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...fastforward through a cutscene in the room *before* the battle, then that frustration has no productive release.

Ideally, I want to spend 0.5 seconds pressing *one* button to acknowledge that I died and them immediately be positioned at the start of that fight with my stats and inventory set to what they were when I started, ready to try again.

Ys Origin scores *very* highly from me in this regard, there is zero friction between retries and this facilitates extremely tight loops.