hmm, not harder, but different, sounds interesting, could you clarify more, just need to know which one to choose on my next playthrough, I guess the arrange version is where you have the most leeway, but you felt it might be too much for people so standard is scaled back in some way.
and would it be 1.4 that will have this option, or a later revision.
I think it might be a good idea for barret at the start to say 'welcome to new threat mod V1.4',I think barret mentioned new threat mod at the start when choosing battle music preference, adding the version number at the end of text would give player a clear notice what version they are on.
but yeah I wouldn't add a cutscene, just a simple menu that says' retry?' at the game over screen, or even in replace of the game over screen.
is there any reason it can't be done for all bosses, Also I was thinking when you reloaded the boss fight you would have a hard time telling what status the party was when it went into the boss fight, and in that case just full HP/MP would be fine.
haven't tried BNW, but i Think that doens't add new bosses, ROTDS however does, but yeah its not a complete comparison, maybe new therat mod is a bit in between ROTDS and BNW.