Granted, but it still means both deaths were just plotline 'died in a cutscene' deaths that kinda diminished the game for me somewhat... Why didn't the bad guy (whose name escapes me) just shoot everybody then? And why when you fight him is he so incredibly weak? It just bugs me, is all.pantsoffdanceoff said:Well, there's actually a reason for that...
[spoiler/]Chidori had the power to put her life into the others, and thus could cure death not just unconsciousness like Yukari's semarecarm. Shinji thus could not by saved because Chidori wasn't going to lay down her life for him, but she did for Junpei, and that's why he lived.
Although granted, after Shinji's death I was afraid as fuck to put too much training into one person (like I did with Shinji) because I thought they would get capped.[/spoiler]