What moment from a video game made you cry?

Brothers: A tale of two sons.

The game has a pretty unique mechanic. It makes you control two characters at the same time. It's not a coop game, with optional solo. It's strictly a single player game, where you use one controller to move two characters, the titular two sons, one on each control stick. Throughout the game you use movement and interactions with the environment to solve simple puzzles to remove obstacles in your way and travel to your destination. Usually, by having you do different things with each character simultaneously. After a while, it becomes second nature to control both brothers in a synchronous and flowing manner when you get used to the challenge of moving and paying attention to two different things at the same time.

The ending of that game still makes me tear up after all this years as it makes me think of my own family. Even writing this comment I'm getting emotional. And it does it all without a single line of dialogue, text or voice acting. All by animation and vocalizations along with game mechanics. It's one of the most effective uses of gameplay I have ever seen in a video game and forever has made me think of this as one of my favorite games of all time.

Other video games, and things people call emotional are usually about story elements, plot lines, events on a character's arc. Things that have books upon books of analysis and history. Not that they're any less valuable or deserving of praise, but using gameplay this effectively to convey emotion is, however, kind of unique and rather harder to pull off effectively.

You have me sold on the game.
- Yah that sounds like an incredible experience
You put that into words perfectly. I think it's the only game that proscribes an emotion so successfully through a gameplay mechanic. It's the most real, raw and visceral sense of loss I've ever felt in a game, film or book. Truly unique.
You missed the very end when the dad finds out that his son basically died to save him. As a dad with two sons, this would break me. Leave me to die, boys. That's not a trade I'd ever make.
I played this many years ago on Total Biscuits recommendation, he had similar things to say about it, it truly is a beautiful game

I don't think I ever cried playing a video game, but I can think of three moments that almost got me. Spoilers, obviously.

Metal Gear Solid 3. Hearing how much The Boss had to sacrifice for a country that will forever hate her and remember her as a traitor.
Fighting the Hollow Knight and at some point it starts stabbing itself. The music changes from this epic battle theme to a tragic lonely little violin. It can barely even stand, yet is still forced to keep attacking. At this point it changes from a battle to assisted suicide.
Doki Doki Literature Club. Living with depression myself, I knew exactly how Sayori felt. I'm not even talking about THAT scene, but the day before.

DDLC fucked with me hard core... first time I played it and got to "that" part, I cold killed my pc and sat in the shower in the fetal position until I ran out of hot water.
Didn't play it again for several days afterwards.
I had a really good time with DDLC. I'm glad I went in blind.

“To the moon” Nice little point and click adventure. I played it through one afternoon and was sad for the following two days.

I've cried a few times in my life at games. This is the only one that had me outright sobbing.
My wife played this through one evening, I thought i'd done something wrong for the next week.
I convinced my partner to play it recently and the way I knew she'd finished it was that I could hear sniffling from the desk behind me.
I’m a pretty emotional dude. I tear up at a lot of things, happy and sad. But, there are very few things in this life that have caused me to totally break down, ugly crying. The ending to “To the Moon” is one of them. Too visceral a reminder of saying goodbye to people I’ve loved very much.
Oh yea, that one had me almost full on sobbing.

"Would have liked to run tests on the sea shells." ~Mordin Solus (Mass Effect 3)

“Had to be me. Someone else might haven gotten it wrong.”
Brutal every time. 😭
- I am the very model of a scientist Salarian

The end of Red Dead Redemption. Spoilers for a game that's over a decade old, but John's death was a brutal cruelty that stayed with me for a long, long time.

After everything you do in the game to get Abigail and Jack back, and to see John get to be happy and enjoy his ranch in the final act to it being tragically cut short. I know a lot of people don’t like playing as John in the RDR2 epilogue but I felt like it gave me needed closure from Red Dead Redemption
- When my husband was playing this through for the first time I was watching him play and guessed what was happening when John was getting ready to propose to Abigail. We both watched that lovely cutscene teary eyed. It really reminded us of our engagement.
The sequel was even more brutal. I cried like crazy at the end of both games. Like full on sobbing into a paper towel bc tissues weren't going to cut it crying.
- When I was in the final mission of chapter 6, on my first playthrough, my wife came in to tell me it was time to put the kids to bed. She took one look at my face and the tears rolling down it and put the kids to bed without me.
I played through it for the first time this year and had no idea that's how it ended. Left me gutted.

