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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CLANNAD is a game, but Yume Miru Kusuri is not? I have nothing else to say, FAIL.
While YMK was a good game, compared to the other eroge that's actually out there, it's not as tear-jerking as you think. While it certainly had excellent drama (like that moonlight rooftop Aeka scene) I think it also fails in terms of popularity compared to other more well-known tear-jerkers like Clannad.
Clannad wasn't a eroge btw.
Where is KANA LITTLE SISTER!!!!??????
This, Kana made me cry far more than FFX and FFVII.
Kana made me cry, period. No other game can claim that, even Clannad.
Although Clannad got close. And FFVII too, poor Aerith..
Final Fantasy? are you a bunch of faggots?
everyone knows the best stories are in visual novels, not this ff bullshit
Agreed about Kana Little Sister.
And I found Kanon and Air much more tearjerking material than Clannad.
Agreed with Kana. +1
Honorable mentions are the Green Green Sanae path and Green Green 2 Himawari path.
Chrouya here.
Little Busters is, in my opinion, also one of the top tearjerker games in the KEY series. Period.
Key makes tearjerking games >:3
KEY makes tearjerking visual novels period.
so why the hell is FF on the list?
You may not have heard about this yet, but Aeris dies...
sorry, but, where the hell is Kimi ga nozomu eien????
that was the first anime to ever break a tear and open the hose for them, cuz since them, i been crying in a lot of animes (recently on Jiraiyas death)
and i mean, if the anime was sad, but saaaaaaaad, i'm pretty sure the source material is 10 times sadder, given the multiple choices of endings!!!!
and man, need to play that clannad game ASAP
wtf Aeris is ded..!? D:
Admittedly I was young when I played it, but FF7 is the only game to have made me cry. Agreed about Key though, I want to play the air visual novel after watching the anime and movie. Air is the only tv show to almost make me cry, for those who aren't fans of Key, begin your obsession with it ASAP, you won't regret it (until you are crying lol)
@女中 あゆ
I know Clannad isn't an eroge (the only Key game that isn't now that I think about it other than something short like Planetarian), that's why I just said it's a tear-jerker.
1. Agree
2. Never played
3. Disagree
4. Agree
5. Never played
I fricking fell asleep throughout the time I played Final Fantasy 7, wonder why it is so damn popular. With an emotic story which includes a stupid main character going into depression because his memories are altered.
IMO the Suikoden Series deserve more praise than final fantasy fricking 7.
i go for ff7 crisis core, i cried when zck died
"everyone knows the best stories are in visual novels, not this ff bullshit"
Torment 1 is not a vn
Agreed..
WHY IS KANA LITTLE SISTER NOT ON THAT LIST???
Damnit, everytime I think of it, a tear just keeps welling in my eye.
I thought it would just be another VN but it was far from it.
As a a certain reviewer once said, "It is quite possibly the greatest story never told."
They're too busy thinking FFX was fun. My god it was boring, the only fun thing was the skill upgrade system.
EarthBound too? whoa, I didn't expected that.
Indeed, Earthbound was more like a "WOAH, YEAH, AWESOME" game for me.
The tearjerking came from the mentally scarring Giygas fight.
I really have to play EarthBound, i've been pushing it aside for to long now.
It's an amazing game. Pretty funny, but I didn't find it sad.
If anything Mother 3 (Earthbound 2 ) should be there instead seeing how I heard it's ending is pretty sad.
No way Earthbound is more sad than Kana: Imouto
Mother 3 should be there instead of earthbound, that game is sad right from the beginning.
Havent played any of those yet, but i heard things about some Giygas that are freaky
@1:38
I have good news, and I have bad news...
Maybe it's sad because at the end... okay
*** SPOILERS ***
The loli in your party, along with your entire party, kinda gets transfered into robotic bodies to go to space to battle the great evil and thus the loli lost her loli body to get into a tin can which made the fans cry because the delicious loli was loli no more?
*** /SPOILERS ***
Or maybe they're crying for us because they know that because of how weird it is, their western kin will not be getting any more Earthbound/Mother games...
Mother 3 was definitely deserving to be on this list. I wonder why it didn't get on. Right when I get attached, she is gone.
FF is zzzz
earthbound is zzzzz
other games haven't tried
Me too, man. Maybe I'm too naive, but I want to play it on a SNES. Tomorrow I'm going to a manga convention, let's see if I find something.
I know, right?!
Like, holy shit! EARTHBOUND MANG
how can you not expect earthbound... unless you havern't played it
Clannad <3
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...
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.
I lol'd.
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.
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.
An accurate analysis.
A quick word search for "pussies" has led me to this comment.
Thanks for setting the record straight, beast.
hey it made me cry god dammit
TIDUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also cried at this particular game.