Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31479589-20190120083229/@comment-31479589-20190127165624

I know it's possible. We fight Shadow, defeat him, and he'll realize his mistakes and then proceed to resurrect May.

However, I personally feels such plot is somewhat cliche and in turn makes death not a big deal at all. Over the course of the story, there are only 4 named characters who have died (killed, not from old-age), despite the dangerous situations they were in. Bring May back and it would cheapen death even more and took away all that impact from May's death revelation.

Also, the concept of "putting some senses by beating that character in battle" has been used too many times already, both in SF2 and 3. I have nothing against that, but this is the final chapter, isn't it? I do expect something different for last chapter, not something that has been overused. Look at SF2. Titan, the final boss of SF2, wasn't spared. He is very dangerous and there's no way to stop Titan but by killing him, he was destroyed (I know the theories about him "hiding", that's a topic for the other day). Being probably the most stubborn character in SF universe, I couldn't picture Shadow giving up after he set up a goal (because he never did so). Killing him might be the only way to stop him, just like how stopping Titan was.

Of course, this is assuming that Shadow is the final boss of SF3. Things could possibly go very differently than expected.