I'm surprised you didn't include a shot of Quelaaq's sister's corpse in DS3, further cementing how she died alone and afraid due to us killing Quelaag all those eons ago.

The biggest guilt trip I got wasn't even from a game, it was from the console itself. PS2 used to have animated save icons in the early years. Games like Tekken Tag Tournament and Ridge Racer 5 had a character smiling and waving at the player when selected, but if you were about to delete the save, they would cover their face and cry. Made me feel like a right bastard for making room for other games! I can still remember that, 20 years later.

The entire sequence where you murder a woollen elephant in that game about yarn people. That fucked. Me. Up.

To make Quelaag's sister's story worse, IIRC she's severely weakened because she's been trying to lessen the sickness of the people of Blighttown. She's actually one of the more "good" characters in Dark Souls and now because of you shes left alone in the world. Monsters.

If you kill the Little Sisters in Bioshock, it affects how the final cutscene plays out. If you killed a few, Tenenbaum's tone is one of sadness. But if you killed them all, her tone is one of anger

Gotta love the "orphans created" stat in Alpha Protocol that made you feel bad for playing lethally...

I never knew I needed to hear Jane sing Circle of Life until it happened

Nothing about murdering Cutie the Elephant while she actively runs away and offers alternatives because she did nothing wrong? Man, you guys must have clearer consciences than I do.

Quite surprised that the “goodbye Chao” function from the Sonic Adventure series isn’t here. I remember having completely full chao gardens as a kid because I couldn’t bear to listen to that sad music and see the sad expression on the chao’s face with his little hobo stick.

A fun extra bit of pain in Hollow Knight comes after you've killed the False Knight, one of the first bosses you encounter in the game. If the death animation didn't make you feel bad enough, you can come back later to see the corpse has been taken to a hidden place by two of its maggot compatriots, who sit there mourning until you approach and scare them off. If you kill them, like I did for the sake of getting the Journal entry, they'll never respawn. After you beat the dream boss version of the False Knight, you'll find out that those maggots are essentially the lowest working-class lifeform in Hallownest who were subject to constant slavery, bullying and predation, and that the False Knight was just trying to finally protect his kind from that. Yes, I still lie awake at night.

What really irritates me is when games try to make me feel guilty for doing exactly what is necessary to progress the game. "Do this." "Okay." "Shame on you."

I’ve never heard Jane sing but I am now sad without it. 😂

1:09 Loving Arthurs quick little turn away after the first alligator bite as if he wasn't going to rise to it before being absolutely savaged

I'm surprised you mentioned the sad wolves in RDR2 and didn't mention the poor wild man raised by wolves.

For me, it has to be in Pokemon: Legends Arceus when you manage to sneak up behind a Pokemon and kick off a battle with the perfect head shot. The first time I pulled it off was on a Shinx, and the poor little guy kept shaking his head during the battle. 🥺 I'm sorry I hit you on the noggin.

Dark Souls 1: when you fight Great Grey Wolf Sif. When she gets to low HP, she starts limping and is unable to use her big sword properly. In a way too much like an actual ailing dog. Also, if you do the DLC, Sif recognizes you and is clearly sad to have to fight you. Elden Ring: (spoilers) If you fully complete Gurranq’s quest line before going to Farrum Azula, he’ll recognize you when you enter the Maliketh boss arena, and question why you’ve chosen to betray him now.

I tried to pet a cat in GTA 5, instead my character curbed stomped it. I have never felt such shock and horror.

Ever since I had to abandon my cats when my family had to move to another country, crying or mourning cats is one of the few things that always hits me where it hurts... And hits hard enough that I will quit a game or show or movie or book over it depending on how it's handled. I just remember seeing the faces of these cats we'd got as kittens when I was 8 and had raised as members of the family for nearly 10 years as we were forced to leave them with an adoption agency (not a shelter; an agency that would adopt them out as a group to a good home, so at least there was that slight saving grace)... The confusion and longing and sadness as they plaintively pawed at the glass door and desperately called to us as we left haunts me to this day, almost 15 years later.

I've been watching this channel for years and I'm so happy you've stuck with your roots and continued to do terrible puns in every video.

I'd have one more entry for Hollow Knight here - Myla. In the gloomy world where everything is infected, sad and usually trying to kill you, seeing a friendly bug is a relieving sight, especially with the addition of humming and singing. Therefore it is pretty sad to see how she slowly succumbs to infection as you progress the game, with no chance of saving her and having to kill her at the end since she becomes a hostile enemy once fully infected (at least you have a choice here, if you decide to never visit her in the endgame, or just ignore her attacking you).

