04-02-2012, 11:52 PM
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Mega Man Zero 4The game has a heavy storyline of Humans disrespecting Reploids for dragging them into "their" war (even though Humans are the ones who used Reploids to fight other Reploids in the first place). Just as they are coming together at the end, Zero supposedly sacrifices himself to save the humans, and Ceil takes it pretty hard.
When Algus shot Teta with a crossbow I was light "WHAT THE FUUUUUCK!?"
Ever overarching story with almost ANY NPC character ends in tragedy, even if you do as much as you can to prevent it. Almost every supporting character who sells you spells ends up going Hollow after you buy everything from them.
The two saddest have to be Solaire, who goes insane if you don't help him and "finds his own sun" in the form of a brain-chewing Sunlight Maggot, and Big-Hat Logan, who literally goes down the same path of insanity as Seath the Scaleless, one of the game's major bosses, and eventually turns on you after his research drives him mad. In retrospect even if you SAVE Solaire, his crestfallen behavior afterwards is STILL really depressing.
The two saddest have to be Solaire, who goes insane if you don't help him and "finds his own sun" in the form of a brain-chewing Sunlight Maggot, and Big-Hat Logan, who literally goes down the same path of insanity as Seath the Scaleless, one of the game's major bosses, and eventually turns on you after his research drives him mad. In retrospect even if you SAVE Solaire, his crestfallen behavior afterwards is STILL really depressing.
Irene getting stabbed, and then taking several more stages to even end up dying from it. And then the ending as a result (Even though it is ultimately a happy ending).
The game is riddled with bizarrely deep tones about life and death, and Count Bleck sacrifices himself to prevent all the universe from breaking apart. However, it is implied he and that butterfly thing found happiness together in a new world.
The endings to the main three storylines:
1. The Dragoons: Larc is forced to endure imprisonment in the underworld because he is the Dragoon of Drakonis, and can't be with his sister (Though eventually it is implied he is freed)
2. The Jumi: After all but one of the Jumi have either had their Cores destroyed or eaten, the main character cries for them and invokes a curse that turns them to stone. However, their tears turn into a Teardrop Crystal that brings the Jumi back to life, and they, in turn, make another Crystal for the hero after being unable to do so for centuries. (Carebears logic ending, but I still found it sad at first).
3. Irwin and Matilda: By far the saddest ending. Irwin's story involves how he stole Matilda's priesthood powers and made her age at a rapid rate. She refused to follow him even though she loved him, and in turn he tried to destroy the world (and ended up being killed by the main character). Matilda dies of old age, and she goes to see Irwin in the underworld to ask to be with him at last now that there was nobody to stand in their way, but he refuses and just fades away, leaving her alone.
1. The Dragoons: Larc is forced to endure imprisonment in the underworld because he is the Dragoon of Drakonis, and can't be with his sister (Though eventually it is implied he is freed)
2. The Jumi: After all but one of the Jumi have either had their Cores destroyed or eaten, the main character cries for them and invokes a curse that turns them to stone. However, their tears turn into a Teardrop Crystal that brings the Jumi back to life, and they, in turn, make another Crystal for the hero after being unable to do so for centuries. (Carebears logic ending, but I still found it sad at first).
3. Irwin and Matilda: By far the saddest ending. Irwin's story involves how he stole Matilda's priesthood powers and made her age at a rapid rate. She refused to follow him even though she loved him, and in turn he tried to destroy the world (and ended up being killed by the main character). Matilda dies of old age, and she goes to see Irwin in the underworld to ask to be with him at last now that there was nobody to stand in their way, but he refuses and just fades away, leaving her alone.
If you have Shadow for the ending of the game, he leaves the party behind without anyone realizing and tells his dog to leave without him as the tower is crumbling around him. Also the Celes on the cliff scene if Cid dies, which was already mentioned, and of course Cyan chasing the Phantom Train as he watches it take away his wife and son.
The final battle, and then realizing what it was The Boss was really doing.
The opening sequence where Maxim and Selan are left behind in the Fortress as it is falling apart.
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