Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots/Heartwarming

""Snake, you are free now... Don't waste it... Start a new life...""
 * The ending of Metal Gear Solid 4, in which.
 * In spite of his claims that he never thought of David as a son, John Doe's love for him as a father is all but confirmed with this:

Made all the more heartbreaking for the fact that David has ""I'm sorry...your father never wanted you. Human life isn't meant to be manipulated like that. I knew that, but...I wanted you.""
 * What makes it all the greater is
 * Seconded. The touching, soft music, the imagery and glowy hazy-ness of all the white flowers in the cemetary, and 's "This is good, isn't it?" never fails to make this troper tear up.
 * Even though may not have believed David's father loved him, she freely admits that she always has.


 * Sunny forming a microcosm of the ideal of world peace when she says of her new friend "We don't understand each other's language but we're having fun."
 * Don't forget
 * Hey hey now, don't forget
 * Something apparently overlooked:
 * This troper, for one, got a little bit of this every time Big Mama says "". Now if that isn't a touching  moment, nothing is.
 * Let's not forget Raiden's segment in the end of the game either. Say what you will about Raiden, but you can't deny that after all the crap he had gone through in his life, he really needed and deserved that happy ending.
 * In the celebratory moments after Meryl and Johnny's wedding, Campbell simply looks up to the heavens and says, "Thank you, Snake." The best moment of the game.
 * I've only completed #2, but that scene between Raiden and Rose before the Sons of Liberty credits made me very happy for them both.
 * Oddly, this troper found the scene in the act 5 briefing where Otacon pulls out his lighter and lights Snake's cigarette for him, despite berating him throughout all the games about his smokes, to be extremely sweet.
 * Don't forget the final scene that played after the credits rolled.  Makes this troper choke up every. single. time.
 * The most heart-rending line is  And the most heartwarming is  There's just something in my eye... every single time.
 * Kind of an odd example for me: I found  utter glee when using a controller with Dual Shock 3 technology to be oddly heartwarming. Yes, he killed a lot of people. Yes, he attempted to make  . No, he wasn't sorry about any of it. But he got one last chance to , and he's so happy about it he practically sounds like a kid in a candy store.
 * Kind of an odd example for me: I found  utter glee when using a controller with Dual Shock 3 technology to be oddly heartwarming. Yes, he killed a lot of people. Yes, he attempted to make  . No, he wasn't sorry about any of it. But he got one last chance to , and he's so happy about it he practically sounds like a kid in a candy store.