History TearJerker / LiveALive

* [[FridgeHorror If you took out the]] [[DeathAsComedy comedy from these scenes]], the moments where [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Watanabe's father]] gets killed may make him feel less like a [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] and more of a [[TheWoobie Woobie]]. The Near Future chapter is the most brutal, as not only does Akira personally know this Watanabe, he later finds out why he's at the orphanage; [[ReforgedIntoAMinion Livingstill turned his father into the Liquid Human W-1]], and after having to destroy him, [[DyingAsYourself his last words are]] begging the group to take care of his son at the orphanage. It's implied Akira [[AwfulTruth never tells Watanabe about his father's fate]].
* Yoko Shimomura's album ''memória!'' gives us a lyrical version of "Megalomania". They seem to be in the perspective of Oersted during the end of his chapter, and it shows.
-->''It's no game, live or die''\\
''No time for losers, beat the beast, keep on fighting''\\
''Let's get down, now's the time''\\
''The past is gone, I can't look back''\\
''I have no love, all I see now is sadness''\\
''Sky has no mercy, every day is so dark, just cry, cry, cry''\\
''I have no one, all I have now is you''\\
''Somebody save me cause I wanna be free, I try, try, try''\\
''Where to go? Who to be?''\\
''Losing my time eating me up inside''\\
''Let's get up, rise to shine''\\
''It's now or never, I cannot go back''\\
''But where's my hope? All I see now is darkness''

** If Oboromaru is the main character, he gets one of the more shocking responses -- Oersted agrees with what he has to say and quotes a similar part of Hasshe's [[FinalSpeech dying speech]], but notes that he ''can't remember'' who told him that. It's possible he fell so deep into being Odio and what made him hate humanity [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget that he's forgotten the good he saw in people like Hasshe and Uranus]].

** If Oboromaru is the main character, he gets one of the more shocking responses -- Oersted agrees with what he has to say and quotes a similar part of Hasshe's [[FinalSpeech dying speech]], but notes that he ''can't remember'' who told him that. It's possible he fell so deep into being Odio and what made him hate humanity[[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget that he's forgotten the good he saw in people like Hasshe and Uranus]].

** If Oboromaru is the main character, he gets one of the more shocking responses -- Oersted agrees with what he has to say and quotes a similar part of Hasshe's [[FinalSpeech dying speech]], but notes that he ''can't remember'' who told him that. He fell so deep into being Odio [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget that he's forgotten everything that led to him becoming Odio in the first place]]. This is in stark contrast to at least six of Oersted's responses to the other protagonists, where it's clear that he does remember the events of his chapter.

** If Oboromaru is the main character, he gets one of the more shocking responses -- Oersted agrees with what he has to say and quotes part of Hasshe's [[FinalSpeech dying speech]] back to the party, but notes that he ''can't remember'' who told him that. He fell so deep into being Odio [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget that he's forgotten what made him Odio in the first place]]. This is in stark contrast to at least six of Oersted's responses to the other protagonists, where it's clear that he does remember the events of his chapter.

** If Oboromaru is the main character, he gets one of the more shocking responses -- Oersted agrees with what he has to say and quotes part of Hasshe's [[FinalSpeech dying speech]] back to the party, but notes that he ''can't remember'' who told him that. He fell so deep into being Odio that he's forgotten what made him Odio in the first place. This is in stark contrast to at least six of Oersted's responses to the other protagonists, where it's clear that he does remember the events of his chapter.

** If Oboromaru is the main character, he gets one of the more shocking responses -- Oersted agrees with what he has to say and quotes part of Hasshe's DyingSpeech back to the party, but notes that he ''can't remember'' who told him that. He fell so deep into being Odio that he's forgotten what made him Odio in the first place. This is in stark contrast to at least six of Oersted's responses to the other protagonists, where it's clear that he does remember the events of his chapter.

* This gets even worse on a second playthrough: the one who survives is the one who got the most training, because that one was well-trained enough to be able to get through the battle alive. No matter what order or how evenly you split the amount of training between them, there will always be one student who ends up with an extra day of your attention before the attack. The two kids you don't choose for that extra day? They [[DeathOfAChild die]]. Which means you -- no, not the Shifu, ''you, the player'' -- are [[SadisticChoice choosing]] which one lives.
* After the attack, the Shifu revisits the graves of the fallen students and expresses his sadness and regret over what happened to them. He wishes he could teach a lot more to Lei, or make Hong proud of his portly body. But the most heartbreaking one is Yun's... in which the Shifu thought [[ItsAllMyFault it was his fault that he taught Yun to be brave to the point that he died.]]

