[Spoiler] Support Papalymo for 4.0!

[Fredco191]

I'm all for him coming back! I want my little buddy!

[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.

[SigmaOZ]

I don't like NPCs dying, much less the Scions so yeah, bring back Papalymo!...

Lyse (former Yda) will be so happy they will marry and be happy together forever more!...

[ErikMynhier]

Dead Potato is Dead.... throw him in the dead Lala pile and move on...

[SaitoHikari]

I dunno, his revival would really, really cheapen the plot, especially in terms of Lyse's character development. We already saw how much outrage there was when it turned out Nanamo survived, and that was for a side character. Papalymo is a major one in comparison.

The only way I see Papalymo surviving WITHOUT ticking off 75% of the player population is if a Phoenix-type situation happened to him, as in he got tempered by Shinyru and we have to defeat him in the Bend of Time.

[Felis]

And THIS is what I am talking about. In 1.0 he seemed to have more of a role. More story and participation that was oddly lost when we got to 2.0. Now its like he finally has something going and then instantly is "gone"

His role during 1.0 was to be the serious one in the Papalymo/Yda team.
He and Yda showed up in the Gridania part at the start of the stoy, and then vanish after the last Gridania story (lv 15 or lv 18) until the last story quest.

[Mysticales]

Yea, whats sad is the 2.0 playerbase never got to see Papalymo get manhandled and carried under Ydas arm as they ran away.

That was awesome lol.

But even if I entertain the thought about "Let him stay dead". How about not right now? I mean even Ysayle had more going on before she died. More backstory, lil more overall completion. Papalymo... like you said, vanished after the Grid MSQ stuff, came back in a lil, wasnt till this 3.x area that he is seen some more, then some questions havent been answered, wham "dead"?

Also to all the Tarutaru haters.. Just remember.... Those "Potatoes" can and will kill you in your sleep. =D



(Yes I study with them as an Elf... someone has to raise the Lalafel army...)

[Atlaworks]

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Both Papalymo and this topic are dead. I don't know why you insist on otherwise.