Top 5 saddest video game moments of all time, ranked
Everyone plays video games for different reasons. For some, it’s stress relief. For others, it’s community. I can’t pin my own tastes down, but I do know that if a game made me cry, I probably liked it a lot.
To me, video games have unique opportunities to tug at the heart strings. It is wonderful to learn about a world and its characters for 20, 50, or even 100 hours. If done right, a game can use this space to tell evocative stories that wouldn’t work in other media. As I was making this list, I realized that so many games have succeeded this way that I had a hard time pinning down just five. I know I’ll miss several worthy moments that deserve a slot, so I went with my gut and picked the games that genuinely changed my life. Whether I learned a valuable lesson or just needed a good cry, these are the five moments that have stuck with me to this day.
Many of these entries pertain to the endings or final battles of their respective games. Rather than spoil them outright, I’ll be talking about the themes they cover in vague terms. If they sound interesting to you, please give them a shot if you haven’t already.
Undertale sits in a place of modern internet memery that is often incomprehensible. I can’t explain why the words “sans undertale” inherently strikes my funny bone, but it does. This makes it easy to forget that Undertale is a genuinely heart-wrenching game, and there is so much I love about the ending of its Pacifist route.
Undertale presents a world where kindness is always the answer. No matter who your enemy is, compassion will yield the greatest reward. By the game’s own admission, this is not a realistic way to approach life. Yet living in Undertale’s world for a handful of hours is absolute catharsis. It is
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