Being 7yo and trying to play MegaMan 3. Different kind of cry, but you asked.

The opening of The Last Of Us

No spoilers but: Not just the opening
- true, but you never forget the first haha. wasn't expecting it so early in the game, so it hit me like a speeding truck full of bricks
- Pretty much everything, in both games. Even the damn ending of Part 2. Emotionally brutal ride for sure.

The time I kept fucking restarting in GTASA trying to follow the damn train.

Aw shit, here we go again...

The end of bl2's Tiny Tina's assault on dragons keep where she admits she knows Roland is dead, and gives his statue a big hug. A rare moment in those games

Borderlands 2 is such a masterpiece of storytelling mixed with silliness
This is a prime example why bl3 sucks. Moments like these made bl2 a true gem.

League of legends. Top picked teemo. Mid was saying that he couldn't speak because of chat ban. Jungler went afk after dying to wolves. Bot yelled at me all game for his feeding.

I cry everyday.

I'm not usually one to victim blame, but playing League is a choice.

Probably an obvious one, but Life is Strange was a pretty emotionally fraught game to play through. Everyone's probably aware, but it is filled with choices that determine lots of different small outcomes as well as the main ending. So after I finished it, I spent the evening watching streamers react to the ending and sniffling along with them.

Personal story about that, a good friend passed away unexpectedly right before the pandemic, and his wife asked for my help finding some things on his computer. He was a great guy, big burly dude not known for being overly-sentimental but a wonderful imagination/DM. As I was going through stuff she was reminiscing about him. So we opened his Steam library and he had 2 games installed. Fortnite and every chapter of LiS. She had no idea what that game was, but imagining him secretly huddled over his laptop, guiding Max & Chloe along just broke me.

Another game that drew me in instantly was Hellblade: Sennua's Sacrifice. Seeing the character's backstory in the first couple of scenes and knowing that this was a story game dealing with mental health and loss was major, and I was immediately motivated to help her get through the healing process.

LIS holds a special place in my heart, it was the very first character focused game I played/actually paid attention to while playing. Really beautiful game.

The end of disc 1 for the original Final Fantasy VII. (I’m being intentionally vague here for anyone that hasn’t played it and will be playing the newer FF7 games)

Ff7 when aerith died.

But also Priscilla's song.

And also in RDR2 the cutscene with Unshaken. Arthur is alive and out from prison but broken, sick, and the writing is on the wall.

That scene with Ciri, the music, the cinematography. I can't keep it together no matter how many times I've seen it!

"See you tomorrow, Harry" -Disco Elysium, final dream

Oh god I just finished this game and you are making me want to cry all over agian.
Spoilers dude, the game is not that old.
So brutal. And relatable.

Puuuh, a fair few over the years.

Same one as you, Rosalina's backstory made me tear up a little bit. It was really really well done, and so unexpected in a Mario game of all places.
When first reading through Katawa Shoujo, Shizune's path (botched as it is) still hit me really hard with Misha being an aside that can't fit in, then later Rin's neutral ending also got me really bad.
Teenage me at the end of disc 1 of FF7, of course.
The ending of Signalis just recently.

And probably a lot more. FFXIV has a lot of sad and emotional moments, although none of them hit me quite as hard as some other games did.

Ugh yeah, FF7 when Aeris is killed by Sephiroth. And the scene where Cloud carries her into the water... I was bawling. Afterwards I think I just sat there dumbfounded, staring at the empty spot in my party until after like 5 minutes I turned off the game cause I needed a break to mourn. I know the graphics don't really hold up these days, but it was all to real to me as a child and it was one of my first experiences with death even though it was just a video game character.

"Keep that hair short"

There's a few moments in Telltale's The Walking Dead series, but especially season 1
- crazy how telltale had the only good walking dead game 😂

The intro to Ori and the Blind Forest, and the end of Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

"Does this unit have a soul?"

The last of us part 1, Pittsburgh, with Sam and Henry. Gets me every fucking time, even though I know exactly what's coming

The ending of Outer Wilds legitimately made me cry, it's a very bittersweet ending.

Came here explicitly to talk about Outer Wilds and Spiritfarer. I'm not a story-focused games type of person, and both of these absolutely knock it out of the park so hard that I recommend them constantly now. Outer wilds will be available on the nintendo switch soon. I would recommend that title to anyone with decent vision.

To the moon

This. Haven't got around to play the other games in the series yet even though I loved the first one.

