History PlayingWith / CutsceneBoss

* '''Straight''': In Tales of Troperia, Bob fights his way through a castle, slashing through hundreds of mooks, and finally reaches the lair of Lord Evil. Instead of a typical battle, the game shows a cutscene of Bob throwing his sword and slaying Lord Evil.

* '''Inverted''': Tales of Troperia is a BossGame with only cutscenes in-between battles.

* '''Straight''': In Tales of Troperia, Bob fights his way through a castle, slashing through hundreds of mooks, and finally reaches the lair of Sir Evil. Instead of a typical battle, the game shows a cutscene of Bob throwing his sword and slaying Lord Evil.

** Bob whittles Sir Evil down to a certain health level in gameplay, then must use a [[PressXToNotDie Quick Time Event]] sequence to finish him off.

** TheUnfought.

* '''Inverted''': BossGame with only cutcenes beetween battles

* '''Double Subverted''': The real battle lasts for a few moments with nothing happening, then goes back to a cutscene of Bob defeating Sir Evil.
* '''Parodied''': The gameplay engine (or the cutscene itself) depicts Sir Evil showing Bob a video of how the battle would play out in a cutscene; then Sir Evil keels over defeated.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob fights the boss as usually, but after bringing HP to zero, a cutscene plays him finishing the boss... just to revealed that boss still has two more forms, which are fought in traditional way aside from the finishing part where Bob deals a final blow for both formes in a cutscene.

** The creators had a cool way to kill off the villain that can't be achieved with the usual game mechanics.

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Enforced''': The creators had a cool way to kill off the villain that can't be achieved with the usual game mechanics.

'''Basic Trope''': The FinalBoss is defeated in a cutscene.

* '''Inverted''': The whole game is cutscenes ''except'' for the boss battles.

* '''Justified''': TheUnfought.

* '''Subverted''': The cutscene shows Bob slaying Lord Evil in a cut scene, but then Lord Evil transforms into a monstrous form and the real battle begins.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Parodied''': The gameplay engine (or the cut scene itself) depicts Sir Evil showing Bob a video of how the battle would play out in a cut scene; then Sir Evil keels over defeated.

* '''Averted''': Bob doesn't defeat any bosses in a cut scene.

** [[BaitAndSwitchBoss The cut scene shows Bob in a running start to slay Lord Evil...but someone else appears, having slain him already, and ready to fight Bob.]]

'''Basic Trope''': The FinalBoss is defeated in a cut scene.
* '''Straight''': In Tales of Troperia, Bob fights his way through a castle, slashing through hundreds of mooks, and finally reaches the lair of Sir Evil. Instead of a typical battle, the game shows a cut scene of Bob throwing his sword and slaying Lord Evil.
* '''Exaggerated''': Every single battle Bob gets into, even against minor mooks, plays out in a cut scene.

** Bob whittles Sir Evil down to a certain health level in gameplay, then must use a QuickTimeEvent sequence to finish him off.

* '''Inverted''': The whole game is cut scenes ''except'' for the boss battles.
* '''Subverted''': The cut scene shows Bob slaying Lord Evil in a cut scene, but then Lord Evil transforms into a monstrous form and the real battle begins.

* '''Double Subverted''': The real battle lasts for a few moments with nothing happening, then goes back to a cut scene of Bob defeating Sir Evil.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob whittles Sir Evil down to a certain health level in gameplay, then must use a QuickTimeEvent sequence to finish him off.

'''Basic Trope''': The FinalBoss is defeated in a cutscene.

* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Double Subverted''': In the real battle lasts for a few moments with nothing happening, then goes back to a cut scene of Bob defeating Lord Evil.
* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Justified''': TheUnfought.