Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Note that this does mean most trials were undertaken with a party. The only standouts would be Ifrit (jailed and held captive by amalj'aa before they tried to feed you to him),
Ifrit gets a pass though as the development team already thought of a way out of that - in the cell another prisioner states he managed to dig a small tunnel to an underground waterway that lead back out into Thanalan, and that one person sneaking out wouldn't attact attention, but if they all tried, the amal'jaa guards would come down on you all rapidly before you could do anything, so he basically pressured you into escaping only so that you could mount a rescue party. Speaking to a Immortal Flames npc in Camp Drybone allows you to therefore return back to the prison cell theoretically with reinforcements, and thus face down Ifrit with a full party (although it's a big stretch that your party all happened to be awoken to the Echo and thus immune to his little tempering stunt).

Either way, the game basically explained that Ifirit was probably fought with a party and not 'solo', regardless of what the cutscene showed.