Video Game Cruelty Potential/Video Games/Visual Novel


 * Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney may not seem like this at first. But consider: in his quest to clear various clients, Phoenix drives several witnesses to tears. Including an eight-year-old boy.
 * In case 2-3
 * Halfway throughout the case, you'll run into Franziska during the second investigation phase. For every irrelevant piece of evidence you present to her, she whips Maya. You can do this for as many times as you like without any repercussion.
 * In case 2-4, the game forces you to
 * In Investigations Case 5, you run into the Steel Samurai, who reveals himself to be If you present the wrong evidence to him during the one invesigation phase that lets you talk to him,  This is probably the one time in which presenting wrong evidence in an investigation phase can be pretty satisfying...and hilarious.
 * Case 1-4 had two examples of this with the buttmonkeys of choice being Lotta and/or Butz. At some point Gumshoe will offer you either a dog (Missile), a fishing rod or a metal detector to fish for Gourdy to find key evidence for your case. The correct choice would be, but the two other options can lead to this. For Lotta the player can take the fishing pole . For Larry the player can take Missile.
 * Lotta's the Butt Monkey even if you don't get the fishing rod. If you don't Maya sneezes setting off the camera anyways.
 * Half of the fun of playing Winter Shard is the freedom it gives the player to be the evilest, sickest bastard imaginable if they want to play Frederone like that. It won't get you anywhere near the True ending, though.