Unskippable cutscenes?! REALLY?!?

[BlackDragon]

Seriously, how is this still a thing? You sit through a long-ass story-scene, wind up in a battle that's unwinnable because, oh hey, you picked the wrong party-members or the wrong weapons or whatever. Fine, fine, whatever, return to map, reconfigure layout, try again... and then you have to sit through that ENDLESS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ STORY-SEQUENCE AGAIN, with NO WAY to fast-forward through it.

NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY thinks this is a good idea. It's something that has NO REASON WHATSOEVER to exist. FOR GOD'S SAKE, DEVS! Stop DOING this to us! At the VERY LEAST, you should be able to skip any scene that you've already watched...

[Zesc]

You... don't have to do that at all. You could just have selected "Retry" from the pause menu, which allows you to start the mission directly again in the pre-battle configuration screen, without having any dialogue etc. interfering.

On the other hand, I agree with you. Currently in my NG+ and some quests are just mindnumbing button mashing until I get to play anencounter.

[BlackDragon]

Originally posted by Zesc:

You... don't have to do that at all. You could just have selected "Retry" from the pause menu, which allows you to start the mission directly again in the pre-battle configuration screen, without having any dialogue etc. interfering.

On the other hand, I agree with you. Currently in my NG+ and some quests are just mindnumbing button mashing until I get to play anencounter.

In most cases, you can retry... but the quest in question is the one where you're thrown into a dungeon and have to break out by yourself, with the rest of your team showing up at the exit to help you when you get near. Because of this, you can't actually edit the gear of your team-mates at the start... and it's a 'no escape' level, so if one of those team-mates happen to be equipped with a weapon that makes him extremely weak against the large group of Water-elemental enemies waiting at the exit, he can VERY EASILY get killed before you have any chance to reach him, netting you a Game Over.

But, yes, it's definitely going to be a bigger problem in NG+ than just in terms of having to replay missions. Kind of drains all desire to ever play it in NG+, considering how tedious and frustrating having to sit through a familiar story-scene even ONCE is...