Oh boy here we go.
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Metal Gear Solid 3&4</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
When snake makes it finally to the lake where the boss is waiting, I honestly just lose it. Even if the fight isn't over you KNOW what's coming, and then they throw the plot twist at you that it wasn't even russia that started all this, it was america and volgin's stupidity. You just can't not feel bad for the boss.
In metal gear solid 4, your last boss fight with liquid ocelot is just... wow. Everything that built up to it, including Johnny and Meryl's engagement, the microwave scene, Raiden's RIPPING OFF HIS ARMS.. it all just builds up to the epic ending of the game, and to find out (with that music playing ;-
that Ocelot was fighting for your side the entire time? It's just... a plot twist you don't expect.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Drakengard 2</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I never really cried during the first game except a stray tear shed at the canon ending, but that's not the point. In drakengard 2 it just throws opportunities to sob from all directions. First opportunity is when you find out what happened between Oror and Gismor, and what kind of person Oror was, and that goes off into what Caim did TO Oror while he was still poisoned. You just have to wonder, what happened to the hero of the game?
Well not even he's spared. When you're in the district of precious life, Caim slays your party member Urick, while he leaps in front of the blade to protect Nowe. I dunno about you guys but the last scene where Nowe is just holding Urick in his arms and dying... I cried. Hard.
Then we move on to the Sanctuary, where the hero of the first game and his dragon begin to burn into ash because Caim asked Nowe and Legna to kill angelus, that it would be a blessing for them both. You really just lose it when caim turns around, staring at the camera, and all the cutscenes of what they did in the first game comes back.
The final moment of sadness in this game has to be the first and third endings. They're basically the same, except in the third Eris doesn't become the goddess. In the first though, your long-time companion a death from above ally turns on you, Legna. Now the interesting thing about legna, is that he's actually nowe's father, and they both know it. All during the fight nowe made comments about how he used to sleep in the dragons wings for warmpth and on the last strike legna falls screaming nowe's name asjdgajgejfg.
Drakengard!
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Crisis Core</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Really. If you played crisis core and DIDN'T cry, something was wrong with you. You get through the entire game, listening to Genesis talk like everything's ending, that he's going to die and he needs help, but when he finally outright asks for it Sephiroth denies him. But it's not even THAT.
The build up to Nibelhiem is one of the most 'GUESS WHAT' obvious pointers that there are. Kunsel and Luxrey keep emailing Zack, Zack tells Aerith that he'll be home, just wait. He keeps telling cloud everything will be okay...
Four years later after sephiroth took the coocoo out of the clock, Zack is dragging a comatose cloud around the world, and all you get are these messages from Zack's peers when shinra sends out a message that says Zack was killed in battle.
From that point on it basically builds up to the inevitable end that you KNOW is coming if you ever played FFVII, but it still hurts nonetheless. Zack fights his way through THOUSANDS of soldiers, I mean... in the last scene THREE are left out of helicoptors, etc. Cloud crawls over to his body in the rain as he passes on all that he has left of his mentor... and then just like that he dies.
Of course it's a square game so they play amazingly sad music, have zack ask if this makes him a hero, and no one remembers that Sephiroth's coocoo is still out of the clock.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Final Fantasy XII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Yeah call me a sap, I cried like a little *censored.4.0*.
In the first cutscene you see this glorious empire ready to go to war for their king, the prince JUST married to princess ashe. Talk about a day for a wedding and a funeral, you see the prince take an arrow to the chest and fall off his chocobo, only to be carried into the next scene, his funeral.
Vaan on the other hand has his own share of the baww, his brother Reks being in the same fight and dying within the first playable scene of the game, he wasn't even fully dead as Vaan remembers two years before that bringing him flowers while he was recovering.. but he never pulled through.
The last scene all you see is balthier and fran supposedly blow up while saving the rest of the group. The most memorable part of that game by far has to be him talking about how the main character never dies, and Ashelia's screech of his name as they fly off.
But oh wait there's more. Gabranth, long time brother, part time villain in the game, holds Basch's hand and talks about his goal to protect Lord Larsa while he's -dying- in the back of the strahl. What. The. Hell. He can't talk about how great a brother Basch was, not throwing him off the back of the ship, but he's loyal to the end and I cried at that even, and how Basch takes over his life. ;-;
Rip gabranth
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This is the last one on this post, I promise
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Final Fantasy XIII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Yeah, sue me I cried. It was just one hit after the other in this game and it didn't take as long as it usually did to get me going.
Hope and his mother join the resistance fight, his mother taking a gun and going off with Snow while Hope remains with Vanille and the rest of the refugees that couldn't fight. This of course ends with Hope's mom dying by a long fall off a bridge, Snow losing grip on her hand.. and Hope watching from afar as his mother is -dropped-.
But Snow has it hard too, you know. He's racing to the fal'c to save his girl before she turns into a crystal, or worse. Did I mention that Snow and Serah are engaged to be married? I didn't? Well that was a few days before this scene, and she becomes a huge chunk of rock right in front of Snow, which leads to him being arrested as he stays behind to try and pull her from the crystal.
That's just the half of it, believe it or not.
I'm going to do some skipping around here, but another main character, Sazh, goes to palomPolom with Vanille, where he finds his lost son, well wouldn't you know it that all he has to do is HUG this little boy, he's like... 6? at most? and he turns to another damn crystal. SJGFJGFEHF. How would you be feeling if you just found your son that you were looking for, decided to give him a hug and then BAM SHINY ROCK.
I'd be crying.
Now we move on more towards the end of the game. You fight Commander Yaag Rosch, and wouldn't you know it, you win. It's a fairly nice victory until he comes stumbling out of his machine, talks to you all, picks up his headset and says that everyone is free from the command of PSICOM, and that he believed and wanted to be on your side the entire time. The party leaves him as he tells them to, only to have something attack him...
So what does he do? Pick up a gun or a sword?
No.
He pulls a *censored.3.0*ing grenade out of his clothes, and blows himself up to save everyone.
And then you have the very end of the game, Vanille and Fang, a constant fight to see who becomes ragnorok. But what happens instead? Fang and Vanille become left behind when the final boss is defeated, retreating back into the world as they finish their focus, and save cocoon. But.. at the price of what they did, you see them at the very end turning to crystal for their sacrifice, and forever staying like that, to be the heart of that world.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I'll probably come back with Kingdom Hearts, and a few other games.
