Games That Made Me Cry

[@PeteDorr]

If you are going to spoil something please mark that part of your post with (SPOILER) so that people have a warning. Thanks.

[@jayvman1311]

Hiya pete just wanted to reply I been a fan of your videos for ages I just wanted to say your awsome I love your vids enjoy seeing your collection grow I know you get lots of horrible comments so I thought I would leave a nice one for ya :)

[@Ryan-qz1dv]

Chrono Cross...Kid's Story. First and only game that squeezed a tear out.

[@Garchyy]

I cried when I first played Big Rigs.

[@Garchyy]

Tears of disbelief.

[@notkimpine]

lol! big rigs!? dude! that's a bad pc game!

[@spoonary]

I bawled my eyes out at Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons fairly recently... That ending... oh my...

[@ChipRichey]

The Last of Us had me choked up in the first 15 minutes of the game. I think that is what really got me hooked on it.

[@LambOfLucifer]

Only 1 game ever made me cry...Metal Gear Solid [PS1]. I waited and waited to buy it, beat the demos hundreds of times. Finally got it, played it fanatically for days, got to last boss on disc2 and my brother stepped on my PS and broke the disc before I could beat it. Sure beat the shit out of my brother tho.

[@dsanzo]

Mario Kart made me cry. I was in 1st place, fucking blue shell and well you know the rest. ffuck

[@tonymars3767]

Shit man ;( I know that feel

[@ShadpioIanmichael]

I know how you feel bro

[@CoolGent87]

😄😄😄I understand

[@frdsg8350]

It's been 6 years. Were you able to recover from the trauma?

[@LelouchRika]

Persona 4 made me cry a little too but it's the farewell scene at the end that did it. The characters are so likable and you spend so much time with them so I really felt like I was saying farewell to good friends I had known for years.

[@carlmoore7984]

Golden ending though makes it happier not just good bye forever

[@Shadowfied]

I felt exactly the same!!! It was so fucking sad for me.

[@PolaireOfAstora]

carl moore I know the feeling.

[@saiabhishek5228]

The Last Of Us was the first game where I felt sad and almost cried

[@mariofisher6340]

the saddest moment in final fantasy 13 for me was realizing ill never lose my virginity

[@masalps]

The endings of Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4 really make me feel sad. Can't recall if they've made me cry but the end of Big Boss is masterfully directed.

[@gaveroid418]

However, you had to laugh your rear off when you saw Johnny (Akiba) walking around with a huge brown stain on the seat of his pants after he craps himself in that one battle scene.

[@masalps]

***** That's not in the ending.

[@gaveroid418]

masalps I didn't say it was. :) Just pointing out a funny moment. Made me shed tears, but shed tears of laughter.

[@DampizDrums]

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, the ending made me pretty emotional, a game I can't recommend enough if you're willing to get used to the games unique controls.

[@HAS8787]

I cried at the ending of crisis core.. That ending with that song.. Every time i re watch it the emotions comes back

[@Redfield199]

(SPOILER) I remember crying at the end of the last main mission of Red Dead Redemption , where John gets shot.. I was seriously feeling like I was dying slowly with him as he faded away. really powerful scene / game!

[@iTouchin]

Replayed my save of that scene. I'd try my hardest to shoot down as many as I could knowing full well he's bound to die. That game was a masterpiece, almost don't want a sequel due to how great it was.

[@kieranwelch6490]

Red Dead Redemption 2 coming out this year So Excited!

[@Nintendofan781]

I cry at almost every pokemon game. It's weird but I've grown attached to this series.

[@dumbguyfromfinland4599]

Mordin's death in ME3 almost made me cry

[@xxxHDP74xxx]

This will sound stupid but I don't care. The ladder climb in Metal Gear Solid 3 with the theme in the background.

[@MinkNyu]

Yes.

[@esotericagenda]

So epic...I love those rare moments in games where everything is orchestrated in such a way that it makes my eyes tear up...Not in the sense that it's sad so it makes me tear up, but in a way that it's so masterfully created and beautiful that it gives me chills and my eyes tear up.

[@cmomofilm]

I'm amazed The Last of Us didn't make the list.

[@scylax7669]

I would think that Valiant Hearts would be here.

[@AngryLoo]

Fighting the great grey wolf Sif after encountering his master Artorias in Oolacile. Incredibly subtle, remarkably touching. Dark Souls story-telling at its finest.

