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[Bahamut2000X]

I enjoyed how they removed party members. It didn't seemed forced unlike some other games, and it gave the final party a sense of danger as they were the last ones that could go to the final battle as the rest of the party was seemingly dead/injured and unable to fight.

Overall I wouldn't change how they handled those scenes in FFIV. Besides it just makes Cid out to be that much more awesome.

[KoShiatar]

I didn't care much for Yang, but I would feel sorry for his wife if he were never to come back. So I'd just change his fake death scene into one where the party last see him in a great danger, and don't know what's happened to him and are in a tension. Then he would come back and everybody would go "Ooooh!"
As for Cid, he's too awesome to stay dead. His beard probably protected him from the explosion.

[Heath]

I'd certainly leave Tellah's death as it was. I'm not sure if I'd call his death a 'villains death' because despite wanting revenge, I think he was doing it for justifiable purposes. Although they are unrealistic, I don't think I'd change them. Perhaps moderating them slightly like KoShiatar suggested above would be more realistic and bearable, but I think that the characters inability to die in FFIV is something that I equate to FFIV in much the same way as I equate bad Engrish to FFVII and the word "whatever" to FFVIII.

[,,,]

The only one that really bothers me is Cid's, just because there's absolutely no reason whatsoever that he couldn't have dropped the bomb overboard without jumping with it. I'm not going to get too critical of the verisimilitude of a game called "Final Fantasy," but the fact that they expect me to believe a man holding a bomb decides "hmmm, I could drop this and save the party. No, I'd better hold onto it and jump with it. Because.... because..... oh, just for the Hell of it, I suppose" ... that's crossing the line. C'mon, meet me halfway here. Have him trip trying to drop it. Something even remotely plausible.

[Jessweeee♪]

Kill everyone for play plays at least once, and then kill half of them for real reals.

[Wolf Kanno]

Cid is the only one that doesn't make any real logical sense on how he survives but then again we do see him again a few times after that. As for Yang... don't forget that if you go to the Sylph cave before the Tower of Bab-il you see Yang alive but gravely injured (which opens up the "Spoon Dagger" quest) and you see his fate. This, to me at least, would fall into the "You're not dead but you can't help anymore scenario".

[Heath]

Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno ^

Cid is the only one that doesn't make any real logical sense on how he survives but then again we do see him again a few times after that. As for Yang... don't forget that if you go to the Sylph cave before the Tower of Bab-il you see Yang alive but gravely injured (which opens up the "Spoon Dagger" quest) and you see his fate. This, to me at least, would fall into the "You're not dead but you can't help anymore scenario".

Unless of course you're playing the GBA version in which case Yang is fighting fit and fighting Zeromus.

[Wolf Kanno]

Originally Posted by Heath ^

Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno ^

Cid is the only one that doesn't make any real logical sense on how he survives but then again we do see him again a few times after that. As for Yang... don't forget that if you go to the Sylph cave before the Tower of Bab-il you see Yang alive but gravely injured (which opens up the "Spoon Dagger" quest) and you see his fate. This, to me at least, would fall into the "You're not dead but you can't help anymore scenario".

Unless of course you're playing the GBA version in which case Yang is fighting fit and fighting Zeromus.

Lol! Thats true, you also can get that frail spoony bard to help as well