Final Fantasy IV/Tear Jerker
- Final Fantasy IV has plenty of moments, but the one that got me was when Porom and Palom, two child-wizards, turned themselves to stone to save their allies from being crushed by the walls of a collapsing room. Even though we get some good news about them during a later boss fight, that moment is still a heartbreaker.
- Made even worse when you remember they're only five years old.
- And yet worse, for this troper in her playthrough of the DS version: Porom leveled up and learned new magic right after the Cagnazzo fight, and her level up animation is her clapping with joy and just the thought that she wasn't gonna get to try out this new thing she learned and...excuse me, I've got something in my eyes...
- Also in the game there is the scene where Edge's parents kill themselves in front of Edge as he is begging them not to.
- Hey, what about the sacrifices of Yang and Cid, within about 2 mins of each other and the party pleading for both of them not to go through with it.
- Starting with Yang, who sought to stop the Tower of Babil's cannon from destroying the dwarves by using his own body to make it misfire. This makes the introduction to Edge, his inevitable fifth-slot replacement, sting a lot more.
Yang: Forgive me... |
- And then there's Cid, who jumped off the Enterprise with the FFIV equivalent of a tactical nuke with the intent of shutting the underground behind them and stop the Red Wings' pursuit. And just when you thought you had him back.
Rydia: They're closing on us! |
- -sniff-
- In the Advance version, Kain gives us this line:
- -sniff-
Kain: Everyone chooses death too quickly... |
- When Theodore AKA Golbez tries to use Cure on his dead father.
- Tellah's death, made even more poignant when you beat the game and realize out of all of the Disney deaths and "Back from the Dead's", he's one of the only characters who actually stays dead through the end.
- In the Final Boss fight, when Tellah shows up, you realize that it's probably his soul from the afterlife.