[@BrendanStuart]

Lost Odyssey. Everything in that game made me tear up. The scene with Lirum (people who've played will know what I mean), 90% of the 1000 Years Of Memories, Tolten overcoming his issues, even Sed finding his mama. Incredible game. EDIT: I typed this up before seeing the whole video. I'm glad to see LO on the list. Made me blubber like a schoolgirl

[@NoMansLandProduction]

The ending to the Walking Dead left a hole in my heart, I was honestly sad for the next week or so and I remember waking up in the morning and thinking about those characters.

[@andrewwebsterphillips]

Final Fantasy 6,7,9, and 10 Grandia Lunar Xenogears Diablo (not for the traditional reason, the fact that I accidentally deleted my character I put countless hours into)

[@divinearia1601]

Yep...Lost Odyssey, that's probably the most emotional JRPG I've ever played in my entire life and I've played through many(all the classic Final Fantasies, the Chrono games, Grandia series, Lufia, etc, etc). It explores the theme of immortality. If anyone else is looking to play it, make sure you have a box of tissue on hand because everything from the Thousand Years of Dreams to various scenes in the game will make you cry...and even when you're not crying from actual sadness, you'll still want to weep at how beautifully the story is told. Fantastic game, really. It's one of my all-time favorites.

[@SuperSaiyan2NahumKai]

Final Fantasy X (My favorite Final Fantasy game of all-time) almost made me cry near the end of the game especially the melody music in the ending. Am on the process of beating the game again but this time in HD remastered edition on the PS3 and Final Fantasy X is so far THE only Final Fantasy game that I've beaten multiple times. When i was a kid Super Mario Bros 3 made me cry out of frustration because i kept losing if my memory serves me correctly.

[@Matt-Rat]

(SPOILER) I will say 2 games that made me cry would be Final Fantasy 7 on Playstation and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars on Super Nintendo. The reason for Super Mario RPG is that in the end when you defeat the final boss, one character, Geno, turns back into a doll from a spirit that was from the Star Road. I felt bad that he turns back to normal but that song I'll never forget when everything turns back the way it did and I got a tear out of me. And, yes, Final Fantasy 7 is the first and only in the series, so far, that made me cry. The scene where Aeris or Aerith got killed and I was destroyed inside. It even reminded me of my grandmother's funeral in December 2010. After beating the end of Disc 1, I told myself, "I have to beat this game and kill Sephiroth once and for all!" And that's why FF7 is my favorite Final Fantasy right now.

[@PlaynationGames]

FIFA 14 made me cry when I was beaten by Stuart in the shop

[@Garchyy]

Lol

[@SomeRPGFan]

I also cried during the end of Final Fantasy 9. But the game that made me cry the most is Xenogears, in practically every scene the music box theme played. That is still the most emotional game experience I ever had.

[@PWheat23]

To the Moon is by far the most emotional game I've ever played.

[@MerlinYggdrasill]

Eternal Sonata Final Fantasy VI Opening Theme (Nostalgically) Pokemon Red Route 3 Final Fantasy Tactics - The MANY unexpected deaths.

[@Zach_Archer]

Dat thumbnail dough. The Walking Dead is the most emotionally-powerful game I have played that I can remember.

[@montejanobass]

The end of "Red Dead Redemption", was, pretty sad, I was, like "Noooooo, why???". After everything John did for his family that was unfair. It was even more, sad, because John knew, that he has to sacrifice himself in order to save his family.

[@minilabyrinth]

OMG someone else feels the same about Klonoa ending!! It's never mentioned in the usual 'top ten' lists on youtube, but it really was a tearjerker ending. Also for me were the ending for E-102 Gamma in Sonic Adventure, the ending cinematic to Kingdom Hearts, the ending to Tiny Tina's DLC in Borderlands 2, What happens to Agro (YES it is Ag-ro not Ar-go) near the end of the game in Shadow of the Colossus. If you want to legit cry over a game that you have never even played, watch the ending to Valiant Hearts

[@blinkloggery]

Honestly a lot of my emotions in games come from just reaching the end. If it's a game that I'm really loving, I get a sort of heavy-chested sadness as the credits roll knowing that it's over. There are always replays but the first time always really means something to me.

[@CiG801]

The end credits of Ocarina of Time. The beautiful music coupled with the realization that the adventure is over actually made me depressed for awhile because I didn't want it to end.

[@ILIKETURTLES16]

Both of the Zero Escape games got me REALLY emotional. 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors and Virtue's Last Reward

[@Ratlegion]

It was brave of you to do this video, and I could see you struggled, but I think all of us that have played a long time know where you're coming from. Good work here. Would like to see more similar content in the future.

