Common Sense Corner

[kyonides]

Killing a Main Character is BAD!

(Especially if you're planning to revive him or her )

I do recall a meme I found some time ago where a so called teacher (a model posing as one) says something like killing your main character(s) or write them out is considered a bad writing style. If you do get what I mean here, you'll remember how it continues showing off all of those cases where fictional characters have been sent to the graveyard not one but dozens of times if possible. Some of them were Supernatural's brothers and even the Doctor himself with his ten demises, now they have reached like twelve or thirteen... It doesn't really matter if they are good or bad stories, at the end they were eye catching for years from their respective fan bases' viewpoint. Or think about Dr. Daniel Jackson's adventure as an ascended being in SG1. (I know, this very example sucks, no matter what he ever wanted to get or expected from such an unimaginable experience.)

Guess what? We as game developers or gamers also think that killing them, especially if this happen kind of early in the story, is a bad idea by definition. Says who?

Have you forgotten cases where late in the game some Aeris ceased to exist as a human being? Didn't she kind of return in the CGI movie later on?

What about Chrono, the male Chrono Trigger lead that confronted the evil Lavos? Didn't he perish believing he was helping his mates somehow?

As you have noticed by now, I'm telling you that you're not supposed to keep all of your leads till the (first or most common) end of your game. You can change that at will, you can rely on killing them and bringing them back at will for whatever reason you can think off even while asleep! It's the way you handle it what will make it succeed or not, it's not the idea or concept itself.

Just don't come up with a story that involves Aluxes's Return to Life! Don't even dare, guys!