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UltimaterializerX posted...

Your opinion is not an objective fact and we have actual measurable data on which games and which characters people care about the most.

But hey if youre playing the America sucks card, heres a poll from Japan from 2021: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/03/japan_voted_on_final_fantasys_best_games_and_characters_-_do_you_agree_with_the_ranking

Galuf does not register.

Heres a poll from 2023 answered by only the most hardcore JRPG fans, because no one else is going to know or care what rpgsite is: https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/13827-the-best-final-fantasy-games-revealed-as-ranked-by-thousands-of-fans

Galuf again does not register. He quite literally got lost in translation.

IDK why you'd use a top 10 poll for evaluating this. There's a lot that renders it irrelevant (it's a popularity poll, not people picking out their most memorable moments, which would produce much different results, for one), but what we're talking about is overall impact on the people who did play a given game. Ask people how much Tellah's death resonated with them vs Galuf's and you'll get a completely different level of response. Same for Vivi's, which I guarantee doesn't even get remarked upon unless you ask people about what they thought of it (a lot of other Vivi moments would be ranked higher in people's minds for sure). Now if we talked about say...Zack's death? Yeah sure, that's more comparable in importance relative to its own game's narrative. It'd be a better example to use.