History LoveHurts / VideoGames

*** Even if you don't pursue them as {{Love Interest}}s, advancing their Social Links far enough will result in Yukiko Amagi, Ai Ebihana, and Yumi Ozawa falling in love with [[PlayerCharacter Yu]] regardless of the player's choices, resulting in them becoming utterly heartbroken if you reject them, though they do get over it reasonably quickly.
*** While all of the girls don't take the player cheating on them on Valentine's Day particularly well, Ayane Matsunaga by far takes it the worst, [[spoiler:with her running off to cry in the bathroom out of betrayal]].

* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV''

* ''[[Franchise/DragonAge Dragon Age]]'' loves this trope.

** Ouse from the [[VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater fifth game]] as well. She fell in love with [[spoiler: Kunihiko Asou]] [[LoveAtFirstSight the moment they met]] and realized his feelings towards her via her sixth sense, which made his departure from Mt. Hikami all the more painful for her. She tells Yuuri about such feelings in one of Yuuri's endings:

** This is essentially what fuels the Hex Cannon/Carronade. The closer the sacrifice is to the intended target, the stronger the hex will be. This is what [[spoiler:breaks Fou-lu and causes him to go KillEmAll]] near the end.

* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': The plot is full of this. Only a few characters actually get happy endings, assuming you didn't muck it up and get the bad ending, in which case it turns into a KillEmAll.

* Good God, VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}} with Hakuoro and... well, everyone. Eruruw is apparently physically unable to confess [[spoiler:until her contract with him is dissolved]]. He doesn't pick up on Karura's rather [[TheTease blatant]] overtures. Touka just weirds him out. [[GeniusDitz Which is understandable]]. Urtoriy can't be in a relationship with anyone apparently [[spoiler:and most certainly not the divinity of her religion]]. Oh, and the ill girl kind of gets what she wanted [[spoiler:except it was mostly out of pity/platonic love, and she died after giving birth anyway]]. For the hurting part on ''his'' side, [[spoiler:losing Mutsumi]] hurt so much that [[spoiler:his identity split into two godlike beings that cause chaos, wars and destruction every couple years]]. There's an implication at the end [[spoiler:that Hakuoro comes back, and he did essentially admit he loves Eruruw]]. Oh, and Kamua probably didn't love him so she's okay.

** Hope with Lightning in the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy. It's most noticeable in ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' and the epilogue novel ''Tracer of Memories'' where it's stated that Hope's been carrying a torch for Lightning for the past 500 or so years, which puts a lot of his actions in ''[=XIII-2=]'' in a whole new light. [[spoiler:The worst part is Bhunivelze using his feelings for Lightning to kidnap, torture him for 169 years, and possess him]].

--->''This is love. When someone drags you from the wreckage when you have given in, ready to just lie there and die. This is love. When someone, no matter what the cost, shows you there is hope, a choice, that you can put down your gun. This is love. Love hurts.'' -

* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': The unjustified execution of her fiancee led Aribeth de Tylmarande to insanity and an eventual FaceHeelTurn. The picture in the slideshow between chapters 1 and 2 with her crouched under the tree crying her eyes out sums this trope up very effectively.
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' has this for just about every relationship in the original campaign. Males who romanced Elanee [[spoiler:learn she was killed saving them from a falling boulder]]. Females who romanced Casavir [[spoiler:are told he was buried beneath tons of rock while helping everyone else escape]]. Females who did Bishop's [[TheNotLoveInterest semi-romance]] [[spoiler:are betrayed, then later have to watch him die on the Wall of the Faithless]]. Guys who liked Shandra [[spoiler:arrive just in time to watch her be killed by her grandfather]]. The only romance/potential romance that doesn't end in hurt is Neeshka's.