** Should he fall in battle after being [=KOed=], Mad might call out to Kid. Made even worse if you choose Oersted for the Dominion of Hate.

-->'''Lawless:''' Sometimes you gotta own up to your mistakes, consequences be damned. Am I...am I right? ''(collapses)''

* One of the crewmembers is a guy named Huey, [[TheWoobie who the game goes out of its way to make sure suffers]]. For starters, his girlfriend left him for the pilot, who went out of his way to KickTheDog and remind him of this fact. Then when Kirk bites it, he's accused of killing Kirk to get his girlfriend ''by said girlfriend''. When the Behemoth breaks out and attacks Rachel, [[HeroicSacrifice he distracts it, dying in the process]]. After his death, you enter his room and find that he took exams to be a captain on his computer. The very next message? [[YankTheDogsChain "Greetings. We regret to inform you that you did not pass the exam for qualification as a ship captain. The next exam period is in six months."]] ''Then'' you enter the captain's quarters and read his assessment of the crew. Guess whose name is on the list for being fired? Oh, and his ex-girlfriend doesn't survive the chapter either, [[SenselessSacrifice so his death was pointless]].

---->'''Odio:''' Believe in me. You will. You must! For I'm the hero true! Heh heh... I am... I am! Hah hah hah! Believe in me! Believe! '''BELIEVE IN ME! BELIEVE!'''

* The Prehistory Chapter:
** While Pogo's Chapter is [[Funny/LiveALive comedic gold]], [[TearJerker the chapter moves into heartrending territory]] after Pogo saves Beru from Zaki the first time. The trio jumps for joy, until Pogo's Chieftain says that Beru can't stay in the tribe. Pogo tries to defend her, which angers the Chief, [[TheExile resulting in getting himself, Gori, and Beru exiled.]] Fortunately, at the end of the chapter, after the trio, along with [[HeelFaceTurn Zaki]]'s help, kill Odo, the [[HeelRaceTurn Kuu and Pogo's Tribe make peace,]] [[EarnYourHappyEnding allowing for the trio to come home.]]
*** This is also the first chapter chronologically where Live A Live's signature [[SimpleScoreOfSadness sad song]], ''Cry A Live'', starts playing. It is a melancholic theme that plays when something depressing happens during a Chapter from this point onward. Here, the song plays after Pogo gets exiled and before he finds a cave to rest. It is used to probably symbolize that Pogo is [[ItsAllMyFault lamenting]] of getting himself and his friends exiled from his home.
* The Imperial China Chapter:
** The story of the chapter is based around an ancient martial arts master who reforms and teaches three young thieves, and teaches them his style of fighting. No matter what you do, though, two of them are killed in a brutal attack from a rival school.
** This gets even worse on a second playthrough: the one who survives is the one who got the most training, because that one was well-trained enough to be able to get through the battle alive. No matter what order or how evenly you split the amount of training between them, there will always be one student who ends up with an extra day of your attention before the attack. The two kids you don't choose for that extra day? They [[DeathOfAChild die]]. Which means you -- no, not the Shifu, ''you, the player'' -- are [[SadisticChoice choosing]] which one lives.
** After the attack, the Shifu revisits the graves of the fallen students and expresses his sadness and regret over what happened to them. He wishes he could teach a lot more to Lei, or make Hong proud of his portly body. But the most heartbreaking one is Yun's... in which the Shifu thought [[ItsAllMyFault it was his fault that he taught Yun to be brave to the point that he died.]]
*** Yun's scenario is made worse because the only reason he survived is that he hid while Lei and Hong were killed and thinks that makes him unworthy of being a pupil of the shifu.
*** If Lei is the Successor and you initially try to refuse to let her join the battle against the Indomitable Fist, she becomes surprisingly vulnerable as she admits that she [[ItsAllMyFault feels responsible]] for Yun and Hong's deaths, as they died trying to protect her.
*** If Hong was the one given the training, he was PlayingPossum in the hopes that the Indomitable Fist could leave them alone and he blames himself for doing something so cowardly.
** At the end of said scenario, after the pupil eventually proves himself/herself capable of kicking Ou Di Wan Lee's ass, the Master tells him/her how proud he is and dies due to his wounds from Ou Di's assassins, in front of the pupil, rejoining the dead pupils. The pupils' reactions would really invoke sadness, especially when said pupil is Lei, who usually presents herself as a headstrong, impulsive girl, broke down screaming and for once called him 'Master', not just 'Gramps'. In the remake's English dub, you can hear Lei's voice wavering near tears as she realizes that he's going to die. In the Japanese dub, she holds herself together up to the point where he dies, where she screams her heart out.

