Persona 4/Tear Jerker

What, you thought the happiest game about murder ever wasn't going to have any Tear Jerkers? Come on, this is Shin Megami Tensei. Of course you're going to cry.

"Naoki: "
 * Persona 4 pulls off a string of moving moments, from the beginning of the final kidnapping.  You chase down the guy who is responsible for the people being thrown in, and he seems certifiably insane. Upon completeing the rescue arc, you reach the scene that is a CMoA for the game's creators.   As the police hall him off to his room, they leave the suspect unguarded, prompting you and the others to enter the room for a grand confrontation. This is the ending fork for the bad or normal ending. Take it from this troper, it's kind of hard to read the options the game gives you with tears in your eyes. But it isn't over yet.  . As Igor states, the Velvet Room is no place for beings without an Ego. So, only humans can enter.
 * This troper teared up during s-link
 * The Sun Link again has a chance to be a very moving one, if you choose the Drama Club. . One of the many examples of why the Social Link stories are what this troper loves most about these games.
 * This troper found the final battle quite touching..
 * After you're ; that's when I cried.
 * This troper gets choked up simply from the fight's music when it swells into . Probably the only time I've shed a tear not because of anything plot-related, but simply because it made me realize the game was coming to an end after spending 80+ hours making me give a damn about it.
 * I almost got choked up when kicks in not so much because it was the end to a great 80-90 hour game, but because, when that moment of the song kicks in, it felt like someone was cheering you on against Izanami (a legitimately difficult boss unless you broke the game).
 * Watching the final cutscene, with the main character leaving and all the friends he made coming out to say goodbye. The train pulls away, the credits roll...and I utterly lose it. I was trying to will him to stay!
 * The texts you receive after.
 * Hisano Kuroda's Social Link. It manages to invoke the Death Arcana's true meaning in a really tragic way: by having the person closest to you forget all about you.
 * What mattered the most was remembered the least, huh?
 * . But if you   (i.e. not get the worst ending).
 * Can a song be a Tear Jerker? Because Corridor is soul-crushing.
 * Alone. This song (spoilers in the comments) reduces anyone with a soul to TEARS the first time you hear it in game.
 * Which both have nothing on Heaven.
 * Hearing
 * Hisano's backstory, combined with a dose of Adult Fear. So, your husband has Alzheimer's, you speak to him, and the response is "Who are you?"
 * When the MC . Soon after that all the social links you've maxed out, all the people you've befriended appear one by one, encouraging MC to not give up and putting their thoughts with him. This troper was touched.
 * Are you mistaking this for the Crowning Moment of Awesome page?
 * Considering that that line comes right on the tail of a legitimately difficult final boss fight and is a magnificent payoff to all the trials and tribulations you endured throughout the entire game, no, I think it deserves a place here.
 * This troper can't be the only one who cried when
 * I get a little happy-sad and teary every time I hear Never More, the ending song for this game. Partially because of this scene, but partially because I've linked it strongly in my mind with my graduation from college.
 * Ai of the Moon Social Link at first appears to be a real jerk. Get far enough in her social link and then you find out why she's that way..
 * When  This troper burst into tears the first time she played that part.
 * Naoki Konishi, the Hanged Man Social Link, is absolutely heartbreaking. Dealing with his struggle to understand his feelings over the death of his sister. It reaches it's peak in the ninth rank, where
 * Ai of the Moon Social Link at first appears to be a real jerk. Get far enough in her social link and then you find out why she's that way..
 * When  This troper burst into tears the first time she played that part.
 * Naoki Konishi, the Hanged Man Social Link, is absolutely heartbreaking. Dealing with his struggle to understand his feelings over the death of his sister. It reaches it's peak in the ninth rank, where

The Anime of the Game
": "I'm not... I'm not even !""
 * The small details the animation team added to the relationship between Yosuke and Saki really do help to make  all the more heartbreaking. For one, there's the fact that Yosuke had actually gone as far as to ask Saki out on a date, and there's the scene at the beginning of #2 where after being turned down by Yukiko, he perks up and says that Saki is the only woman for him.
 * The anime does an excellent job with the Shadow Yukiko bossfight, with the first part being an almost Lampshade Hanging of how it was That One Boss, and the second part being pure Tear Jerker.
 * Much like with her Social Link, the moment where Rise learns that her manager is replacing her with another Idol Singer. Yu's Armor Piercing Question doesn't do much to help Rise with her Identity Crisis, resulting in her running away and getting kidnapped by the Murderer.
 * Yu's crestfallen look when it appears that the mystery has been solved and that there won't be a need for the Investigation Team to hang out anymore.
 * In the next episode, Yu suffers a Heroic BSOD and shows his nightmare: a world in which the investigation is over and one by one the team members distance themselves from him. It's a very sad and heartbreaking deconstruction of Fire Forged Friends.
 * Yousuke's casual remark about how "it just goes to show that we were the only ones who thought we were friends," - followed immediately by Yu overhearing Kanji complaining about the group still meeting up for no reason and having to act friendly - hits particularly hard. In the end Yu is completely alone, unable to summon any of his Personas to defend himself because he has no connections to anyone any more.
 * Episode 14. . All our tears.
 * Episode 16. The anime rendition of . Setting aside the possible issues about the character for a while, it's rather... well, heartbreaking to see


 * Episode 18. . God. Damn. It, even /a/  couldn't help crying at the livestream.
 * Episode 21. Just...damn.
 * Episode 22.
 * To rub salt in the wound
 * Episode 23.
 * Yu
 * While  is a really crazy person, the scene in which   is surprisingly effective in these regards.
 * Teddie
 * Episode 25. Yu's departure. It's both sad to see him go, but also happy since it's not necessarily goodbye forever, and it's clear how much he valued his time in Inaba. The last shot of him still holding his glasses is particularly effective.