Suikoden 2
Basically you start off in the army with your best friend and then you guys all get attacked, you and your friend (Jowy) escape and make it to a cliff. You both make a cross on the cliff then jump into the river, saying that you'll meet there if you get seperated.
Anyway you both make it to the same village just by the river and you work for a bit before you guys decide to return to your home village to find Jowy's little sister. You arrive there but get stopped by the army or someone who thinks you're spies. You are about to put you to death when you get recused by two people you befriended in the village you landed in.
Anyway you guys escape and do rpg stuff, go to shrines, get runes, battles, make friends with some major who then eventually gets you and Jowy do a spy mission against the army that invaded at the beginning but Jowy gets caught though he catches up with the party later.
More time passes, and DUH DUH DUH Jowy has killed the major woman and done a runner, he's now working for the army!
So he's gone from your party then you play the game working to bring down the army while recruiting people and fighting against all kinds of rpg weird creatures, and blah blah. In the meanwhile Jowy has married Prince Lucas sister and is now a high ranking army person just belw the prince who gets his father killed so he can rule everyone.
Eventually you kill Lucas (he is a tough fighter) and Jowy is the leader through marriage. You find out that he wanted to create peace by joining the bad guys, he didn't think you'd get so far against them.
You defeat the army, Jowy flees. You find him at the cliff where you both said you'd go if seperated, you have a talk, then depending on your actions in the game (how many stars of destiny you collected), the ending will play out in two ways. The first if you didn't get all the stars, is you talk then Jowy decides that you need to fight, and you fight, win and then he lays dying talking about the runes you both have and that he wants you to become a good leader, then he collapses and you catch him and hold him ;_;
The other ending basically Jowy tries to fight but you tell him no and defend and he gives up then talk about stuff then you guys make up and eventually after a long talk you both leave together and go to the village where Jowy's sister is and at the end it just shows you three together. That ending is less sad, it's the other one that is so tragic, and the ending most people will get as getting all the stars is painstaking.
Great game. I didn't do it justice with my summary.