** The worst part is that the game spells it out right that the shifu was going to die soon, so knowing what's going to happen makes the ending much more bittersweet.
* The Western chapter reveals the history of Sundown: originally a cocky gunslinger, his pride eventually lead to the deaths of everyone he ever loved. He put a bounty on his own head because he's looking for someone to kill him. Thankfully, the experience of stopping O. Dio and saving Success alongside Mad Dog gave him a reason to live again, and he rides off into the sunset with a newfound resolve.
** Comply to killing Mad Dog, we dare you.

* The Near Future begins with Akira telling the story of how he watched his father die. It gets worse when we get to the end of the chapter. As Matsu lays dying from Matango overdose in trying to control Steel Titan, Akira reads his mind and Matsu reveals the truth -- ''he'' killed Akira's father in a stand-off, and the shame of this caused him to quit the Crusaders and raise Akira and Kaori as atonement.

** The end of the chapter is bittersweet at best. Sure, Akira stopped Odeo, but all of the liquified humans are stuck as they are, Watanabe will never know that his father was turned into liquid (and Akira had to kill him) and the future is uncertain for Kaori. The only bright side is Akira inheriting Matsu's bike and taiyaki shop.
* The Distant Future Chapter:
** Kirk's death comes soon and without much warning, leading Rachel to snap and end up dead herself. The game's description of his body if you choose to examine it is heartbreaking.

** One of the crewmembers is a guy named Huey, [[TheWoobie who the game goes out of its way to make sure suffers]]. For starters, his girlfriend left him for the pilot, who went out of his way to KickTheDog and remind him of this fact. Then when Kirk bites it, he's accused of killing Kirk to get his girlfriend ''by said girlfriend''. When the Behemoth breaks out and attacks Rachel, [[HeroicSacrifice he distracts it, dying in the process]]. After his death, you enter his room and find that he took exams to be a captain on his computer. The very next message? [[YankTheDogsChain "Greetings. We regret to inform you that you did not pass the exam for qualification as a ship captain. The next exam period is in six months."]] ''Then'' you enter the captain's quarters and read his assessment of the crew. Guess whose name is on the list for being fired? Oh, and his ex-girlfriend doesn't survive the chapter either, [[SenselessSacrifice so his death was pointless]].
** If you check Rachel’s cryo pod right after the prototype Cube turns it off in the remake (before going into Kato's room), you're rewarded with an easy-to-miss scene of her death; upon entering the cryo room, a flatline can be heard as Cube realizes what’s happened. Cube then quickly turns the cryo pod back on and mourns for Rachel for a moment, knowing that he was far too late to save her...
** Throughout the chapter, Darthe acts callous and hostile to Cube, dismissively referring to them as [[FantasticSlurs clank]] and even physically assaulting them at times. However, as Darthe, Kato and Cube are left the only surviving crewmembers, Darthe [[DefrostingIceKing begins to warm up to Cube]], and once OD-10 is defeated, he finally reveals the reason why he was so hostile to Cube: when he was young, there was a RobotWar, and he saw many of his friends be torn apart by machines, an experience that left him with strong distaste for robots. He even adds that Cube was lucky to be born on the ship instead of being made in the war factory.
** This chapter's ending is much more {{bittersweet|Ending}} when compared to others. While there's solace in the fact that Cube, Kato and Darthe made back to Earth alive, the latter resigning from the military and choosing to dedicate his life to creating medical robots, but Captain Hor, Kirk, Huey, and Rachel are dead, and the mission to deliver the Behemoth to Earth ended in a failure, meaning that their deaths were in vain, all because the ship's A.I. system couldn't stomach them arguing with each other.

