History Main / FightWoosh

** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' have different Fight Wooshes for the different legendaries: Reshiram and Zekrom just have the screen pause and fade to black, Kyurem has some energy balls swirl into the center, the Raijin trio has a beam shoot across the screen and an energy swirl expands from the center, and the Musketeer trio have a sword that slashes across the screen a few times before it "shatters" and falls away to reveal the battle screen a la ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''.

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* In ''VideoGame/HarryPotter and the Chamber of Secrets'', every time you touch a [[ItMakesSenseInContext big blue cloud of smoke]], the screen would vanish, the music would change to the predetermined area for fighting, and the image would reappear with Harry (and, depending on the time, Ron and/or Hermione) in front of an enemy. Played with, as the setting was a lot like the place where you were before entering the fight.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' has demon scrolls and gates that, when touched, send Amaterasu to the demonic plane, surrounded by a barrier of kanji and swirling colors. The game does let you escape by finding a weak spot and attacking it, although doing so causes you to take more damage in subsequent battles.

** Battles against other Trainers use different transitions with Poké Balls added, and members of the villainous team ''de jure'' have a unique woosh showing their insignia.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' have a blur burst when encountering a Pokemon. If it's a random encounter in the grass, the burst is accompanied by a multicolored "!" as well.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordandShield'' have fight a blur burst when encountering a Pokemon. If it's a random encounter in the grass, the burst is accompanied by a multicolored "!" as well.

* All the ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' games, as well as most other ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games. ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' employ an "advantage" system similar to ''Earthbound'' mentioned above, where if you attack the enemy's model on the dungeon map from behind you get a blue flash (after the fight woosh) with the words "Player Advantage" and a bonus round, while if the enemy gets you from behind there's a red flash and "Enemy Advantage." There's no flash after the transition in the case of neither side having an advantage.

** {{Random Encounter}}s use various transitions depending on the area (a wavy or watery effect while surfing, for example). These are coupled with different BattleThemeMusic for each type too.

* ''VideoGame/{{Valis}} II''(UsefulNotes/PCEngine CD version): "Warning! A strong warrior, [boss name] is coming here!", accompanied by a klaxon.

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* Being that it was a parody of all things Fantasy, including ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''Discworld/TheColourOfMagic'' includes a random encounter, where a troll is whisked from its mountain home to the middle of a plain to attack the heroes, much to their -- and its -- confusion. The way it's described, it almost perfectly matches most of the effects described above, despite predating nearly all of them.

* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', as [[spoiler:the battles actually take place in an alternate dimension. [[MindScrew Or something like that.]]]]

* Inverted in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. Like ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', almost every fight takes place in the same area where you first ran into the enemy. There is, however, a fight woosh at the ''end'' of most event battles, especially boss fights, often followed by a cutscene.

* A variant occurs in the Turn-Based-Real-Time-Strategy hybrid ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' series (From ''VideoGame/RomeTotalWar'' onward). When two (or more) enemy armies engage on the Turn-Based campaign map, a top-down FightWoosh zooms down to the block where the fighting takes place; after the loading screen, an exact replica of the block, but with much more details and massively upsized, will be used for the Real-Time battle.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' is a famous exception; there was no FightWoosh, with the fights taking place on the same map as everything else. In some areas, such as scripted gauntlet battles, the ''music'' doesn't even change, either maintaining the normal stage theme or the battle theme for the duration of the segment.

* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' used this as well, with blue for normal, green if you got first hit, and red if the enemies did, although its prequel, ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', had no FightWoosh and RandomEncounters took place on the field.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' also uses a different FightWoosh for boss battles than it does for normal encounters.

* All the ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' games, as well as most other ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games. ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' employ an "advantage" system similar to ''Earthbound'' mentioned above, where if you attack the enemy's model on the dungeon map from behind you get a blue flash (after the FightWoosh) with the words "Player Advantage" and a bonus round, while if the enemy gets you from behind there's a red flash and "Enemy Advantage." There's no flash after the transition in the case of neither side having an advantage.

* The single most popular FightWoosh is making the screen break like glass to reveal the battle scene. It's shown up in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', among others.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', you can usually hear the UsefulNotes/PlayStation's laser move just before the actual FightWoosh begins.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' had a reeeeeally looooong FightWoosh, but it wasn't so bad, because random encounters were less frequent than in, say, ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games. You probably know how close you are to a fight by the marker over Dart's head. If it's red when you first enter an area, then you have to collide with enemies on screen to fight. This is always so in places like [[spoiler:Hellena Prision or The Black Castle]]

* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' had a stage curtain drop when a battle started, then raise to reveal the battle on a literal stage. The background elements were themed on the location where the battle was started, and in ''The Thousand-Year Door'', these elements could randomly fall over, hurting Mario and his partner, the enemies, everyone on stage, or nobody, depending on the prop's size. The FightWoosh was the same for every battle, though it had overlay text if you attacked the enemy on the field ("You got the First Strike!", followed by an extra attack on the enemy when battle started) or if an enemy hit you first ("The enemy struck first!"); the two First Strike messages are complimented by a burst of introduction music. ''Super Paper Mario'' didn't have Fight Wooshes, as all the battles (except one) were platformer-style.

* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic V'' uses a FightWoosh similar to ''Total War's'' one: The camera zooms to the battlefield, which (somewhat) resembles the environment.

!Examples:

* ''VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsTheThirdAge'' had level specific fight wooshes where something would obscure the screen accompanied by a [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound monstrous shriek]]. For example, the first area, a forest, would have leaves gather up from the ground and cover the screen. They would then fall away and reveal the battle at hand.

* ''VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsTheThirdAge'' had level specific fight wooshes where something would obscure the screen accompanied by a [[MostAnnoyingSound monstrous shriek]]. For example, the first area, a forest, would have leaves gather up from the ground and cover the screen. They would then fall away and reveal the battle at hand.

-->-- '''''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'''''[[note]]Who took it from ''Videogame/OgreBattle'', but since that game just used standard wipes, it's NotAnExample. ''Captain SNES'' at least had the good sense of using a blurring effect when the line was called.[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Okage}}: Shadow King'', upon entering battle, the screen will blur and swirl, before fading into a battle sequence.

* Inverted in ''KingdomHearts''. Like ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', almost every fight takes place in the same area where you first ran into the enemy. There is, however, a fight woosh at the ''end'' of most event battles, especially boss fights, often followed by a cutscene.

** [[RandomEncounter Random Encounters]] use various transitions depending on the area (a wavy or watery effect while surfing, for example). These are coupled with different BattleThemeMusic for each type too.
** Battles against other Trainers use different transitions with Poké Balls added.

*** Emerald Version in particular really gets into this trope; all six of the stationary Legendaries in the game have iconic markings on their bodies, and when you initiate the fight with them, those markings flash on the screen.