Fatal Frame/Tear Jerker


 * The normal endings.
 * The third game makes it worse by making it canon that.
 * In the second game, there's nothing more heartbreaking than realising that and then watching Mio, realising what she just did,.


 * The Big Bad's story in the third game is one hell of a contender, never mind the actual ending of the game, which is more of a Bittersweet Ending. After longing to see
 * Despite having been terrorized by her for the last three nights or so, the flashback near the first game's climax where you see being dragged by her implacable guardians to her gruesome fate will rend your heart.
 * In the second game when you go to Itsuki, the only person in the village who doesn't want to kill you, for help, and his window is closed. Then you finally get to enter the locked building....
 * Ruka finally reconciling with her smiling father at the end of the fourth game, after trying to remember what his face looked like in the past when he was working.
 * Some of the ghosts, despite being freaking terrifying, can still make you tear up. Take Chitose Tachibana from the second game, who is alone, terrified, and spends all her time crying and hiding. That was the only ghost this troper felt bad about exorcizing, especially since you have to repeatedly hunt her down. Or take the Kiryu twins (yes, those creepy "Why do you kill?" twins), who were forced to undergo the Crimson Sacrifice at around age five, and Akane Kiryu, the survivor, going into total depression aftwerwards, eventually having her soul stolen by a life-size doll of her sister that her father made to comfort her.
 * In the fourth game, Misaki finally remembers, and begins weeping while embracing slowly steps forward and embraces Misaki, who is weeping inconsolably...