Top 5 Tearjerker Games
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Oct 30, 2009 23:56 JST
- Tags: Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Oricon, Rankings, Retro, RPG
Japanese gamers asked to identify the games they shed the most tears over have once again provided a list of top RPGs, and, of course, Clannad…
The results are based on data collected by Oricon:
1. Final Fantasy X
2. Dragon Quest V
3. Final Fantasy VII
4. CLANNAD
5. Mother 2 (EarthBound)
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WHERE THE HELL IS FATE/STAY NIGHT?! WTF. Seriously. And kana too...
Kana Imouto fucking where? After playing that game (without voices OR music) I bawww'd and felt depressed for like 2 weeks.
Well, I could say that none of those made me cry. These days only thing that makes people cry is bad quality or excessive fandom of certain killed/offed character.
i gave the most Tearjerker Games to NATSU YUME NAGISA
it is sad too sad
you can never get why
unless you play it
ahhh good old ff 7...
aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies aerith dies
I thought Suikoden 2's was more sad and unexpected than FFVII's. Though I suppose Suikoden 2's was undone if you got the good end.
gamerfags know not what they say
FFX was a tearjerker? Bs!
FFX pissed me off more jerking out my tears. The level-up system sucks.
Errr... Gameplay evokes tears?
want to play clannad loved the series and need to finished FF7 lolz
may as well name FFX best game of all time...
whoever's voting on these polls have some bad taste in games... >.>;
DQV FTW, seems like none of you played a real RPG before, such a shame.
I played it. I loved it more than these faggots can possibly imagine.
FF is just so overrated...Im not saying these are bad, but there are better games.
Oh, and i know of a SNES game called Rudra no Hihou (Treasure of Rudra), haven´t finished it jet, but for what i know it´s a very sad game.
I would've put Clannad on top, but heck
I don't remember any even slightly sad parts in Mother 2.
Mother 3 made me cry like a bitch however.
MOTHER FUCKIN 2?! did these dumbasses forget what the hell happened near the beginning of Mother 3?! and freakin Porky?!
Wtf is with japan and the atrocity known as FFX?
I remember crying while playing FF10,I was supposed to choose the girl I like and I pick Lulu and she told me she will put me on her list! OH the pain
Final Fantasy Games aren't new to those kinds of Rankings, they'll always be there when you need something to cry over, storywise and etc.
It's an embarrassing admission to make, but the significant omission from this list, to me, is the first Metal Gear Solid.
Kojima's played his hand since then, and the later ones don't get me. But the Alaskan desolation of the original, the perfect theme, and the fact that by the end you feel just as betrayed as the guys you just killed did not go unnoticed.
I didn't necessarily make me cry, but it left it's mark, al the same.
what really made me cry was the visual novel air
Final Fantasy X
LOL. Just... wow.
Clannad did have great tearjerking moments, however. Ushio ;_;
What Aeris dies and that's tearjerking? The only reason for that maybe is you jerk your thing at Aeris
FF VII? Nah, Crisis Core's way better.
Dragon Quest V? Not played, dunno about it.
FF X? Seriously, I dunno why this one on the top of the list?
Mother 2? Dunno about it.
CLANNAD, KANON, AIR, these three are my best tear-jerking VN.
Kana little sister? I played it when I was 14 or 15 years old...but I can't remember the ending, what I remembered, the main character has a weak younger sister, but she's not blood related. Is it that one? CMIIW.
I don't think Tifa in a bikini is very tearjerking.
it is when you realize you can never have it.
I agree with everything.. but FFX? hmm.... Yeah there were sad parts, but my eyes didn't even get watery... and it being number one? huh? well it'll be clearer if this list isn't arranged in order..
no one cries when playing shin megami tensei nocturne???
i say madness
WTH!? Where is Kana little Sister!? #1 !
I'm really surprised Kaze no Klonoa: The Door to Phantomile didn't make on the list.
ffvii should be first. seriously. gamers were crying nearly every turning point. fanboys all over the world forgot their masculinity completely and cried rivers when aerith died. SERIOUSLY.
how was final fantasy 7 a tearjerker? I mean really. I'm brought to tears that ff7 has to be mentioned EVERYWHERE.....it was a good game....but not the only good game...
Clannad tops my list, but now I'm humming Pollyanna...
