during the first phone conversation between Apollo and Phoenix. The whole thing from beginning to end was just such a moment. And afterwards when Athena asks Apollo why he's smiling, it really hit it home. Yes.

When Acro started crying and the music made it even more emotional

Finding out Godot's backstory made me teary eyed. He had so much taken away from him such as Mia, and it breaks his heart that he wasn't in a position to save her because he was poisoned by Dahlia. I also almost cried when Phoenix finds out that his college girlfriend was Iris and that the romantic feelings were mutual, but those would have been tears of joy. Sad that she was arrested for a selfless reason. And the credits made me shed happy/sad tears with the Turnabout sisters ballad and the picture at the end.

Athena's black psyche-locks appear; that dramatic music is playing, she realizes she might have killed her mother, and then on top of that those psyche-locks appear and she has her empty-eyed, shaking animation.
Also the flashback from her witness testimony from seven years ago: "He didn't kill her! His heart is screaming he didn't kill her!"

During the goodbyes.

...the death of Dhurke since I already knew he was going to die (had no idea about the channeling though, just that he died). But I didn't even think about what Apollo's reaction would be like, and man. That was bloody heartbreaking. Poor darling.

...and then I come to think of a dream Going for Miles wrote in the dream thread many moons ago, where Klavier was sad because Apollo was sad, which has been a standing joke between us, and then I got amused because now I was the one being sad because Apollo was sad.

When Godot revealed his backstory in 3-5

Dhurke apollogizing for not contacting Apollo, Dhurke smiling widely and saying he couldn't be more proud of Apollo,
"Nahyuta is suffering in silence", one reason for the revolution being to save Nahyuta's soul, Apollo's thoughts when he thinks he's drowning and seems to admit to himself he's hurt over being left behind instead of trying to forget his childhood in Khura'in, the flashback, Dhurke saving him and saying that's what any father would do... etc. And right afterwards when Apollo, Dhurke, Trucy and Datz are eating sushi and Apollo wishes Nahyuta was there as well. Etc. Stupid case.

Might as well tag this just to be safe. The first time I played through the Golden Court case. First Luke thinking Layton was killed by being turned into a statue and then testifying against Maya, then Jean Greyerl thinking the one person she could trust was going to out her as a witch so she admitted to strangling him, when it turned out that he had already committed suicide and wasn't going to reveal her at all, so she had actually strangled his corpse. But it was finally Maya getting thrown into the fire and seeing Phoenix's reaction afterwards that did it for me. I mean, I knew that the devs wouldn't actually kill her off because of the backlash they would receive, but just seeing him looking so devastated was so painful. And the Turnabout Sisters music box theme ;_;

Asougi's return. The thing is, I already had growing suspicions and I'm not there yet but I had to confirm. So I already knew what was coming. And I don't know a lick of Japanese. But to be honest I already knew I'd probably cry seeing it anyway. I think most of all, besides him being alive and all, was Ryuu's reaction, they really nailed it with his facial expression.

On that note, I briefly looked at his wikia page and seeing this in black and white made me feel things too.

Imagine how I felt seeing that for real and actually understanding everything XD Wish I didn't spoil myself on that moment, it was soooo great.

Jealous... xD Oh well, my time will come too. And honestly I'll probably cry again when it does xD

I had forgotten quite a bit of the details of this game, I remembered Espella leaping from the belltower and Luke catching her with the machine, but I had completely forgotten the thing with Eve inbetween and with all the sad stuff going on already and me being really tired, when that hand appeared from the invisibility robe and caught Espella mid-air I was like "ooh fuck it" *tears up*

The entire moment leading up to Phoenix's disbarment and the aftermath. I actually remember playing through the part where you're supposed to present the forged diary page and presenting everything else instead.

After Asougi threw his mask off, revealing who he was. I started crying uncontrollably as soon as he said Naruhodo's name.