[@BlondeManNoName]

Lost Odyssey is one of the few games that actually made me sob. Games that got me teary-eyed; Flower, Journey, Final Fantasy X, Heavy Rain, The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, Valiant Hearts, Red Dead Redemption, Metal Gear Solid 4. Just to name a few.

[@rosssteel158]

Every time I beat Kingdom Hearts 2 I shed a solemn tear, but I just finished Persona 4 Golden with the true ending for the first time, and man did I cry pretty hard. Anyway, fantastic video Pete, good to see you uploading more frequently again.

[@silversobe]

The end of Conker's Bad Fur Day. >.

[@dcashley303]

Oh, the whole of ICO makes me want to cry, it's just so wondrous. I remember renting it when it first came out and not being able to finish it as it was just so stark and emotional an environment,,, I'd just stand there panning the camera round, listening to the sea and the birds for 10's of minutes at a time... incredible game.

[@MarkoPolo530]

i dont think ive ever cried or shed tears over games but games that got me the feels. final fantasy 7, the last of us, persona 4 and the walking dead

[@renztayag8792]

Final fantasy crisis core just shred my manliness the way you struggle, protect your soldier honor and sacrifice yourself to your friend cloud just hit the spot at the very last battle.

[@fun_bot2644]

Persona 4 really kept me teary almost every high emotion parts of the story, specially on when characters accepted their shadows as part of who they were. And just yesterday I watched whole anime-serie based on that game in one go, and god dammit, I've never had such high volume of tears of joy and sadness-day in my entire life.

[@christiancountryboyilovejesus]

I think the first game to me cry was Glover 64 I cried because Glover died and I blamed myself for that. I was really little. But movies and games still make me cry a little bit sometimes. That's healthy.

[@DuSlothster]

Brothers: A Tale of Two sons made me cry a lot

[@alanmireles7030]

omg lost odyssey one of my favorite games, I cry every time that I play and I reach that scene you talk about... so damn emotional

[@Dahcs]

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon made me bawl, specifically Red Rescue Team.

[@OneFluffyBun]

RogueZangoose Oh isn't that the GBA one? I still have that one.....the feels are real. T~T

[@Dahcs]

animefreakincs I didn't think I was going to go back so like I freaked out because I had to leave Pikachu so I started crying when I realized what was happening.

[@sonicguy1996]

The walking dead, such a heart breaking story. Got pretty emotional at the end of halo 4.

[@jkodas]

Never cried over a game. Saddest moment though was Zack dying at the end of Crisis Core.

[@DrBoshi]

After playing Lost Odyssey, TLoU, ICO, SoTC, The Walking Dead, Heavy Rain, etc. no game has made me actually cry like To the Moon. I cried from sadness, happiness, to just the beauty of the game. Even though the gameplay is straight forward, I highly recommend this game to anyone so is into story driven games.

[@craiganderson7085]

Awesome video Pete. I cried at the end of Final Fantasy VII, which I know I'm obviously not the only one. I also cried at the same moment as you did in The Walking Dead. That game was sooo powerful and sooo well written and the father daughter sort of relationship that was developed between Lee and Clementine was beautiful and painful to watch :( And finally I'm just going to say I lost count of the amount of times I cried playing through The Last of Us.

[@jeffdaman6969]

No games ever made me cry but I do remember feeling sad and happy after beating a game that I was really invested in. A couple jrpgs and ocarina of time come to mind.

[@GamesplosionTV]

Man I love the music, art, and feel/presentation of fragile dreams. That fuckin exact scene you are talking about made me so sad, I just had to set my controller down and stop. I wish to someday give that game another go, I think I got about 10 hours in before I called it quits and just really should try to finish it through. It was definitely a flawed game but there was so much neat and interesting stuff to that game

[@RubbinisracinLuke1988]

Gone Home was the most recent emotional roller coaster for me

[@sonicsega1699]

games that make me cry are the ones i actually finish. ya know when ya spent a ton of time into a game and you finally complete it and then u lose desire to play again? or when u invest time into a game, come back to it months later, finish, and then no desire to play again? thats why its hard for me to finish an entire game, because i know i most likely will be done with it

[@crogomu5858]

(MOTHER 3: MAYBE SPOILER BUT NOT REALLY?) Is this enough lines down? Hopefully. After playing through Mother 3, the bizarre and super fantastic ending made me cry. A lot. It was sad and beautiful. So many emotions! After that, I haven't cried in a game since, it must have desensitized me or something. It's only been a few years since I played it, but still.