* The Middle Ages chapter:
** "As long as there is still ''one'' person who believes in you". Oersted clings to those words for dear life, when the kingdom believes he is the Demon King. And when he finally reunites with the princess, only for her to ask why he didn't try to rescue her (he ''did'', above everything else), cries for Streibough (who betrayed Oersted completely), and ''commits suicide in front of him.'' Is it any wonder Oersted [[StartOfDarkness snapped?]]
** It gets worse if you name Oersted after yourself. Kids back in 1994 tended to name their HelloInsertNameHere protagonists after themselves, meaning that they're in for quite the surprise when they get '''broken down in what can be summed up as one of the most depressing and hopeless RPG scenarios in history and turned into the villain'''. Mind you, back in the days, most RPG villains were {{Card Carrying Villain}}s, villainous {{Flat Character}}s or are a case of AdaptationalVillainy if the RPG in question was based on a real story, and the hero of any fantasy setting is often unambiguously on the side of good, so this can come across as shocking.
* The final chapter, Dominion of Hate:
** You can only have four characters in the party, including the one you choose as the protagonist. If full, you have to dismiss a party member to make room for another character. Most of the characters are pretty chill when you dismiss them with some even telling you to come see them again if you need them. On the other hand, if you dismiss Cube, they will make a lower pitched tone of their regular sound as if feeling dejected and saddened you don't want them.
** You can mind read a bunch of spirits in Akira's dungeon from Oersted's time. One of the spirits is the little boy from the small village who still believed in Oersted even at the very end. Oersted thought there was no one left that believed in him as a hero and became Odio... but there was. The little boy never stopped believing.
*** This point gets sadder when you consider things from Oersted's perspective. Although the player knows that the boy's faith in Oersted is never shaken, Oersted would've had no reason to believe his faith would last due to his mother and father branding him a demon like everyone else in Lucrece. While this does not excuse Oersted/Odio trapping his soul amid the annihilation of all of Lucrece, it at least explains why he would be found in Akira's trial.

** If you play this chapter with Oersted/Odio as the protagonist and win against the heroes without using Armageddon, it reveals that even after falling as hard as he did, Oersted has finally realized that it is LonelyAtTheTop. He visits places like the courtyard where he and Streibough dueled, the nearby village, the dungeon he and Uranus were imprisoned, and Hasshe's grave, implying that deep down, he still longs for his friends and the past days when he was still happy with his life. The last shot is of Oersted hanging his head in loneliness and either the words '''"Sad End"''', or in the remake '''"Alone, Victorious. Thus ends his tale."'''. Pretty powerful, even for someone who curses humanity.
*** 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.

*** Sometimes, when defeating Purity of Odio, he will [[VillainousBreakdown shout something familiar as he dissolves to shadow]]. '''"BELIEVE IN ME! BELIEVE!"''' While there is a bit of catharsis at defeating the source of all evil, [[AlasPoorVillain hearing him cry out for someone to believe in him is a sad reminder that deep down, Odio is still Oersted]].
** Indeed, there is ''no'' good ending for Oersted; at best, he gets a BittersweetEnding. If you win as him in the final chapter, he is left alone as described above. If you lose to Pure Odio, or choose Armageddon as Oersted, everything in all times is destroyed, Odio and all his incarnations included. If you defeat Odio and choose to finish Oersted on the peak, he dies with Alethea's name on his lips. And if you spare him and defeat his final onslaught, he learns more of the human spirit, but still dies, cautioning them with his last words that anyone can become a demon, like him (at least this one gives him DyingAsYourself status).
** The remake lets Oersted have a bit of a happier ending, but after what he went through these small moments are powerful. In the throes of his Sin of Odio form, the seven heroes fighting manages to reawaken Oersted's spirit. But even as he breaks free from his hatred and delivers the final blow to the Sin of Odio form, he still is wracked with guilt over his actions.

** 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...]]
*** One of the most heart-rending quotes in this section comes from Lei, who realizes to her horror that she's succumbed to her worst instincts, and has once again made the choice to attack another human with the intent of completely destroying them. All she can do is beg to her fallen master that she hasn't made a mistake.

