History TearJerker / ChronoTriggerTheMusical

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* There's no singing in the visit to Lucca's past. Just a scientist watching her worst memory play back in front of her eyes, and having a brief flashback to the traumatizing way it turned out last time, as this time, she's able to save her mother...

* Listen to Lara's voice in "Peaceful Days" and how utterly defeated she sounds. ''That'' is a woman who is on the edge of the DespairEventHorizon.

-->''Blackness surrounds the world we defiled''\\
''All 'round, you hear the cries of the child''\\
''Broken and tossed away and reviled''\\
''Hope can never be reconciled''\\

* "The Singing Mountain" can be quite sad because of just ''how'' melancholic it is. It becomes even more so when its tune is reprised after the party defeats Magus only to find out he did not create Lavos, only summoned it, leaving them with no idea how to find and destroy it--as their DespairEventHorizon.

''Are we always too late?''\\

-->'''Flea'': ''Just another naughty child''\\
''That we plucked from the wild'\\
''And left us all behind''\\

''You will pay, you will suffer and die''\\

-->'''Robo''': ''I've seen life and joy forgotten''
-->''A world where all hope has failed''
-->''This monster so foul and rotten''
-->''What chance have we to prevail?''
-->'''Frog''': ''The Fiendlord now lost to history''
-->''No clues where he'll make his mark''
-->''This monster remains a mystery''
-->''And we remain in the dark.''
-->'''Marle''': ''Can we stop this dark hour?''
-->''Can we escape our fate?''
-->''Will we all be devoured?''
-->''Are we always too late?''

* There's no singing in the visit to Lucca's past. Just a scientist watching her worst memory play back in front of her eyes, and having a brief flashback to the traumatizing way it turned out last time, as this time she's able to save her mother...

* Atropos's death in "Prometheus Unbound." The fact that her voice becomes more and more distorted makes it all the more heartbreaking.

* The very beginning of "Gaspar" when the old man asks where Crono is. Marle's crying tells him all he needs to know.

* "Magus Reprise" in which Magus all but says outright that his life has been nothing but misery and hatred, and all he wants to do is '''''die.''''' And Frog almost obliges before recalling the words of both Crono and Cyrus and realizes that Magus, while not a good man, is as much a victim in this as any of them.

* "Magus Reprise" in which Magus all but says outright that his life has been nothing but misery and hatred, and all he wants to do is '''''die.''''' And Frog almost obliges before recalling the words of both Crono and Cyrus and realizes thatMagus while not a good man, is as much a victim in this as any of them.

* "Magus Reprise" in which Magus all but says outright that his life has been nothing but misery and hatred, and all he wants to do is '''''die.''''' And Frog almost does it before recalling the words of both Crono and Cyrus and realizes that, while Magus is not a good man, he is as much a victim in this as any of them.

** Another tear-jerker: ''last'' time the team was at the DespairEventHorizon, it was Lucca and Crono who pulled them away from it. ''This'' time, Crono is dead, and Lucca is too heartbroken to give another RousingSpeech. There's nothing stopping them from ''crossing'' it, this time.

* The newest song "Depths of Night" is ''the'' DespairEventHorizon of the team: Crono is dead, Lavos took Schala and they have lost everything; no one is trying to lift their spirits up and the melody is heartbreaking. It cuts even deeper when you realize that Frog and even ''Magus'' are trying to put on a brave face, while Marle, Lucca, Robo and Ayla are openly expressing their grief.

** Try to not cry when Crono begs the team to not give up... and they can't ''hear'' him.

* The newest song "Depths of Night" is ''the'' DespairEventHorizon of the team: Crono is dead, Lavos took Schala and they have lost everything; no one is trying to lift their spirits up and the melody is heartbreaking. It cuts even deeper when you realize that Frog and even ''Magus'' are trying to put on a brave face, while Marle, Lucca, Robo and Ayla are openly heartbroken.
** Try to not cry when Crono begs the team to not give up... and they can't hear him.

* The newest song "Depths of Night" is "THE" DespairEventHorizon of the team: Crono is dead, Lavos took Schala and they have lost everything; no one is trying to lift their spirits up and the melody is heartbreaking. It goes even deeper when you realize that the characters giving the back to the camera are trying to hold themselves together to not cry while Marle, Lucca and Robo are openly crying.

* the newest song Depths of nights is"THE" DespairEventHorizon of the team: Crono is death, Lavos took Shalla and they have lost everything; no one is trying to lift their spirits back and the melody is heartbreaking, it goes even deeper when you realize than the characters giving the back to the camera are trying to hold themselves strong to not cry while Marle Lucca and Robo are openly crying.
** try to not cry when Crono begs the team for not to give up... and they can't hear him.

* And then there's "Schala's Theme", which here is turned into a sweet lullaby she sings to little Janus to try and reassure him that despite his premonition of death, and the knowledge they both have of the Mammon Machine and what its power has done to their mother, there is still hope. A perfect encapsulation of the genuine kindness and goodness she possesses...which only makes her ultimate fate all the more heartbreaking.

-->''Are we always too late?''

* "The Singing Mountain" can be quite sad because of just ''how'' melancholic it is.

* As in the original game, Robo being nearly scrapped by his brother units. Only this time, it's fully voiced.