Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
Let me break it down comparing 14 to other games in the franchise. I'm going to put all this as a spoiler, since this is spoilers for a lot of FF games.

FF2: No main series game has matched its death toll for main cast.
FF4: Tellah only.
FF5: Galuf only
FF7: Aerith only
FF9: Vivi, only after final boss
FF10: Auron (and technically Tidus, but he was only a dream)
FF12: Nobody who was a main character technically died. Just a guy who showed up near the latter part of the game and didn't have much backstory to him.
FF13: Cid only
FF Type 0: Highest death toll in franchise.
FF15: Noctis and Luna.

Of those, FF14 beats out every other main series game other than FF2 in terms of main characters dying. We've had at least 3 main characters die over the course of the expansions.
You can argue that an expansion is the equivalent of a base game though. Cuz in that case you could argue things like sequels etc. Irregardless of that though, it’s a common theme in ff for people to die, or not even that but for there to be consequences for the protags. For example, ff12 major characters may not have died, but the game ended with the antagonists technically winning and the world slowly getting messed up which the protags couldn’t prevent.