I'm reminded of the Deathclaw ending in Fallout 2. Which, potentially through no fault of your own mind you, invariably ends with this community of friendly, sentient, talking deathclaws (one of which even joins you as a party member) being eradicated and you blamed for it. That's because there was a bug in the original game that made it so that the good ending for the deathclaw community was unattainable. Even if you did everything right. To make matters doubly worse, because of the bug when it came time for fallout new vegas the devs went with the Deathclaw genocide ending as nobody could have attained the survival ending and made it canon. A real slap in the face to anybody who _should_ have gotten the good ending for them made all the worse by the knowledge that you will never again cruise the wasteland with a talking deathclaw bro by your side.

Dismissing the Palicos does seem awfully heart rending, but it reminds me of my first true video game heartbreak: Nintendogs. It's hard enough sending your pups to a kennel, where they look all sad and drooped as they wait for you to confirm that you want to send them away. But god forbid you ever feel the need to give a dog up for adoption. They won't even look at you! You have to look at this depressed little dog, its head hanging, ears drooping, tail between its legs, turning its head away from you no matter which way you rotate the model, and consciously make the decision to say "yup, I'm giving this dog up for adoption." I don't think my heart has ever properly heeled from that.

Fallout 4 has a quest called "The Devil's Due" where the Sole Survivor finds a holotape left behind mercenaries employed by the Gunners who stole a egg from a Deathclaw nest and were forced to retreat inside the museum of Witchcraft because they had been followed by the mother Deathclaw which chances are you will most likely be forced to kill, if the Sole Survivor returns the egg to it's nest you'll find the Deathclaw had a mate who now has to care for their offspring alone. I also wanted to mention that in Mass Effect 3 if you choose to have Commander Shepard betray the krogan clans and sabotage the cure for the genophage with Wrex in charge he'll find out about your deception and confront you at the Citadel forcing you to kill him but wait it gets worse you later receive a news article at your private terminal saying that with their leader dead the krogan are not only pulling their troops out of the war with the Reapers, they are also withdrawing their support for the crucible project.

Shoutouts to Hollowknight wherein my first interaction with a ghost was in the spa with the singing Lady. I thought 'oh, she's nice, I wonder what she's thinking?' and proceeded to dream-nail her. In case you don't know, dream-nailing kills ghosts.

Oh man that planet coaster clip. It’s honestly the most heart wrenching one to me. Like, you can tell they genuinely enjoyed working there. Especially if you’ve designed a really nice and unique park, they probably thought themselves really lucky to actually have a job where they got to make other people happy. And now they’re fired, for no reason and they are forced to leave **instantly.** Maybe it’s because of the current economic climate but it just feels so bad to watch them leave, knowing they’re probably contemplating what they did wrong, the job they’ve lost, and how they’re to make ends meet. They helped make your theme park a magical place of fun and fulfillment where people could come to escape the real world and now they’ve been exiled to the very place they spent months of not years of their life helping people escape from. Why!? Why’d they need to put in those animations!?

YES! Thank you for mentioning FF: Tactics. I swear they went extra hard on guilt tripping the player. Even beasts make you feel guilty with stuff like "It looks at you with saddened eyes" "It doesn't seem to want to go away" or "Home? Where is that?" Oh, and another detail I remember. In Watch Dogs, if you kill someone walking his dog, said dog lays next to its dead owner. Now that's heartbreaking.

I remember playing Octopath Traveler, there's certain character abilities that let you find out information about every NPC in the game: their hopes, dreams, families etc. You can then proceed to just steal all their stuff anyway, or force them to follow you and fight with you, or generally screw up their sidequests.

woah. Jane's singing voice is beautiful. I had no idea ♥

Nowhere near the guilt I felt for what I did to the Sasquatch’s in Undead Redemption.

Along the lines of Final Fantasy Tactics, the selling monsters mechanic in Tactics Ogre were real brutal. Not only were you selling the monsters to be chopped up for goods, but they had some absolutely painful messages from the monsters themselves.

I can't believe Mike! Not only does he not ring his mum back but he pretends to answer the phone to her to us when you can clearly see he hung up on her!

Biggest saddest guilt trip is Ghost of Tsushima when you find the newly added map marker called "A friend's grave" Spoiler... It is the spot where your horse died after taking you to safety

Scary how close Planet Coaster's morals are to real-life offices'

Reminds me of the time I survived being thrown from a window, down a sheer cliff, only to receive a call from my oncologist upon reaching the bottom, and finding out I had prostate cancer.

