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Subtrope of ScriptedEvent.

* Technically one could probably count the [[PressXToNotDie QTE]] battle with Krauser in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''.

** The fight with the king and queen of Elban proceeds normally until "the king and queen break free of their spells" and you have a long conversation in combat mode.

** The fight with Vargas in the beginning of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is a one-on-one battle. The only commands available to Sabin are Attack and Blitz, and you don't know how to use Blitz until a conversation when the battle's almost over, after which you defeat Vargas by using Raging Fist.

*** Also in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', the first random encounters you come across in the World of Ruin have Sap and very low HP, so they tend to immediately die off on their own; this illustrates the bleak state of the new world.

** The first battle in the game is like this, with [[spoiler: the 'mysterious figure' being impossible to hit]]. The fight predictably ends after a few turns.
** [[spoiler: Shadow Rise]] will become invincible and taunt you for a few turns when you take off half her HP bar. Then she blasts you into oblivion. It's possible to deplete her HP if you're overpowered enough, but it still won't change the outcome.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' has a scripted ''boss fight''. The only characters in your party are Dart and [[spoiler:Lloyd]], and while you do have control, [[spoiler:LLoyd]] always gets the first turn, at which point he automatically uses an attack which defeats the boss in one hit.

* The original ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' had segments where your friends would get their Personas for the first time. They look like standard battles on the surface, but they're deliberately designed so that [[ForegoneVictory your party members get away]] [[FlawlessVictory without a scratch]]. Everyone also gets a free level-up in the process, regardless of how many EXP you would get from fighting the enemy party in an actual battle.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': The first time you encounter Sarevok, Gorion covers for your retreat by engaging him and his minions. In an interesting variation of the trope, only half of the battle is scripted. No matter how effective Gorion's attacks are or how ineffective Saverok's attack are, the former will always be killed by the latter (even if Saverok is in between attacks). Whether or not Gorion manages to kill any of Saverok's minions is not scripted so their deaths are variable.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', scripted events are usually in the form of a HannibalLecture from the enemy, though in a few battles you can cause people to prematurely leave the battlefield.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonTradingCardGame'' starts you off with a tutorial match where each player's deck is stacked, and gives you step-by-step instructions on what to do to win.

* In ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' the end of every boss battle (as well as fights against Imperial Walkers) is scripted out with {{Quicktime Event}}s. The main reason is so that you can be even more badass than usual; seriously, jumping onto a walker's head, stabbing through the windshield with a lightsaber, zapping the bejeezus out of it, then taking a flying leap away and crushing the whole thing into a tiny ball? [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Holy crap.]]

* The "first" battle of ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' is Neptune receiving ''all of the {{Limit Break}}s'' of [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 the]] [[UsefulNotes/XBox360 three]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} goddesses]].
** This gets played again in ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaV'' where Neptune still gets hit with all the LimitBreak attacks of the other three goddesses. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Only to find out that the entire sequence was the four goddesses playing a video game.]]

** The fight with the king and queen in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' proceeds normally until "the king and queen break free of their spells" and you have a long conversation in combat mode.
*** Several battles with Golbez in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' are entirely scripted, to the point where you never even gain control.
*** The battle with [[spoiler:Zemus]] is scripted, and an automatic win for [[spoiler:Golbez and Fusoya]]... which just summons the final boss.

** Cloud's last battle with Sephiroth in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' is lots of staring and one Omnislash. If you really want, you can replace the Omnislash with an attack from Sephiroth and a counterattack from Cloud, but it's clear that the Omnislash is how the battle is supposed to go.

* The final level of ''AceCombatAssaultHorizon'' is this entirely (and there are various other examples in the game before that.) It doesn't matter how many missiles you cram up the final boss' PAK-FA fighter plane, the game forces you to play out the scripted dialogue for the mission. Any form of ScriptBreaking the level results in you failing it because it'll give the proper conditions for the boss to win. In fact, you have to keep fighting him just because that's the only way to advance the script.

* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'', ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'', and ''WarriorsOrochi'' are rife with scripted events that can be either triggered or prevented depending on the circumstance.

* The Super Metroid at the end of ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' is unkillable and will usually capture you almost immediately, draining you to 1 energy before recognizing Samus and stopping. It is a storyline reminder of the creature's earlier encounter with Samus, and also serves to prime you for a way out of the following unwinnable battle with Mother Brain.

** Similarly, in ''MetroidFusion'', the final boss is an Omega Metroid. You cannot harm it at all, and you must take a hit that automatically puts you with one health unit left. The Core-X arrives, becomes an SA-X, and fires Ice Beams at the Omega Metroid in an attempt to kill its natural enemy. After taking a few hits, the Omega Metroid reduces the SA-X into a Core-X again, giving Samus the opportunity to absorb it and regain all her health and the Ice Beam.

* ''FireEmblem'' does this from time to time, such as ensuring that certain attacks hit or miss during ''Blazing Sword's'' tutorial segment, or forcing a critical hit so that someone is killed or injured in spectacular fashion. Some people usually hack the game to see what happens if there ''is'' no critical hit, or to break the script only to find that the game freezes.
* Every final boss in the ''MOTHER'' series. [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 The first game]] had you sing to win, [[VideoGame/EarthBound the second game]] had you pray, and [[VideoGame/{{Mother 3}} the third game]] simply had you do nothing (well, except for guarding and healing yourself) until the battle ended.
** Earthbound has a segment where Poo meditates before heading to meet the rest of the party. This takes place in a "battle" where the enemy systematically takes Poo's limbs and senses. You emerge completely fine, with a rather nice level up, despite being reduced to 0 HP during the sequence, which normally would invoke a GameOver.

* In ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' the end of every boss battle (as well as fights against Imperial Walkers) is scripted out with {{Quicktime Event}}s. The main reason is so that you can be even more BadAss than usual; seriously, jumping onto a walker's head, stabbing through the windshield with a lightsaber, zapping the bejeezus out of it, then taking a flying leap away and crushing the whole thing into a tiny ball? [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Holy crap.]]

* The final boss battle of ''VideoGame/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasOogiesRevenge'' has Jack Skellington fight his old nemesis Oogie Boogie while singing!

* ''BaldursGate'': The first time you encounter Sarevok, Gorion covers for your retreat by engaging him and his minions. In an interesting variation of the trope, only half of the battle is scripted. No matter how effective Gorion's attacks are or how ineffective Saverok's attack are, the former will always be killed by the latter (even if Saverok is in between attacks). Whether or not Gorion manages to kill any of Saverok's minions is not scripted so their deaths are variable.

* The "first" battle of ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' is Neptune receiving ''all of the {{Limit Break}}s'' of [[PlaystationThree the]] [[{{Xbox360}} three]] [[{{Wii}} goddesses]].

** Specifically, Sarevok is scripted to attack the PC for 15 seconds, while the other members of his band slaughter as many guests as possible. It is possible to lose the game 2 ways here. If either the PC dies, or if both the remaining major lords of the city die, since you need 1 of them to keep the portal open and hunt Sarevok.