Good/Bad Endings *HUGE spoilers*

[J2k]

Just to clear this up because some people say the main character dies.

Whether you get the good ending or the bad ending the main character is alive and well.

The good ending is just a continuation of the bad ending. In the bad ending (not getting all 108 stars) you see him lying unconcious on a boat. In the good ending you see the same scene, only you see an extra bit where he wakes up.

Now, that means he wakes up regardless of whether you get the stars or not, you only see it if you do thats all.

If he died from using the rune of punishment, he wouldnt be unconcious. Everyone who dies using the rune turns to ash. So as his body is there, that is enough to tell you he is alive.

But i doubt he'll return in a sequel because he doesnt even have a name.

[Beecham]

For him to appear in a sequel, you'll probably need to load GS4 data. I fully expect him to be a hidden character in GS5, just like Tir McDohl could be recruited in GS2.

[Trevoke]

[Patriarch]

[Tonberry]

I don't see why Riou would have to be a secret character.

[Patriarch]

[Beecham]

Because they would have to explain fifteen years of Riou's life, AND put an official spin on the ending on GS2, something I don't think they want to do just yet.

[Patriarch]

[Sophita]

[Lunarblade]

That's not really realistic,Patriarch. It's not a very good idea to make such random plot twists, especially when there is no reason to do so.
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[Patriarch]

[Shrew]

Umm... Patriarch, I think all Harukaze was trying to say was that the fact that he doesn't have a name doesn't mean much. By loading data from S4 the name you gave him there could carry over, like how Tir's name carried over in S2.

Also keep in mind that Tir and Riou are NOT official names. They're just names the novelist picked and were in turned picked up by the fan base. Konami still officially refers to them as Hero and Hero2.

On the ending, it's really sort of nonsensical. The boat is obviously supposed to be a funeral boat, but people who die from the rune are supposed to just turn to ash. So why the hell would the people throw him in the boat? They should no the folk turn to ash, and that if he were dead the rune should transfer to someone. Then maybe it has to deal with the last guy in the village story, the one who died with the rune and sealed it away. Perhaps Hero4 somehow pulled off the same thing.

Anyway, it's supposed to be the power of the 108 stars that put the rune in its Atonement phase and stops hurting the Hero. So if you don't have the 108 stars there's nothing to protect him at the end. So he should be dead.
The scene is just really strange though, and it seems to me not that well thought through. I think they were aiming too much for a certain effect that they ignored the logistics behind it.
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Fear our Vagueness.

[Beecham]

There is nothing to say that if the Rune did not pass directly between them that all the dragons would have died. At no real time was the True Rune without a bearer. There is no flaw in logic here. And storywise, a lot of things -do- make sense in this series. It's possible that the fourth Tenkai could appear in the fifth game, if it makes sense to do so; I don't work for Konami, so I have no idea what is going to happen. But the possibility exists and has absolutely nothing to do with a lack of Riou being in the third game or the absolutely foolish notion that any of the heroes of GS3 should have followed Viki into the past. It's a possibility, nothing more, nothing less.

EDIT: Thanks Shrew, couldn't have said it better [and, in fact, did not! :)]. You beat me to the punch, as I'm rather slow in posting while watching television ;)

[Patriarch]

[Elc]