History TearJerker / Transistor

** The profile of each Camerata member all implies that they are simply somewhat-creative people who felt suffocated by the society. Imagine what kind of a world that leads the Camerata to go ahead and ruin the utopia for others, just so they can follow their simple human 'wants' at all...

* The game's central theme. Cloudbank has advanced so much you could get anything you want instantly to the point that nothing has a value to it anymore. [[CrapsaccharineWorld Yet almost nobody cares.]] The city just wants more and more regardless of what they have discarded.

** The profile of each Camerata member all implies that they are simply somewhat-creative people who felt suffocated by the society. Imagine what kind of a world that leads the Camerata to go ahead and ruin the utopia for others, just so they can follow their simple human 'wants' at all...

** One of the location Red visits is a balcony overlooking Highrise Canal where the game implies that she and Mr.Nobody once went on a date here, now filled from end to end with nondescript buildings and billboards with no canal in sight. Every memories, any attachments you have, replaced on a whim. It's a harrowing story, especially for some of the older audience who had experienced the transformation of a town they lived in.

** One of the location Red visit is a balcony overlooking Highrise Canal where the game implies that she and Mr.Nobody once went on a date here, now filled to the brim with nondescript buildings. Every memories, any attachments you have, replaced on a whim.

* Near the end of the game, you find one final news story from Amelia Garber, the reporter whose articles you've been reading during the course of the game, where she stands with the last remaining survivors at the edge of the city, saying goodbye before the process comes for them. After you read it, the Transistor starts wondering if they've already been processed.

* Near the end of the game, you find one final news story from Amelia Bergman, the reporter whose articles you've been reading during the course of the game, where she stands with the last remaining survivors at the edge of the city, saying goodbye before the process comes for them. After you read it, the Transistor starts wondering if they've already been processed.

* Near the end of the game, you find one final news story from the reporter whose articles you've been reading during the course of the game, where she stands with the last remaining survivors at the edge of the city, saying goodbye before the process comes for them. After you read it, the Transistor starts wondering if they've already been processed.
** When you see that OVC terminal, the reporter is ''being processed''. When you approach it, the status ''turns to deceased'' right in front of your eyes.

** The profile of each Camerata member all implies that they are simply somewhat-creative people who felt suffocated by the society. Imagine what kind of a world that leads the Camerata to stage such a brutal course of action, just so they can follow their passion at all...

** And then there's the battle with Royce, who personally has no grudge against Red and wants to stop the Process just as much as she does, but [[spoiler:after both of them get sucked into the Transistor, only one of them can escape and they are forced to fight to the death to see which one of them it will be.]]

* Many of Camerata victims were just people who tried to do right by the minority of Cloudbank, voices their own differing opinion a little too loud, or a normal people who pursuit a hobby for self-contained pleasure (that at the very least wouldn't harm anyone but themselves). The Administrator and large part of the society clamp down on these people who doesn't immediately 'serve the majority' hard despite being fellow citizens, forcing many of them towards Camerata.
** The profile of each Camerata member all implies that they are simply somewhat-creative people who felt suffocated by the society. Imagine what kind of a world that leads the Camerata to stage such a brutal course of action, [[DemocracyIsFlawed just so they can follow their passion at all...]]

** The profile of each Camerata member all implies that they are simply somewhat-creative people who felt suffocated by such a society. Imagine what kind of a world that leads the Camerata to stage such a brutal revolution, just so they can follow their passion at all...

* Many of Camerata victims were just people who tried to do right by the minority of Cloudbank, voices their own differing opinion a little too loud, or a normal people who pursuit a hobby for self-contained pleasure (that at the very least wouldn't harm anyone but themselves). The Administrator and large part of the society clamp down on these people who doesn't immediately 'serve the majority' hard despite being fellow citizens, forcing many of them towards Camerata.

* While the Transistor is [[spoiler: being affected by the Spine]], The Man will sometimes deviate from his loopy ramblings and quietly talk about how much he wants to see and touch Red again.
* The game's central theme. Cloudbank has advanced so much you could get anything you want instantly to the point that nothing has a value to it anymore. [[CrapsaccharineWorld Yet almost nobody cares.]] The city just wants more and more regardless of what they have discarded in the past.
* Many of Camerata victims were just people who tried to do right by the minority of Cloudbank, voices their own differing opinion a little too loud, or a normal people who pursuit a hobby for self-contained pleasure (that at the very least wouldn't harm anyone but themselves). The Administrator and large part of the society clamp down of these people who doesn't immediately 'serve the majority' hard despite being fellow citizens, forcing many of them towards Camerata.

** The scene at Empty Set before that where Red hums to the microphone. It just drives home how hard Red's life came crashing down when she lost her voice (she's a ''singer''). The Transistor consoles her that she'll come back one day. [[spoiler: She does. But by then ''everyone and everything in Cloudbank'' became a total processed mess. There's nothing left.]]
* Near the end of the game, you find one final news story from [[spoiler: the reporter whose articles you've been reading]] during the course of the game, where she stands with the last remaining survivors at the edge of the city, saying goodbye before the process comes for them. After you read it, the Transistor starts wondering if they've already been processed.
** When you see that OVC terminal, [[spoiler:the reporter]] is ''being processed''. When you approach it, the status ''turns to deceased'' right in front of your eyes.
* The ending. [[spoiler:While Red has stopped the Process and gained total admin access over the city, allowing her to remake it to her whim at will, the Process still consumed all of the other humans, leaving her completely alone. She chooses to impale herself on the Transistor, even as the voice inside begs her to stop, killing her but leaving her soul sealed in the Transistor with her lover's.]]
** [[spoiler: Those people you came to know? Those districts you've heard about? All the efforts to keep the city running smooth and fine? In the end they're all gone in a span of few days. By the very thing that created Cloudbank no less.]]
** Play through the game once and think about this for a moment: [[FromBadToWorse everything turned that way]] during the course of the game because of '''one single mistake'''.

** Many of Camerata victims were just people who tried to do right by the minority of Cloudbank, voices their own differing opinion a little too loud, or a normal people who pursuit a hobby for self-contained pleasure (that at the very least wouldn't harm anyone but themselves). The Administrator and large part of the society clamp down of these people hard despite being fellow citizens, forcing many of them towards Camerata.

* The game's central theme. [[spoiler: [[CrapsaccharineWorld Cloudbank has advanced so much you could get anything you want instantly to the point that nothing has a value to it anymore. Yet almost nobody cares.]]]]

* The game's central theme. [[spoiler: [[CrapsackWorld Cloudbank has advanced so much you could get anything you want instantly to the point that nothing has a value to it anymore. Yet almost nobody cares.]]]]

* The game's central theme. [[spoiler: [[Dystopia Cloudbank has advanced so much you could get anything you want instantly to the point that nothing has a value to it anymore. Yet almost nobody cares.]]]]

* The game's central theme. [[spoiler: [[FutureImperfect Cloudbank has advanced so much you could get anything you want instantly to the point that nothing has a value to it anymore. Yet almost nobody cares.]]]]