Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
Depends on your definition of main character. Many of the games you mentioned have guest or side characters die. Minwu, Josef and Ricard were not the main party. None of the main party in 6 die unless you leave Shadow behind but I believe I read somewhere the creator's canon version is waiting for him and he survives. Reddas was a guest character. X and XIII if taken alone though even Fang and Vanille didn't die but turned to crystal and we know characters can be restored from that.

Now that's not to say that side character deaths can't be impactful. I often see a lot of complaints that only side characters die in XIV and we weren't connected to them so it's meaningless. I personally have always remembered the deaths of Josef and General Leo, even if they are side characters and I find plenty of the XIV deaths impactful because I truly liked those people.
They were pretty prominent characters, considering they even got their own side story of the game about them i’d regard them as main characters. Shadow imo still counts as most people aren’t going to keep him alive unless they look it up. Reks is a pretty main character considering he’s the person that one of the main characters’ story revolves around. 13-2 was what i was getting at mainly. And off there’s 15, type 0 etc etc. Point is it’s almost a staple for their to be prominent consequences at the very least for the main party, and all of that was missing in Endwalker.