Current Events > *absolutely steamrolls regular enemies in the dungeon*

(+) Yeah! (+)

*boss kills entire party in 2 attacks*

You know what games I'm talking about.

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yeah i remember in the witcher 3 i did all the side quests and was above level. then at the end of blood and wine where you fight the vampire dude i was like "lmao thisll be a cake walk oh look hes shooting bats at me lm--- what im dead huh?!?!?!?!" but ok i guess ill dodge whatever
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FFL3 was like this when I first played it

actually, a lot of old-school JRPGs were like this

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Bravely default
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*steamrolls regular random battles*
*gets steamrolled by that one rare random battle that is super hard*
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Bravely Defualt?
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Irony posted...

*steamrolls regular random battles*
*gets steamrolled by that one rare random battle that is super hard*

Fuck Tonberry's
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Persona 3 is the opposite of this. Even in areas where the random encounters aren't super bad, the tower bosses have mechanics from 2-3 sections up (party wide light/ dark death spell in the third month, woo, physical reflect and element reflects before you can swap out your party members, etc.) and you want to beat them before the boss for that month for the bonus. Of course, if you can even get to the last tower boss accessible that month, you should at least be able to reasonably get a win against the monthly boss. :l
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FFX

Oh this is the super hard optional dungeon? It ain't that bad

*Great Marlboro or whatever the fuck his name is with the 100% ambush rate pops up*

Fuck

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Darmik posted...

Irony posted...

*steamrolls regular random battles*
*gets steamrolled by that one rare random battle that is super hard*

Fuck Tonberry's

Still not as bad as the effing mimics in the Omega ruins of FFX. Because you open them up with an action, you can't even use initiative to get a turn to flee in like you can against ambush great malboros in there.
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gunplagirl posted...

Persona 3 is the opposite of this. Even in areas where the random encounters aren't super bad, the tower bosses have mechanics from 2-3 sections up (party wide light/ dark death spell in the third month, woo, physical reflect and element reflects before you can swap out your party members, etc.) and you want to beat them before the boss for that month for the bonus. Of course, if you can even get to the last tower boss accessible that month, you should at least be able to reasonably get a win against the monthly boss. :l

I was thinking of how SMT is generally the inversion of this trope. Even when an enemy has a power that gives them extra turns you at least typically only target one
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