[Spoiler] Support Papalymo for 4.0!

[Nixxe]

It was bad enough that they killed everyone off just prior to 3.0 only to SURPRISE THEY ALL SURVIVED later. Let's not keep doing that same stupid thing. It cheapens deaths as a plot device and ruins the story.

[Felis]

It was bad enough that they killed everyone off just prior to 3.0 only to SURPRISE THEY ALL SURVIVED later. Let's not keep doing that same stupid thing. It cheapens deaths as a plot device and ruins the story.

But the only person with a dead scene at the end of 2.5 was the Sultana.
I don't know why people thought they died instead of just went missing.

Ok, well just thought Id put a thread up since we do not know WHAT 4.0 has in store for us.. however I would like to cast my vote to not kill off Papalymo! I mean if we can have Minfilia stay around.... Not to mention Thancred

I have not finished the 2nd part of the 3.5 story yet, but is Minfilia already back from her travel to the other world?

[Mysticales]

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I have not finished the 2nd part of the 3.5 story yet, but is Minfilia already back from her travel to the other world?

Honestly said. When they first announced her as Mother basically... and then kept her around. I kept asking myself.. "What has she REALLY done in the story? Every other character did something with me. Even fight? I havent seen Minfilia fight... yet she leads us...?"


As for her coming back from the world. I keep thinking she went to the world that was lost known as 1.0 and that is what she is working to fix.

Maybe we get a "Wings of the Goddess" type expansion where we return to the doomed world of the past and work to solve hat.

[Nixxe]

But the only person with a dead scene at the end of 2.5 was the Sultana.
I don't know why people thought they died instead of just went missing.

Because it was plainly designed to make you think that. For instance, Y'shtola talks about being entombed with Thancred for all eternity. This is clearly a suggestion that they will not make it out alive. Yda and Papalymo are clearly exhausted at the end and say they're being overwhelmed. They keep putting on a brave face, but it's obvious they can't keep going for much longer. Despite this, there's no sign of an end to the enemy reinforcements. Minfilia makes a huge speech about how she's basically staying behind to make sure you can escape. This is clearly sacrificial talk.

A couple of them surviving would have been no big deal. It could have even been a pleasant surprise and another twist. However, everyone surviving (unless you don't want to count Minfilia as Word of the Mother)? It's pretty lame. They built up that entire end, which was really good and a bold move for a video game, just to immediately turn around and undo it. What's worse, it was basically an expectation that everyone had survived from the moment you found Y'shtola.