The Grand Battle Video Game (and Soundtrack) Discussion

It's possible that you could sort of "make" other characters battle through event flags or something, but for battles to just happen randomly, by themselves, wouldn't make a fun game. In the conversion from one medium to another, some compromises should be made, and I think this includes not having "just when you're getting into things suddenly the round changes because of a fight you didn't know about." And it's not like we could do like we do with the battles and have some Omnipotent Voice From On High say "hey the round's ending in five minutes" because since we no longer have the perspective of an omniscient narrator it'd just be all "okay but why??? who's killing whom and where and why can't I stop it and what if I want to keep playing?"

tl;dr I think wholly random battles would be a bad thing and if that's not what Malky means then I am a doip.