Hades has some emotional moments. That game is so well-written. Trying to avoid spoilers, but the first time escaping was one, then the nth time escaping where they play that awesome track was another.

Rosalina's story is incredibly sad. Mine was the end of Undertale (when you get to the house). The music in both was a huge contributor to the sadness.

Also in Undertale, when they hug.

FFX ending. Since VII has been mentioned a few times. But after 100 hours on X. That ending got me good.

2 for me: Arthur's death in RD2 and Aunt May's death in Spider-Man PS4

it's 'i'm afraid' for me
It was his horse for me, the way he gently and sadly said thank you, fml

The epilogue of Life is Strange: Before the Storm

Two games, that I can remember.

One was a particular Journey playthrough, where I happened to match with another really good player. We spent basically the entire game airborne, which if you know Journey mechanics, takes some doing. They drew me a heart at the end, that did it.

Second was my first successful Suzerain run. A morgna wes core.

Suzerain was awesome. I need to go back to it. I still haven't seen most of the endings.
- Hell yea! I've been wondering how long it'd be until I ran into someone on Lemmy had played it. lol Yeah it's pretty good. I'm glad the devs have returned to the project too. I know they wanted to try out other stuff, but in this one subgenre, they're the fucking kings man. Biggest fish in the whole pond imo. It's a good spot to be in.
  One of the more niche games around, for sure though. lol

Portal endings. Especially the ending of Portal 2.

I cry every time I finish portal 2 because there's no sequel

Bit of an odd one, but the "Jump Up, Superstar" sequence from Mario Odyssey. It was just a crash of nostalgia combined with the unapologetic celebration of Mario games in general and a heap of affirmation that you, the player, are awesome. It was so beautiful that I couldn't help it.

And other givens like the endings to Mother 3 and Undertale.

This is the first "happy cry" I've seen in this thread, and I'm so glad I found it! That sequence at the end of New Donk City was so great...

Ezio meeting Altair for the first and last time at the end of AC: Revelations

Also the "I'm Afraid" scene with Sister Calderon in RDR2

Titanfall2. Damn I got attached to BT

PROTOCOL 3
I almost forgot about this - I was surprised how quickly I got attached to BT in such a short time

Probably an unpopular opinion, but- The ending of Starfield.

Edit: I guess Boost's spoiler tags dont work? This is pretty spoiler heavy, so avert your eyes if you don't want Starfield spoilers! If anyone can suggest how to fix the spoiler tags it'd be much appreciated.

Ending/story description:

Why it made me cry (Includes some spoilers, but trying to avoid explicit descriptions of story events):

Post-ending enjoyment (mechanics and different perspectives):

TL;DR: It loosely ties story and mechanics such that I got really invested in the mechanics. When the story hit me hard, it also gave a massive mechanical impact that was particularly impactful given my play style. Those combined were overwhelming and made me sad, but also gave me a better appreciation for how some systems were designed to support the story, rather than oppose or ignore it. Overall, I really enjoyed it.

Oh, and Presentable Liberty. You can see the ending coming, but it makes you so dependent on someone then takes them away from you right before you can show your gratitude. It's concentrated dependence and a great short game.

The ending of Limbo when I realized what that game had been about left me fucked up for weeks.

Similarly, the bathtub scene in What Remains of Edith Finch ensures I can never play that game again.

Shaauuunn! Shaun! Shaauuunn! Shaaauuun! Shauuun! Shaauuunn!

When doomguy picks the super shotgun in doom eternal. Most moving moment of video games history

Bastion's near-ending, if you forgive ::: spoiler spoiler Zulf and his boys gradually stop trying to off you. :::

Still remember this moment 10 years later. I never liked that character but it still hit me in the feels.
!When the last guy to attack you gets smacked down by his own men and the rest just watch in silence as you leave.!<

There have actually been a lot of games that have made me cry over they years. Some of the ones I remember are:

Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, 3 and Peace Walker

Kingdom Hearts 1, 2, BBS, Re:Coded and 358/2 days

Final Fantasy 10 and (obviously) Crisis Core

Castlevania Order of Ecclesia

I'm pretty sure there are more but I can't really remember any others. I've kind of always been very sensitive to emotional things, so a lot of games get at least a tear or two but the ones I mentioned were games that I remember being wrecked after playing.

