One of my pet peeves in video games is unavoidable long delays between retries at battles. If I am really struggling with a tough boss, all I want is to keep trying that boss battle over and over in a very tight loop until I get it. The tight loop keeps me "in the zone" and lets me immediately transform anger and frustration at dying into energy for another attempt. If I'm forced to spend 30 seconds waiting for a fancy "game over" screen to fade up, work through a "load game" menu...(cont'd)