History Main / FastForwardMechanic

** FinalFantasyXV had a lot of driving in the car. After you've been to a parking lot before, you gain the ability to fast travel. However, time still progresses. It's been joking as this mechanic is just Noctis falling asleep in the car while Ignis is driving.

* ''VideoGame/{{Orbiter}}'' features buttons for accelerating and deccelarating time by a factor of 10, which is going to be neccessary unless you want to spend hours performing orbital maneuvers or days on interplanetary transits.

* ''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 LoadsAndLoadsOfSidequests as well as giving them an easier time at changing the weather to their liking, which is necessary to get some of the rare monsters to appear.

Often accompanied by SpinningClockHands. Compare WarpWhistle and SprintShoes for passing over pointless space. Related to TimePassesMontage. A {{subtrope}} of AntiFrustrationFeatures.

* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite 2'': {{Downplayed|Trope}}. AGodIsYou, and you can adjust the in-universe day/night cycle at will, but that ability doesn't actually cause events on Earth to fast-forward; NPCScheduling just picks up at the new time of day.

* In ''TheLastStand3UnionCity'', when your character finds a bed in a building you can sleep for a specific number of hours to increase your Sleep stat.

* ''Videogame/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).

* ''Videogame/{{Persona}}'': Time periods (e.g. Evening, Afternoon) that can be skipped to by entering your home base or going to bed, in the following games in the series:

* ''Videogame/{{Persona 3}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' use time periods (e.g. Evening, Afternoon) that can be skipped to by entering your home base or going to bed. ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' also lets you "fast forward" through dialogue, and even imposes VHS fast forward effects on the screen.
* VideoGame/ChronoCross gives the player the ability to speed up and slow down the gameplay once they've beaten the game at least once.
** As does ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' during cutscenes--simply hold L or R.
** As does ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' 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 the international version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', there's a "speed up" button that simply causes the game to play at double speed. The remastered HD verizon also adds quadruple speed.
* The Steam version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' and the HD remaster of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' has a feature where you can double the game speed.

* In ''VideoGame/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.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s beds can be slept on to set your spawn point and skip the nighttime, but only nighttime and when there are no monsters around. Also, you can't use them in the Nether – [[MadeOfExplodium they blow up as soon as you place them]].

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

* The act of waiting in ''Franchise/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.

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Link can progress the time to morning, noon or night by sleeping in a bed or inn, or by gazing into a campfire. The latter doesn't restore hearts, however.

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

** 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.