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* As part of her final tests before entering the Tower of the Guardian April has to face her biggest fear which she herself might not even be aware of. As it turns out, she is [[spoiler:turned into a child and her biggest fear is no other than her creepy, possibly drunken father, obviously ready to abuse April some more]]. The whole scene is not only surprising as April's difficult relation with [[spoiler:her father]] until that point seemed to be just part of her background with little impact on the actual story,[[note]]It's important to note that while you ''can'' browse through April's journal to learn a thing or two about her family life and while at the police station you ''can'' use the videophone to call your mother, you don't have to do either of those things.[[/note]] but it's also very touching as April manages to [[spoiler:convince her father that she knows he cares deeply about her even though he has trouble expressing it, as well as to actually forgive him years of abusing.]]

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* As part of her final tests before entering the Tower of the Guardian April has to face her biggest fear which she herself might not even be aware of. As it turns out, she is [[spoiler:turned into a child and her biggest fear is no other than her creepy, possibly drunken father, obviously ready to abuse April some more]]. The whole scene is not only surprising as April's difficult relation with [[spoiler:her father]] until that point seemed to be just part of her background with little impact on the actual story,[[note]]It's important to note that while you ''can'' browse through April's journal to learn a thing or two about her family life and while at the police station you ''can'' use the videophone to call your mother, you don't have to do either of those things.[[/note]] but it's also very touching as April manages to [[spoiler:convince her father that she knows he cares deeply about her even though he has trouble expressing it, it. Confronted with this, the spectre of her father first hesitates, before he breaks down, barely holding back tears as well as to actually he confesses that she is right and sincerely apologizes for everything he has put her through. As the scene dissolves before her eyes, April replies with "It's okay. I forgive him years of abusing.]] you."]]

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** To make it hit home all the more, his tenses, which he typically mixes up as he experiences time all at once, settle firmly into present tense.

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** To make it hit home all the more, his tenses, which he typically mixes up as he experiences time all at once, settle firmly into present tense.present.
* A farewell to Shitbot/Kidbot. Players who got Kidbot probably would feel sad because of how cute Kidbot is. Players who got Shitbot will still feel sad - that something that barely functioned decided to do something selfless. "Remember me". Players will indeed remember them.

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* During Book 2 Kian meets Bip, a young Dolmari. His parents have been sent to Ge'en, with Bip awaiting their return. It's up to Kian to either lie about them coming back or explain a ten-year-old the concept of segregation and that his parents will not return. The worst option is first telling Bip the truth about the prison and then trying to soften the blow by lying when he asks if his parents will return. He will call Kian out on his lie. It gets worse when the actual purpose of Ge'een is revealed in the later books.

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* During Book 2 Kian meets Bip, a young Dolmari. His parents have been sent to Ge'en, with Bip awaiting their return. It's up to Kian to either lie about them coming back or explain a ten-year-old the concept of segregation and that his parents will not return. The worst option is first telling Bip the truth about the prison and then trying to soften the blow by lying when he asks if his parents will return. He will call Kian out on his lie. It gets worse when the actual purpose of Ge'een Ge'en is revealed in the later books.



* The last moments with Abnaxus - the other Venar have moved on, but he's remained in the present, an act that is toxic to the Venar, which means that he is dying. All in the name of being there to guide Zoe as she returns the Soul Stone to Lux and activates her full Dreamer abilities. As he is left alone, with only the Oular for company, he admits that his family and all other Venar are lost to him, and that his "loop" is ending, with the implication being that he will be dead shortly thereafter.
** To make it hit home all the more, his tenses, which he typically mixes up as he experiences time all at once, settle firmly into present tense.



* Kian repeatedly refers to Crow as just "Bird" after joining up with him. "Bird" was the way that the old sailor who'd originally claimed ownership of him back in The Longest Journey - the same old sailor who stuffed him in a box and lost him to the peddler in a game of cups (a shell game). Which just means that Crow's being reminded of a period of his life he clearly was not happy at all - this being AFTER all of his other companions have been forced to leave him behind.



