Back when this was released, the Nier guy on staff wanted to make it so that any member of the alliance taking a hit from the balls would lead to a total party wipe. Yoshi said no, because he understood that this was casual content and the idea was too punishing.

If that same idea had been pushed in dawntrail, 2025 Yoshida would have probably said yes and then "accidentally" created another savage raid when he was supposed to be making casual content.