So many tears shed in Final Fantasy X. Hell, the emotion in the cutscene of Yuna's sending at the village hit by Sin...
- And the finale aeon sending for me, they finally get to rest in peace now 😭😭
There are so many seens in Metal Gear that tear me up. MGS1 has my favorite moment, in the bad ending with Otacon and Snake, but Sniper Wolf's scene is brutal to me too.

Shane’s 6-heart cutscene on the cliff in Stardew Valley.

Also the very last story moments of Tears of the Kingdom. The dive reach grab bit.

I was crying so hard a contact popped out and I had to finish the game half blind!

More of a playable story, but the entirety of Dear Esther is a bit heart wrenching.

This game was memorable and phenomenal. However, I don't think I would have enjoyed it nearly as much if I'd known the massive spoiler in your comment. It looks like you tried to tag it or something, but it's still showing up in plain text on lemmy.
Dear Esther stuck with me in a profound way. It was my gateway to a whole new genre. It broke my brain a little, as i initially tried to explore every nook and cranny of the boundaries of each area. The game grinds to a halt if you play that way. To any newcomer, just stay on or near the paths, and let the story unfold. There are no hidden chests or discoverables - just an incredible narration through memories and questions, and a chilling ost.
- Removed. Apologies, I didn't know it was visible, my client listed it as hidden text. I guess lemmy still needs to work on standardizing text formatting :/

I got all fucked up inside when Agro died in Shadow of the Colossus.

Damn near everything in Nier Gestalt/Replicant. That game wrecks me every time I play it.

Stray ending

Ah shit I'm still traumatized and depressed

Fallout: New Vegas.

At the end of Boone's companion quest, we're watching the sunrise, having barely survived the night. He confesses what really happened to his wife. Nat King Cole comes on the radio with "Love Me." I weep.

Oh damn son. You brought back some painful memories. Imagine tracking down a loved one and finding them but finding out the only thing you can do for them is end their suffering.

Apollo 11 VR. I would be amazed if it's a common response as most folks would probably just think of it as a very boring simulated rollercoaster. For me it produced an overwhelming feeling of awe as I reflected on humanity's path to that point and the enormity of lifting off from our little blue pearl.

Brothers. Damn ending making me feel empty…

Man. The moment in there where you have to actually do the digging... Still haunts me. It'd be a cutscene in any other game, but the impact of the change in the control scheme and everything in that moment. Brutal.
- Exactly that! Moving that joystick and nothing happens… damn

Borderlands 2, the ending of the Tiny Tina DLC.

Gods yes. What a brilliant piece of writing that DLC was - simultaneously hilarious and deeply poignant.

The first time was in Mass Effect 3, when Liara shows you her project in your cabin. For me, this was the first time in the trilogy where I felt that we could really lose the war against the reapers.

Another very good moment was in Life is Strange Before the Storm, when Chloe finds her dad's car in the junkyard. That hit hard.

Mass Effect 3: "Leaving Earth"

I was pretty emotionally stunted and depressed as a teenager and had trouble crying even when I wanted to (it's a horrible feeling, physically) so Earthbound and Mother 3 were therapeutic

Life is strange. Repeatedly.

No spoilers but the ending of Life Is Strange made me cry.

Mafia 1. "Mr. Salieri sends his regards". Need I say more?

FFXIV, over and over. The kind of nobility and self sacrifice displayed in that story has set me crying several times. Honestly, I can feel it a little bit just thinking of some of those moments, but I try to smile through it.

Because a smile better suits a hero.

There’s three big moments in the game that I think got it for me; Amaurot, Close in the Distance, and The Dead Ends. But there’s plenty to feel more invested in, especially with all the side quests that focus on so many personal endearing struggles. Heck, even the Dark Knight job storyline has a great emotional payoff to it.
- I can think of three in Shadowbringers alone, Amaurot, the conversation against the rock in upper Kholusia, and that one part right near the end, the one that requires channeling a large amount of environmental power.
  (Trying to avoid spoilers while being unambiguous)
  Oh goddess and the role quests, particularly the healer one.
  Tomorrow and Tomorrow reliably makes me tear up.

ME:3 and the cliff.

Several points in Life is Strange, I have yet to finish that game.

Legion, the answer to your question? It's yes.

Pretty much everything in The Last of Us Part 1 & 2.

Last of us 1 initial scene with Joel's daughter.
- Part 2 ending, especially after that emotionally hellish ride of both titles.

The ending of Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, it was just so cool and and so well done. What a great final boss when compared to Breath of the wild.