The ending of FFX made me cry a lot.
--spoiler--
When Yuna ran into Tidus and went right through him as he was about to go back to his time and place, yeah.. That pretty much killed me.
--end spoiler--
But Aerith dying was horrible imo too. It made me bawl before X..
I call bs on FFX.
Where's chrono?
Trigger? Cross? Crusade?
Lack of Planetarian makes me cry....
Also FFX sucks(in story wise).. I'd rather have Crisis Core on that list. Now that ending was frickin amazing!
EarthBound's ending wasn't so much a tearjerker as it was... well... disturbing.
"Paula's call was absorbed by the darkness..."
Now Mother 3, THAT had a tearjerker ending. I'll admit it: I bawled like a freakin' baby. (Okay, that's exaggerating a bit, but you understand my meaning.)
Narcissu anyone?
Key games deserve places here though...
Wait, why is it Top 5, and not 10?
Combo Breaker?
Narcissu is probably too short to really be included in the list. Speaking of Narcissu, I wonder how 2 and 3 went.
Nice pic. I jerked a few 'tears'.
Although Clannad is obvious because of its popularity I didn't cry near as much as I did playing Crescendo, especially when I played the hidden story you get after you play through each story-arc for the main characters.
A theatrical must play for anyone who enjoyed Kana.
MGS3 fucking where...
If only they would translate Mother 2...
:: sob ::
Where the hell is Kana!?!
agree on FFX ending not X-2 indeed.
As much as I love Mother 2, how is Mother 3 not above that? Mother 2 was much more heartrending than 2 was...
...Earthbound?! I must've played it wrong or something.
I wonder about this picture with this story but then I remember what Arsenio taught me. An onion is a butt that is so fine, it will bring a tear to your eye!
Hmm... both Kanon and Kana were way more tear-jearking than Clannad, for me anyway.
"The way" (yeah That is the name of the game) had really sad moments also Yume nikki
Good to see someone else who played Yume Nikki! and yea, the ending of that game shocked me ._.
Key games make grown men (me) cry. FF7 was also my first RPG that prompted tears.
HOLY SH!T i finnally found the real..name of earthbound..mother2.....SHIT LOL after like 8 years i found out lol..very 1swt rpg game i played n it owns
Google "EarthBound"
Results: 1. Wikipedia.
First sentence: "EarthBound, known in Japan as Mother 2: Gyiyg no Gyakushū..."
I found it in 4 seconds.
Where the fuck is Tales of the Abyss?
I have to agree. Tales of the Abyss made me cry for some time because of the sad truth and situations Luke has to endure.
It's just.... Sad. :<
Tales of the Abyss was a bit grim, but if I was a bit more emotional, I might have cried for some of the characters. I usually just end up getting angry at some of the things that happen, particularly with the God-Generals. They really played that death card in Tales of the Abyss....
Yeah, I just loved how unlike the goody-2-shoes characters Bamco usually offer, Luke came off as a Tsundere jerk, but changed( even though he was as emo as Cloud while in short hair mode)and succeded in saving the world by himself. YES!!! By himself, then come back to hump Tears.
Seriously, Yuri was cool and all but I would rather have another guy like Luke or Emil( well, if he was less of a pussy like green-eyed Emil) in my Tales game any day since that would make the story more interesting, and please Bamco, spare me the dumb generic Lloyd character please, even Zelos is better than him as MC, and Regal is the BEST.CHARACTER.EVER!!!
I agreed, tales of abyss made me cry because the game was so bad.
I can't believe I wasted my money on that shit.
FFVII? Tears of pain at how emo the protag is I guess
FFX, Meh. Really Meh.
Should be replaced by the Xenosaga trilogy.
Xenosaga III for me. The ending gets me every time...
Same here; my fave characters went just like that... ;_;
...and they delolified Nephilim...
too bad Earth bound doesn't have a DS
Only games that made me cry
- Persona 4
- Valkyria Chronicles
- Rogue Galaxy. Fucking Rogue Galaxy. Everytime I hear that goddamn song... ;_;
Bad end of Persona 4 was so damn sad. I really did almost cry.
persona 4, huh? never got the bad end, actually got the true ending and am now working on normal ebding. i felt sad at the ending of p3 more though, the end of p4 sucked, the main character just goes back to the city, im actually thinking if theres a sequel for it
Wheres Chrono Trigger & FFVI?
gonna get -ed for this but...
i personally found aerith's death to be...not that sad,the music is for much in that scene,other than that...okay it's unexpected but...
i was more shocked by lavitz's death in legend of dragoon actually,and it wasn't THAT big..
same for FFX,the only scene that i find to be sad is during the al-bhed home assault,when tidus learn the truth about summoner.