* ''Franchise/MetalGear''. There is maybe one successful romance in this series that does not put the characters and gamer through hell first. Meryl and Snake [[spoiler:don't make it. Meryl winds up in a successful romance with Johnny, the series ButtMonkey]]. Raiden and Rose [[spoiler:have so many issues that they deserve their own trope. They make it, which is more than most can claim, but they go through hell first]]. The Boss and The Sorrow [[spoiler:were damned before the series started, with The Boss being forced to shoot her own lover. And he let her]]. Naked Snake and EVA [[spoiler:failed. Fanon aside, EVA doesn't get Snake, even though she loves him and bore his sons (against his will)]]. And Otacon? [[spoiler:He might as well put a bullet in the head of every woman he shows affection for and save time]]. ''Ground Zeroes'' adds [[spoiler: Chico and Paz. Chico, who is in love with Paz, attempts to rescue her, only to be captured and tortured physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Once it finally looks like they might make it out alive, Paz reveals that she has a second bomb inside of her and sacrifices herself to save the MSF survivors, dying right before Chico's eyes]]. Yes, this game is [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism very cynical]], whatever gave you that idea?
** Is it any wonder Kojima averted this in ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders?'' There, only one "pair" ends badly (in this world, at least).
** Kojima played this straight again in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'', damning Gabriel and Marie right before the beginning of the story.
%%* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'': It's not the only thing that hurts. But boy does it ''hurt''. See also: [[LoveMartyr Deionarra]].