[@Sedg1987]

A game which made me pretty sad at times was Alundra. A couple of deaths accompanied by the beautiful Requiem song. Such an underrated game.

[@RE-LOOIE]

What an excellent idea for a video, Pete :D Really great picks too. Thanks for sharing, my friend!

[@Aenima308]

Tetris made me cry like a baby. I mean you'd have to have no heart to hold back the tears when those blocks fell. Deep stuff.

[@haveitboi999]

i love how you did it in the description, very handy

[@ThePotionShop]

Gears of War 3 was the first game to make me cry. I sort of went through middle school playing that series on my Xbox 360 and a certain obvious scene made me shed a few tears.

[@pinkfloydtails]

when grunty says "just you wait for banjo-threeie" at the end of banjo-tooie i shed a tear for rare's wasted future

[@SuperJumpReviews]

In no particular order. The Last of Us Flower Shadow of the Colossus Shenmue Final Fantasy 8,9,X Flow Donkey Kong Country 2 (maybe not when I played it back in the day but now when I go back to listen to some of the soundtrack, gets me so emotional)

[@stonedzebra420]

How tf did flower make you cry lol

[@chimeranangel]

Some of the memory sequences in Lost Odyssey were heartrending...

[@the14thdragon]

There's really only one game that made me shed a few tears. And that's Brother's: A Tale of Two Sons, specifically whenever the older brother died by getting poisoned by a giant spider and the younger brother had to carry him back to their father.

[@randomness051]

i've never felt such a betrayal from any game ever than when i played klonoa

[@abrahammontes2361]

I believe the last time i cried in a game was with Death Stranding. (spoilers) The scene where Sam has to cut the cord connecting Mama to the ghost of the baby that died inside her in order for him to transport her to her sister Malingen who was the mother of the baby. Mama was acting a surrogate mother. You can see Mama's face as she sees the baby ghost ascend, and she colapses. It literally looks like a mother being separated from her baby.

[@jokatech]

How did I know Klonoa was going to be number 1. That was my exact number one pick myself. Funny, because most of my friends also pick it first on their list. You're right, this list could go on for quite a while. A recent game that comes to mind for me is one of my new favorites of all time- Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The whole last part of the game was both deep and moving. I sat in awe and tears at the end. Indescribable.

[@richardrivera4363]

Woah I love the Funcoland sign in the back

[@lordsofkobol7385]

I did shed a tear at the ending of RiMe. No spoilers but let's say that it hits like the Sara death moment in the last of us. Another game is Gris. Just very emotional in a carthartic way. But the only game to make me truly blub was Blackwood crossing. That game hits so hard and probably under two hours to complete.

[@artnos]

Really old video but anyway: Man Klonoa, i finished that game, I don't remember that ending at all. I think I was just confused. Ico and Shadow didn't make me cry but they bring you down. Same as the ending of panzer dragoon saga, dark souls. Especially the soul series they really F you up, to see things so dark. I'm sure i have cried during several games but it's hard for me to remember. Everyone always brings up Aerith Death as so sad but i wasn't that attached to her she barely have any lines. I was all in on Tifa,

[@ciaranfarrell108]

The walking dead will always be a special game to me and I will say that I gave out a good few tears because it is such a stunning and emotional ending that really affected me. Just Beautiful :)

[@Foxhoundcommandable]

(SPOILER) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Series. When I first played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon red on my game boy adventure. It was just filled with sad moments and sad music. When I made it to the part where the player has to go back to the human world. I pretty much just shed a tear. However my friends where just sobbing. This goes the same with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky and Gates to Infinity. I totally recommend playing the series if you are interested in a Dark/sad themed Pokemon game.

[@miidylan]

Mine have to be To The Moon and Professor Layton and the Unwound Future that actually remember crying rather than just getting emotional. Two fantastic stories with great endings.

[@SoulStorm360]

I LOVE the FuncoLand Sign in the back Pete!

[@yetihml2020]

(Kingdom Hearts Series Spoilers) Many cutscenes in the kh series like when xion dies. Same with axle. And at the beginning of kh2 when roxas merges with sora.... everytime I start a new save and get to the part where he says "It looks like my summer vacation is over" it always gets me. Just a little.

