History TearJerker / LiveALive

** Taeko's voice starts breaking down as she begs Lawless to rest, but knows that deep down that he's going to die. This act causes Akira to yell GetOut to everyone and go to Nippori to kick ass.

*** It gets sadder when you realized that Pogo, due to coming from an era where the smartest person alive has mental power comparable to a preschooler, is pretty much a child in both the physical and mental sense. It could be possible that he himself doesn't fully (if at all) understand the pain Odio, or Oersted in this case, has been through and is only acting nice because it's just in his nature to be kind to (what could very well be in his P.O.V.) a fellow caveman in suffering even though he never knew why.

It might look like a CliceStorm of a GenreRoulette, but do not be fooled. The game is an extremely dark DisguisedHorrorStory that will go out of its way to be as depressing as possible.

To set the mood in, have [[https://youtu.be/tkrfCWXJjU0 this]] on in the background. Loop it for good measure.

* If you kill Oersted right after defeating Purity of Odio, turns out when he still held his sanity, Oersted still loved Alethea as he uttered her name in death. And in turn, some of your protagonists, especially either the Earthen Heart inheritors or Masaru, makes a sad remark wondering if it was the right thing to do. Worse, while Lucrece would recover, the heroes destroyed their only way to return to their respective times. Pogo would never be with Beru again; the Earthen Heart inheritors cannot even pay respect to their Shifu anymore and their style would be forgotten due to their disappearance; Oboromaru will never be able to fulfill his promise with Sakamoto Ryoma (and he'll end up getting assassinated without Oboromaru to protect him) or take on missions from the Enma clan again; Sundown Kid will never see the people of Success Town flourishing again or encounter Mad Dog with his renewed vigor again; Masaru won't be able to defend his title as the Strongest again as eventually his title will be forfeited due to his absence; Akira can never visit his orphanage, Tobei and the Steel Titan again; Cube will never meet Kato and Darthe again, nor will he be able to witness Earth from his time period. They're trapped forever in Lucrece, and the cycle of hatred will continue. That's your neutral ending, folks. [[SarcasmMode A bit better than the bad ends, they said...]]

* Uranus using the last of his strength to free Oersted from his cell before dying, entrusting him to defeat the demon king and find the real culprit. This alone is pretty mild, but is made much worse when Oersted turns into Odio and despises humanity in the end, meaning that his trust was AllForNothing. The fact that he is pretty much the only individual who doesn't hate him after he was tricked into commiting regicide (besides the boy in the village, who he might not care about as much) doesn't help. When reading his soul's mind in Akira's dungeon, he seems to be disappointed in Oersted.

** This ending is even more painful in the remake. Odio proceeds to bask in his victory... but if one listens closely, his monologue sounds less like that of a demon and more like a broken knight who had lost everything asking for someone out there, ''anyone'', to believe in him again.

* After being banished from Lucrece, Oersted will begin to encounter the soldiers as random encounters. When Oersted hits them, they'll be inflicted with the fear status, showing how much they fear him for apparently being the Demon King. Also before you escape from the dungeon, the music that plays here is ''Cry A Live'' which isn't too surprising, but unlike Pogo's chapter it [[BackgroundMusicOverride keeps playing in battles]] which doubles as SadBattleMusic; imagine how sad and horrified the soldiers are to learn that the hero they always believed in is the actual demon king.

* After being banished from Lucrece, Oersted will begin to encounter the soldiers as random encounters. When Oersted hits them, they'll be inflicted with the fear status, showing how much they fear him for apparently being the Demon King. Also before you escape from the dungeon, the music that plays here is ''Cry A Live'' and unlike Pogo's chapter it [[BackgroundMusicOvveride persists in battles]] which doubles as SadBattleMusic; imagine how sad and horrified the soldiers are to learn that the hero they always believed in is the actual demon king.

* Some chapters are ''exceptionally cruel'' against whatever character the game decides to set its claws against -- expect this to happen over half of the time. It's ''not'' the ClicheStorm you think it is, and the textbook scenario will crumble down very quickly to do something way worse than imagined.