History Main / CutAndPasteEnvironments

* Speaking of ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', many locations across different seasons are reused and some appear in ''Franchise/KamenRider''. This includes the park scenes that are filmed in Hikarigoaka Park. Mountain Iwafune's mountains and valleys surrounded by green forests are used for the large location action scenes, and with gouges so the multiple actions scenes and explosions can be utilized more, although Super Sentai uses it far more than Kamen Rider, especially in their team-up specials. Saitama Super Arena's interior and exterior was frequently used in Kamen Rider productions, mostly notably in ''Series/KamenRiderW'' 's first episode, and in the two part beginning of ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' was especially bad about this during Chapter 10, forcing the player to go through identical looking rooms several times, fight the first boss of the level, then go through even more identical looking rooms before reaching the second boss in the chapter.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has enormous expanses of land that re-use some assets to fill out the space, supposedly due to limitations imposed by the UsefulNotes/Playstation3. While all [=MMO=]s do this to some extent, much ado has been made about this game's usage of the trope as it sometimes recycled entire topographical features. When the game got rebooted in 2013, almost every single geographical location gotten a makeover and looks unique to each other.

** The first ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Battle Network]]'' game was horrible about this. The whole Internet looked the same! Every area! Even the "scary" WWW-controlled areas! This made it rather easy to walk into the Undernet without knowing it until you suddenly get curbstomped by a scary-powerful group of viruses. Later games were better about this.

* Many free, open-source FPS take advantage of the already [=GPLed=][[note]]GPL stands for ''General Purpose License'', it's a license which requests a free, open-source software to be freely used, freely distributed, freely modifiable and the modifications to be freely distributable as well.[[/note]] maps:

** Both Fallout 3 and ''[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]]'' suffer from this trope a lot harder than you think, although Vegas tries harder to subvert it. Almost every interior corridor is yellow/blue or white with dirt marks everywhere, the same filing cabinets and desks are probably used more than any other object, identical metal boxes with nothing in them, doors are almost always wooden with 2 glass panels or the metal lever-opened kind and the wasteland itself.

*** The Back to Earth special created corridors by shooting in the quarters and turning the camera to the wall.
*** The quarantine quarters in the episode, erm, Quarantine, is the normal bunk room with green panels over the top bunk and Holly monitor.
*** The Season VIII opener, Back in the Red, goes out of its way to invoke this by accurately replicating the original bunk room from the first two series, right down to the awful painted wood look... for a scene that couldn't have lasted more than five minutes!
*** Several episodes featured alternate, duplicated or otherwise parallel versions of familiar locations, allowing for the same sets to be given extra dressings for what is essentially the same location. Notable examples of this are in the Parallel Universe, Demons and Angels and Only the Good... episodes.

*** Same for ''VideoGame/WonderBoy'', although the SMS version had a few exclusive stages with different environments, such as a waterfall and a gauntlet of erupting volcanoes.

*** There are a mind-boggling 900 Korok puzzles in the overworld, but they fall into a relatively small number of categories[[note]]put the apple in the empty slot, pick all but 1 apple from one of 3 trees so they match, Magnesis the block to the right spot so two arrangements of cubes match, stand next to the pinwheel and shoot floating targets, throw a rock into a circle of stones, place a rock into the missing slot in a stone pattern (usually just a small circle), push a big rock down a hill into a hole, jump into a circle of plants in the water, go from the stump with a leaf on it to a glowing ring before time runs out[[/note]] and many of these are identical to others in the same category. Some Koroks aren't even hidden, you just have to run up to the weird glowing thing zooming around and press A, or climb a tree to get to it. This is forgivable, though, since there are, again, '''900''' of them, and they need to be easy to recognize so that HundredPercentCompletion-types have any chance of finding them all.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' has the [[MiniDungeon Sheikah Shrines]]. Each and every one of the entrances is the exact same stone cave with ornamental TronLines. Furthermore, the "shrines" themselves are vast underground {{Magitek}} puzzle chambers with a minimalist angular architecture. While the layout is different in each shrine (aside from the numerous "tests of strength" which host the exact same battle against the exact same robot in the exact same arena), their walls, railings, platforms, doors, torches, and everything else look exactly alike. This is at least justified by the backstory: the Shrines were built in the distant past using highly advanced LostTechnology, so some degree of industrialized standardization was likely in effect.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'', about a third of the game is reused levels. (Technically, though, most such levels are reused before they're used the first time.)

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': A lot of backgrounds are reused between episodes, or just have small alterations made to them.

* You could count the number of different backgrounds used in an episode of ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'' and ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'' on one hand!

* ''VideoGame/LimboOfTheLost'' offers a very literal interpretation of this trope: Nearly every single one of the game's prerendered background scenes is [[{{Plagiarism}} copied straight from elsewhere]], sometimes with some tweaking to try and cover it up, or placement of props that, once again, are reused.

** ''Every'' stage in the original ''Darius'', its PCEngine ports, and ''Darius R''.

* While ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' tends to use unique backgrounds for its different regions, it still occasionally uses some recycled environments. The most glaring example is the [[spoiler:post-game dungeon Uncharted Galados]] which reuses the same assets that the Realm of the Fay.

* While ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' tends to use unique backgrounds for its different regions, it still uses some recycled environment. The most glaring example is the [[spoiler:post-game dungeon Uncharted Galados]] which reuses the same assets that the Realm of the Fay.

** Then again, [[TheOtherRainforest Washington]] is very thickly forested in places, especially the western half, and opening shots establish Bright Falls as nestled deep in the mountains.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' has you visit the planes of Oblivion, unsurprisingly. There are 90 gates to Oblivion, but only 7 distinct maps. There's slight variation in the layout of the central towers, but not enough to shake the feelings of deja vu. The regular dungeons are also examples, though less blatant; they were procedurally generated before release (unlike the earlier ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and later ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', which have hand-crafted dungeons), and, as such, tend to feel pretty much the same.
** Oblivion is not the worst offender. ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'' covers an area larger than Great Britain, and since the developers certainly weren't going to actually ''design'' all that area, most of it is randomly generated, and looks more or less the same. The random dungeons of ''Daggerfall'' are made by the computer by assembling sections of the main quest's dungeons. This results in dungeons where the walls and floor will suddenly change colour. Not to mention that the algorithms involved produce levels that resemble "mating octopi" according to at least one review and completing quests involving dungeons consists of either a) only completing quests where you find the item in the first room, b) spending hours combing the dungeon for the MacGuffin (which doesn't look any different than the rest of the dungeon trash), or c) using the cheat codes provided with the patch (largely because the developers realized [[ObviousBeta the game was unplayable without such codes]]) to cycle through the potential quest item locations.
** Of course, just because a dungeon is hand-crafted doesn't mean it's particularly ''unique''--in ''Skyrim'', once you've visited one Nordic ruin, you've pretty much visited them all.

*** ''VideoGame/HarmonyOfDissonance'' is worse about this, having a Castle A and B, with EXACTLY the same layout in both, just different graphics and enemies.

* ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}'' uses tile-based randomly generated levels (with about a dozen tilesets). It can lead to oddities like walking through what appears to be the same room half a dozen times. Corpus tilesets are the biggest offender; the Corpus Ship and Corpus Outpost tilesets share many identical tiles.

* During development, one of Bungie's promotional points for ''VideoGame/{{Oni}}'' was that its buildings were designed by ''real architects'' for the player to fight through. The game ended up with a lot of Cut And Paste Environments because that's how real architecture ''works''.