatically put you at 8:00 in the morning the next day until your alarm clock is fixed; then you can awaken yourself at some other time.
** Reading comics also fast forwards time.
* Frontier versions of ''VideoGame/{{Elite}}'' has time scale buttons. Aside of long interplanetary travel, you may use them to check Newtonian mechanics of the game -- if your ship is on a proper elliptical orbit, it's quite visible under high time rate.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'''s Konquest mode has an option that lets Shujinko meditate to pass time much more quickly. Useful because certain goodies only appear at certain times of the day.

** The "Song of Passing" ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' does the same, and sound wise, appears the same as the Sun's Song, just under a new name.[[hottip:*:And in some translations (like the French one), it kept the old name.]]

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* In the international version of FinalFantasyXII, there's a "speed up" button that simply causes the game to play at double speed.

** As does FinalFantasyXIII-2 once the player collects all the fragments. This also applies to ingame voices, and despite what the game claims, all non-FMV cutscenes as well.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Chulip}}'', sleeping would automatically put you at 8:00 in the morning the next day until you bought an alarm clock to awaken yourself at some other time.

* The act of waiting in ''Videogame/TheElderScrolls'' series allows the player to skip any amount of hours in-game. You can also sleep for the same effect, although the purpose of doing so is usually to get bonuses.

When an InUniverseGameClock forces the player to wait for several [[strike: hours]] minutes in the game to progress to the next task, you're going to have angry gamers. How do you solve this issue? Add a time skip device! One use and the wait time will pass in an instant.

* In ''SeikenDensetsu3'', if you stop at a TraumaInn during the day, you have the option to be awakened in the evening or next morning, though this is rarely a concern for progressing through the StoryArc.
* In ''{{Castlevania 64}}'', the Sun and Moon cards can be used to advance the current time so you can (among other things) have certain timed encounters and battle vampires during the day when they're weaker.

* In ''DeadlyPremonition'', York can smoke cigarettes to make time pass more quickly. Also, any bed will allow him to sleep for three, six, nine, or twelve hours at a time.

* TheAdventuresOfWillyBeamish has the ability to skip ahead an hour at a time. This allows the player to get to events when nothing else is new. However, be careful with this function, as it is possible to fast forward yourself into a HaveANiceDeath.

* In ''{{Chulip}}'', sleeping would automatically put you at 8:00 in the morning the next day until you bought an alarm clock to awaken yourself at some other time.

* ''MortalKombat: Deception'''s Konquest mode has an option that lets Shujinko meditate to pass time much more quickly. Useful because certain goodies only appear at certain times of the day.

* ''Videogame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''FalloutNewVegas'' both have a "Wait" action (both use the same engine as the contempery Elder Scrolls games mentioned above).

* This mechanic is used frequently in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series:
** The "Sun's Song" in ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' moves time to the next dusk/dawn.

* This mechanic is used frequently in ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series:

** In ''Videogame/DragonQuestVIII'', you can stay at an inn until either sunset or sunrise, in case you wish to interact with NPCs who only appear during the day or night.

* ChronoCross gives the player the ability to speed up and slow down the gameplay once they've beaten the game at least once.

* ''Videogame/{{Xenoblade}}'' allows the player to skip to any time in-game by an option in the menu. This greatly helps to find the {{Non Player Character}}s that show up at specific times for the loads and loads of sidequests.

* The act of resting in ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' allows the player to skip any amount of hours in-game.
* ''Videogame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''FalloutNewVegas'' both have a "Wait" action.

* In ''[[Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', pressing select will put up a feature in which you decide how many hours you want to wait. The current time should be somewhere at the bottom-left corner of the box.

* In ''[[Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim {{Skyrim}}]]'', pressing select will put up a feature in which you decide how many hours you want to wait. The current time should be somewhere at the bottom-left corner of the box.

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* ''{{Okami}}'' features brush techniques to bring day and night. The technique to call the sun is learned in the first hour of gameplay, the one to call the moon is learned only after about a dozen hours of gameplay.

* ''QuestForGlory'' allows you to rest your Hero in intervals from 10-60 game minutes, or "until morning" (in the first game, this could easily trigger HaveANiceDeath on the assumption that some monster killed you while you slept if you did so out in the wild).

* In the ''EndlessOcean'' games, a location is provided to allow the player to move rapidly to another time of day and forwards in time with regards to things like missions.

* ''MineCraft'' has a bed feature which can skip the night-time portion of a day cycle.

* The ''BreathOfFire'' series gives the main character a spell to do this.
* ''DragonQuest'' features time skips in some installments:
** ''DragonQuestIII'' had the 'lamp of darkness' that instantly turned day to night.
** In ''DragonQuestVIII'', you can stay at an inn until either sunset or sunrise, in case you wish to interact with NPCs who only appear during the day or night.

* ''{{Persona 3}}'' and ''{{Persona 4}}'' work like this, using time periods (i.e Evening, Afternoon) that can be skipped to.

* The act of resting in ''TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' allows the player to skip any amount of hours in-game.
* ''{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''FalloutNewVegas'' both have a "Wait" action.

* In ''{{Skyrim}}'', pressing select will put up a feature in which you decide how many hours you want to wait. The current time should be somewhere at the bottom-left corner of the box.

* A webcomic example occurs in ''TheOrderOfTheStick'', as seen [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0155.html here]].
* Near the end of ''EightBitTheater'', as the heroes are trying to perform a task within a time limit, Fighter meanwhile [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/01/07/episode-1208-what-fighter-did/ goes to the inn to rest, advancing the clock several hours forward]]. Then he [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2010/01/14/episode-1210-early-mourning/ does it one more time]], obviously sapping his teammates out of their meager time remaining.

* In ''Videogame/TheLastStand3UnionCity'', when your character finds a bed in a building you can sleep for a specific number of hours to increase your Sleep stat.
* This is one of Joe's powers in the ''Videogame/ViewtifulJoe'' series.

* ''QuestForGlory'' allows you to rest your Hero in intervals from 10-60 game minutes, or "until morning" (in the first game, this could easily trigger HaveANiceDeath on the assumption that some monster killed you while you slept).

** The "Song of Passing" ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' does the same, and sound wise, appears the same as the Sun's Song, just under a new name.

** In ''TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', you can make Link sleep in a bed either until morning or night. Your hearts regenerate as you sleep.