Breath of Fire 3 for numerous powerful emotional moments devoid of cynicism or mawkish tugging of the heartstrings, as well as a lot of comedy that for once in the series doesn't result from bad translations. Although there is one joke that is translation related- translating what an Australian dolphin says to English. Yes. Lots of great unique animations, especially early game when the characters are kids.
There is another moment I found the lighter side to just recently, in fact. Early game, a plant mutant is accidentally created at a disposal site and goes berserk due to being in constant pain when you first find it, necessitating a boss battle. Afterwards, it calms down, positions itself on the main conveyor belt leading to the lava disposal pit and requests you to activate the lever that will dump it in. Sad music, sad scene, but you can hit the reverse lever and it will go backwards away from the pit and the mutant says something like 'er... perhaps you should try that again?'. Come to think of it, that game has a lot of bosses asking for euthanasia from you both in the kid and adult phases.
There is another moment I found the lighter side to just recently, in fact. Early game, a plant mutant is accidentally created at a disposal site and goes berserk due to being in constant pain when you first find it, necessitating a boss battle. Afterwards, it calms down, positions itself on the main conveyor belt leading to the lava disposal pit and requests you to activate the lever that will dump it in. Sad music, sad scene, but you can hit the reverse lever and it will go backwards away from the pit and the mutant says something like 'er... perhaps you should try that again?'. Come to think of it, that game has a lot of bosses asking for euthanasia from you both in the kid and adult phases.
