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What's the most emotional retro game?

It's the game I didn't play until the fan translation was released, for a late GBA game. The OP picrel.

Maybe not the most emotional ending, but a satisfying one, reuniting the realm in Gemfire SNES.

>>12161308 (OP)
Tries too hard and the result is a cheap melodrama bordering on a soap opera.

>>12161345
Juxtafag...

>>12161308 (OP)
>What's the most emotional retro game?
Lords of Midnight. A key factor is monitoring characters fear

>>12161345
You sound like you don't cry when your pets die. Just another mouth to feed.

I'm going with Mission Critical. I'm still kicking myself I only played it ten years ago and didn't hand over my shekels when it came out.

Terranigma.

Play Breath of Fire 2 and avoid spoilers as best you can.

>>12161308 (OP)
Anirog Kong

>>12161345
Would you say it was milquetoast?

>>12161308 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca6I82sAJ7M

>>12161308 (OP)
Halo 2. The arbiter's story is more emotional than any other game. I have no clue what this childish looking slop in your pic is but it's certainly not more emotional than Halo 2.

>>12162024
>lol guns and aliens
Who cares?

>>12162024
Posting Halo needs to be a bannable offense

>>12161308 (OP)
definitely not this pretentious, melodramatic fucking wank of a game. Id unironically rather play undertale

>>12161969
spoiler alert: its shit and you should play something else.

FFX, no one with white skin and a soul has made it through the ending with dry eyes.

>>12161308 (OP)
>Tenshi no Uta (PC Engine version)
I was really surprised by how sad the ending is

>>12161997
It's a milk toast game in a doggy-dog world.

>>12162116
whoops, meant to reply to OP

>>12161816
That's cute, how many studio ghibli aislop did you create recently?

>>12161367
No, that's the elephant in the room guy.

>The truth is Mary, I hated you
>I wanted you out of the way
>I wanted my life back

>If that were true, James
>then why do you look so sad?

>>12162356
thanks for saving me 30 hours

>>12161308 (OP)
the giygas battle was better in my opinion

>>12161308 (OP)
Secret of Mana.

>>12162378
SH2 is like 10 hours max and you were the last person on earth who didn't know the ending

>>12162442
Damn that nigga got hit dead on by the meteor

Hear me out. The ending of this kusoge where the monsters rediscover their human souls is pretty moving. I think it actually helps that you have to grind hours and hours of mediocrity to get to it. The monster designs and the rest of the story are great, too.

>>12162924
>game's cover goes hard as fuck
>game's concept of monsters vs aliens and aesthetics go hard as fuck
>game's battle theme goes hard as fuck https://youtu.be/Zhmf3abCOuQ?si=mdWTO8YedUegIYs6
Too bad the gameplay is bad

>>12161308 (OP)
Klonoa.

>>12162114
>Id unironically rather play undertale
There's limits to humour anon

>>12162442
>that yeti that dies crying for his mommy
>the same mommy that you killed and devoured to survive and evolve

>>12161308 (OP)
Any time you're going for the 1cc in an arcade game for the first time, especially a difficult one, and you're right near the end.

>>12163135
The SNES version of EVO really shouldn't have been short, i would want 3 more games that reach up to where the Theory of Evolution story ends

>>12162024
Marathon is better, Halo is the kiddy version of it

oh this one's easy for me. basically any SNES game made by Enix, but especially Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia. i don't know who they had writing for those games, but each is absolutely overflowing with pathos and surprisingly adult themes for a kid's game: love, loss, grief, suffering, death, fear, longing. often from the perspective of non-humans as well. i'm man enough to admit i teared up multiple times during each game, (the older i get the more sentimental i become.) i mean, when Hamlet sacrifices himself to feed the starving villagers? come on... combined with the music, these games hit an emotional chord like none others i've ever played. picrel is but a small sampling
>you agree to become a woman's son and let her name you just to make her happy :')

>>12161308 (OP)
>What's the most emotional retro game?
Bayonetta

>>12163642
what tripe.
cats love to kill, killing is fun. watching a cat enjoy eating a lizard tail first, slowly, over an hour is understanding life.

>>12163675
>fixates on edgy exception because "not true to life"
>ignores the beauty all around
like trying to show art to a pig. at least pigs have an excuse though.

>>12163675
Literally this, cats play with the food

>>12163675
>>12163690
>>12163836
even if cats are 100% full and obese they will go outside and kill anything smaller than them that moves just for pure recreation. which is not even that common in the animal kingdom, they just really love the hunt.
>t. cat owner

>>12163642
The writer never had a cat

>>12163836
>>12163874
>>12163898
>enters emotional game thread
>complains that talking cat isn't saying realistic things
holy autism

>>12163934
Nice cope, but the dialogue is just stupid

>>12163970
>ignores timeless trope of "animal / person expressing views contrary to its nature"
toddlers shouldn't be on the internet

>>12161308 (OP)
Majora's Mask, probably. Not that many emotional retro games. I remember Mother 3 starting fairly strong, but then losing focus and with it, my attachment to the characters.
>>12162356
Link's Awakening (picrel is the banner as I wrote this) and SH2 will be emotional for some people, but not others. Depends on how invested you get.
>>12162120
Maybe this also. Was so young when I played this that I can't remember what my emotional investment was. The "Sending" cutscene that happens early on was touching, at least.

aeris getting ACKed with the crazy emotional uematsu theme in the background playing out always gets me. I dont even care about the flower slut, its the god damn music.

>>12164638
all the party members reactions, too. crazy expressive for what they had to work with. tifa and yuffie are heartbreaking, and cait sith is just fucking classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrPP9HzmPPQ

>>12162442
>>12163135
Fug. I need to replay that. Ultra kino.

>>12161345
Did Hinawa actually die? Weird how it just happens offscreen but they show a really long scene of the Flint dude having an hard PG-13 meltdown and smashing people with a stick.

>>12164823
Based on beta content it feels like in the original 64 game or even an earlier version of the gba game you got to play as Claus and Lucas in chapter 1 during the forest fire and maybe see her die or at least spend more time with her to actually care more for her instead of the game expecting you to care for the 3 minutes character because she's Lucas's mom

>>12161308 (OP)
Not what you'd think

>>12164897
By pure technical definition, it has to be this.

>>12164897
I fucking love smug pacman