When you meet the child in the Ethos Orphanage in Xenogears, and you then realize you straight-up murdered his father in the Kislev Sewers (out of sheer necessity, to be fair.) The father he was waiting for years to be reunited with. Pretty sad moment.

One that always stuck with me was getting an "extinction" in Pikmin. I never knew that was a possibility, but I heard there was a special ending if all your Pikmin died. So of course I tested that by intentionally getting my whole army killed. That was hurtful enough, but I pushed through out of curiosity. The text at the end of the mission was so sad and knowing that I did it on purpose made it even worse. I felt so guilty that I deleted my save file and started a new one.

The Zending in the Stanley Parable was also very sad. You literally don't do anything the Narrator tells you, ruin his story, and take away what makes him happy. His voice ant the end is so sad😭

Dragon Age 2: if you sell shield of Aveline's dead husband, she will guilt trip you about it. And you will feel bad.

Biggest guilt trip for me recently was in Mass Effect 2. I was going for all the romance achievements, so after romancing Liara in ME1 I romanced Garrus in ME2. After romancing a new character, though, when you return to your room the picture of your romance from 1 has not been simply removed, but flipped face down on the desk so it is STILL THERE tormenting you. After getting the romance scene (and achievement) I had to immediately reload an early save and break off the relationship with Garrus so I didn't feel horrible about Liara.

I never knew about the RDR2 thing with with the wolves. I had never noticed it. I could have happily gone on without knowing that detail. Now I'm feeling retroactively guilty about a game I finished 2 years ago. 🤣

Speaking of Red Dead Redemption, are we going to forget the followup to the Sasquatch hunt where you find out they were intelligent and you murdered that sasquatch's family basically for fun?

Correction for 3:56 Mike, it actually says “More deadly than std bomb” which begs the question. Who in the name of Gwyn is making chlamydia grenades in Lordran?! Answer us Miyazaki!!

I sometimes feel guilt when you go to the 2nd tomb in jedi fallen order. When you get to a certain part, you see a bunch on enemies but you think nothing about it because it's the same as any other enemy but it's the next room that gets me. In that room you pass a tomb Guardian and deal with a rat and if you push on further then you come across a stormtrooper and he says can't find a way to get across this gap, better go back and tell the squad but not to far from him, a jedi just murdered that squad.

OxBox: Time to feel bad about stuff you do in video games Jane: I didn't flay its skin after shooting it in the face, because I'm so nice! *resumes singing Circle of Life*

Don't forget how sad your crew in Mass Effect 3 get when you don't pick them to save the Normandy in the Citadel DLC.

I'm surprised the spirit realm encounter with the Sorrow in MGS3 wasn't included. Depending on how many enemies you killed throughout the course of the game up to that point, more and more ghosts would appear in the spirit realm. This would not only increase the length and difficulty of the trek, but a lot of the dead enemies that are on the path have dialogue about how much agonizing pain they're in from what you did to them. All the while the Sorrow is taunting you about how it's your fault these soldiers are there in the first place.

Jane singing Circle of Life was the best part of this Okay fine, I'll go watch some more videos, don't look at me like that, Mike 😆

When you delete a save file in Tomodachi Life, it's surprisingly sad and disturbing... The Mii begs you to stay and when you DO delete it, the Mii says some parting words about how much fun they had with you. If you want to sleep soundly or you want to keep your island going, don't attempt this. You may end up regretting it.

"the contractual notice period..." Oh, my sweet British babies... that isn't a thing in the US.

Jane singing the list entries has to be a regular thing.

with the monster hunter palicoes, my dad used to start to fire his palico and then choose to keep him. just to remind him who's in charge and keep him on his toes

In Persona 3 , you can get in serious trouble if you’re caught dating multiple characters, with tangible gameplay penalties. In Persona 4 Golden, there’s no gameplay penalty. Just a massive emotional penalty as the game goes out of its way to make sure you feel like the worst person on the planet on Valentine’s day.

Jane: *singing* "It's the circle, of life." WRONG!......It's the Ciiirrr-cle, of liiiiiIIIIIFFEE! And, it moves us AAA-UH-LLLL. THROUGH PAIN AND LOVE!!!!!!"

I had completely blocked out the memory of FFT dismissal guilt. You can expect an invoice for my therapy bills.

The thumbnail alone is just plain art.