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has Kain and his unrequited love for Rosa. AllLoveIsUnrequited hurts by itself, but then you factor in how he lost her to his [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter best friend]] Cecil, and it gets really painful, especially since he clearly ''wants'' them to be happy, but is still full of jealousy and sorrow.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has this with Locke and Rachel, where [[spoiler: Rachel accidentally loses her memory and her parents blame Locke for the whole mess, he blames himself because Rachel in her memory stricken form tells Locke to leave because her parents are yelling at Locke, afterwards, he learned that at the time of the village's demise, she regained her memory, and called for him... Then, he asked a doctor to preserve her body, while he searches for a way to save her, while still blaming himself for everything..]]. Damn....
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', Sir Fratley, the love of Freya's life leaves on a journey of epic training. When she doesn't hear of him for some time, she embarks on the world to find him. During the events of the game, she eventually runs into him but he is suffering from amnesia and doesn't remember her. Ouch.
*** It's even on her quote in the game's manual. Quite a PlayerPunch when you find out what it means:
---->'''Despair.''' To be forgotten is worse than death.
*** In the game's ending, his memory [[spoiler: never returns, but he [[EarnYourHappyEnding falls in love with Freya again]], anyway.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Gaiden'', resident badass {{Samurai}} Sanger Zonvolt gets this. The woman he deeply cared for (not to the point of open romance, but deep, deep loyalty and affection) was turned into a monster he and the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Preventers]] had to kill, and the poor bastard not only gets to watch her die, but his only comfort in the end of the game is cry over her grave. Alpha 2 gives him a RoaringRampageOfRevenge when Kukuru tries to off Sophia Nate (woman he cares for). He's a little better off in the OG Timeline, only now it's Wodan Ymir who gets screwed, which (long story) is the same thing.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' has finally included the option of playing as AscendedExtra and [[EnsembleDarkhorse major fan-favorite]] Zero, along with his own story. The bad part? In Zero's story, he has to fight ''and'' kill Iris, ''his own girlfriend'', who wants to seek revenge on Zero for killing her brother. The {{narm}} that came with the game's horrible voice acting ruined one of the truly [[TearJerker heartwrenching]] moments in the series. (The original Japanese voice acting did a much better job in powering the said TearJerker moment.)
** ''She doesn't even want to kill him'', instead attacking him because she can't forgive him for killing her brother, but can't bring herself to move on from his death. Essentially, the poor girl is so shattered that she's choosing SuicideByCop, and it ''breaks'' Zero as well as herself.
* Oichi in ''Videogame/SengokuBasara'' is this ''in spades''. Thanks to her love with Nagamasa and her care about her brother, who happens to be ObviouslyEvil, she's in for tons and tons of tragedy, starting from seeing her lover die in front of her, then delusionally thinking that Nagamasa wants everyone dead, then she kills off all her family and then gets herself killed.
** The fourth game introduces Shibata Katsuie, whose unrequited love for Oichi is why he's such a downer, though he shows tinges of EntitledToHaveYou as well. In one of Oichi's story routes, he goes so far as to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kills Nagamasa]], which simply drives Oichi into a murderous rage.
* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV''
** This is essentially what fuels the Hex Cannon/Carronade. The closer the sacrifice is to the intended target, the stronger the hex will be. This is what [[spoiler:breaks Fou-lu and causes him to go KillEmAll]] near the end.
** Cray spends much of the game searching for Princess Elina, Nina's sister and his love interest. [[spoiler:When they find her, Elina has been turned into an artificial Endless, in order to exploit her love as an limitless fuel for the Carronade. Cray [[MercyKill ends her suffering]] with the Dragon Slayer.]]
* In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', a female voice cites a sad poem about a girl whose heart is broken and is compelled to drown in the Sea of Black Tears. [[spoiler:It's actually talking about TheOphelia of the cast, who is named, well...Ophelia.]]
* Played straight and exaggerated in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella''. Edgar, Lolotte's homely [[spoiler:adopted-by-kidnapping]] "son" develops a fondness for Rosella, and pulls a HeelFaceTurn to free her from a prison. Rosella escapes, takes Cupid's love arrows and shoots Lolotte. The evil fairy is so overcome with sheer pain she shrieks "It HURTS!" before [[spoiler: falling over dead]]. Edgar is rewarded for his heroism by Genesta [[spoiler: returning him to what's later revealed to be his ''true'' form]], and he asks Rosella to stay with him. Rosella has to refuse his offer and get back to Daventry, presumably leaving him alone and somewhat heartbroken. At least, until the seventh game...
* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon''. Common parlance in the game is to never, ever fall in love. Particularly, it's important to never, ever ask the Bazaar for help in situations involving love. [[spoiler: Results tend towards horrific transformations, resulting in the Cantigaster and the current state of most of the Empress's children. Horrible things happen when beings that just don't get how humans work get involved to try and make a love story more interesting.]]
* The ''VideoGame/PretentiousGame'' series plays this ''painfully'' straight. The blue square suffers [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Unrequited Love]] for the bright pink square. The light pink square loves her husband, the gray square, only to get cheated on, and when she divorces him and gets into a relationship with the blue square, he gets killed by her drunken ex-husband. As for the gray square? He feels massive amounts of guilt for cheating on the light pink square, with whom it's implied that [[LadykillerInLove he was genuinely in love]], and turns to alcohol to deal with his feelings.
* ''[[Franchise/DragonAge Dragon Age]]'' loves this trope.
** In ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Origins]]'', you have [[LadyOfBlackMagic Morrigan]] who turns out to [[spoiler:have had a [[WasItAllALie secret agenda the whole game]] and leaves -- while possibly pregnant with your child -- despite having genuinely fallen in love with you]]. Alistair will also break up with you if he [[spoiler:becomes King and you're not a human noble, unless you become his mistress (at the cost of [[CorruptTheCutie hardening]] him)]]. He will also [[spoiler:[[AlwaysSaveTheGirl sacrifice himself to save you]] if you refused to do Morrigan's ritual]]. Leliana and the Warden will separate somewhere between the end of Origins and Inquisition. On top of all this, the Warden themselves [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice can die]]]] at the end of game depending on your choices.
*** In Witch Hunt, after you find Morrigan, you can [[spoiler:convince her to let you go through the [[MagicMirror Eluvian]] with her, getting your happy ending after all.]]
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', [[WellIntentionedExtremist Anders]] will [[spoiler:manipulate you into helping him blow up the Chantry]] at the end of the game. Hawke can choose to stay with him and [[spoiler:go on the run, but some players consider it a unforgivable betrayal. You can really take this trope to the extreme if you choose to kill him]]. All the other romance options except for Merrill will also [[SecondActBreakup break up with you at one point]], but will return to you later.
