I'm really surprised by how much players can influence how some parts of story goes. For example, without spoiling anything, I didn't realize you can do a jasmine-jafar-ish move late game, and only found this out after playing a few times.
There's a mini-map in the top right corner. The bouncing gold arrow points to the green dot of the area you're on. Also, the monsters have the area number in the name.
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There's a mini-map in the top right corner. The bouncing gold arrow points to the green dot of the area you're on. Also, the monsters have the area number in the name.