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Tear Jerker: Animal Crossing
This comic◊ chronicles the author's relationship with his deceased mother and the game Animal Crossing. It's hard not to comprehend how touching a simple game like Animal Crossing can be.
Made even worse when you realize that, at least in the original game, you'd get letters exactly like those from your in-game NPC mother... so that person's mom probably wasn't sending them letters at all. The game was.
Tearjerker restored: the in-game mom doesn't send letters or presents that often, and "her" letters tend to be all over the place as far as subject matter goes. There's undoubtedly some in-game letters mixed in there, but a lot of it is likely the real mother.
In Wild World, sometimes when visiting the cafe, you'll see Rover from the first game sitting at the counter. Hearing him fondly reminisce about traveling the world and meeting so many faces, and how he misses those days. It just sort of gave me a pang of nostalgia.
Any time a villager you've really grown to like moves out.
The villagers' panicked reactions when you consider deleting a town, and their resignation should you choose to.
Try playing the game years after you've long since forgotten about it. The villagers all remember how long it has been since they last saw you. Watch the tears fly.
Even worse, some say the number of weeks instead of months. Their reason for this is because the larger week number makes it look more significant than the smaller month number. They're right.
When you become friends with Sable, she'll tell you at one point of how she had to give up her normal life to take care of Mable, due to their parent's early death.