*** Hawke can possibly [[spoiler:die]] during their cameo in Inqusition, which inevitably [[spoiler:leaves behind their love interest]].
** In ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]'', Blackwall reveals that [[spoiler:he is a wanted murderer [[DeadPersonImpersonation pretending to be a Grey Warden]]. You can forgive him but he'll eventually leave on a {{Redemption Quest}}]]. Dorian will [[spoiler:return to Tevinter [[LovedINotHonorMore without you in his quest to change his homeland]]]] and Cassandra will (sort of) break it off if she [[spoiler:becomes [[HighPriest Divine]]]]. The real doozy is Solas, who [[ItsNotYouItsMe breaks up with you]] and leaves for mysterious reasons. In {{The Stinger}} you find out [[spoiler:he's an [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu ancient elven god]] who was the catalyst for the entire plot of the game. You finally see him two years later only for him to tell you his plan to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans destroy the world]]. You can tell him that you'll change his mind, but he still [[ItMakesSenseInContext takes your arm]] and leaves, despite [[TearJerker still loving you]]]].
* Each antagonist in ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose'' has a different motivation for hurting people, but the worst antagonists are motivated by love. The BigBad's entire plan is "Hurt [[spoiler:Jennifer]] so much that she will become a broken, mindless shell and never hurt (read: [[WomanScorned reject]]) me again", and her [[TheDragon Dragon]]'s love for his dead son drives him [[spoiler:murderously]] insane. Fortunately, TheHero is motivated by everything ''good'' about love, so it all [[{{Foil}} sort of balances out]].
* ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'':
** Kirie from the [[VideoGame/FatalFrame1 first game]]. She was supposed to harbor no emotional attachment to anyone prior to her VirginSacrifice, but the arrival of a guest, whom she met and quickly fell in love with, caused a conflict between her duty as a priestess meant for HumanSacrifice and her desire to be with her lover. [[StarCrossedLover The murder of her lover, which she found out soon after, did nothing to diminish said conflict]], resulting in a failed ritual that ruined the Himuro mansion.
** Ouse from the [[VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater fifth game]] as well. She fell in love with [[spoiler: Kunihiko Asou]] [[LoveAtFirstSight the moment they met]] and realized his feelings towards her via her sixth sense, which made his departure from Mt. Hikami all the more painful for her. She tells Yuuri about such feelings in one of Yuuri's endings:
--->'''Ouse''': Those words were too powerful for me. They were... a curse.
* Deionarra from ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''. She loves The Nameless One, so utterly and completely, that she's unable to pass on and finally die, and has had to watch as her lover returns time and time again, [[AmnesiacLover having forgotten who he is and who she is]]. Many of his incarnations recoil from her or fear her. [[spoiler:Worse yet, the incarnation of The Nameless One she fell in love with never loved her in the first place, and was only using her to obtain an eternal SpiritAdvisor for his future plans... And Deionarra knows this. [[LoveMartyr She loves him anyway]].]]
* Bentley in ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime''. He thinks he's found his true love in Penelope, but she is actually a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] who never loved him, and was only using him to become rich and TakeOverTheWorld. The revelations of [[UsingYouAllAlong him being used]], his love [[FalseSoulmate being unrequited]], and her [[DomesticAbuse being abusive]] caused Bentley to tuck into his shell in despair. He recovers with the help of Murray's drawing of them, Sly, and Carmelita, and concludes that the love from [[TrueCompanions his family]] is more important.
* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'': The Detective [[spoiler:is haunted by his love for his ex-girlfriend who he still isn't over almost six years later]], to the extent that anything even tangentially related causes immense discomfort and causes the skills to immediately pipe in and try to make him let go. [[spoiler:In the last area of the game you unlock an (optional) dream where Harry confronts his memories of her in the form of [[CrystalDragonJesus Dolores Dei]], and [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption no matter what you do you're not able to 'win' the encounter or let go]]. Dolores states that Harry kept having the same dream three times a week, and that the massive memory-shattering alcohol bender he went on prior to the game's start only temporarily managed to suppress them.]]
-->''Oh yes. This is real darkness. It's not death, or war, or child molestation. Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart.''
* The ''VideoGame/PrincessRemedy'' series: Each game has its CardiovascularLove-esque HeartSymbol enemies. The first game, ''VideoGame/PrincessRemedyInAWorldOfHurt'' has them be a manifestation of heartbreak, giving them their name that's AllThereInTheScript, "Heartbreaks". ''VideoGame/PrincessRemedyInAHeapOfTrouble'' has a similar enemy, who are weaker, and they're affecting Frallan as well, but in this case, she ate too much chocolate. Although, that might be PostStressOvereating of her ComfortFood, and TrademarkFavoriteFood, of chocolate, due to a breakup.
* In ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Puyo~n]]'', Suketoudara has a crush on Serilly and is excited to go on a date with her. However, Serilly does not feel the same way about Suketoudara and assures Arle that the two are "just friends". Suketoudara doesn't take this kindly and pulls Arle into a Puyo battle over it, despite her having very little to do with the situation apart from teasing Serilly about the date.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has Kain and his unrequited love for Rosa. AllLoveIsUnrequited hurts by itself, but then you factor in how he lost her to his [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter best friend]] Cecil, and it gets real painful, especially since he clearly ''wants'' them to be happy, but is still full of jealousy and sorrow.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has this with Locke and Rachel, where [[spoiler: Rachel accidentaly loses her memory and her parents blame Locke for the whole mess, he blames himself because Rachel in her memory stricken form tells Locke to leave because her parents are yelling at Locke, afterwards, he learned that at the time of the villages demise, she regained her memory, and called for him... Then, he asked a doctor to preserve her body, while he searches for a way to save her, while still blaming himself for everything..]]. Damn....

