Battle (term)

===Impossible to defeat===
{{Main|Unwinnable battle}}
Impossible to defeat battles are usually a type of scripted battle where despite all the player's efforts, they are intended to lose. The player has full control over their characters, but the enemy is not intended to be defeated. An example of an impossible to defeat battle is the [[Black Knight (Final Fantasy II)|Black Knight]] battle at the start of ''Final Fantasy II'' where the player is supposed to be defeated. Though the fight can be won with cheat devices, some versions of the game will continue the story as if the player was defeated, whereas in other versions the game will go back to the main menu screen.

Another example is the [[Guardian (Final Fantasy VI)|Guardian]] in ''Final Fantasy VI'', which cannot be defeated in its non-storyline encounters and the player must escape the battle or be defeated and receive a Game Over.