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FerrousFaucet
Since: Feb, 2014
2025-06-14 04:25:10
Gameplay and Story Integration?
If you arrive in a boss's lair and the enemy's HP bar shows 750/1000 HP, it's the same as the enemy having 750/750 from a gameplay perspective. So maybe they show the missing HP is to integrate the offscreen wound from a cutscene or something.

When you fight an enemy but their healthbar has already been lowered when you meet them because they sustaiend wounds offscreen or something