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The saddest song you've come across in a game?
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Need proper context to fully appreciate. FFXIV Stormblood Spoiler:
I was bawling like crazy the entire fight.
I was bawling like crazy the entire fight.
Yup, came here to post this. Setting Sail, Coming Home adds another layer of depressing subtext on top of it while somehow being more upbeat...
Don't think this is the saddest video game song, or even the saddest in the TLOU series, but I personally find it to be really touching in the context of the section this song plays in.
"Well, this place takes me back."
"How so?"
"It was right after everything went down. I ended up in a triage just like this. Man, everywhere you looked, you just saw families being torn apart... The whole damn world seemed to have turned upside down in a blink..."
"Is that after you lost Sarah?"
"Yes, it was..."
"I...can't imagine losing someone you love like that. Losing everything that you know. I'm sorry Joel."
"It's okay, Ellie."
"How so?"
"It was right after everything went down. I ended up in a triage just like this. Man, everywhere you looked, you just saw families being torn apart... The whole damn world seemed to have turned upside down in a blink..."
"Is that after you lost Sarah?"
"Yes, it was..."
"I...can't imagine losing someone you love like that. Losing everything that you know. I'm sorry Joel."
"It's okay, Ellie."
The Last of Us 2 - Ellie "Take on Me" Cover Song
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It chokes me up immediately. Don't even try and reflect on the words and her journey. So emotional.
It's not the saddest song I've heard, but it's affected me recently along with the scene it accompanies.
Hearing this cover in the end credits and just thinking back on the entire game made me bawl.. again
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As a huge fan of The National, this hidden gem in Portal 2 hit me right in the feels:
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For me it's this - because what happens to these characters and how somber and sad the cast of the game look when the game is starting up. Until you get to that point in the game, you don't understand why they look that way and it's devastating when you get there and realise that they're all sad for one reason and Tidus has another reason for sounding the way he does.
I don't think there was a better game I could have played as a 12 year old.
Easily this one from LISA The Joyful:
"You have to know this, Buddy. I was completely lost before I found you. You made me feel things I'd never felt before...You showed me what love really is. And that's why when I look into your eyes, it's the scariest feeling in the world. It's why I buried myself so deep into the darkness. But, I promise you, I tried so hard to fight it. I tried. And no matter what, I really did love you with all my heart. I'm so sorry I failed you, Buddy. I miss you so much."
"You have to know this, Buddy. I was completely lost before I found you. You made me feel things I'd never felt before...You showed me what love really is. And that's why when I look into your eyes, it's the scariest feeling in the world. It's why I buried myself so deep into the darkness. But, I promise you, I tried so hard to fight it. I tried. And no matter what, I really did love you with all my heart. I'm so sorry I failed you, Buddy. I miss you so much."
Those credits just left me defeated.
Came here to post this, too, absolutely devastating stuff.
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For me it's this - because what happens to these characters and how somber and sad the cast of the game look when the game is starting up. Until you get to that point in the game, you don't understand why they look that way and it's devastating when you get there and realise that they're all sad for one reason and Tidus has another reason for sounding the way he does.
I don't think there was a better game I could have played as a 12 year old.
I don't feel like To Zanarkand is a particularly sad song. I think it's a more hopeful song. The sad song is Someday the Dream Will End:
It's a reprise of Suteki da Ne, like Tidus is being consumed by thoughts of it as he marches towards the inevitable fate. Suteki da Ne was about Yuna wanting to be with Tidus forever. Someday the Dream Will End has this plodding cadence like Tidus is forcing himself to move forward. The sonar pings make it feel like diving into the crushing depths as the weight of reality weighs on his head.
The sounds cemented down
Circus on repeating clouds
Just over and over, a crown
Of repeating sounds
Time to make the ugly lovely
Time will make the lovely ugly
So I'm leaving
Stopped in a lesson, shot down
Sirens are ringing all around
Time will make me into something
Then time will turn me into nothing
So I'm leaving
Circus on repeating clouds
Just over and over, a crown
Of repeating sounds
Time to make the ugly lovely
Time will make the lovely ugly
So I'm leaving
Stopped in a lesson, shot down
Sirens are ringing all around
Time will make me into something
Then time will turn me into nothing
So I'm leaving
this entire game's OST takes plenty of inspiration from the works of Satie and his contemporaries, but this track in particular stuck with me given the in game context. The way in which it never fully resolved its natural melodic course/journey speaks to just how well the music supports this game's themes.
Becalmed from SoT. Made extra effective by the serendipity of playing it with other people at just the right moment.
Here we go. Fucking devastating.The Last of Us 2 - Ellie "Take on Me" Cover Song
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It chokes me up immediately. Don't even try and reflect on the words and her journey. So emotional.
I'm a person who cried during that scene in Final Fantasy VII as a child, cried during Steins;Gate as an adult and even though both of those games feature stunning and sad music, I don't think anything compares to this. The whole piece is just so depressing and upsetting, I really struggle to listen to it sometimes (and play the game in general, MGS4 is such a bleak title).
It's beautiful though. When I'm in the mood it's perfect.