---->'''Odio:''' Believe in me. You will. You must! For I'm the hero true! Hee Heh...I am...I am! Hah! Hah! Hah! Believe in me! Believe! '''BELIEVE IN ME! BELIEVE!'''

''Somebody save me cause I wanna be free I try, try, try''\\

** Should he fall in battle after being KOed, Mad might call out to Kid. Made even worse if you choose Oersted for the Dominion of Hate.

** If you play this chapter with Oersted/Odio as the protagonist and win against the heroes without using Armageddon, it reveals that even after falling as hard as he did, Oersted has finally realized that it is LonelyAtTheTop. He visits places like the courtyard where he and Streibough dueled, the nearby village, the dungeon he and Uranus were imprisoned, and Hashhe's grave, implying that deep down, he still longs for his friends and the past days when he was still happy with his life. The last shot is of Oersted hanging his head in loneliness and either the words '''"Sad End"''', or in the remake '''"Alone, Victorious. Thus ends his tale."'''. Pretty powerful, even for someone who curses humanity.

* The Western chapter reveals the history of Sundown: originally a cocky gunslinger, his pride eventually lead to the deaths of everyone he ever loved. He put a bounty on his own head because he's looking for someone to kill him. Thankfully, the experience of stopping O. Dio and saving Success alongside Mad Dog gave him a reason to live again, and he rides off into the sunset.

** If you check Rachel’s cryo pod right after the prototype Cube turns it off in the remake (before going into Kato's room), you're rewarded with an easy-to-miss scene of her death; upon entering the cyro room, a flatline can be heard as Cube realizes what’s happened. Cube then quickly turns the cryo pod back on and mourns for Rachel for a moment, knowing that he was far too late to save her...

** If you check Rachel’s cryo pod right after the prototype Cube turns it off (before going into Kato's room) in the remake, you're rewarded with an easy-to-miss scene of her death; a flatline can be heard as Cube realizes what’s happened. Cube then quickly turns the cryo pod back on and mourns for Rachel for a moment, knowing that he was far too late to save her...

** If you check Rachel’s cryo pod right after the prototype Cube turns it off, in the remake, Cube realizes what’s happened and quickly turns it back on, only to act upset once they realise they’re far too late.

*** Sometimes, when defeating Purity of Odio, he will shout something familiar as he [[VillainousBreakdown dissolves to shadow]]. '''"BELIEVE IN ME! BELIEVE!"''' While there is a bit of catharsis at defeating the source of all evil, [[AlasPoorVillain hearing him cry out for someone to believe in him is a sad reminder that deep down, Odio is still Oersted]].

** If Akira is the main character, he has no patience for Oersted's lamenting, [[AngryCollarGrab grabbing him by the collar]] and taking several deep breaths -- presumably to try and calm down -- before tearing into him with his own speech. But despite that, it sounds like Akira is trying really hard to not cry.

*** This is also the first chapter chronologically where Live A Live's signature [[SimpleScoreOfSadness Sad Song]], ''Cry A Live'', starts playing. It is a melancholic theme that plays when something depressing happens during a Chapter from this point onward. Here, the theme plays after Pogo gets exiled and before he finds a cave to rest. It is used to probably symbolize that Pogo is [[ItsAllMyFault lamenting]] of getting himself and his friends exiled from his home.

** This gets even worse on a second playthrough: the one who survives is the one who got the most training, because that one was well-trained enough to be able to get through the battle alive. No matter what order or how evenly you split the amount of training between them, there will always be one student who ends up with an extra day of your attention before the attack. The two kids you don't choose for that extra day? They [[DeathOfAChild die]]. Which means you -- no, not the Master, ''you, the player'' -- are [[SadisticChoice choosing]] which one lives.
** After the attack, the Master revisits the graves of the fallen students and expresses his sadness and regret of what happened to the students. He wishes he could teach a lot more to Lei, or make Hong proud of his portly body. But the most heartbreaking one is Yun's... in which the Master thought [[ItsAllMyFault it was his fault that he taught Yun to be brave to the point that he died.]]

*** If Lei is the Successor and you initially try to refuse to let her join the battle against the Indomitable Fist, she becomes surprisingly vulnerable as she admits that she [[ItsAllMyFault feels responsible]] for Yun and Hung's deaths, as they died trying to protect her.