--->'''Despair.''' To be forgotten is worse than death.

*** In the female protagonist route of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Portable]]'', this is the case fro Ryoji Mochizuki's relationship with the protagonist. He genuinely loves her, but [[spoiler:as the [[BigBad Nyx]] [[HumanoidAbomination Avatar]], recognizes that [[StarCrossedLovers they can never truly be together]], something that brings him a large amount of pain]].

*** In the female protagonist route of [[UpdatedRerelease Portable]], this is the case fro Ryoji Mochizuki's relationship with the protagonist. He genuinely loves her, but [[spoiler:as the [[BigBad Nyx]] [[HumanoidAbomination Avatar]], recognizes that [[StarCrossedLovers they can never truly be together]], something that brings him a large amount of pain]].

** While not to the same extent as the Magician representatives, those who represent the [[TarotMotifs Star arcana]] also tend to have rather unfortunate love lives. ''VideoGame/Persona2: Eternal Punishment''[='s=] Ulala Serizawa has a history of poor relationships with bad boyfriends, with a particular heartbreak from a con artist acting as the instigator for her decision to [[TookALevelInBadass Take a Level in Badass]]. ''VideoGame/Persona3''[='s=] Akihiko Sanada is ObliviousToLove, and his [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]] means any actual attempt at romance usually ends in disaster for him. ''VideoGame/Persona4''[='s=] Teddie's constant flirting results in any attempt at romance on his part being rejected because of how annoying he is. And ''VideoGame/Persona5''[='s=] Hifumi Togo is outright forbidden from dating by her mother until she becomes popular enough.

*** Yosuke Hanamura from ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has a crush on Saki, a girl who works part-time at Junes. Not only does she get murdered very early on in the game, but dialogue in the TV World reveals that she's secretly hated Yosuke all this time ([[AmbiguousSituation though whether or not this hatred in genuine or simply her Shadow exaggerating whatever resentment she may have had towards Yosuke is unknown]]).

