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** What makes it even more impactful is that the trailer is a mix of BackToFront and AnachronicOrder. Half of it runs in reverse--beginning with the zombified little girl "falling" upwards through the air--and the other half runs forward, showing the living girl trying to escape the zombies and reach her parents. The two timelines cut back and forth until they finally intersect just as the little girl is desperately reaching out for her father's hand (as depicted above). And that moment shows the two drifting apart from each other, further hammering home the point that she was doomed from the very beginning.
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*** It becomes even sadder when you start playing the game. You have to break into a room to make it out of the hallway. ''It's THE family's room.'' The mother and father from the trailer are there! What makes it REALLY sad? '''IT'S THEIR BODIES, STILL HOLDING HANDS.'''
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*** It becomes even sadder when you start playing the game. You have game, as there's an EasterEgg guaranteed to break into your heart. When you first leave your hotel room, the game encourages you to go right. But if you go left instead, you come across a room to make it out of with a gap in the hallway.door...that's right. ''It's THE family's room.'' The mother and father from the trailer are there! What makes it REALLY sad? '''IT'S THEIR BODIES, STILL HOLDING HANDS.'''
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[[caption-width-right:350:A hopeless fight for survival involving a vacationing family that's a ForegoneConclusion to its DownerEnding always ends in tragedy, and this is one of the most infamous instances of ''that''.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:A hopeless fight for survival involving a vacationing family that's a ForegoneConclusion to its DownerEnding always ends in tragedy, and this is one of the most infamous instances of ''that''.]]
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* The reveal trailer. ''Holy crap''. It opens with a shot of [[DeathOfAChild a dead little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombie outbreak. The tone shifting from a happy family vacation to a hopeless fight for survival is very heartbreaking.
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72b1rSqawgk reveal trailer.trailer]]. ''Holy crap''. It opens with a shot of [[DeathOfAChild a dead little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombie outbreak. The tone shifting from a happy family vacation to a hopeless fight for survival is very heartbreaking.
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!'''As a Main/TearJerker page, all spoilers are unmarked [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff as per wiki policy.]] Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!'''
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Considering that the main attraction of the Main/TearJerker elements of ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' is the ''reveal trailer'', you know that this game isn't just killing zombies and exploring a Paupa New Guinea resort. It can make you shed a tear in other regards as well.
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Considering that the main attraction of the Main/TearJerker elements of ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' is the ''reveal trailer'', you know that this game isn't just killing zombies and exploring a Paupa New Guinea resort. It can make you shed a tear in other regards as well.
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* The reveal trailer. ''Holy crap.'' It opens with a shot of [[DeathOfAChild a dead little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them. The tone shifting from a happy family vacation to a hopeless fight for survival is very heartbreaking.
** The music. Does not help. '''AT ALL.''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms Click on this if you wish, but be warned, you'll tear up.]]
** The music. Does not help. '''AT ALL.''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms Click on this if you wish, but be warned, you'll tear up.]]
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* The reveal trailer. ''Holy crap.'' crap''. It opens with a shot of [[DeathOfAChild a dead little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them.zombie outbreak. The tone shifting from a happy family vacation to a hopeless fight for survival is very heartbreaking.
** The music.Does ''Does not help.help''. '''AT ALL.''' Giles Lamb's score is unforgiving, heartbreaking, and somber to the nth degree. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms Click on this if you wish, wish to listen, but be warned, you'll you will tear up.]]
** The music.
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** The trailer is also shows, once again, that putting peaceful music to a scene of utter horror/violence is a perfect mixture of horror and tragedy.
*** Case in point: Youtube has plenty of videos with the title, "Dead Island Theme Makes Everything Sad". Goes to show how when one hears Giles Lamb's (the music composer for the trailer) song, it immediately throws you into a saddening mood.
*** Case in point: Youtube has plenty of videos with the title, "Dead Island Theme Makes Everything Sad". Goes to show how when one hears Giles Lamb's (the music composer for the trailer) song, it immediately throws you into a saddening mood.
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** The trailer is also shows, once again, that putting peaceful music to a scene of utter horror/violence is a perfect mixture of horror and tragedy.
*** Case in point: Youtube has plenty of videoswith the title, titled "Dead Island Theme Makes Everything Sad". Goes to show how when one hears Giles Lamb's (the music composer for the trailer) song, it immediately throws you into a saddening mood.
*** Case in point: Youtube has plenty of videos
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*** "I'm not crying, there's just something in both my eyes." It's the broken, shaky way he sings that lyric is what makes it so heartbreaking and depressing. Especially 'I'm not crying'. He seriously sounds like he's on the verge of breaking down and crying.
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*** "I'm not crying, there's just something in both my eyes." It's the broken, shaky way he sings that lyric is what that makes it so heartbreaking and depressing. Especially 'I'm not crying'. He seriously sounds like he's on the verge of breaking down and crying.
