History TearJerker / ArcTheLad

* ''Arc II'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88smRweHI6Q credits music]], To Tomorrow, highlights how sad the ending is as Arc and Kukuru's spirits fly across the ruined land.

* ''Arc II'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_kQtYux_9s credits music]], To Tomorrow, highlights how sad the ending is as Arc and Kukuru's spirits fly across the ruined land.

* ''Arc the Lad II'' has Elc being forced to [[spoiler:kill Mariel under the playground where they played as children]]. Even worse is the HopeSpot where she breaks free from her mind control, only for a bomb wired inside her to detonate and kill her anyway.
* In ''Arc the Lad II'', Arc finally found his father, after literally years spent looking for him, going into exile while being branded a terrorist. [[spoiler:He dies 4 minutes after that]]. Finding his father was the reason he started his quest.
* Arc's father, Yoshua, disappeared 10 years before the beginning of the first game. By the end of Arc 2, [[spoiler:we learn that the spirits granted him the power to time travel, in order to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. He failed, and dies right after reuniting with Arc]].
* The utterly screwed up backstories of most playable characters, and the events before the last boss. The characters have destroyed bit by bit the Romalian War Machine, freed most if not all of their puppet states, and have conquered its capital. Cue the king of Romalia breaking the seal of the BigBad. It turns out that the key of the final seal was that a human being had to ''willingly'' choose to free him. Cue the king snapping because his kingdom is collapsing under his feet and pushing the red button. [[spoiler:The Dark One then proceeds to kill the King of Romalia (no big deal), kills Arc's girlfriend (a big deal), and unleashes the apocalypse over the world]].
** Then you see a scene of [[spoiler:the cities explored by the heroes being flooded and burned down, while most of the world's population dies]]. Not only were all the good deeds of Arc, Elc & co for nothing, but you are at the end of the game. No opportunity to fix anything, and if this was not enough, [[spoiler:Arc commits a heroic sacrifice after the last battle]].
-->'''Elc:''' [[spoiler:It makes me wonder what we were fighting for. Arc died, and for what? So we could inherit this desolate and hopeless future? We didn't stop the world from ending, we survived it. And now we are left with nothing]].
* After you defeat the Dark One, [[spoiler:the camera shows all the towns that he destroyed, as well as the villagers' dead bodies]].
* ''Arc II'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_kQtYux_9s credits music]].

* Then you can add the utterly screwed up backstories of most playable characters, and finally the events before the last boss: the characters have destroyed bit by bit the Romalian War Machine, freed most if not all of their puppet states, and have conquered its capital. Cue the king of Romalia breaking the seal of the BigBad. It turns out that the key of the final seal was that a human being had to ''willingly'' choose to free him. Cue the king snapping because his kingdom is collapsing under his feet and pushing the red button. [[spoiler:The Dark One then proceeds to kill the King of Romalia (no big deal), kills Arc's girlfriend (a big deal), and unleashes the apocalypse over the world]].
* Then you see a sadistic scene of [[spoiler:the cities explored by the heroes being flooded and burned down, while most of the world's population dies]]. Not only were all the good deeds of Arc, Elc & co for nothing, but you are at the end of the game. No opportunity to fix anything, and if this was not enough, [[spoiler:Arc commits a heroic sacrifice after the last battle]].

* Arc the Lad II has Elc being forced to [[spoiler:kill Mariel under the playground where they played as children]]. Even worse is the HopeSpot where she breaks free from her mind control, only for a bomb wired inside her to detonate and kill her anyway.
* In Arc the Lad II, Arc finally found his father, after literally years spent looking for him, going into exile while being branded a terrorist. [[spoiler:He dies 4 minutes after that]]. Finding his father was the reason he started his quest.

* Arc II's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_kQtYux_9s credits music]].

* The entire ending of Arc the Lad II. [[spoiler:Arc and Kukuru die to seal the Dark One away, and the world is pretty much destroyed anyway]].

** After you defeat the Dark One, [[spoiler:the camera shows all the towns that he destroyed, as well as the villagers' dead bodies]].

* Arc the Lad II has Elc being forced to [[spoiler:kill Mariel under the playground where they played as children]], Even worse is the HopeSpot where she breaks free from her mind control, only for a bomb wired inside her to detonate and kill her anyway.

* Arc the Lad II has Elc being forced to [[spoiler:kill Mariel under the playground where they played as children.]]

* The entire ending of Arc the Lad II. They didn't ''stop'' the end of the world, they just ''survived'' it, and [[spoiler:Arc and Kukuru die to seal the Dark One away]].
-->'''Elc:''' It makes me wonder what we were fighting for. Arc died, and for what? So we could inherit this desolate and hopeless future? We didn't stop the world from ending, we survived it. And now we are left with nothing.

* The entire ending of Arc the Lad II. They didn't ''stop'' the end of the world, they just ''survived'' it, and [[spoiler:Arc and Kukuru die]].

* Elc being forced to [[spoiler:kill Mariel under the playground where they played as children.]]
* The entire ending. They didn't ''stop'' the end of the world, they just ''survived'' it.
* Arc II's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_kQtYux_9s credits music]].

* Arc II's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IshRS9zvb9A credits music]].

* During the second game, you will cry, scream at your TV screen, and [[PlayerPunch curse the story writers as well as their descendants up to the thirteenth generation]]. The following episodes are not as bad, but have their moments.