Video Games/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

 

 

* Ace Attorney series

* [[Ace Combat/Tear Jerker|Ace Combat]]

* [[Asura's Wrath/Tear Jerker|Asuras Wrath]]

* [[Call of Juarez/Tear Jerker|Call of Juarez]]

* [[Tear Jerker/Dwarf Fortress|Dwarf Fortress]]

* [[Eternal Daughter/Tear Jerker|Eternal Daughter]]

** [[Fallout New Vegas (Video Game)/Tear Jerker|Fallout New Vegas]]

* [[Fate Extra/Tear Jerker|Fate Extra]]

** [[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)/Tear Jerker|Final Fantasy II]]

* [[Free Space/Tear Jerker|Free Space]]

* [[God Hand/Tear Jerker|God Hand]]

* [[Grim Fandango/Tear Jerker|Grim Fandango]]

* [[Infocom/Tear Jerker|Infocom]]

* [[Killer 7/Tear Jerker|Killer 7]]

* [[King of Fighters/Tear Jerker|King of Fighters]]

* [[Legend of Dragoon/Tear Jerker|Legend of Dragoon]]

* [[Lufia/Tear Jerker|Lufia]]

* [[Lunar/Tear Jerker|Lunar]]

* [[Lusternia/Tear Jerker|Lusternia]]

* [[Monster Rancher/Tear Jerker|Monster Rancher]]

* [[Narcissu (Visual Novel)/Tear Jerker|Narcissu]]

* [[Nie R/Tear Jerker|Nie R]]

* [[The Neverhood/Tear Jerker|The Neverhood]]

* [[Odin Sphere/Tear Jerker|Odin Sphere]]

* [[Radiant Silvergun/Tear Jerker|Radiant Silvergun]]

* [[Republic Commando/Tear Jerker|Republic Commando]]

* [[Resistance/Tear Jerker|Resistance]]

* [[Sam and Max/Tear Jerker|Sam and Max]]

* [[Shannara/Tear Jerker|Shannara]]

* [[Silent Hill/Tear Jerker|Silent Hill]]

* [[Solatorobo/Tear Jerker|Solatorobo]]

* [[Soul Calibur/Tear Jerker|Soul Calibur]]

* [[The Suffering/Tear Jerker|The Suffering]]

* [[Twisted Metal/Tear Jerker|Twisted Metal]]

* [[Vagrant Story/Tear Jerker|Vagrant Story]]

* [[Valkyrie Profile/Tear Jerker|Valkyrie Profile]]

* [[World in Conflict/Tear Jerker|World in Conflict]]

 

{{examples|Examples }}

 

* [[Oddworld]]: Munch's Oddysee- The game opens with Munch swimming with his fellow Gabbits. But then the net comes in.

** Stranger's Wrath had a pretty heart breaking scene. {{spoiler|The Stranger goes on another mission to find the doctor needed to perform an operation he was saving up for hung. He is then knocked out, only to wake up to find out that the outlaws found out that he is a Steef.}} If that weren't bad enough, {{spoiler|the Clackerz even turn on him upon this revelation. Stranger just runs while being fired at, with his only reliable friends being the Grubbs.}}

* The obscure Wii game ''Zack & Wiki: The Quest for Barbaros' Treasure'' features a boss stage in which Wiki, a cute, golden, flying monkey thing is frozen inside an ice lion. If you screw up trying to free him once too many times, Wiki will tell Zack, "I'm feeling sleepy...thanks for everything..."

** Or... when your love dies, you can choose to stay by her grave and join her.

** And the character is the creator, Jason, of the game himself. And his mate is his real life wife.

* Jason Roher's other game Gravitation is also heartwenching. To get by, you must play ball with your girl. If you are greedy and go for the box points for long, you'll fall down and find that see it gone and your environment gets darker. And the little girl is modeled after his own girl.

* There is the very short 2D game from Armor games and Kongregate. Which is possibly the saddest game ever made. It is called ''[http://armorgames.com/play/5355/immortall ImmortTall]''. You play as an alien, crashed on earth. You find some humans and befriend them. Then a war breaks out. You control the alien to act as a "human" shield for the family from the soldiers. You eventually make it through the warzone. And then the alien dies, surrounded by the family it protected, on an unknown planet far away from home. Then it starts snowing, and the body is eventually covered, and the family leave. YE GODS! It certainly puts a new spin on the traditional "Aliens crash on earth and start killing everyone": this time, the alien dies protecting innocents from the traditional "heroes". Oh yeah, and you never kill. Not one person. You merely act as a shield. You physically can't attack. Play it, and tell me you don't cry.

** [[Growing Up Sucks|The metaphor]], the {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}, the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|music]]...

** [[Shmuck Bait|God ''damn'' it]]. It's worse when you fail and {{spoiler|The family dies too}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Rock Giant''': "They look like big, good, strong hands. Don't they? ... My little friends. ... I couldn't hold on to them. The nothing pulled them right out of my hands. I failed."}}}}

* One the topic of flash games, The Last Stand: Union City. Towards the end, you meet {{spoiler|'the protagonist of the first 2 Last Stands, Jack. He sacrifices himself so you, your spouse, and your ragtag group of friends can escape via boat. If you recall from the first 2 games, most prominently the second one, the only hope for Jack and his [[Fire-Forged Friends|small crew]] is to get to Union City as there are still boats and planes taking people out. When Jack simply says to [[Heroic Sacrifice|go on without him, he'll cover our exit,]]}} it was almost too much for this troper, as he played the first 2 Last Stands almost religiously.

** ''Either'' ending is a [[Tear Jerker]] for [[Premium Irritation|This Troper]]. After picking the {{spoiler|save Jenny}} ending (albeit accidentally) I was fired up for what I fle tsure was going to be one huge [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. {{spoiler|You then of course arrive in the town to find that Rific is already dead, and it just gets worse from there. To have very nearly reached the dock (and escape) only to have Jenny gunned down by the last man between you and safety broke my heart. It's made ''even worse'' by Kane's frantic denials of the fact she's dead, yelling at Lynch in deranged fashion to shut him up and carrying Jenny's limp body on his shoulders to the boat. Oh yeah. then Shelley dies too.}} The waterworks came on with a vengeance.

** The developers know. The achievements in the 360 version for getting each ending are, respectively, "Damned If You Do" and "Damned If You Don't."

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZqrG1bdGtg The Dead Island Trailer]. Made all the worse by the music and the montage at the end. Imagine going on a vacation with your family and/or friends, all of you expecting to have the most awesome time. All of a sudden, zombies attack and you watch in horror as your loved one get mauled and turn against you as they reanimate.

* The "sad" stages in ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' and both ''[[Osu Tatakae Ouendan]]'' games.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20pZ4_5u5g This cutscene] from ''Chocobo's Dungeon 2''.

* [[Arc Rise Fantasia]]: Walking around Antrax after it is attacked and taken over. The music is gut-wrenching, and listening to what the survivors (and even some of the soldiers) have to say made this troper get misty-eyed. Even worse, this comes right after {{spoiler|half your party betrays you and leaves}} and is followed by {{spoiler|Zamuel dying.}} This troper actually started getting angry at how depressing the game was at this point.

* Though it's not exactly related to playing video games, there's the [[Dreamcast]] page on this site. Call this troper crazy, but it seemed really sad, like a farewell to Sega hardware and the greatest Sega console that died out too early. ''It's Still Dreaming...''

** [[User:Ace Of Scarabs|I]] put that there as a salute to the last system SEGA made before they left the hardware business (someone else added the pothole later). Never forget the Dream and it will never die ;_;