Facebook Files: What Games Have Made You Cry?

By Ishaan . August 15, 2010 . 10:34am

Facebook Files: What Games Have Made You Cry?

This week in Facebook Files, we’re talking about games that legitimately brought a tear to your eyes, whether they were tears of happiness or sadness. Very few games actually have the ability to affect most of us to this extent, so when one does, you know it’s truly special.

 

Tommy wrote:

What scene in a game made you cry? Why?(Almost is good enough)

 

I’ll go with an obvious answer and say Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon’s last scene with the PF. Well, entire game was powerful emotionally but that’s the scene that struck me the hardest because I wasn’t expecting it.

 

I know I have other moments from games one normally wouldn’t expect it from but… I can’t recall them right now.

 

Ishaan wrote:

The PF scene from Fragile was touching, yea. Poor PF-san. :’(

It didn’t make me cry though. No, the game that half made me bawl my eyes out was Okami, in multiple places. I don’t even care to recount how many times Okami got me teary-eyed. There was the scene where Mr. Bamboo’s daughter finally leaves, the scene with Issun throwing those flyers around at the end of the game…too many to count.

 

Twilight Princess kind of made me fight a tear or two back, too, at the very end of the game when it’s time for Midna to leave. Persona 4 at the end of the game, too. It’s super-interesting. I feel like in the last few years, a few select Japanese developers have really figured out how to tug at the old heartstrings.

 

Raphael wrote:

Legacy of Kain Defiance, Raziel’s sacrifice. Probably because i got sucked in into the LoK universe really deep and i have a really soft spot for sacrificial characters(next scenes proves it..)

 

Metal Gear Solid 3, The Boss’ revelation that she was willing to die and go down into the anals of history as a traitor to prevent a Nuclear War. Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Zack’s death. Shadow of the Colossus, the overall mood of the game that leads to a very dramatic and poetic ending.

 

And Beyond the Beyond, probably because its the first RPG i’ve seriously played and a friend who died years back gave the game to me..

 

So, what games have had made you fight back tears or even wipe a couple away? Fire away in the comments!


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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1472407455 Charles Lupula

    You might’ve wanted to put a spoiler warning at the front of your post for people who never played the game.

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    Oh God, Narcissu. I remember I was actually at a hospital myself when I played that. It had the most depressing effect ever. I was feeling down the entire day. ><

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    Visual novels totally count. We treat them with the utmost respect around here. :)

    Tsukihime didn’t push me to the point of tears, but it did stir me up a couple times where I had this really heavy sort of feeling but I guess the emotions didn’t quite know which way to come out. One of the times was at the scene in the park when Shiki’s waiting late at night for Arcueid. Another was the ending. Overall, Tsukihime was a very romantic game imo.

    Divi-Dead had the exact opposite effect. I remember playing it on a rainy day and it was kind of peaceful but in an eerie “waiting-for-death-to-claim-you” sort of way.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sammy-Garner/100001015553430 Sammy Garner

    In Lost Odyssey when Cook n Mack lost their mother. That was such a sad moment. N while I think about it. That was the first time i eva cried from a DAMN videogame LMAO!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bryce-Maciel/100001009231842 Bryce Maciel

    Nier made me cry little bitch tears by the second ending. By the fourth, I couldn’t even take it. :<

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-Coley/588322262 Brandon Coley

    Crisis Core to me was the saddest final scene that made me cried. Also E-102 Gamma death scene in sonic adventure made me cry when gamma reliease what he really was.

  • http://www.siliconera.com Melinda

    If you want really scary, I was asked to do a bit of testing on that, and I was sent to hospital while I was doing the testing.

    Although they didn’t have pallative care while I was at the hospital, uh, just say I got a little closer to the topic than I liked.

  • Day2Day

    As for Visual novels, Air made me bawl my eyes out a few times…
    Both the Anime and the Novel, actually…
    The ending’s extremely sad…

    Oh, and Persona 3… TTwTT Minato… And Shinji…

    I haven’t finished P3P yet because Dragon Quest IX got in the way, but I imagine finishing the game with Minako won’t be as sad without the anime cutscenes…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Kursave/837394382 Daniel Kursave

    Seriously; he did nothing wrong and the fact that he fought untill dawn just to try and see his girl made me tear us so bad

  • TheCleaningGuy

    Damn, spoilers abound in here. :(

  • Anonymous

    Final Fantasy 7 and Lost Odyssey :(

  • Anonymous

    I cried at the end of Klonoa.
    But I can’t remember any other game I cried at the end of recently.
    Oh, Professor Layton and the Devil’s Box brought a tear to my eye too.
    That was bittersweet to the max.

  • Aoshi00

    Layton had a great ending, I won’t say anything, but you’ll love 3 :)

  • Anonymous

    I cry easily so my list is pretty long. I’ll probably end up forgetting a few as well.

