Quote Originally Posted by Cloudane View Post
You had the death of Aerith, probably the biggest part to that subject... how many other fantasy games do you know - usually with a "living happily ever after" type ending to them - where you get to know a character, get to have her in your team etc, heck you've even worked hard on levelling them up... and then have them permanently die half way through the game.
Why does everyone think that FFVII was the first to introduce death? FFII didn't have a happily ever after storyline. FFX's was very bittersweet. In FFIV (SPOILER)half of the people that are party members get paralyzed, or blown to bits