* Saga's parents being lost and never reuniting with her. Even in Saga's later years she still laments their vanishing, hoping that they at least found each other and spent the rest of their days together, "Someplace green and beautiful." Saga's reaction to her parents dissapearing changes with her age from sadness when she is younger, to almost cold indifference during her adult years to tearfully admiting how much she misses them when she is an old woman.

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* Saga's parents being lost and never reuniting with her. Even in Saga's later years she still laments their vanishing, hoping that they at least found each other and spent the rest of their days together, "Someplace green and beautiful." Saga's reaction to her parents dissapearing disappearing changes with her age from sadness when she is younger, to almost cold indifference during her adult years to tearfully admiting admitting how much she misses them when she is an old woman.

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** To detail:
** Kian, the Apostle, who has begun to question his deeply held faith in the Azadi religion, which has been imposed on the Marcuria, has been taken into custody by his own people for that questioning, with Commander Vamon determined to execute him.
** Zoe discovers the below story of Faith, and is intentionally left in a coma by Helena Chang (implied in this game and revealed in the following game to be her mother), unable to act or do anything in the physical world that can help anyone.
** April, after being dismissed from what she thought was her destiny in the first game and spending this game so lost, uncertain, and disconnected, many in the Resistance believe she's become a DeathSeeker, gets her wish, stabbed in the gut and dumped in the lake to be forgotten - a massively offhanded and senseless death, given the Azadi proceed to take the village captive.
** April had been sold out by Na'ane, who had been shown to be a close associate of April's, whose betrayal was the only way to allow needed food and medicine to reach their destination, but leaving her with a crushing guilt and the knowledge that she brought death to April.
** In the Azadi raid that led to Na'ane's betrayal, Benrime, the innkeeper, and something of a mentoring and maternal figure for April, is taken captive by the Azadi, and, as we learn in the next game, is assumed to be being held by the Azadi and slated for execution.
** And, to finish it out, the White Dragon, an ally and sort-of maybe sister to April, is attacked by an unseen figure who she recognized, an act that the next game confirms was her murder.
** Basically NO ONE ends the game in a good place, and DarkestHour doesn't BEGIN to cover it.



* Crow's told that April is dead. Gets worse when Zoe talks to him afterwords and he tells her about when he and April travelled in Dreamfall, It didin't feel the same. That too much time had passed, and how she'd changed. Him just accepting that really hammers in just how true that is.

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* Crow's told that April is dead. Gets worse when Zoe talks to him afterwords and he tells her about when he and April travelled traveled in Dreamfall, It didin't didn't feel the same. That too much time had passed, and how she'd changed. Him just accepting that really hammers in just how true that is.
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'''April:'' ''"I’ve missed you too. Come on, Crow. we have a long journey ahead of us. You ready?"''\\

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'''April:''''"I’ve missed you too. Come on, Crow. we have a long journey ahead of us. You ready?"''\\

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'''April:''''"I’ve '''April:'' ''"I’ve missed you too. Come on, Crow. we have a long journey ahead of us. You ready?"''\\

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* April and Crow walking together on one last Long Journey Home. Seeing them walk off into the afterlife is still heartwrenching especially to long standing fans."Hey funny bird." "I’ve missed you, April" "I’ve missed you too. Come on, Crow. we have a long journey ahead of us. You ready?" "Yeah, yeah I am."

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* April and Crow walking together on one last Long Journey Home. Seeing them walk off into the afterlife is still heartwrenching especially to long standing fans."Hey fans.
-->'''April:''' ''"Hey
funny bird." "I’ve "''\\
'''Crow:''' ''"I’ve
missed you, April" "I’ve April"''\\
'''April:''''"I’ve
missed you too. Come on, Crow. we have a long journey ahead of us. You ready?" "Yeah, ready?"''\\
'''Crow:''' ''"Yeah,
yeah I am." "''
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* The entire Epilogue hearing Lady Alvane reminisce over the various adventures we've seen and have't seen. While she clearly remembers them fondly and has few regrets, seeing her life before her that's now in its twilight years can be rather melancholic.