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* There's also the guy near the beginning of the game who is sitting in a swimming pool filled with blood, and littered with the corpses of his family, who he had to kill.
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* Jin's mental breakdown. She starts off as a very hopeful and compassionate girl, eager to help those around her. The she [[spoiler: gets gang raped by the guys at the police station.]] Soon after that, her entire personality changes. She stops caring, becomes visibly distressed, starts nervously rocking back and forth, and completely loses it when she's forced to remain with a group of inmates at the prison. [[spoiler: Then she dies.]] Poor girl had it rough.
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* Jin's mental breakdown. She starts off as a very hopeful and compassionate girl, eager to help those around her. The she She [[spoiler: gets gang raped by the guys at the police station.]] Soon after that, her entire personality changes. She stops caring, becomes visibly distressed, starts nervously rocking back and forth, and completely loses it when she's forced to remain with a group of inmates at the prison. [[spoiler: Then she dies.]] Poor girl had it rough.
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* The player characters get it even worse. Regardless of what happens they are well past fucked. If the infection does not take over then they have become a lot more aggressive and their attitudes put the other survivors off side, even if they do not become zombies (quite possibly Super [[RageMode Infected]]) their infection has begun to cause an UnstoppableRage, that cannot be controlled. Everything they have seen and done would be something they would have to live with for the rest of their lives, which would never again be normal, at the very least they would be closely monitored, or locked up, experimented on, or even killed because of the danger they pose. At this point death would be a mercy.
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* The player characters get it even worse. Regardless of what happens they are well past fucked. If the infection does not take over then they have become a lot more aggressive and their attitudes put the other survivors off side, offside, even if they do not become zombies (quite possibly Super [[RageMode Infected]]) their infection has begun to cause an UnstoppableRage, that cannot be controlled. Everything they have seen and done would be something they would have to live with for the rest of their lives, which would never again be normal, at the very least they would be closely monitored, or locked up, experimented on, or even killed because of the danger they pose. At this point point, death would be a mercy.
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** [[Creator/RoosterTeeth Geoff]] [[Creator/AchievementHunter Ramsey]] could not bear to watch any further than [[AdultFear the moment he sees the dead girl's corpse falling in reverse]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-SQc6LA2E when he reacted to it.]]
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** [[Creator/RoosterTeeth Geoff]] [[Creator/AchievementHunter Ramsey]] could not bear to watch any further than [[AdultFear the moment he sees the dead girl's corpse falling in reverse]] reverse [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-SQc6LA2E when he reacted to it.]]
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* The reveal trailer. ''Holy crap.'' It opens with a shot of [[AvertedTrope a dead]] [[InfantImmortality little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them. The tone shifting from a happy family vacation to a hopeless fight for survival is very heartbreaking.
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* The reveal trailer. ''Holy crap.'' It opens with a shot of [[AvertedTrope [[DeathOfAChild a dead]] [[InfantImmortality dead little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them. The tone shifting from a happy family vacation to a hopeless fight for survival is very heartbreaking.
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* The trailer. ''Holy crap.'' It opens with a shot of [[AvertedTrope a dead]] [[InfantImmortality little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them.
** The music. Does not help. '''AT ALL.''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms Click on this.]]
** Actually, it's even worse, she's not dead, she's zombified. She was caught trying to get into the hotel room, brought inside after a heroic effort from her father, and reanimated while her parents were desperately holding off the zombies, at which point she bit her father's major arteries out and fell out the window
** The trailer is also shows, once again, that putting peaceful music to a scene of utter horror/violence makes it incredibly sad
*** Case in point: Youtube has plenty of videos with the title, "Dead Island Theme Makes Everything Sad".
** The music. Does not help. '''AT ALL.''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms Click on this.]]
** Actually, it's even worse, she's not dead, she's zombified. She was caught trying to get into the hotel room, brought inside after a heroic effort from her father, and reanimated while her parents were desperately holding off the zombies, at which point she bit her father's major arteries out and fell out the window
** The trailer is also shows, once again, that putting peaceful music to a scene of utter horror/violence makes it incredibly sad
*** Case in point: Youtube has plenty of videos with the title, "Dead Island Theme Makes Everything Sad".
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* The reveal trailer. ''Holy crap.'' It opens with a shot of [[AvertedTrope a dead]] [[InfantImmortality little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them. \n The tone shifting from a happy family vacation to a hopeless fight for survival is very heartbreaking.
** The music. Does not help. '''AT ALL.''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms Click onthis.this if you wish, but be warned, you'll tear up.]]
