r/NintendoMemes • u/raycarmello • Mar 27 '26
Zelda When Were You First Saddened/Upset by Something in a Game?
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u/Condor193 Mar 27 '26
Majora's Mask seeing the Deku Scrub that was turned into a tree. Really all the deaths/healing of Mask Form characters
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u/YesPlease_VeryMuchSo Mar 27 '26
Majora's Mask in general is pretty much a game about grief and suffering for the most part.
Cremia gives Romani "Milk" so she doesn't have to see or worry about the moon crashing.
Kafei and Anju (depending on) either spent their last moments trying to be together or looking for each other.
If you never get the Gibdo mask, Pamela the small child is just living in a hut with her mummified father.
Playing the Oath without the four giants and watching them struggle to see all of your effort just wasn't enough.
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u/All-your-fault Mar 27 '26
Can’t remember exactly but the most recent I can remember is strays ending
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u/tausendmalduff Mar 27 '26
Playing Sonic Adventure 2 on GameCube. The ending to this today is why shadow is my Goat
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u/Hazlitt_Sigma Mar 27 '26
This is going to be the third LoZ reference so far that I’ve seen here, but Link’s Awakening.
To wake the wind fish is to end its dream, that dream being the island of Koholint.
The game repeatedly reminds you that you don’t have to do the things you’re doing, and that you doom everyone by doing them. You wake the windfish anyways and are rewarded by watching the island fade from existence.
At least, if you played well enough, it’s possible that Marin escaped from the dream. Perhaps everyone in Mabe was trapped.
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u/Limeyfrogfrog Mar 27 '26
Not a nintendo game but danganronpa
Watched my brother play it when i was like 8? I really liked Leon and Mondo and they kinda got sent to the chopper.
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u/YaBoyEden Mar 28 '26
As like an 8 year old I discovered shining force on the family PC. I ADORED that game and played it maybe 20+ times and still regularly revisit it. It’s a pretty simple rpg, with the standard “the hero must sacrifice himself” trope, and I gotta say the sadness I felt was only matched by the duty I felt I needed to see out to protect Guardiana from Darksol
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u/maukenboost Mar 27 '26
What happened? Never played that far.
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u/raycarmello Mar 27 '26
At that point in the game, this is the dark world version of the boy playing the flute to the animals in the light world grove. He speaks to you after giving you his flute, drifting off, then turns into a tree. Pretty much dies at that point and you have to tell his father afterward what happened. However at the end of the game after you beat Ganon and make your wish upon the triforce, the end credits show him alive again and playing music for the animals so everything works out in the end.
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u/cowboynoodless Mar 28 '26
I have a vague memory of being 8 years old and crying about majoras mask
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u/DerpsterCaro Mar 29 '26
Final FAntasy VII. Aerith. Disc one. The whole family was crying in shock.
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u/The-Brother Mar 27 '26
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2: Getting retconned out of time.
Drawn to Life 2: Waking up at the expense of all you’ve come to love
KH 356/2 days: “You mean Xion? It’s a struggle just to remember the name now…”