Final Fantasy III/Tear Jerker


 * Don't tell me that the scene accompanied by "Elia: Maiden of Water" didn't get to you. Better tears, happy tears (or, well, sad since The Journey Is Over) likely accompany the post-game sequence (in the DS version, at least).
 * This troper remembers playing a fan-translation of the NES version and, being a huge fan of moogles, being heartbroken when he returned to Dorga's house  to find all of his servant moogles   It's made even worse by the fact that
 * Xande's Start of Darkness. You've spent your  life apprenticed to a master wizard - no doubt making close friends with the other two apprentices, by the way - and what is your reward for this dedication?   And they call you evil when you want to keep things the way they were? Xande got painted into the villain corner, plain and simple.
 * Basically, they outright killed him.
 * Not before . What's Xande going to think when/if he finds that, essentially, ?
 * How about For weeks, he's been mind-controlled by his Evil Chancellor to set his soldiers against each other and to banish his ten-year-old son Alus from the castle. And the final act in Gigameth's plan? Have Gorn murder Alus in his bed--but the order is too much, and Gorn
 * Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome to me. It takes sheer force of will and Power of Love to overcome a powerful spell like that.
 * Two Words:  Death.