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)
Results quite similar in fact to the top 10 RPGs and the last year’s top 10 saddest games…









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Kana Imouto fucking where? After playing that game (without voices OR music) I bawww'd and felt depressed for like 2 weeks.
WHERE THE HELL IS FATE/STAY NIGHT?! WTF. Seriously. And kana too...
i gave the most Tearjerker Games to NATSU YUME NAGISA
it is sad too sad
you can never get why
unless you play it
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.
ahhh good old ff 7...
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gamerfags know not what they say
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.
FFX was a tearjerker? Bs!
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.
FFX pissed me off more jerking out my tears. The level-up system sucks.
Errr... Gameplay evokes tears?
may as well name FFX best game of all time...
whoever's voting on these polls have some bad taste in games... >.>;
I don't remember any even slightly sad parts in Mother 2.
Mother 3 made me cry like a bitch however.
DQV FTW, seems like none of you played a real RPG before, such a shame.
That's not how you spell Planescape Torment
I played it. I loved it more than these faggots can possibly imagine.
I would've put Clannad on top, but heck
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.
MOTHER FUCKIN 2?! did these dumbasses forget what the hell happened near the beginning of Mother 3?! and freakin Porky?!
What Aeris dies and that's tearjerking? The only reason for that maybe is you jerk your thing at Aeris
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
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 ;_;
want to play clannad loved the series and need to finished FF7 lolz
WTH!? Where is Kana little Sister!? #1 !
I'm really surprised Kaze no Klonoa: The Door to Phantomile didn't make on the list.
I don't think Tifa in a bikini is very tearjerking.
it is when you realize you can never have it.
no one cries when playing shin megami tensei nocturne???
i say madness
Clannad tops my list, but now I'm humming Pollyanna...
of course FFX would be number 1 on this list. but mother 2 from the earthbound series? not so much
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...
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.
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.
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..
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.)
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...
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.
Where the hell is Kana!?!
agree on FFX ending not X-2 indeed.
If only they would translate Mother 2...
:: sob ::
...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!