** At the end of said scenario, after the pupil eventually proves himself/herself capable of kicking Ou Di Wan Lee's ass, the Master tells him/her how proud he is and dies due to his wounds from Ou Di's assassins, in front of the pupil, rejoining the dead pupils. The pupils' reactions would really invoke sadness, especially when said pupil is Lei, who usually presents herself as a headstrong, impulsive girl, broke down screaming and for once called him 'Master', not just 'Gramps'. In the remake's English dub, you can hear Lei's voice wavering near tears as she realizes that he's going to die. In the Japanese dub, she holds together up to the point where he dies, where she screams her heart out.

* The Western chapter reveals the history of Sundown: originally a cocky gunslinger, his pride eventually lead to the deaths of everyone he ever loved. He puts a bounty on his head because he's looking for someone to kill him. Thankfully, the experience in stopping Dio alongside Mad Dog gave him a reason to live again, and he rides off into the sunset.
* The Near Future begins with Akira telling the story of how he saw his father dead. It gets worse when we get to the end of the chapter. As Matsu lays dying from Matango overdose in trying to control Steel Titan, Akira reads his mind to which Matsu reveals the truth -- ''he'' killed Akira's father in a stand-off, and the shame of this caused him to quit the Crusaders and raise Akira and Kaori as atonement.

** Before that, Kaori, Akira's sickly sister, offers herself to be liquified to power Steel Titan so she can finally help her brother save the day instead of dying of her illness. Akira, having seen the suffering of those held in the facility, begs her not to go with it.

** The end of the chapter is bittersweet at best. Sure Akira stopped Odeo but all of the liquified humans are stuck as they are, Watanabe will never know that his father was turned into liquid (and Akira had to kill him) and the future is uncertain for Kaori. The only bright side is Akira inheriting Matsu's bike and taiyaki shop.

** One of the crewmembers is a guy named Huey, [[TheWoobie who the game goes out of its way to make sure suffers]]. For starters, his girlfriend left him for the pilot, who went out of his way to KickTheDog and remind him of this fact. Then when Kirk bites it, he's accused of killing Kirk to get his girlfriend ''by said girlfriend''. When the Behemoth breaks out and attacks Rachel, [[HeroicSacrifice he distracts it, dying in the process]]. After his death, you enter his room and find that he took exams to be a captain on his computer. The very next message? [[YankTheDogsChain Greetings. We regret to inform you that you did not pass the exam for qualification as a ship captain. The next exam period is in six months.]] ''Then'' you enter the captain's quarters and read his assessment of the crew. Guess whose name is on the list for being fired? Oh, and his ex-girlfriend doesn't survive the chapter either, [[SenselessSacrifice so his death was pointless]].
** If you check Rachel’s cryo pod right after the prototype Cube turns it off, in the remake, Cube realises what’s happened and quickly turns it back on, only to act upset once they realise they’re far too late.
** Throughout the chapter, Darthe acts callous and hostile to Cube, dismissively referring to him as [[FantasticSlurs clank]] and even physically assaulting him at times. However, as Darthe, Kato and Cube are left the only surviving crewmembers, Darthe [[DefrostingIceKing begins to warm up to Cube]], and once OD-10 is defeated, he finally reveals the reason why he was so hostile to Cube: when he was young, there was a RobotWar, and he saw many of his friends be torn apart by machines, an experience that left him with strong distaste for machines. He even adds that Cube was lucky to be born on the ship instead of being made in the war factory.

** It gets worse if you name Oersted after yourself. Kids back in 1994 tend to name their HelloInsertNameHere protagonists after themselves, meaning that they get to see in shock when they get '''broken down in what can be summed up as one of the most depressing and hopeless RPG scenarios in history and themselves turned into the villain'''. Mind you, back in the days, most RPG villains are {{Card Carrying Villain}}s, villainous {{Flat Character}}s or are a case of AdaptationalVillainy if the RPG in question was based on a real story, and the hero of any fantasy setting is often unambiguously on the side of good, so this can come across as shocking.

** You can only have four characters in the party, including the one you choose as the protagonist. If full, you have to dismiss a party member to make room for another character. Most of the characters are pretty chill when you dismiss them with some even telling you to come see them again if you need them. On the other hand, if you dismiss Cube, he will make a lower pitched tone of his regular sound as if feeling dejected and saddened you don't want him.

