Illusion of Gaia/Tear Jerker

• All of Illusion of Gaia/Illusion of Time. Highlights include discovering that the people you've just met have actually been dead for centuries and never got to take the trip they were dreaming of, finding the skeleton of an adventurer and much later talking to his children who don't know he's dead, and, just before the end, meeting people you knew who have been turned into pure souls: "Living with a terminal illness was better than this," one laments. However, it has more of a Bittersweet Ending.
  • Not to mention of Hamlet's sacrificing himself to feed a village! Who would have guessed the adorable mascot would die?
• In the Native's Village, Hamlet's Heroic Sacrifice. Less ambiguously, the ending, when it emerges that because time moves at a different rate on the comet, thousands of years have passed for Will and Kara, meaning they return to Earth in the modern era with everything they knew having gone. Granted, they themselves remain together at the end, but still...
• You can find some bones of an explorer in an early-game ruin which contain a letter from his family wishing he comes home safe. Later in the game, you can meet the family itself, and they're still waiting for him to return.
  • And the game provides no option to tell them.
• In another early location, it's mentioned that the luxurious carpets in Edward Castle take forty years to make. In one of the last areas of the game, you visit the town these carpets are made in. It's revealed that the female workers spend their entire lives making these carpets by hand, from their childhood to adulthood.