Two games have made me choke, and one made me cry.
1)- Halfway. This is a turn base strategy game about a group of survivors trying to fend off some strange force. They are prisoners (basically) on a star-ship and whenever it hyper-jumps mutant.. robotic things, the remains of previous crew members appear and attempt to slaughter them. I found that I was very interested in the characters - the story wasn't bad, and the game was rather difficult.
What made me choke up though is the music. In particular this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQqi-2u6Yt4 at 36:09. It's funny because I never knew it had a name, but I think of home, being with my parents, my brothers and of simple times when I didn't have multiple surgeries to keep me alive, stressful work, and other problems. Listening to it now I feel... incredibly nostalgic, and longing for those easier days. It was played whenever you were at your main base, between battles with all the crew. I said "this song... makes me think of home". Figures that it is aptly called that: Home.
2)- S.O.M.A. Yes, it's a horror game but it made me reconsider what it means to be human. Sometime in the early part of the game it asks you a series of questions. I had answered them a bit flippantly. At the end it asks you those same questions. My feels. Right in my feels. My feels had changed. As before I had to take a minute to gather my composure as I answered these same questions a second time.
3)- The Spirit Engine 2. This is the one that made me actually tear. This is a... well not a JRPG in the true sense of the matter, but it is a real time combat, side scrolling, positions based combat game with a (I thought) well written story and intense combat. Imagine Darkest Dungeon but you follow three of the characters, they have names and backgrounds, and there's a real, in depth story going on. It's actually free as well should you want it from the developers own site:
http://www.thespiritengine.com/tse2-download.php . At the beginning of the game you pick three of the nine characters and they adventure through the game together from start to end.
Anyway - at the half-way mark the heroes I had chosen for the adventure (Mericious, Charolette, Denever) were waking up at an inn, and were in their rooms thinking about the turn their lives had taken. I can never get through that scene without fucking crying. Mericious trying to still believe in his religion despite what he has seen, Denever who chose a solitary life instead of a family, and Charolette who is realizing she possibly has wasted her life and youth. It's so stupid - I don't mean the scene, I mean how it always gets to me. Damn it.
