I got no beef with the writing and translation. It's pretty much the norm to expect the typical happy ending for RPG's of the NES/SNES era and that's what I pretty much. What made things just a bit too much was that they just had to resurrect Kyral. The poor chap was fed to the fishes and now he's magically alive again. So I guess if anything, my beef would be with the original scenario writer(s). Anyhow loved the turning point for the story with the death of a hero and the birth of another and our hero's homecoming. For me, those were probably the high points.

I'm glad you mentioned Kyral specifically. I struggled mightily with that concept while writing the game, but here is how I finally rationalized it. Games weren't saved in this system; souls were stored in jars. The translation indicated that Zolde didn't destroy Kyral's soul, rather he stored it so that he and his minions could feed off Kyral's energy and grow even stronger, but they did dismember the body. The battle ending implied that when Zolde bit the dust, Kyral's soul was suddenly set free from the urn. The loopy part of this whole evolution is how Kyral's body managed to miraculously re-constitute itself and absorb his soul once more! The author could have been handled it like Lufia-II did, in which the little balls of light flew around for a while before poofing off into the heavens, but he didn't. This is, after all, a fantasy game, and I suppose the author took full license with that fact. So, instead of a crying fiance, we got the humorous rendezvous scene back in Arkasas Castle - that I rather enjoyed. Oh, well...