Tear Jerker / Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry

• Finding the wreck of the Jackdaw in Freedom Cry. While he has left behind his days of piracy, it's clear Adéwalé is sad to see his old "country" in shambles at the bottom of the sea, only able to salvage the figurehead. It's also a big Player Punch for those who spent the entirety of Black Frag building her up into an unstoppable scourge of the seas.
• Even worse in Freedom Cry than that is the mission where you attempt to liberate another slave ship. You eliminate two of its escorts, only for the remaining one to open fire on the slave ship itself. Then, Adéwalé goes on board and tries desperately to liberate he surviving slaves, personally breaking their chains and trying to get them out, all while surrounded by the dead and dying. Then, to make matters worse, the ship begins sinking and Adéwalé must escape, even as the screaming bodies of the slaves he just freed plummet pass him. He then gets to swim past their drowned bodies to reach the surface, only to end up trying to climb out of the ship, past even more slaves still chained to the deck, many of them struggling and writhing as they're pulled to their inevitable doom. Really, the whole sequence is as horrifying as it is heartbreaking.

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