The Walking Dead S1 & 2, Final Fantasy XIII and The Last of Us

YES, you do haha

Major Spoilers ahead, though they're old games


The one that stung me the most as a kid (even more than Aeris) was the futile effort to help Vivi in Final Fantasy IX. You spend most of the game discovering his origins and trying to find a way prolong his life (it is akin to Blade Runner), jumping from effort to effort but never finding a solution. Eventually Vivi, who has the personality, age, and curiosity of a child, just comes to accept his circumstance and enjoy whatever time left the world deems to give him.

Never in a game had I felt so desperate to help a character and helpless as it became apparent that I couldn't. Anyone who has had a relative battling a losing fight with an illness would immediately recognize the emotional roller coaster they went on with Vivi, and it made me contemplate mortality and the importance of enjoying the moment in a way I really hadn't before at that point in my young life (around 10 I think). I've never quite so sympathized with a character as I did Vivi.


The other two off the top of my head weren't quite like that but were still moving. First was my first real introduction to the importance of a universal value of all human life in Final Fantasy Tactics. Watching the two otherwise friends (Ramza and Delita) being torn apart by social standing was hard enough, but the way the lower class was treated essentially like vermin was an eye opener... It was definitely a great idea to have you initially fighting on the side of nobility, and you get to see the world from multiple perspectives.

It was when that loathesome son of a bitch Algus (Argus?) killed Delita's sister and Delita justifiably turned on all nobility (including Ramza) and appeared to die in the explosion with his sister that I was, to put it simply, emotionally drained lol... Though killing that asshole Algus was a little therapeutic.

Last, while on this level, was the end of Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal. I'd been reading just prior to playing this game about the evacuation of Dunkirk in which many, many soldiers gave their lives to stall the Germans long enough for French and British forces to escape by sea (there's a running joke here in the US that the French were cowards, but there's a big difference between cowardice and being out maneuvered; the French troops who remained behind and held off the Germans with no expectation of escaping were no cowards). The presentation wasn't that moving of course, but I found the idea of Khadgar and his allies holding off the horde until they could close the portal, thereby stranding themselves on an alien planet that would almost certainly kill them, to be exceedingly brave and admirable. I suppose as a kid I took comfort in the idea that there are people out there who will lay everything on the sacrificial altar for the good of others should the need arise.

I know there's certainly many more, but those were among my earliest. Just off the top of my head I can think of the end of Halo ODST or w.e it was... Oh, and the Rainbow Six series really made me consider that soldiers are people and all battles have consequences by providing backstory to each character that, by the end, I was devestated and felt really guilty to see a "KIA" at the end of any mission... If anyone died I just reloaded and tried again.

The last of us, would bring the toughest cunt to tears!

Anyone who says "Anyone who says no obviously did not play Fire Emblem Awakening" did not play Fire Emblem Blazing Swords.

Persona 4 Golden had me bawling my eyes out.

Nope.

Ninja Turtles 3: The Hyperstone Heist

yeah, Heavy rain, don't remember much but I remember that it played with my emotions during the whole game.

Heavy rain...everything fell apart for me in the last chapter, killer ended up going free and all my people died

Beyond was pretty emotional

Last of us made me bitter angry if that counts, such a bad ending.