Beefstew posted:

By the end of Dawn of Mana,
the main character's entire village has been destroyed, he's been forced to kill his friend and his evil brother, and his girlfriend gets possessed by the big bad. He tries to free her from the possession and fails, so he kills her. Then his fairy companion sacrifices herself to renew the world, all while he's screaming for this all to stop. He's seriously like the only character alive at the end. It is so weirdly miserable.