This type of a story is designed to have an emotional impact on the player and make itself memorable, crying is usual but mostly optional. It's explained in wikipedia article about KEY like this: The developers at Tactics created a simple formula for a game: a comedic first half with a heart-warming romantic middle followed by a tragic separation and finally an emotional reunion formed what is known as a "crying game". The main purpose of such a game is to make the player feel for the characters and make them cry due to emotional scenarios which serves to leave a bigger impact on the player after the game is over.
| Name | Similarity |
|---|---|
| Life and Death Drama | 22% |
| Pure Love Story | 22% |
| Drama | 19% |
| Reunion | 18% |
| Flashback | 17% |
| Low Sexual Content | 17% |
| Terminal Illness | 16% |
| One True End | 16% |
| Late Sexual Content | 16% |
| Varied Title Screens | 16% |
| Unavoidable Heroine Death | 16% |
| Unlockable Event | 16% |
| Family | 15% |
| Enforced Playing Order | 15% |
| Romance | 15% |
| Unlockable Routes | 15% |
| Sickly Heroine | 15% |
| Death of Heroine | 14% |
| Depression | 14% |
| Dying Heroine | 14% |
| Name | Similarity |
|---|---|
| Cooking Engages in | 16% |
| Energetic Personality | 16% |
| Friendly Personality | 16% |
| Death Subject of | 15% |
| Kind Personality | 15% |
| Grief Subject of | 15% |
| Smart Personality | 15% |
| Hard Worker Personality | 14% |
| Accident Subject of | 14% |
| Reserved Personality | 14% |
| Amnesia Subject of | 14% |
| Kid Body | 14% |
| Twin Tails Hair | 14% |
| Friend Role | 14% |
| Refined Personality | 13% |
| Altruistic Personality | 13% |
| Shy Personality | 13% |
| Hairpin Clothes | 13% |
| Dress Clothes | 13% |
| Teasing Engages in | 13% |