The entire "What Remains of Edith Finch" game

Duuuuude, that game is full of awesome pieces, I didn't cry, but damn, many of those really hit hard.

I tried to install Skyrim and my disc was unreadable

Hl2 EP2's ending

Horizon zero dawn is the game that got me. Getting closer to the end just got me sadder and sadder.

Beginning of last of us part 1.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps has some great emotional moments that are complemented by a fantastic soundtrack. Learning about Shriek's backstory after being hunted by her the entire game was just too much.

the end of season 1 of the walking dead game. goddamn what a gut punch

Not the end for me but inthat game the scene with the father and the son on the caravan... That was a river

Have probably done that over a bunch of games over the years but can't remember much of them but the one game that immediately comes to mind is spiritfarer. Had so many touching farewells and some of them were too relatable to be not shed a tear. Man Atul left me speechless for days, I still need more hugs.

Getting the True Ending in the base game of Outer Wilds. Including the credits, including after the credits. So beautifully bittersweet.

There are few games that I wish I could selectively erase my memory of, this is one of them. Just so I could play it again brand new. Love that game so much

A weird one that I've not seen mentioned: the intro to Battlefield 1. It is really well crafted and was emotional in a way I've never felt from a war FPS.

The multiple unavoidable deaths and brief epitaph shown on screen, before hot swapping to the next soldier felt poignant. Really hit me with the pointlessness and futility of WWI, the plight of the common soldier and the sheer scale of death.

Before your eyes

Game that uses your blinking as it's controls

Ending just had me in tears

Subsequent playthroughs of Ace Combat 4, knowing the full story of Yellow 13 and 4 with the Spanish guitar accompaniment (even though blah blah war crimes etc). I guess because I know I did it while jamming to rock ballads with qaam spam. Mihaly of AC7 was such a weak arc by comparison.

Assassin's Creed Unity in the post-Templar part, my 3rd experience with Ubisoft avoiding happy endings but my first Assassins creed

End of BioShock Infinite

Ugh, my husband made me play the role of Vincent in "A Way Out" and didn't tell me anything about it beforehand.

I had such a good time playing that game all the way until the final battle where instead I just bawled my eyes out and refused to play.

Great game, but I would never play it again.

For me, it was Princess Rosalina’s backstory in Super Mario Galaxy.

This is probably a joke, but I'll still answer.

The last time was the whole second play through of Nier Replicant.

Trails in the Sky, at perhaps two moments. They’re very long JRPGs, and I could argue longer than they need to be with some not so great moments - but the payoff for their better characters is really good.

It’s often cited as “establishing backstory” to the rest of the Trails series. 1 and 2 are basically one complete story; but even the first game sets up a villain and resolution well.

(There is a third that dives a bit too far into setting up “background lore for twenty more games and little else”)

The opening in the second when Estelle comes home and it finally sinks in 🥲

The death of Chrono in Chrono trigger and the trupe ending of 8doors.

Binding of Isaac: Repentance, the true ending. It hits harder because it's the first time we got a definitive ending since the original game came out in 2011.

Zack's final battle. Yes dude, you are a hero.

Fuck Shinra.

The completion of Lohse's character arc in Divinity:Original Sin 2.

Final Fantasy XI, both getting access to Sea and finishing the last chapter of Chains of Promathia, when it was still fairly uncommon to have progressed that far in that expansion.

Last of Us, both parts. Ghost of Tsushima. Can't think of any others at the moment but I'm sure there are more, I'm a big softy.

The end of Horizon: Zero Dawn

Mass effect 3, the last scene with Anderson. I used the better ending mod, and it made it so much better. Anderson was a true friend.

I used that mod too but then regretted it. As sad as it is, the vanilla ending (post patch) is the best it gets and fits the most naturally. Probably an unpopular opinion but I didn't hate the star child ending (post patch).

Lots of moments in Honkai Impact 3.

There’s literally a YT channel that collects tears from streamers playing the game.

https://youtube.com/@Ollyt_

There’s a lot of context needed to understand why anyone would cry playing through HI3 though. I’ll give a high level summary here, but I highly encourage people to play it, even if it’s a gacha game. You can really ignore the gacha and just play the game for the main story. Do be warned that the story isn’t something suitable for kids — it can be quite a bit too heavy for them.

