Shadow Hearts/Tear Jerker

"James:"
 * Shadow Hearts could be the Trope Namer. In the first game, the bad ending is the canonical one, wherein Shadow Hearts: Covenant, not to be outdone, has two tearjerker endings: the bad one,  and a "good" one,  Then Shadow Hearts: From the New World turns it up by making
 * Don't forget in the second game, This troper doesn't even normally like straight couples, and that scene still gets me every time.
 * This troper knows numerous people who cried at that scene...but when Yuri says  and then starts crying...I felt like an absolute jerk because I actually started laughing as he proceeded to make the silliest sad face ever.
 * Covenant has a rather sympathetic villain too, in the form of
 * And if you look at it in sort of a retrospective fashion,
 * Odin Sphere made my eyes water and Shadow of the Colossus depressed me for the rest of the day, but watching  made me weep. Especially when Ricardo took his hat off, for some reason.
 * "The Oath" scene in Covenant.