LogFAQs > #904895907

Backtraking is unavoidable, and imo is hardly the problem. The problem lies in the fact that you may have found yourself in a dead end that is obvious that you need to use an ability you don't have yet, to earn that ability 10 in game hours later and don't remember exactly where that dead end was. If the player can somehow mark the map to remember where to come back later, I think it would make things 1000 times better.