I get your felling, some times it feels like you are supose to beat the hero at a specific time. But i asure it's not, I was in the middle of my last bar, so near losing).
won, and than i started doing different things, now the hero can't even remove my first bar, that's for sure not scripted.
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Dismissing someone's experience bc you experienced different, giving only 1 example, of which, is hard bc cheating AI, and, ont top of that, the last part about your hp is not relevant to the original comment. There is no mention of health, or about fighting the hero, just that it's scripted; which would insinuate that fighting the hero doesn't matter. Not that it would, given how much the AI cheats.