Because games with a deep story can be so emotional,I was thinking about the endings of many games with a deep story and whether they have a happy/sad/mixture of happy and sad in there ending.
This blog will contain SPOILERS for FFIV,FFVII,FFVIII,FFX,FFX-2,
Star Ocean Till The End Of time,Lost Odyssey
Final Fantasy IV-I think it has a happy ending.Cecil and Rosa get married and become King and Queen and can help restore pride to the Kingdom of Baron.Zeromous is defeated,Rydia survives,the Lunarians enter rest and some party members die earlier on in the game but you don't get too attached to them.
Final Fantasy VII-I think it has a mixture of happiness and saddness in it's ending.Aeris dies 1/2 way through the game so you don't know if she and Cloud could have ever been a couple.They destroy Sephiroth and stop Shinra and restore the land to beauty and lush with nature.
Final Fantasy VIII-Happy ending.Squall and Riona cuddle eachother,Squall is seen smiling for the first time because he's happy to be with Riona,Ultimecia/Edea and their powerful nation are defeated.
Final Fantasy X-Sad ending.Yu Yevon is defeated so there is no more Sin,and the people of Spira are made aware of the corruption of their former politicians so they know machina is not evil and doesn't cause Sin to be reborn.However after they defeat Yu Yevon,Tidus disappears and returns to dream Zanarkand and Yuna has to move on and help rebuild Spira without Tidus! Luckily Yuna got to tell Tidus she loved him before he left and Tidus tried to cuddle Yuna but because he was fading away his arms went through her.
Final Fantasy X-2 Can have a happy or sad ending.Yuna can be reunited with Tidus because she does enough good deeds for the fayth to make Tidus become real so she can be with him.Or Yuna can discover she can't ever be with Tidus and decides she can finally say goodbye to his image and move on.
Star Ocean Till the End of Time-Happy ending.The characters find out they are computer generated artificial intelligence and not even real people,and the race of aliens called ''Executioners'' they are at war with are anti-virus programs sent to delete them.The only way to rid the executioners is to delete the universe,but after the universe is deleted the characters have developed consciousness and cannot be deleted.
Lost Odyssey-Happy with some sad.The immortals defeat Gongora but Seth gets pulled back to the world which she came from so Sed has to deal with losing his mother again.Jansen and Ming get married,Kaim and Sarah try to resurrect the romance they once had before they lost their memories.