[@HonestPhil]

14:05! YES. I have never cried so much after beating a game like I have in Final Fantasy 9. It was basically one of, if not the best gaming experiences I've ever had. LOVE IT.

[@keithr3587]

I agree. Pretty much the only time I know of that made me that emotional playing a game. Fantastic game and my favorite FF.

[@DoctorTheSushi]

Walking Dead Season 1 was super intense and emotional, loved it

[@kieransoma9887]

Ocarina of time when the credits come up and that music plays over the footage of all the characters dancing, and the end of FF6 when you don't know if Terra is dead or not

[@OneFluffyBun]

Drawn to Life the Next Chapter did it for me at the end, so did Bravely Default, Dawn of Mana, Rune Factory 4 (on several occasions) Shadow of the Colossus, Fire Emblem Awakening, Legend of Zelda (most of the games at least once)

[@liamblake1614]

I shed a tear at the end of every Kingdom Hearts game simply because they are that inspiring to me.

[@JC15UTUBE]

I totally I agree with you Pete about The Walking Dead I was balling and I rarely cry. The last of us was emotional as well, geez something about zombie games with these emotional scenes.

[@TwodeeTwodimensional]

Final Fantasy XIII sure made me cry a lot, but that was because of the quality of the game...

[@ValyView]

thank you so much for putting spoilers timing! :) interesting stuff, thanks for sharing)

[@SeanWhitmore]

Yay, someone else in the "cried at the end of FF 9" club! That was my first (and to date, only) "proper" RPG, and I loved it. I've heard a lot of people say it was a weak entry in the Final Fantasy series, and I have no context to judge that, but all I know is it was about all I could handle.

[@xxkomebackkidxx]

I'm right there with you on SotC, Ico, Klonoa, and FF9 of course. Didn't cry too much was pretty emotional. I skipped the Lost Odyssey part in hopes that I will get to it someday.

[@empire0]

Not trying to pull the "oooh i'm a big tough guy" card, but i'm just not the type to cry to a game. However, I just played Last of Us for PS4 and I felt a pretty sad at the beginning part where Sara gets shot, and later on when Joel rescues Ellie instead of letting her get killed. Honestly the first time i've felt that emotional over a game, so I can understand people crying to that.

[@stevewright2129]

Valiant Hearts The Great War is stupidly emotional. Not just because of it's beautiful presentation, but because of the fact that the story it explains really happened in real life.

[@Ishicoatl]

Magical Starsign for the DS, that game made me cry hard. The ending was just... I couldn't. I just couldn't.

[@GamesWithTea]

No spoilers here.....For me, the top would be final fantasy X, The Last of Us, Mass Effect 1,2,3, Halo Reach, Beyond Two Souls, Assassin's creed 2 and 4......and many many others....great topic!

[@DijaVlogsGames]

What a coincidence, I just uploaded the last part of my Klonoa LP and talked about how much I cried the first time I saw the ending. :3

[@JunaSSB]

I was thinking about making a video of exactly this format and you've convinced me.

[@lecorbak]

klonoa is the only one game that made me cry, and I've played a lot of games.

[@PeppyPipLBP]

off the top of my head, i cried at: persona 4 (golden), pkmn mystery dungeon explorers of time/darkness/sky, final fantasy xiii, dangan ronpa/sdr2, kingdom hearts I and II

[@stanpalmerzan4288]

Beyond: Two Souls, Final Fantasy 10, Lightning Returns Final Fantasy 13 and The Walking dead Season 1 made me cry

[@MovieDirectorSweden]

Nice ICO T shirt. I cried when Argo fell into the depths in Colossus. ; (

[@hj-hv6rt]

Seconded on Walking Dead season 1. Also Undertale (the good ending), Last of Us 1 (specifically that "everyone f***ing except from you" line from Ellie), Outer Wilds (that credits theme still gets me) and Pathologic 2 (real ones know). That list was longer than I expected lol. Edit: Oh and Nier Automata. Specifically when that choir kicks in (if you know, you know). And Lisa: The Painful. So wow, over half a dozen games have made me cry

[@matguimond92]

that one part in FF9 where Zidane is all messed up in the head but his friends pull him out of it, was moving imo. You know when you are in Pandemonium Castle.

[@jadegizmo]

The music alone can make or break a sad moment in a video game. i.e. - Aerith's theme

[@dominicracca6955]

I am currently playing Life is Strange. The first time through I didn't pay much attention to Kate. I was not able to keep her from killing herself. I was really upset by that part and I have started the game over again because of this.