Final Fantasy VIII/Tear Jerker

"Rinoa: "Just a little longer... I don't wanna go back...""
 * Final Fantasy VIII. Eyes On Me. 'Nuff said.
 * The very end,, was brilliant. Meanwhile, Laguna, who has been treated as comic relief through the whole game, gets a flashback . It was marvelously subtle and sad.
 * The love between Laguna and Julia, though never meant to be, was carried on in a very sweet way through their children.
 * Previous to any of that, when the party visits the bombed-out ruins of Trabia Garden, wandering by the Garden's makeshift graveyard at the right time allows Squall (and therefore the player) to eavesdrop on Selphie as she talks to the graves of her friends killed during the bombing. That Selphie is ordinarily a hyperactive Genki Girl makes it particularly rough.
 * At the same graveyard, there's a scene with a jacket on one of the tombstones... and a SeeD talking about how his girlfriend used to wear his jacket when they were together during cold nights...
 * The scenes in space, with Rinoa looking up at Squall's ring and her mother's, and realizing that there was nothing left that she could do to save herself.
 * There's also the scene where Laguna discovers the in-story significance of the aforementioned "Eyes on Me" - that
 * Speaking of that space section, there's the end of it with Squall and Rinoa in the cockpit of the Ragnarok. Let's recount the sequence, shall we? After contacting ground control and setting a course back, artificial gravity is turned off and Rinoa ultimately lands in Squall's lap. Her breakdown (as well as Squall's, sorta, but mostly from the scenes at the beginning of the section) while Eyes On Me is playing can be utterly heartbreaking.

"Squall: Please tell me about Sorceress Edea. I heard she's . Cid: You're quite right... She had been a sorceress since childhood. I, knowing that.."
 * Laguna in the flashback at the beginning of the second disc, admitting to Kiros that he's afraid of leaving Winhill and losing Raine and Ellone, and crying out, "Please let it be this room when I wake up! Please let me be in this puny bed when I wake up!" Especially once you know that.
 * The scene that takes place when Squall and co. go to talk to Cid in the infirmary:


 * Pretty much everything relating to Let's break this down...
 * Laguna is off trying to find Ellone in Esthar, so he has no idea that he even
 * It gets even more heartwrenching to know that he still hasn't moved on, almost twenty years later, when