Replayability and rewatchability for Solo Instances

[maidgil]

I realize I might be a bit unique here in this wish, but has anyone else realllyyyy wanted to just replayed certain solo instances? I constantly find myself going, man, I really want to fight Zenos or play In From the Cold again. (EW solo instances in general are some of my favorite.) But as far as I know, there's no way to really replay them without going through all the MSQ again through NG+. I love them, but not enough to try and furiously skip through several hours of quests and the occasional dungeon/trial...

On another note, sometimes I also wish they had a "hard" difficulty for some of these fights instead of just the easier modes, though I appreciate they are there for people who need them. That and I wish I could see the cutscenes from some of them easier too. The solo instance from 7.1 with Koana has such a good cutscene that I wish I could watch again without having to specifically screen record it or watch someone else do it.

Does anyone else want the same thing, or am I alone in this? lol

[VeyaAkemi]

On another note, sometimes I also wish they had a "hard" difficulty for some of these fights instead of just the easier modes, though I appreciate they are there for people who need them.

This is a large part of why I still wish the match against Gulool Ja Ja had been a trial instead, that fight is such a powerful vibe, but it being one-and-done(or two-and-done considering the fight against the phantom later, but that doesn't carry the same vibe), that it made me wish we could've gotten at least a EX of it, Vali can go back to FF6, fucker didn't need to be here.

[Jeeqbit]

I think everyone wants these things. Just SE does not apply the basic concept of "easy mode" and "hard mode" to everything in the game. Instead it's extremely uneven, where the MSQ only has "normal", "easy" and "very easy", dungeons only have "easy", I don't know who B rank hunts are even designed for because even a 90-year-old grandmother would find them boring, and then there are FATEs that "challenge" you with a little conal AoE that you avoid out of habit anyway.

Where there are hard modes (trials, raids and criterion), it's a complete 180. The most challenging solo content for me that has any sort of real stakes is solo spawning Nunyunuwi and a few of the Masked Carnivale challenges (which, are challenging on the basis you can't fallback on someone to carry you).

[Carin-Eri]

I realize I might be a bit unique here in this wish, but has anyone else realllyyyy wanted to just replayed certain solo instances? I constantly find myself going, man, I really want to fight Zenos or play In From the Cold again. (EW solo instances in general are some of my favorite.) But as far as I know, there's no way to really replay them without going through all the MSQ again through NG+. I love them, but not enough to try and furiously skip through several hours of quests and the occasional dungeon/trial...

On another note, sometimes I also wish they had a "hard" difficulty for some of these fights instead of just the easier modes, though I appreciate they are there for people who need them. That and I wish I could see the cutscenes from some of them easier too. The solo instance from 7.1 with Koana has such a good cutscene that I wish I could watch again without having to specifically screen record it or watch someone else do it.

Does anyone else want the same thing, or am I alone in this? lol

Definitely not alone!

I'm not a big fan of having to replay the second-half of Endwalker if I want to partake in the one-on-one fight Vs Zenos (which I LOVE) again!

[RedLolly]

This is a large part of why I still wish the match against Gulool Ja Ja had been a trial instead, that fight is such a powerful vibe, but it being one-and-done(or two-and-done considering the fight against the phantom later, but that doesn't carry the same vibe), that it made me wish we could've gotten at least a EX of it, Vali can go back to FF6, fucker didn't need to be here.

Memory Misera was a solo instance fight that was given an 8-man extreme. I would absolutely be down for a Galool Ja Ja instance on that level.

Actually an Echo fuel’d instance fight that him in his youthful prime would be rad. SE please. Maybe make that a Chaotic or use that new Quantum system. He was Dawntrail's coolest character!

[RedLolly]

Definitely not alone!

I'm not a big fan of having to replay the second-half of Endwalker if I want to partake in the one-on-one fight Vs Zenos (which I LOVE) again!

The Venat duel, too. There is an HW instance that has us 1v1 Raubahn that I loved.

Honestly, we might be on to something.

[Atreus]

I'd love for them to be easily replayable. Furthermore, I'd love uncapped versions to come out that are similar in difficulty to Bozja duels.

[TaleraRistain]

Nope, really wanted these myself. I can understand it may be difficult to code, though. But if it was ever possible, I'd love to see it. Those are the exact instances I wanted to do without going through NG+ up to them, too.

One compromise maybe is more checkpoints for NG+ that are closer to these instances? Then we wouldn't have to play through as much to get to them.

[Exmo]

Arcade mode for solo instances please

[Erwith]

I think everyone wants these things. Just SE does not apply the basic concept of "easy mode" and "hard mode" to everything in the game. Instead it's extremely uneven, where the MSQ only has "normal", "easy" and "very easy", dungeons only have "easy", I don't know who B rank hunts are even designed for because even a 90-year-old grandmother would find them boring, and then there are FATEs that "challenge" you with a little conal AoE that you avoid out of habit anyway.

Where there are hard modes (trials, raids and criterion), it's a complete 180. The most challenging solo content for me that has any sort of real stakes is solo spawning Nunyunuwi and a few of the Masked Carnivale challenges (which, are challenging on the basis you can't fallback on someone to carry you).

I'm pretty sure B-rank hunts are only designed for achievement hunters.