** ''VideoGame/Persona2: Eternal Punishment''[='s=] plot is started because Tatsuya, who was supposed to forget his memories of Maya from ''Innocent Sin'', couldn't let her go and creates a TemporalParadox because of it, allowing the BigBad to [[HisStoryRepeatsItself repeat the events]] of ''Innocent Sin''. [[spoiler:In the end, Tatsuya gives up those memories and Maya [[StarCrossedLovers can't be with him]] for fear of Tatsuya regaining his memories and dooming the world.]]
** ''Eternal Punishment'' also reveals that Eriko is still in love with the first ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}''[='s=] protagonist, and the fact that she still hasn't mustered up the courage to tell him causes her a fair deal of angst.
** ''VideoGame/Persona3'''s Yukari and Aigis. [[spoiler:After the Protagonist dies,]] Yukari tries to move on, but is inevitably brought back to the dormitory where fond memories of our hero visit her. She's also jealous of Aigis, who [[spoiler:inherits the Protagonist's power]]. Aigis herself is so saddened by the [[spoiler:Protagonist's death]], she wishes she could return to being a mere machine, which [[spoiler:gave birth to Metis, causing the events of "The Answer"]].
** ''VideoGame/Persona4'' could also be considered as having an example of this. Even if you have a love interest (or several) you will still [[spoiler:leave any and all of your love interests behind as you go back to your actual home via train]]. Additionally, if you advance their S-Links far enough, Yukiko, Yumi, and Ai will fall for you regardless of whether you return their feelings or not, and become utterly heartbroken if you reject them, though they do get over it reasonably quickly.
** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Persona 4 Golden]]'' will guilt-trip the player if they've been cheating on their girlfriend when Valentine's Day rolls around. How? By forcing them to reject each and every girl face-to-face. To make it worse, the girls ''know'' that something is up, but refuse to admit it to themselves simply because acknowledging the truth would hurt too much.
** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Haru becomes explicitly heartbroken if you take the friendship route with her. Additionally, the Christmas Eve date ends with [[spoiler:your lover going home sad and worried about her relationship with you; her feelings are validated the very next day when she finds out that you've turned yourself over to the cops in order to protect her and your other friends]].

** ''VideoGame/Persona4'' could also be considered as having an example of this. Even if you have a love interest ([[YourCheatingHeart or several]]) you will still [[spoiler:leave any and all of your love interests behind as you go back to your actual home via train]]. Additionally, if you advance their S-Links far enough, Yukiko, Yumi, and Ai will fall for you regardless of whether you return their feelings or not, and become utterly heartbroken if you reject them, though they do get over it reasonably quickly.

** ''Eternal Punishment'' also reveals that Eriko is still in love with the first ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}''[='s=] protagonist, and the fact that she still hasn't mustered up the courage to tell him causes her a fair deal of angst.

* ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'':

* Deionarra from ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''. She loves The Nameless One, so utterly and completely, that she's unable to pass on and finally die, and has had to watch as her lover returns time and time again, having forgotten who he is and who she is. Many of his incarnations recoil from her or fear her. [[spoiler:Worse yet, the incarnation of The Nameless One she fell in love with never loved her in the first place, and was only using her to obtain an eternal SpiritAdvisor for his future plans... And Deionarra knows this. [[LoveMartyr She loves him anyway]].]]

* ''Franchise/FatalFrame'':
** Kirie from the first game. She was supposed to harbor no emotional attachment to anyone prior to her VirginSacrifice, but the arrival of a guest, whom she met and quickly fell in love with, caused a conflict between her duty as a priestess meant for HumanSacrifice and her desire to be with her lover. [[StarCrossedLover The murder of her lover, which she found out soon after, did nothing to diminish said conflict]], resulting in a failed ritual that ruined the Himuro mansion.
** Ouse from the fifth game as well. She fell in love with [[spoiler: Kunihiko Asou]] [[LoveAtFirstSight the moment they met]] and realized his feelings towards her via her sixth sense, which made his departure from Mt. Hikami all the more painful for her. She tells Yuuri about such feelings in one of Yuuri's endings:
-->'''Ouse''': Those words were too powerful for me. They were... a curse.

** Is it any wonder Kojima averted this hard in ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders?'' There, only one "pair" ends badly (in this world, at least).