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* The entire Epilogue hearing Epilogue. Looking around the house, Lady Alvane reminisce reminisces over the various adventures we've seen she's had and have't seen. While while she clearly remembers them fondly and has few regrets, regrets seeing her whole life before her that's on display, now that its in its twilight years years, can be a rather melancholic. melancholic experience for players.
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* The fate of the Border House in the time since The Longest Journey. It was a boarding house for students and artists. Now it’s effectively a crack house. Just about everything in Stark seems to have just gone to shit over the last decade.
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* As part of her final tests before entering the Tower of the Guardian April has to face her biggest fear which she herself might not even be aware of. As it turns out, she is [[spoiler:turned into a child and her biggest fear is no other than her creepy, possibly drunken father, obviously ready to abuse April some more]]. The whole scene is not only surprising as April's difficult relation with her [[spoiler:father]] until that point seemed to be just part of her background with little impact on the actual story,[[note]]It's important to note that while you ''can'' browse through April's journal to learn a thing or two about her family life and while at the police station you ''can'' use the videophone to call your mother, you don't have to do either of those things.[[/note]] but it's also very touching as April manages to [[spoiler:convince her father that she knows he cares deeply about her even though he has trouble expressing it, as well as to actually forgive him years of abusing.]]

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* As part of her final tests before entering the Tower of the Guardian April has to face her biggest fear which she herself might not even be aware of. As it turns out, she is [[spoiler:turned into a child and her biggest fear is no other than her creepy, possibly drunken father, obviously ready to abuse April some more]]. The whole scene is not only surprising as April's difficult relation with her [[spoiler:father]] [[spoiler:her father]] until that point seemed to be just part of her background with little impact on the actual story,[[note]]It's important to note that while you ''can'' browse through April's journal to learn a thing or two about her family life and while at the police station you ''can'' use the videophone to call your mother, you don't have to do either of those things.[[/note]] but it's also very touching as April manages to [[spoiler:convince her father that she knows he cares deeply about her even though he has trouble expressing it, as well as to actually forgive him years of abusing.]]



* The ending to ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'' would be a massive tearjerker if it wasn't such a gigantic DownerEnding that the resulting depression makes it nearly impossible to physically cry.
* The entire story of Faith...
* I don't know about you, but the fact that Emma has been searching for April for ten years and refuses to give up on her best friend or believe she is dead while we know they will never meet again is gut-wrenching to me.