    Persona 3 and 4
    Metal Gear Solid 2 3 and 4
    Shadow of the Colossus
    Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
    Okami
    Valkyrie Profile
    Final Fantasy 6 7 8 and Crisis Core
    Valkyria Chronicles
    Lost Odyssey
    Elite Beat Agents/Ouendan
    Clannad
    Yume Miru Kusuri
    Kana: Little Sister

  • Anonymous

    Tales of the Abyss almost made me cry. Right after Akzeriuth fell into the Qliphoth, when that child sinks into the mud…

  • http://twitter.com/Xuiz enorka miho

    Zack is always the hero!

  • http://otoboku.se manga

    Well. The sheer amount of tears I´ve shed for video games. Since spoiling the scenes would be pretty low of me I´ll just stop to name some titles.

    Persona 3
    Persona 4
    Final Fantasy VII
    Grandia 2
    Chrono Trigger/Cross
    Lost Odyssey

    To name a few.

    I can´t begin to remember all the times tears of either joy or sadness have filled my eyes when playing.

    I´m so emotional sometimes I wonder if it´s truly my real self.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=511084876 James Willoughby

    metal gear solid 4 because of the buildup leading to the climax which when it occurs is touching

  • Anonymous

    man. either siliconera is actually full of girls or you guys are a bunch of pussies.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed. Crisis Core made me cry more than any thing else.

    Others:
    Lunar 2
    Rhapsody
    Metal Gear Solids 1, 2 and 3

  • Anonymous

    same

  • Jaxx-Leviathan

    Hm, feels kinda hollow saying this now after reading about every second post in here mentioning it, but Persona 3. I cried due to frustration during one fight and then at the end. But the end wasn’t because Minato died, honestly I didn’t know he died, I just thought he fell asleep. But it was just that I had given the game my all, invested myself and my feelings completely… and then it was over. No more story or progress with the characters (well, at least not then, glad it got build upon in later versions). That just tore my heart out and I had a good, long sob.
    Another game which had me cry in frustration was Diddy Kong Racing for the N64. Racing the walrus for the gold, it took me forever to finally beat him and up ’til then I had one rage-quit accompanied by tears and swearing (my only rage-quit ever).
    I’m pretty sure I cried happy tears during the ending credits of Super Mario 64.

  • Anonymous

    Man, am I the only one that thinks it’s sad when Chidori died to save Junpei’s life in P3?

    That scene was so full of emotion for me.. Especially when Junpei went berserk afterwards.

  • Anonymous

    Mother 3.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah Crisis Core got me a littly misty eyed but I’m a big FF7 fan so no surprise there. FF8 got me a few times too during my play through (love that game)and Lunar 1 did me in back in the day too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AllenSmithee Samuel Smithee Bateman

    Yes, the ending theme to ZOE is one of my favourites. I also get emotional with nostalgia when I hear ZOE2′s opening, since I played a demo of it long ago…

    I still haven’t finished ZOE 2nd Runner, due to a buddy and I accidentally swapping memory cards. Oops! ):

  • Anonymous

    This may be a spoiler, but if you max his social link with the FeMC she’ll give him his lost pocket watch back wich will help stop the bullet, he’ll will survive the incident, but will enter in a coma, although I don’t know if he will ever wake up again…

  • Joanna

    I think Narcissu is one of the only video games that have made me cry. Others have made me sad, but rarely do they bring me to tears. I think it had to do with not only the mature subject matter (accepting death), but also with the way Setsumi was built up as a character. She was genuinely likable and she wasn’t your typical, “oh come same me and give me a shoulder to cry on” girl. She was vulnerable, very vulnerable, but the author gave that vulnerability real depth: she fought it, she hid it, and she finally accepted it and overcame it. Way too many video game lack in the character development section, often giving us shallow emotional bundles that are hard to relate towards. Anyways, I think I’m getting offtopic here, so I’ll stop. ^^

  • Anonymous

    svc chaos…after the horrible patchwork game cvs that capcom has put out, for me there was no way snk could do any worse…right?

    Few months later svc chaos came out and put the street fighters onto the neogeo for the first time. I was so looking forward to that since, well ever. When the final product appeared it was crocodiles tears for me ;_;
    This is still a huge scar on my videogame soul :(

  • Anonymous

    Crisis Core and Terranigma’s ending (though I didn’t like Cloud screaming at the end, I thought “shut up man, you didn’t you anything to help him!”). Somehow, I don’t regret Aerith’s death. I also almost cried with X-men origins (psp), but that was because it sucked.

  • Anonymous

    Also when he receives the letters from Aerith and is told how many years have passed since the Nibelheim incident… My eyes almost popped out of my head.

  • Aoshi00

    wow, we’re totally in the same boat. I really liked ZoE but haven’t beaten 2nd Runner yet. I think it was because I kept dying in one battle and gave up. It would be pretty hard to go back to the game now after so long..

  • Anonymous

    Noumi Kudryavka good end1, although it’s not soo gorgeus as Saya’s ending from Little Busters. All key games made my cry.

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