** Actually, it's even worse, she's not dead, she's zombified. She was caught trying to get into the hotel room, brought inside after a heroic effort from her father, and reanimated while her parents were desperately holding off the zombies, at which point she bit her father's major arteries out and fell out thewindow
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** The trailer is also shows, once again, that putting peaceful music to a scene of utter horror/violencemakes it incredibly sad
is a perfect mixture of horror and tragedy.
*** Case in point: Youtube has plenty of videos with the title, "Dead Island Theme Makes Everything Sad". Goes to show how when one hears Giles Lamb's (the music composer for the trailer) song, it immediately throws you into a saddening mood.
** The music. Does not help. '''AT ALL.''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms Click on
** Actually, it's even worse, she's not dead, she's zombified. She was caught trying to get into the hotel room, brought inside after a heroic effort from her father, and reanimated while her parents were desperately holding off the zombies, at which point she bit her father's major arteries out and fell out the
** The trailer is also shows, once again, that putting peaceful music to a scene of utter horror/violence
*** Case in point: Youtube has plenty of videos with the title, "Dead Island Theme Makes Everything Sad". Goes to show how when one hears Giles Lamb's (the music composer for the trailer) song, it immediately throws you into a saddening mood.
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** Not even Creator/{{Tobuscus}} who does his "Literal Trailers" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ5c9BzohM4 could make this funny]]. In fact, ''just the opposite''. Dear god, the trailer was bad enough, but having it ''bluntly described to you as you watched it''? Dear god.
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** Not even Creator/{{Tobuscus}} who does his "Literal Trailers" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ5c9BzohM4 could make this funny]]. In fact, ''just the opposite''. Dear god, God, the trailer was bad enough, but having it ''bluntly described to you as you watched it''? Dear god.
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* The trailer. ''Holy crap.'' It opens with a shot of [[AvertedTrope a dead]] [[InfantImmortality little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them. [[Tropers/TheRedRedKroovy This troper]] doesn't even have kids, and even so... ''[[AdultFear damn]].''
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* The trailer. ''Holy crap.'' It opens with a shot of [[AvertedTrope a dead]] [[InfantImmortality little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them. [[Tropers/TheRedRedKroovy This troper]] doesn't even have kids, and even so... ''[[AdultFear damn]].''
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* The E3 trailer includes a moment where a weeping woman aims a gun at a zombie and says "I love you Dad" then fades to black when we hear a shot ring out.
** The game provides the context for this. [[spoiler: Jin's father was bit before you arrived to get him to modify the armored car, and he locks himself in the garage and orders Jin to leave with the survivors. Toward the end of the game, she returns to the garage and shoots him]].
** The game provides the context for this. [[spoiler: Jin's father was bit before you arrived to get him to modify the armored car, and he locks himself in the garage and orders Jin to leave with the survivors. Toward the end of the game, she returns to the garage and shoots him]].
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* The E3 trailer includes a moment where a weeping woman aims a gun at a zombie and says "I love you Dad" then fades to black when we hear a shot ring out.
**out. The game provides the context for this. [[spoiler: Jin's father was bit before you arrived to get him to modify the armored car, and he locks himself in the garage and orders Jin to leave with the survivors. Toward the end of the game, she returns to the garage and shoots him]].
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* There's also the guy near the beginning of the game who is sitting in a swimming pool filled with blood, and littered with the corpses of his family, who he had to kill. There's also other encounters like this. Also, [[spoiler: Jin's death.]]
** This troper encountered one other NPC like that, who had killed his brother. What makes these [=NPCs=] especially sad is that you cannot interact with them at all. They just sit there going crazy, and you can't even escort them to safety.
** This troper encountered one other NPC like that, who had killed his brother. What makes these [=NPCs=] especially sad is that you cannot interact with them at all. They just sit there going crazy, and you can't even escort them to safety.
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* There's also the guy near the beginning of the game who is sitting in a swimming pool filled with blood, and littered with the corpses of his family, who he had to kill. There's also other encounters like this. Also, [[spoiler: Jin's death.]]
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**This troper encountered one other NPC like that, who had killed his brother. What makes these [=NPCs=] especially sad is that you cannot interact with them at all. They just sit there going crazy, and you can't even escort them to safety.
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* The trailer. ''Holy crap.'' It opens with a shot of [[AvertedTrope a dead]] [[InfantImmortality little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them. [[Tropers/TheRedRedKroovy This troper]] doesn't even have kids, and even so... ''damn.''
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* The trailer. ''Holy crap.'' It opens with a shot of [[AvertedTrope a dead]] [[InfantImmortality little girl]] falling out a window, and the rest of the trailer depicts her parents' [[ForegoneConclusion doomed fight to save her]]. And then the trailer ends with clips of the family's vacation video from before the zombies killed them. [[Tropers/TheRedRedKroovy This troper]] doesn't even have kids, and even so... ''damn.''[[AdultFear damn]].''
