You should've seen the cutscene of FFXI when you'd retire your chocobo. It showed flashback of all its life stages, egg, baby, chick, adult, from hatching to aging and if you had messed up during the road (didn't go to visit him and got him lovesick, or got him ill, or got him injured and didn't heal him or overall didn't care for it much), it all showed your sins of mistreatment during the CS. It was painfully heartbreaking.