After some well deserved time off we’re back and while we of course love our job and our time around the @rcade offices we can’t help but feel the Monday Miseries. So in an effort to make ourselves feel better we’ve decided to make everyone else feel worse…
How are we going to do that you ask?
Well we’re going to bring you the top five saddest moments in video games ever…prepare to be broken down and bare your soul all over again as we relive some of the most teary eyed, soul crushing and moving moments from some of the best video games around!
This article may contain spoilers!
5. Letting Aerith Go…
Final Fantasy VII
We do not lie… we have Adele on around the office and after watching this scene over and over now we’re finding it hard to go on! Aerith Gainsborough was and always will be one of our favourite characters from the Final Fantasy series – kind, caring and considerate, she was the White Mage to our party of bruisers and we had her ultimate by the time we’d left Midgar… so can you imagine how we felt when that B*ST*RD Sephiroth came hurtling towards her with his sword (that we feel was over compensating for something he may have been lacking!).
As Cloud slowly watches Aerith disappear under the waters we can’t help but wonder why he just didn’t use a bloody Phoenix Down!
Watch and enjoy…
4. Lady Luck
Metal Gear Solid II: Sons of Liberty
“My name is Helena Dolph Jackson, daughter of a proud and noble soldier… I can see my family…again”
Fortune as she is known for most of the game is the leader of Dead Cell and one of the toughest bosses in Metal Gear Solid II: Sons of Liberty. After the death of her father at what she believes to be by the hands of Snake, her life takes a dismal turn for the worst, her husband is convicted of fraud and dies while serving his sentence, her mother commits suicide and then with all of the stress and worry she loses her unborn child.
Wracked with guilt and desiring only vengeance she signs up for the Armed Forces and quickly she and her superiors realise she has an uncanny ability – bullets miss her, explosives turn to duds and all of her missions end in complete and total success!
Towards the end of the game the secret to her ability is revealed to her and she is then shot point blank only to survive due to a rare condition she was born with…with the last of her strength she protects the man she yearned so badly to kill with her true powers deflecting the weapons of the mighty Metal Gear Ray and giving Snake the chance to put things right.
To double your misery we’re including Fortune’s Theme from the game, a sad saxophone piece that still manages to pull on our heart strings ten years on:
3. I’m not supposed to leave this place…
Silent Hill
At the tender age of 12yrs old we first encountered the sleepy little town of Silent Hill – at a time when parents were somewhat naïve as regards the warning labels and ratings on video games we skipped our way through the nightmarish town!
It wasn’t until we stumbled across Nurse Lisa Garland did we really start to take notice of the hell we’d stumbled into. Working in Alchemilla Hospital Lisa seemed to be as lost as we were and meeting her was a nice change to the torment that surrounded us everywhere we went.
We hoped and prayed that she could survive, we begged and pleaded with the Gods of the Video Game Universe but watching Lisa change, hearing her beg for mercy through the other side of the door our heart broke and our childhood had ended – we’d become men…we had to!
2. Lovers reunited, world ends!
Legend of Zelda – Majora’s Mask
One of the many side quests in this epic of epics, Link brought this pair together finally but with only mere moments to spend together before the world ends forever…
Depressing…
1. A cruel twist of fate
Lost Odyssey
To wrap things up and to leave you in the worst possible shape we bring you…
This is a BIG SPOILER! So if you have not played the game don’t blame us for your curiosity ruining it for you! Read ahead at your own discretion!
The death of Lirum, mother to playable characters Cooke and Mack is probably one of the most heart breaking scenes ever brought to us and it’s all thanks to Mistwalker and Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of the Final Fantasy series).
Lirum, as it happens, is the daughter of the main character Kaim, who never really recovered when he witnessed his young daughter leap from a cliff side and disappear beneath the crashing waves. Surviving her fall and winding up on the other side of the ocean, Lirum raises a family yearning for her own to be mended
Oh and remember…Real Gamers Cry! Happy Monday!
