Saddest videogame moments

[water dog]

When Blank "died" in FFIX I literally cried. 11 y/o me.

[puggsoy]

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Ah, what I meant is that, the original song in japanese is beautifully sung, which adds a little to the mood, but it's a good song anyway:



Fun fact: Every Layton ending theme has lyrics

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Interesting. I'll check that out sometime, although I'm not sure how much I'll like Japanese singing (it is sung in Japanese, right?)

I edited the OP to add a small notification

Thanks, that'll make people more aware.

[Davy Jones]

@Dazz & four24ever: Come on, use spoilers >=o
Everyone else is doing it too.

Terranigma

- Beruga destroys Neo-Tokyo
- Before the final fight: Everyone turns into spirits
- Ending: After you defeat the elder (Dark Gaia 1 & 2, or like in Germany: Agarack & Ragnara), you and the rest of the village are doomed. In your last dream, you are a bird which flies over the world

Secret of Mana

- Ending: The spirit uses all of her mana to destroy the final boss and dies, Randi and Purim survive and the Mana Dragon turns into snow

Illusion of Time/Gaia

- Not really sad, but more scary: Hamlet's suicide + Jackal's death through a flame trap in the pyramid

[Ngamer01]

Hoo boy where do I start?

I guess I'll go with Tales of the Abyss first:

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Watching Akzeriuth's destruction and it's aftermath where you see an injured, but alive boy be claimed by the poisonous sludge of the Qliphoth. Way later in the game, you see citizens of Sheridan being cut down when they try blocking the Oracle Knights from seizing the main party. Two important secondary characters that had helped you prior to that sequence slowly die from their wounds. =(

Oh and again later, Ion dying leading to a final battle with Arise against Arietta.

Tales of Symphonia has a number of moments of sadness, but this is what I remember:

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1) Seeing Presea and the condition of her house and family after originally meeting her.
2) If you chose to have Kratos join you over Zelos, you end up having to slay Zelos later. His final scene is pretty sad.
3) The reason why Mithos fought so hard in what he believed in is sad because he wrongly interpreted what his sister wanted. If he had understood things better, he wouldn't have gone down the sad route until his end at the hands of Lloyd and the others.

Soul Blazer's ending:

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After you leave back to the heavens, Lisa waits and wishes that you may return to the earth someday. Years later, you give up your immortality and all of your memories to become mortal in order return to the earth to fulfill a promise...

[Solink]

My saddest moment was probably when in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn I had to sacrifice my favorite character(Volug) to win a mission. I tried to keep him alive the whole game but he ended being weaker than most of my other units. ;__;

[Cobalt Blue]

every time my R4 decided to corrupt a save file and erase my data on Pokemon Platinum. or Dragon Quest IV

;_____________________________________;

Funny, I had never had that problem with my R4, but DSOrganize sure loved to corrupt my all-too-important folders and files. Why did the most useful homebrew DS app ever have to be crippled with bad FAT drivers? D':

i should mention i got a pirate R4.

yes, a pirate of a pirate.

[SKELTON S. SKELETON]

the end of journey

[Gwen]

the end of journey

Steve Perry dying was pretty sad, Journey will never be the same :C

[Ton]

Mother 3's fireplace scene.
Celes's attempt at suicide in FF6.

[Garamonde]

Mega Man X5's ending after you beat Sigma.

[Raz]

Celes's attempt at suicide in FF6.

That was the exact scene I was thinking about. After Cid.. and the cliff.. Buuuuuu

[Helmo]

Emerl dies a very human scene at the end of sonic battle.

[Cobalt Blue]

Valkyrie Profile on the DS.

screw moral decision i refuse to play the game because i cant sacrifice my allies fr the sake of winning battles :C

[Chaoxys]

Some parts in Skyward Sword. Can't remember which parts but there was a specific one that was really sad.

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Oh yeah, I think it was the part where Zelda says she was just using you, and then she pretty much gives up her life (she may as well have been dead considering she trapped herself in stone)

[TGE]

Damnit, I do have one moment which brought me to tears....

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Maria, this is what you wanted right? This is my promise I made to you.... Where's Shadow?...... He was what he was, a brave and heroic hedgehog : Shadow the Hedgehog