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[kjorteo]

What's that, you say? You want to give Moa more money because she deserves it for that glorious mental asylum of a game that I recently called the second-greatest ever made in video game history?

WELL GO DO IT THEN

Edit: Oh, I forgot I had a separate top five list specifically for most emotional games. Well, that sure as hell needs an update after all this. (Obviously this excludes ones I haven't played, which is why PMD1 is on it but PMD2 isn't even though everyone tells me that PMD2 is allegedly supposed to have somehow found a way to be even more heart-wrenching than 1.)

5. [NDS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
4. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
3. [NDS] Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
2. [GBA] Mother 3
1. [PC] Hatoful Boyfriend

Displaced entries that I still want to include somewhere as honorable mentions:
* Pick a Breath of Fire, any Breath of Fire (but especially III)
* Cave Story

Comments

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Done and done. :D

[davidn]

Once again... I could see Hatoful Boyfriend being awarded that not just for its capacity to wrench hearts, but for the unexpected range of emotions that it managed to provoke - charm to horror to hilarity to anguish (with a separate setting for absurdity, lodged up at the 11 mark with the dial pulled off). Cave Story really surprised me just with the fact that it managed to get me to... care at all, as I had been introduced to it as a very innocent level-based platform game. It's the difference between expectation and result that does it for me :)