The theme of self-sacrifice is covered quite extensively, with the main character being the centrepiece of the theme. There’s also deep self-loathe, with an eventual self-acceptance, also from the MC. Mix that all in with some sense of duty.

There’s also a tragedy, but from the tragedy, a narrow path to hope was born. The people in the tragedy mostly hoped only for a simple life, or to live their lives atoning for their sins, but circumstances forced them to become warriors against a great, unstoppable force of destruction. As if to make things harder to swallow, their digital clones that survived into the future have to experience yet another tragedy that would eventually destroy all of them, and the player will see this through. Yet, in the second tragedy, these clones further sowed the seeds of hope for the future.

Chinese company or not, HoYo has pumped out a lot of very human stories that I think deserves attention and praise. Genshin Impact has also started to go down a similar path.

Lisa the joyful. Broke me and people should just play it and not look up any spoiler.

In Medieval 2, when the love interest dies.

Shaka, when the walls fell
- Temba, his arms open!

Losing the main characters mother in Fire Emblem Engage.

A certain scene in SOMA.

Kairi’s heart sequence in Kingdom Hearts

"Kairi... Kairi's inside me?"
(sorry I had to, the actual cutscene is really good)

One of the more recent ones was the ending of A Plaguetale: Requiem. Amicia and Hugo stay near and dear.

Not sure Cyberpunk has actually made me cry but there's been more than a couple moments where I was right there emotionally.

The ending of Valiant Hearts, and the ending of FFXIV's Myths of the Realm.

Walking dead. In retrospect not that great of a game, but damn clem got me crying

Breath of the Wild, during one of the memories.

Also Undertale. Left me with a large mess of feelings at the end.

In Enderal (an absolutely amazing, totally free game that runs on the Skyrim engine - if you own Skyrim you owe it to yourself to play Enderal), at the end of Esme's questline, sitting on top of the lighthouse and discussing the events of her story.
::: spoiler Esme quest spoilers If you've ever had a loved one who struggled with mental illness or depression, and you just couldn't help them, it hits like a ton of bricks :::

For me it was The Last Guardian's ending.

Arven's dog. He's a good boy.

Phantom Brave, when Marona finally makes a real friend. I lose it every time.

About half of GLaDOS's scenes in either Portal game.

Half of Kaim's dreams in Lost Odyssey, and the cliff flashback.

Yakuza 0 - When she finds the wrist watch

I'm not really a crier when it comes to games, but what brought me close most recently was when I was doing a run of the entire Metro trilogy for the first time.

Among the Sleep - Game hinted at the ending which made me cry multiple times and ball when the ending happened.

Playing against Xero on Nightmare! setting.

Final Fantasy IX. Just... everything to do with Vivi and Quina. Those to characters cemented IX as my favorite in the series after initially writing it off as inferior to VII and VIII. While those games have some great narratives, Vivi and Quina both do such a great job of exploring what it is to be human, in their own beautiful and heart rending ways.

The entire experience of Outer Wilds.

So many parts of Persona 3, 4, and 5, but especially 4.

Here's a weird one: Starflight on Genesis. Not so much because of the story or content, but because I played this game so much with a friend of mine in middle school, and had all but forgotten about it. I was playing through some old Genesis games a month or so ago, and started this game up. As soon as the title screen came up, a flood of memories washed over me and took me right back to 1992. Bawled like a kid for about ten minutes as I realized I had an awesome friend that I had basically completely forgotten about.

Genshin has had me tearing up in a few of its main story quests, beautiful game

The end of LA Noire got to me. I still can't play the last case without tearing up.

The ending of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Such a wonderful soundtrack an story.

I don't remember that happening

Earthbound. Was playing it as a kid and didn't have a guide. Final boss, was losing. Hit "pray" in a panic because I was out of options. And then it does the whole thing, and something about overcoming impossible odds with the power of love and community gets to me.

Also the ending of the binding of Isaac where you hear his parents fighting. That dredged up some feelings I didn't know were kicking around down there!

Probably one that doesn't get recognized much. In Anachronox, when you find out what happened to Fatima on "that night".

Kanon, Air, Clannad etc

Mother 3 may be the only game that made me teary. I think there may be another I'm blocking out but I generally avoiding trying to be sad

A game has never made me cry, but movies and shows make me cry all the time. Even the most emotional game just doesn't come close to other mediums.

One of the biggest ones that permanently etched in my mind from childhood is the ending to Metropolis, especially when that one Ray Charles song comes on.

"Trust me."