This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Andrew Leprich: This trope feels awfully redundant, considering that it's only one sentence long and could easily be integrated into Random Encounters, the trope that it's inherently married to. Not to mention the many of the examples are the same.
Morgan Wick: Not all Random Encounters involve Fight Woosh's. However this does overlap with Amazing Technicolor Battlefield (which would be a Fight Woosh that isn't really a Random Encounter).
Andrew Leprich: No, not really. Amazing Technicolor Battlefield is the big colored uber-dramatic alternate dimension place where the final Boss Battle takes place, Fight Woosh is the transition screen from the overworld to random battles. I don't see how they're related, at all. And it may be true that not all Random Encounters have a Fight Woosh (I don't know any examples personally, I've always encountered some sort of transition screen), that really doesn't justify this split. You can take the one sentence, put a "Most of the time" in front of it, insert it into Random Encounters, and that takes care of that.
Morgan Wick: The correlation between ATB and Fight Woosh is pretty obvious. You get a Fight Woosh to the Amazing Technicolor Battlefield.
Andrew Leprich: Well, yes, they can be used together, but most examples of a Fight Woosh don't involve an Amazing Technicolor Battlefield. They are occasionally used together, but when they are, they don't overlap. Unless I'm missing something here, I really don't see any reason to call ATB a dupe of this.
Anyway, after playing a little of Baten Kaitos, I realized that Random Encounters and Fight Woosh aren't invariably married, because games with non-random battles use it too. I still think a lump of those two is probably the best COA, but whatever.
Ace Of Scarabs: I propose that this article could use a reference from the Discworld - There is a scene in the story where a troll is teleported in front of Rincewind and company with an effect that basically describes the Fight Woosh, years before it first appeared in games like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.
Majutsukai: Can someone familiar with the Heroes Of Might And Magic example fix it? I have no idea what they meant to say when they wrote "reensembling", or else I would correct this myself.
Yongary: I have the perfect page image for this trope here
if anyone is interested
