Do you feel the 3rd battle against Beatrix should've been winnable?

[Sorceress Claire]

I definitely agree with you 8ther. The third forced loss always annoyed me, especially once I found out that Zidane was an Angel of Death alien designed for carnage and planetery annihilation. On my second playthrough when I knew of that; the fact that he could even lose to a human was lame to me. I also feel that Freya should have gotten her special chance to avenge her dead friends and people from a plot based trance power up. Hironobu Sakaguchi REALLY dropped the ball on wrapping that story segment up in a way that satisfies the player. Why did he think constant defeat against one opponet would be nice immersion for the player ugh! Honestly it's this reason alone why FFIX is not my fav FF, otherwise it would have been.

I imagine that end game the party is stronger than Beatrix, what do you all think?