Funnily enough, I was actually watching Lion King earlier lol. 🎶It's the circle of life! 🎶

Jane has the singing voice of an angel! Everyone be on the lookout for a dead angel.

That NPC in Hitman: Absolution might be one of the most famous NPC’s in all of gaming. Edit: That actually might be a cool list if it hasn’t been made already. 7 throw away NPC’s that gained spontaneous fan fame

Sending off your servans in nights of azure is so sad. They don't want their journey with your to end. On top of that, they die when sent away

I swear... there's a special place in Hell reserved for those that make their sweet little Palico leave them.

I expected Gavin Archer from Mass Effect 2+3 in this video. He is part from the Overlord dlc. If you send David( his brother) to the Grissom Academy you will meet him in ME 3 again and he will ask you if David is ok. If you choose to go full renegade on him and say that you have no idea( worry him) he will take his life

In mass effect 3 where I chose to not only sabotage the cure but being forced to kill a raging Wrex on the citadel when he finds out. That little gun wiggle before he goes flying through a window was officially THE WORST 😩😩🫣 Massive guilt…. 😰

Shadow of the Colossus comes to mind. It's basically guilt trip: the game, with sad music playing over the dramatic death of each colossus really trying to hammer it home that you should feel bad about killing them

Okay, so the FFT:WoTL thing is sad and all, but consider the Tactics Ogre: LUCT quotes when you try to sell a recruited beast. I remember those being particularly heartbreaking.

In FFXV, Prompto can approach you to talk because he feels insecure about this position in the team. You can be a good friend and talk things through (and get some great camera filters). Or you can be a dick and tell him you want to emo alone. Can never bring myself to pick that option.

Just wanna say that these videos are like my comfort food. They help take my mind off stuff for a bit. Thanks

I made it halfway through before realizing I am not in a fit emotional state to view this video I will come back later. Have a like for achieving this masterpiece of painful content

fun fact: wolves will mourn dead packmates irl. They'll also eat the corpse because nature

When I saw Hollow Knight, I thought this would be about the sign repair bug… I will leave it up to you to decide if you want to find out about that.

Another pretty bad game guilt trip is the side quest with Spamton in Deltarune. As you “help” him, he ultimately gets controlled like a puppet, and then either blows himself up, or drops like a stone and shuts off after he calls you his friend.

Jane singing Circle Of Life is my new favourite thing.

For me, one of the gultiest moments in gaming was giving up my chao in sonic adventure 2. The music they play is downright heart-breaking

You could probably make a while video on the reactions to horrible things you did in Nier Automata. Killing Pascal (when it isn’t story relevant), stealing from Emil, attacking the giant rabbit, etc.

One detail that made me feel really guilty, or rather even more guilty than I already did, was Colossus Celosia in Shadow Of The Colossus. When you pick up the torch and light it Celosia becomes very afraid, it's afraid of fire, and back up slowly as you approach it. The animation accurately portraying how a scared animal looks like. Out of any colossus this one made me feel the worst after killing it.

The one that first comes to mind is the NieR series. It is quite heartbreaking to learn that you have (most likely) been the monster the whole time without realising.

Now I want to hear Jane’s Cthulhu musical.

Another game that pushes the guilt pretty hard when you dismiss party members is Baldurs Gate; especially in the second game, some of the party members are really laying it on.

I really love Monster Hunter World. Iceborn is a great expansion. One of the things that bothers me though, is the Palico cooking in Iceborn's canteen. One of them is kneading dough and baking bread. Great animation, but that said ... they aren't wearing gloves. Just how much hair does that bread contain? Lets not think about how much fur makes it into the rest of the dishes too. I said don't think about it! This does not keep me up at night. Not at all.

Love how Mike is drawn to the Black Firebomb cos it's Uberbomb. Egbert would be so proud.

Nintendogs - the look your dogs gave you on leaving them at the kennel broke my 9-year old heart

But I saw both of those! Twice! Don’t- please! -okay, fine, I’ll watch them again, smile! SMILE MIKE!!

The worst part of the alpaca scene in monster hunter generations ultimate is that for most of your playthrough, you don’t know how palicos work and don’t know that they all do things differently. Therefore you’ll just be sticking to two or three palicoes because you just assume they’re the same. Once you figure out how the whole thing works, you still have no reason to be running out of space because you can see all their merits on the hiring screen, as well as what they look like. The storage is also very generous. You will never run out of Palico storage so their is never any reason to let them go. The guilt trip really is deserved in almost any situation.

