Why are there no rom hacks that let her live?

Make one

>>11826193 (OP)
There's a trick at least
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/genesis/563334-phantasy-star-iv/faqs/47516

>>11826195
>replying in less than 30 seconds

>>11826193 (OP)
Because it would negatively impact the story

>>11826193 (OP)
Her role in the story is done by that point.

>>11826917
Your role in the story is done at this point, should it be OK if I stab you to death then?

>>11826193 (OP)
Because death is part of life.

>>11826934
she's not real anon

>>11826247
>he waits 30 seconds before replying to threads.

>>11826934
Claim down nigga, it's not that serious.

>Phatasy Star 4 remake
>finish the game
>unlock post-game content
>magic entity from Rykros makes you an offer
>do you want to send your memory to the past and redo your journey?
>new game plus is an alt route
>Super Zio is the final boss, because honestly Dark Force is beyond bland as a villain
That was my dream as a kid.
Ironically Dragon Quest 11 did my fanfic almost identically.

>>11826193 (OP)
Why'd he do it?

>>11826193 (OP)
anon... i just started playing this game yesterday :|

>>11827802
rip
but still continue, its really good

>>11827778
>>11827384

Getting a bit below the surface in psiv, you see that Zio is no better than the party for the most part. It's even possible to argue that he's more enlightened than the party at that point by far.

The great light didn't actually communicate with its chosen ones until rykros shows up, but it preemptively set its followers up to basically manipulate them into doing its bidding while it fucked off to do shit in space. Even Rykros was staffed by its servants, basically the good equivalents to Dark Force.

The profound darkness directly chose its champions, including Zio, and seemed to be completely honest with them from the start. The one thing against this is that Zio only ever mentions Dark Force, but he also had no reason to do over-exposition, and even then, since DF is just a piece of PD it doesn't change much anyway.

Going from there, Zio also had no reason to explain anything. He did not know how much the party was aware of, and the less they know, the better. Doing a classic evil villain monologue was literally the correct move.

All this is to say that in his eyes, all he did was get rid of another unaware goon for the opposing side. Why'd he do it? Because you weren't just random adventurers, he knew you were the enemy even if you didn't.

Bonus: We're told that the entire system was created just to seal the darkness after it lost to the light. In other words nothing actually tells us the darkness was evil before it got imprisoned for eternity, which would probably make anyone salty as fuck. These ideas of PD being more netural were explored later in pso2, but that was revealed to be a fully separate universe.

>>11828613
Good post

>>11828613
I think you're relying too hard on headcanon here, anon.
The Dark Force isn't offering any honest deal to its followers, it's just the old brain washing.

>>11830630
It's hard to tell, genuinely, 'cause of the people it picked. I don't want to do another wall of text, but basically my point was that df doesn't just -appear- to people, they have to seek it out or at least be an enticing target.

The other thing is that the whole eldritch inspiration behind it shouldn't be disregarded. Learning about an ancient evil god is textbook, "your whole race and existence is just here so my mom doesn't wake up" is a bit of a harder pill to swallow and makes Zio's iconic speech about just letting everything die make a bit more sense.

There's also a classic faustian deal in there btw. First they hit you with the "Your existence is pointless", then comes the immortality with the price of being a servant to counter it.

>>11828613
Honestly, pretty interesting post

>>11827345
>nigga
this is a very obsequious word.
ironically, i've never seen someone on 4chan use this in a way that didn't make me gag.
to fix this, some people say "nigger" but it still comes off like *shows belly* *pins ears back* UwU

>>11826193 (OP)
That edit feels right. She definitely would've said that to Chaz.
>>11828613
Enjoyable post.

>>11831784
>UwU
kys, don't care if you're using this ironically.

>>11826193 (OP)
They tried even with Aerith, in the Remake serie, and you are seeing how is going.