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}: Eternal Punishment'' plot is started because Tatsuya, who was supposed to forget his memories of Maya from ''Innocent Sin'', couldn't let her go and creates a TemporalParadox because of it, allowing the BigBad from the previous game to [[HisStoryRepeatsItself repeat the events]]. [[spoiler: In the end, he gives up those memories and Maya [[StarCrossedLovers can't be with him]] for fear of Tatsuya regaining his memories and dooming the world.]]

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'''s Yukari and Aigis. [[spoiler: After the Protagonist dies,]] Yukari tries to move on, but is inevitably brought back to the dormitory where fond memories of our hero visit her. She's also jealous of Aigis, who [[spoiler:inherits the Protagonist's power]]. Aigis herself is so saddened by the [[spoiler: Protagonist's death]], she wishes she could return to being a mere machine, which [[spoiler: gave birth to Metis, causing the events of "The Answer"]].
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' could also be considered as having an example of this. Even if you have a love interest ([[YourCheatingHeart or several]]) you will still [[spoiler: leave any and all of your love interests behind as you go back to your actual home via train]]. Additionally, if you advance their S-Links far enough, Yukiko, Yumi, and Ai will fall for you regardless of whether you return their feelings or not, and become utterly heartbroken if you reject them, though they do get over it reasonably quickly.

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2''
-->''This is love. When someone drags you from the wreckage when you have given in, ready to just lie there and die. This is love. When someone, no matter what the cost, shows you there is hope, a choice, that you can put down your gun. This is love. Love hurts.'' - Max's narration in a cutscene in ''MaxPayne2'', just before [[spoiler: his love interest is gunned down by the BigBad because she refused to kill him. Depending on the difficulty you play on she gets better.]]

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has Kain and his unrequited love for Rosa. AllLoveIsUnrequited hurts by itself, but then you factor in how he lost her to his [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter best friend]] Cecil, and it gets real painful, especially since he clearly ''wants'' them to be happy, but is still full of jealousy and sorrow.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has this with Locke and Rachel, where [[spoiler: Rachel accidentaly loses her memory and her parents blame Locke for the whole mess, he blames himself because Rachel in her memory stricken form tells Locke to leave because her parents are yelling at Locke, afterwards, he learned that at the time of the villages demise, she regained her memory, and called for him... Then, he asked a doctor to preserve her body, while he searches for a way to save her, while still blaming himself for everything..]]. Damn....
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', Sir Fratley, the love of Freya's life leaves on a journey of epic training. When she doesn't hear of him for some time, she embarks on the world to find him. During the events of the game, she eventually runs into him but he is suffering from amnesia and doesn't remember her. Ouch.
** It's even on her quote in the game's manual. Quite a PlayerPunch when you find out what it means:

** In the game's ending, his memory [[spoiler: never returns, but he [[EarnYourHappyEnding falls in love with Freya again]], anyway. [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming Awww.]] ]]

* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'', this was essentially what fuels the Hex Cannon/Carronade. The closer the sacrifice was to the intended target, the stronger the hex will be. This was what [[spoiler:broke Fou-lu and cause him to go KillEmAll]] near the end.
** Cray spent much of the game searching for Princess Elina, Nina's sister and his love interest. [[spoiler:When they found her, Elina was turned into an artificial Endless, in order to exploits her love as an limitless fuel for the Carronade. Cray [[MercyKill ends her suffering]] with the Dragon Slayer.]]

* ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]''

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'''s Yukari and Aigis. [[spoiler: After the Protagonist dies,]] Yukari tries to move on, but is inevitably brought back to the dormitory where fond memories of our hero visit her. She's also jealous of Aigis, who [[spoiler:inherited the Protagonist's power]]. Aigis is so saddened by the [[spoiler: Protagonist's death]], she wished she could return to being a mere machine, which [[spoiler: gave birth to Metis, causing the events of The Answer.]]
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' could also be considered as having an example of this. Even if you have a love interest ([[YourCheatingHeart or several]]) you will still [[spoiler: leave any and all of your love interests behind as you go back to your actual home via train]].