** If you play this chapter with Oersted/Odio as the protagonist and win against the heroes without using Armageddon, it reveals that even after falling as hard as he did, Oersted has finally realized that it is LonelyAtTheTop. He visits places like the courtyard where he and Streibough dueled, the nearby village, the dungeon he and Uranus were imprisoned, and Hashhe's grave, implying that deep down, he still longs for his friends and the past days when he was still happy with his life. The last shot is Oersted hanging his head in loneliness and either the words '''"Sad End"''', or in the remake '''"Alone, Victorious. Thus ends his tale."'''. Pretty powerful, even for someone who curses humanity.

** Indeed, there is ''no'' good ending for Oersted; at best, he gets a BittersweetEnding. If you win as him in the final chapter, he is left alone as described above. If you lose to Pure Odio, or choose Armageddon as Oersted, everything in all times is destroyed, Odio and all his incarnations included. If you defeat Odio and choose to finish Oersted on the peak, he dies with Alethea's name on his lips. And if you spare him, and defeat his final onslaught, he learns more of the human spirit, but still dies, cautioning them with his last words that anyone can become a demon, like him (at least this one gives him DyingAsYourself status).

** If Pogo is the main character in the remake finale, he does something else besides his usual loud shout. He gives poor Oersted a ''sorely'' needed CooldownHug. Oersted almost sounds like he's going to burst into tears at the show of affection.
*** It gets sadder when you realized that Pogo, due to coming from an era where the smartest person alive has the 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.
** 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 that either Oersted is kind of relatable despite having to strike him down for punishment and wonders if that's quite 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...]]

* [[FridgeHorror If you took out the]] [[DeathAsComedy comedy from these scenes]], the moments where [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Watanabe's father]] gets killed may make him feel less like a [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] and more of a [[TheWoobie Woobie]]. The Near Future chapter is the most brutal, as not only does Akira personally know this Watanabe, he later finds out why he's at the orphanage; [[ReforgedIntoAMinion Livingstill turned his father into the Liquid Human W-1]], and after having to destroy him, [[DyingAsYourself his last words were]] him asking how his son was at the orphanage. It's presumed Akira [[AwfulTruth never tells Watanabe the fate of his father]].
* The album ''memória!'' gives us a lyrical version of "Megalomania". They seem to be in the perspective of Oersted during the end of his chapter, and it shows.

''Sky has no mercy, every day is so dark, just cry, cry cry''\\

** If Pogo is the main character in the remake finale, he does something else besides his usual loud shout. He gives poor Oersted a ''sorely'' needed CooldownHug. Oersted almost sounds like hes going to burst into tears at the show of affection.

** Yun's scenario is made worse because the only reason he survived is that he hid while Lei and Hong were killed and thinks that makes him unworthy of being a pupil of the shifu.
** If Lei is the Successor and you initially try to refuse to let her join the battle against the Indomitable Fist, she becomes surprisingly vulnerable as she admits that she [[ItsAllMyFault feels responsible]] for Yun and Hung's deaths, as they died trying to protect her.

** One of the crewmembers is a guy named Huey, [[TheWoobie who the game goes out of its way to make sure suffers]]. For starters, his girlfriend left him for the pilot, who went out of his way to KickTheDog and remind him of this fact. Then when Kirk bites it, he's accused of killing Kirk to get his girlfriend ''by said girlfriend''. When the Behemoth breaks out and attacks Rachel, [[HeroicSacrifice he distracts it, dying in the process]]. After his death, you enter his room and find that he took exams to be a captain on his computer. The very next message? [[YankTheDogsChain Greetings. We regret to inform you that you did not pass the exam for qualification as a ship captain. The next exam period is in six months.]] ''[[UpToEleven Then]]'' you enter the captain's quarters and read his assessment of the crew. Guess whose name is on the list for being fired? Oh, and his ex-girlfriend doesn't survive the chapter either, [[SenselessSacrifice so his death was pointless]].

-->'''Odio:''' "Believe in me. You will. You must! For I'm the hero true! Hee Heh...I am...I am! Hah! Hah! Hah! Believe in me! Believe! '''BELIEVE IN ME! BELIEVE!'''"