There’s Luigi’s Mansion 3. Here, you deal with Morty, a film director who has been hit with creative bankruptcy. You find him, he is super depressed. Wanting his red megaphone. And when you find it, Morty starts to make you a movie star! The sad part is if you decide to suck him up while he’s making the film. You can see his dedication to his craft and you interrupted him by trying to suck him up! You can hear his cries of despair as he knows he will never finish his project. This is if you decide to snag him before he finishes. After he finishes, he just sleeps peacefully on his chair, before you wake him up and suck him up

"From the bottom down she is a spider. Like a mermaid, just much much grosser." It´s called a drider, Mike.

In Outer Worlds, the different and more depressing music theme in Edgewater after I diverted power away from them. I stand by that choice but it was the lesser of two evils

1, Is that meant to make us feel awoo-ful?

Fun fact from a monster hunter nerd. Only the cats that work with hunters are called "Palicoes". The species is actually called "Lynians". Now more people are up to speed, and I look like a massive dork! 👍

~The entire Genocide route of Undertale~ Also the fact that if you only kill Toriel and Papyrus, Sans has to congratulate you on your low LV/EXP even though you've killed the 2 people dearest to him :3

Details that made me feel bad: I can't remember the full conversation but my playthrough in Mass Effect ended up having a bit of drama. If you romance Liara in 1, then Tali in 2, you can only expect to hurt one of them in 3. There's a moment in 3 if you choose Tali then have her and Liara in a party for a certain mission an interaction will happen where they almost get a little hostile before Liara says she hopes you're happy with her. Sorry anyone like me that right Liara wasn't gonna be in the party anymore when first playing 2

Another entry: Moira Brown from Fallout 3, who has not one, but _two_ ways you can feel rotten for ruining her life. Mercifully, both are optional. If you're not familiar, she's the general-store merchant in one of the first towns you're likely to encounter. This town, named 'Megaton' because of the dud nuclear bomb in the center, can later be destroyed by a quest chain that gives you the option to set off the bomb. Moira is surprisingly _not_ killed by the blast, but is reduced to a ghoul. You can still talk to her and buy things from her store, but while she's not too broken up by her horrifying new form, she's still definitely not happy about it. In addition to being a shopkeeper, she also fancies herself a scientist of sorts, and wants to write a wasteland survival guide. She's a flake and her ideas of how to survive are pretty bonkers, but she's cheerful, enthusiastic about her project, and she genuinely wants to help people. To that end, she sends you on a quest chain to gather data and offer advice for the guidebook. If you do the quests and have a reasonably intelligent character, then the book is a success, the quests give you a bunch of neat perks, and she is ecstatic that her plan worked out so well. However, you can ruin everything if you want. After a couple quests, it becomes clear that Moira has no clue what wasteland life is like even remotely, and you have dialogue options to confront her with just how spectacularly wrong her theories are. This convinces her to give the project up as a bad job. In my opinion, this is the absolute worst outcome, because poor Moira does _not_ take it well. Seeing her dream shot down leaves her absolutely crushed: her dialogue becomes depressed and listless, like she's just going through the motions because there's no point to anything. And, just to twist the knife, she _thanks_ you for this: the way she sees it, you stopped her from giving people bad advice that could have gotten them hurt or killed.

Interesting analysis & list video! Thanks for uploading!

Great list as always, one of the first where I’ve played nearly all of them

I really expected a mention of the dogs in the Last of Us II here, as well. Not killing the dogs themselves, but what happens when you spare the dog but take out the handler. (There's even an existing clip of Luke explaining how he made this decision and instantly regretting it)

If I was this early for school, I would probably have succeeded in life 😂

One of the other sad characters in Hollow Knight is the miner bug you find singing in the crystal area. You can't do anything but watch as their mind is slowly taken from them by the radiance, listening to them sing songs they are trying to remember. Until you come back to that area and find them fully infected where you can put them out of their misery. They won't respawn when you sit at a bench like other enemies

Not one mention of Undertale’s genocide run? That was the most guilt tripping I have ever seen in a game

More "Jane-singing." This...I command!

Oh my god when I met the Jar Bairn in elden ring I felt so bad I had smashed so many npc pots. I never killed another jar after that, not even the bastard one in Raya Lucaria. Jar Bairn was so CUTE

I’m sorry but that cat ascending into the black void was to funny 😭

I can’t believe they didn’t include Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005). You’re scraping clankers in a command post and casually throw a grenade. It goes off and… You monster, you killed the gonk droid who’s sole purpose in life was to give you ammo.