No, it would need to be called out as a major story-beat. There’s too many major story components already glossed over as it is.

Ghosts.

You keep using the word earned, as if the story needs to behave a very specific way for the ending to be justified. That isn’t and never has been the way literature works. There was a sort of happy ending because Noctis and Luna made the ultimate sacrifice to cement the future of the planet. They didn’t specifically…

so you´re saying that his father should be showing up as a “happy” ghost to literally murder his son in order to save the world??

Well Noctis was the chosen king that banished the darkness so...yeah the afterlife is probably cheerier after that.

I mean it’s not that happy...they’re till dead. They’re just dead together.

It made perfect sense in the context of the story. You were just to dense to understand it and are now being defiant about your ignorance.

Um, did you miss that they literally pan up to them from a plague that marks Noctis death?

You mean, other than all the past kings being able to give you powers with the ring?

It’s their spirits, reunited in death. It’s not hard to grasp.