...but yeah,clannad and kannon,all the way ;_;
Key and nothing but, they should have all five places really. Air FTW!
I think they meant to put Mother 3.
The only game that made me cry until now was Lost Odyssey, right in the first dream like side story that Kaim have in the first inn of the game.
Ryu ga gotoku kenzan had one of the best tear jerking ending I've seen in a long while, that gets my vote.
Mother 2 was sad?
AND MOTHER 3 ISN'T EVEN ON THE LIST?
WHAT IS THIS.
Earthbound? Really? That game was more hilarious than anything else.
I don't agree in the slightest.
Am I the only one who found Kanon to be more tearjerking than Clannad?
Of course. Kannon had multiple arcs all with bawwwing moments. Clannad was MUCH more lighthearted, until the very end.
I still liked Clannad better due to how the story was presented.
No you're not alone, I reacted emotionally to Kanon much more than Clannad.
Kanon > Clannad anytime
Kanon>Air>Clannad
Air>Kanon>Clannad
Even the good end is really sad...
Little help, I have air but can't run it even though I have all the files. It gets mounted, starts to run, gets past intro, then freezes every time. Advice please?
Yeah Kanon is pretty good too. If only Jun Maeda had a hand in it too. If you're familiar with Key then you should also be familiar with the 'Maeda magic' effect. He justs adds a special something to the games he works on.
*agrees*
I can see Clannad, but none of the other ones . . .
Exactly, me too, yes, in FFVII for aerith, but sincerely, it didn't made me cry like clannad, kana imouto made me cry a lot...
yep my top 5
1 CLANNAD
2 CLANNAD
3 CLANNAD
4 CLANNAD
5 CLANNAD
Oh its my same top xD
I can see why FFVII is in the top 3, AERITH DIES
yeah I guess one of the reasons why people are in tears is because they spend most of their hours leveling aerith and she died on them.
Am I the only one who celebrated when that fugly bitch Aerith died? I never used her and hated her from the start so when Sephiroth impaled the bitch I cheered him on unfortunately I was hoping a boss battle after the cut scene that never happens. I wanted Barett and Cait Sith dead too.
+10000000000000
galuf dead is much better than aerith dead
2 words: Jenova Life
In my opinion Galuf's end in FF5 was more tear jerking than Aerith's Death. The only reason I cry over FFVII is because it's my second least favourite final fantasy (Final Fantasy 2 is hard to beat for that title), but that's another matter.
Final Fantasy X?
That's ridiculous.
You can barely say it had some sad moments, but they do not compare to CLANNAD or *that* scene from FF7...
you got to think about it for a second. what kind of people like ffx. pussies. and since they are pussies they are bound to cry like babies at the stupidest things. for example, when tidus goes to the other world for the first time and can't go back home. all the titty babies and momma's boys broke out in tears at the mear thought of an adventure. that is my analysis.
-the beast.
A quick word search for "pussies" has led me to this comment.
Thanks for setting the record straight, beast.
An accurate analysis.
hey it made me cry god dammit
TIDUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also cried at this particular game.
I totally agree. FF7 had way more sad moments taht FFX. But most of all I don't get it why Kana Little Sister isn't mentioned.
Final Fantasy X made me cry too, but that was because it sucked so hard.
Hahaha, that's a good one. Srsly FFX is a very good game, but way overrated compared to 7 & 8.
FF7 & FF8 are two of my all time favorite games, and maybe it's because of that standard that FFX wasn't so spectacular (still good though).
For those of us with PSP, play Crisis Core right to the end, another tear-jerking ending. Crisis Core has got to be the best Final Fantasy since FF8 in my opinion. (for story that it, which is what is really important)
FF VII's tear-jerker parts were admittedly okay....
I also shed some manly tears while playing the end of Super Metroid, when the baby Metroid (now a big metroid) sacrifices itself to help replenish Samus. The asskickery which followed helped heal the hurt a bit.
I lol'd.