Final Fantasy VI/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

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* The part of the ending where Shadow stays back, [[Shoo the Dog|tells his dog to go on without him]], and promptly dies, made this troper tear up.

** You know it's not actually made clear whether he dies or not, right? Actually, the (semi-) ambiguity of Shadow's ultimate fate may make it a lot more tragic than him simply dying. What's worse: knowing exactly what happened, or never finding out whether he survived or not?

* 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.

** The scene described in your spoiler sets up a [[Heartwarming Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Heartwarming Moments]] when {{spoiler|Celes survives and discovers Locke's bandanna}}, setting off the rest of the game's chain of events.

** 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.

** The most heartbreaking part of Celes trying to kill herself is that ''she's crying when she throws herself off the cliff.''

*** 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.}}

* Celes singing Aria de Mezzo Carattere during the opera gets me every single time.

** Seconded by this troper. This troper bawled his eyes out the last time he tried to sing along.