Final Fantasy VI/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

** And then, just to make sure you're feeling Cyan's pain, the game lingers on the scene for a good 30 seconds afterward while Cyan stands at the edge of the depot in despair, staring at where the train once stood.

* The entire game is pretty much a succession of tear jerkers. {{spoiler|Celes' attempted suicide if Cid dies}} and the cutscene after getting the Phoenix magicite are particularly powerful.

* After being completely blindsided by the [[Wham! Episode|Wham Level]] in ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', [[Eric DVH|this editor]] was absolutely crushed by the tableau of {{spoiler|Celes and a dying Cid stranded on an island in the [[The End of the World as We Know It|World of Ruin]]. Left with nothing to do but pointlessly cling to life catching fish on a monster-infested piece of rock which might be all that remained of the world}}, being confronted with an offer to commit suicide truly seemed like the only fitting end to the game.

** For a double whammy, those who cried during that scene end up feeling the grief all over again when they learn {{spoiler|it's possible to save Cid's life, if you catch good fish for him}}. If that scene isn't enough, knowing that it literally is ''all your fault'' makes it ten times worse.

*** Strangely enough, in the GBA retranslation, {{spoiler|the scene after Celes throws herself into the ocean is a [[Tear Jerker]] because of how heartwarming it is. Celes yells at a pigeon and tells it to leave her alone because she has lost all hope. Then she sees a blue bandana wrapped around the pigeon. Celes recognizes it as Locke's trademark bandana. At that point, the pigeon flies away and Celes regains hope because she knows that, somewhere out there in the post-Apocalyptic world, the man she's secretly in love with, Locke, is still alive. It's incredibly heartwarming because Celes starts the game as proclaiming that she is "not some love-starved twit" and her love for Locke is what motivates her to do something about the World of Ruin.}}

* For this troper, it was the injured soldier in Mobliz and his girlfriend in Maranda. They upset him even before {{spoiler|[[The End of the World as We Know It]] causes the former's death. Cyan's lonely attempt to protect Lola from the truth and eventually to persuade her to carry on with life tore me to pieces}}.

** Thirded by this troper. And fourthed by [[The Spoony One]] in his [[Final Fantasy VIII]] review.

** Think about it. Maria is a fictional character even ''within'' the fiction that is ''FFVI''. The makers of the game can make us cry about the fate of a fictional character played by a fictional character. ''THAT'', my friends, is storytelling gold.

* For this troper, the entire scene at the end of Daryl's Tomb did it. The moment ''[[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|Searching for Friends]]'' kicked in and [[Global Airship|the Falcon]] took to the skies, I just [[Manly Tears|broke]].

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utXY5UnERdg entire story] with Locke's previous love interest, Rachel. In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVDTdJY79QM the scene where he brings her the Phoenix magicite], and it only works for a few minutes... and [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|she tells him to be happy with Celes]], I was crying. And then i stopped and thought, what the hell? Over little pixie sprites!

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJexe_aX6k Just listen to this remix] and tell me your eyes don't well up. I dare you.

* When Sabin and Edgar decide the fate of Figaro with a coin toss is a very powerful scene that seems to get something in my eye.

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