Confession Time: Which Game Soundtrack Actually Made You Cry?

Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours!

I am, what scientists and scholars might call, a big fat crybaby. I'll cry at just about anything if you pair it with a mildly sad-sounding violin. Hell, even then I might not need that much convincing. Being moved by just about anything in life is an incredibly blursed lifestyle.

Nothing quite gets me bawling like a good videogame, though. Crying alongside protagonists, crying for them. Sobbing for side characters, nameless NPCs, maybe even a creature minding its own business before being mercilessly mowed down by me/an enemy/some omnipotent god. Heck, I'll even cry out of pure joy or excitement for something that's about to happen. And almost every single time, it's thanks to the music that accompanies those moments.

Disco Elysium's fantastic soundtrack by Sea Power is something special, period, but a few months ago I loaded into the game for the first time in years after being on the beat of Disco's long, sordid tale of creator fallout. Stepping into Martinaise and hearing Instrument of Surrender for the first time in a minute got me misty eyed. Hell, I'm feeling some type of way listening to it as I write this.

I'll never forget the first time I played Final Fantasy 10 and witnessed Tidus and Yuna's scene in Lake Macalania together in all its genuinely mind-blowing 2001 CGI glory. The water reflecting off their faces while Yuna weeps before the first notes of Suteki Da Ne start to trickle in. The delicate vocals of Rikki as the two kiss, descending under the water while holding each other. I remember watching with the biggest, cheesiest smile on my face as tears cascaded down my cheeks. It's downright beautiful, and the music is half of what makes that scene so powerful.

(Okay, I had to go and watch it again. And did I cry? Maybe just a tiny bit. It still gets me, alright?!)

I Was Born for This from the Journey soundtrack is the one track to constantly bring tears to my eyes. As you come to the end of an epic journey, the melody of this song slowly builds until you're met with these epic vocals and intense strings and just writing about it gives me goosebumps. The Journey soundtrack as a whole has a special place in my heart, but this tune in particular is my emotional outlet.

Of course, that's not the only time I've cried at a

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