to show that you are a spineless cuckold compared to a boss and that if you have any chance of defeating it, you need to be a good drone and grind.
it's a metaphor for japanese society
JRPG
Jeremiah Wilson
Cameron Nelson
this, cool games greatly reward you for defeating what's essentially a bonus boss
like Lufia2/3
Anthony Kelly
To provide the illusion of hope
Ian Edwards
The realization of how often Granblue Fantasy Relink is going to pull this bullshit is already dreadful to think of. So many absolutely retarded fights in which you mop the floor with the enemy and they go "lmao I was merely pretending" or the cutscene outright shits out a "YOU FIGHT BUT CONTRARY TO THE ACTUAL FIGHT YOU JUST WENT THROUGH; IT TURNS OUT YOU ARE EQUAL IN POWER!"
I sincerely hope they are better at pading that shit in a 3D ARPG than they were in the gachashit version, because it was Beatrix in FFIX tier of garbage except every other mission.
Jace Wood
It's more immersive and meaningful if you have to fight and fail yourself, rather than just watching your character fail without your input.
Jaxson Hernandez
This battle was a load of ass.
Wyatt Campbell
>Beat boss
>Game over
Angel Moore
>It's more immersive and meaningful if you have to fight and fail yourself
Then how come this is never done in Western games which generally value immersion way more than JRPG's?
Wyatt Sanders
Because Western games think immersion is better when they take control away from you.
Jaxson Gutierrez
Get good.