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* The ending to ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'' would be a massive tearjerker if it wasn't such a gigantic DownerEnding that the resulting depression makes it nearly impossible to physically cry.
* The entire story of Faith...
* I don't know about you,
Faith. She was a result of an experiment to create someone who can manipulate dreams, so she had to spend her childhood in a lab. [[spoiler:The experiment went wrong and she died, but her ghost remained inside the Wire, causing interference in electronic communications (called the Static). Zoë's task at the end of the game is to convince her to leave the Wire, which essentially means she really has to die this time.]]
* The
fact that Emma has been searching for April for ten years and refuses to give up on her best friend or believe she is dead while we know they will never meet again is gut-wrenching to me.gut-wrenching.
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[[folder:The Longest Journey]]
* White Mother's death.
* When April sleeps in the Banda village and at night her EvilTwin who is really just a projection of her worst fears appears and belittles her to the point of despair, a projection of Charlie appears and tells April she is not alone on her journey and is [[ThePowerOfLove loved.]]
* The entire atmosphere of the second half of the game, when April is [[spoiler:risking life and limb in a quest where her reward would be to shut herself off from the entire world for centuries, with no one she'd ever met knowing what had happened to her]] to be phenomenally depressing.
* The last scene, in which [[spoiler:the old Guardian shrugs at April and essentially says, "Oops! Our mistake, you can go home now. Thanks anyway." After all the time spent telling April she's important to the fate of the world(s), it's a PlayerPunch to see her dismissed like that.]]
* As part of her final tests before entering the Tower of the Guardian April has to face her biggest fear which she herself might not even be aware of. As it turns out, she is [[spoiler:turned into a child and her biggest fear is no other than her creepy, possibly drunken father, obviously ready to abuse April some more]]. The whole scene is not only surprising as April's difficult relation with her [[spoiler:father]] until that point seemed to be just part of her background with little impact on the actual story,[[note]]It's important to note that while you ''can'' browse through April's journal to learn a thing or two about her family life and while at the police station you ''can'' use the videophone to call your mother, you don't have to do either of those things.[[/note]] but it's also very touching as April manages to [[spoiler:convince her father that she knows he cares deeply about her even though he has trouble expressing it, as well as to actually forgive him years of abusing.]]
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[[folder:Dreamfall: The Longest Journey]]
* The ending to ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney'' would be a massive tearjerker if it wasn't such a gigantic DownerEnding that the resulting depression makes it nearly impossible to physically cry.
* The entire story of Faith...
* I don't know about you, but the fact that Emma has been searching for April for ten years and refuses to give up on her best friend or believe she is dead while we know they will never meet again is gut-wrenching to me.
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[[folder:Dreamfall Chapters]]
* April Ryan's funeral and seeing the Rebels mourn her, and knowing her friends in Stark may never know what happened.
* Damien's and Olivia's BusCrash between games, giving us no closure to their stories.
* During Book 2 Kian meets Bip, a young Dolmari. His parents have been sent to Ge'en, with Bip awaiting their return. It's up to Kian to either lie about them coming back or explain a ten-year-old the concept of segregation and that his parents will not return. The worst option is first telling Bip the truth about the prison and then trying to soften the blow by lying when he asks if his parents will return. He will call Kian out on his lie. It gets worse when the actual purpose of Ge'een is revealed in the later books.
** Bip is also influenced by the [[FantasticRacism anti-magical sentiments]] of the Azadi
-->'''Bip (to Kian)''': Is [your Goddess] brown like you, or are they white like some of the other Azadi? I’m pretty sure she’s not blue. No gods have skin like mine, they’re all way better.
* Crow's told that April is dead. Gets worse when Zoe talks to him afterwords and he tells her about when he and April travelled in Dreamfall, It didin't feel the same. That too much time had passed, and how she'd changed. Him just accepting that really hammers in just how true that is.
* In Rebels, we discover that the cute little Banda are all dead except for one old woman who mourns her people greatly.
-->'''The Mole''': Is dark and late, and I will sleep. Sleep and dream of happier day in burrow to the north, when laughter of children fill every tunnel. Dream of friend and of family, while I mourn them all.
* The mole's fate gets worse when you see her again as she decides to return to the place where they were all killed so that she can be with them in death. Although it gets better in Book 4 when there is at least one more left.
* The ending to Book 4. Saga's father, knocking the wall and crying in desperation.
* The sudden and brutal death of Crow, the plucky comic relief character.
** Saga finding Crow's dead body.
* April and Crow walking together on one last Long Journey Home. Seeing them walk off into the afterlife is still heartwrenching especially to long standing fans."Hey funny bird." "I’ve missed you, April" "I’ve missed you too. Come on, Crow. we have a long journey ahead of us. You ready?" "Yeah, yeah I am."
* Saga's parents being lost and never reuniting with her. Even in Saga's later years she still laments their vanishing, hoping that they at least found each other and spent the rest of their days together, "Someplace green and beautiful." Saga's reaction to her parents dissapearing changes with her age from sadness when she is younger, to almost cold indifference during her adult years to tearfully admiting how much she misses them when she is an old woman.
* The entire Epilogue hearing Lady Alvane reminisce over the various adventures we've seen and have't seen. While she clearly remembers them fondly and has few regrets, seeing her life before her that's now in its twilight years can be rather melancholic.
* The end credits watching the Longest Journey play out in paintings after seeing the story come full circle. It's rather bittersweet.
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