The Zixzax thing is also clunky because you tend to be zapped away when you were in the middle of something, like looking at a crime scene or deciding which patient to save, and then once you're there, your characters first start talking about those things. And I'm pretty sore that no one notices that you were teleported into nowhere either.
EDIT: They do not. I was zapped away in front of Evelyn and she didn't notice.
Getting zapped away is an interesting idea, but the way it interrupts things and changes the subject essentially mid-sentence is... clunky, yeah.
You also have to talk to your partner about whatever you were going to discuss in the real world while in the Homestead, even though suddenly you have new things on your mind. If you don't, that discussion opportunity is lost when you return to Cyseal.
While this may solve the problem of "what if you don't meet Zixzax before trying to leave the Cyseal map", and "what if you activate a stone elsewhere and never leave through one of the Cyseal gates" it introduces some other problems of its own.
Last edited by Stabbey; 05/04/1411:44 PM. Reason: clunky