Tear Jerker / The Crooked Man

• Every single one of Duke's 'facets', aka, the people David finds on his journey, are incredibly pitiable people. Sissi is a sad young woman who is trying desperately to find one last memento of her lost love, D is a well-implemented Jerkass Woobie who has been trying for years to achieve a seemingly Tragic Dream with no support from anybody, and Fluffy is a sweet little boy who just wants his mama back.
• David's mother, from her forgetting who David really is to her death soon after her operation cures her dementia. Her condition may hit close to home for people who have/had a loved one suffer like this.
• Finding the diary entry from one of D's professors. D greatly respected this one professor, but this entry reveals that the professor was annoyed by D's presence and thought he was a hopeless dreamer. If there's anyone who looked up to a teacher like D did, it's quite hard to learn something like that.
• There's a dead cat in the hospital. It's a female, with the stomach cut open and unborn kittens on the floor. A note you find in another room tells you "Do not mourn them. Do not avert your eyes. They are happier this way".
  • Appropiately, everyone reacts badly to it. David is pretty sickened. If you pass by it with Fluffy in your party, Fluffy will be saddened and say, "The poor kitty!" David immediately regrets walking past there with Fluffy in tow. And if Paul and Marion see them, Paul will tell her to avert her eyes, while she wonders if David was the one who did it.
• The entire confrontation on the roof of the hospital when Paul is trying to save David from shooting himself. The tears on David's face and his speech about how he's a worthless, crooked man who will never ever be happy, and the fact that the only way to save David here is to beat him almost senseless; pick either of the other two options, and either Paul has to watch his friend die or Paul gets shot, tries to tell David he's a good man despite this, and David then goes and shoots himself anyway. Harsh.
• Reading through Duke's diary once you complete it. Suddenly you get the whole picture of his pitiful life. It doesn't help that this time it's accompanied by pathetic sobbing and bawling.
• Finding Duke's corpse is a really sad moment, but it becomes a lot sadder in the second playthrough, where David has a conversation with Duke's spirit before Duke passes on.

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