It really tosses my salad when you encounter a required boss fight in an RPG, and the cutscene right after the fight is your party losing/being tired and then losing. It’s particularly annoying because you have to win the fight in the first place. Like, I would understand if the boss just ends up doing a 9999 move halfway through the battle, and then they say “Ha, I’ve bested you” or whatever. It’s so much better than beating the boss after 3 or 4 tries and then they say “Actually, I beat you because I’m actually super strong and I brought my force field and you’ve actually been fighting my shadow double this whole time because I’m actually super fast.” Like the loser kid no one liked on the playground.