Video Game Cruelty Potential/Video Games/Puzzle Game

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Examples of Video Game Cruelty Potential in Puzzle Game games include:

  • It might be wrong to enjoy the screams of terror that erupt when the Prince rolls up living beings in Katamari Damacy... but if so, I don't want to be right.
    • KATAMARI DO YOUR BEST!
    • In We Love Katamari there's a series of levels where a sumo wrestler replaces the Katamari. Sucking people into his belly was... fantastic.
  • Go ahead, try to find someone who hasn't shot those poor animals a single time in Boom Blox. Its sequel even has achievements for hitting them a number of times.
  • Lemmings is a classic example of this: there are lots of ways for the little things to die. Most levels will have a trap of some sort, including falling off the bottom or into water, or if you fall too far and splat. Or you could always just use the nuke button: ostensibly a way of aborting the level, but quickly became popular with frustrated gamers who would gather the lemmings into a small area and make them all explode in showers of confetti, the chorus of "OH NO!" just the icing on the cake. And there was even a level where you had to only save 10 lemmings out of 80, letting the rest of them splat. It's fun! (Notably, however, there is a non-trivial 100% solution to the same level...)
  • To balance out its Caring Potential Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 allows the player to earn or purchase charms that have a humorous effect when used on most NPCs (i.e., freezing them, forcing them to dance, making them laugh, making them throw up a slug akin to Ron's backfired spell in Chamber of Secrets, etc.). The real cruelty is when you find and purchase a dark wizard character, whom can cast two exclusive spells that can outright kill teammates and NPCs: one is the Cruciatus Curse, (overlaps with Wingardium Leviosa) which kills NPCs if you don't cancel it out (even though the curse in the books and films could not actually kill), though you normally need to use it on teammates 4 times to kill them. The other is the Avada Kedavra Curse, which kills most characters (including teammates) on hit. And when you use them to kill NPCs in Hogwarts they don't regenerate when you leave the room...
  • The Incredible Machine games allow the player to dream up countless ways to inflict terror and pain on Mel and the assorted fauna - it is possible to trap the immortal Curie Cat in a never-stopping intricately crafted contraption of agony, for example.
  • In Catherine, you can shove the sheep trying to climb the block tower with you to their deaths, lead them over spike blocks that cause them to explode in a spray of blood, or even squash them with heavy blocks. And remember, all of them are innocent victims of the nightmare, just like you.
    • You can also do this to your girlfriend Katherine if you want. You monster.
    • You're also allowed to inflict emotional cruelty on your fellow sheep in the game's downtime sections. Do this enough and you'll hear a news item in the waking world that so-and-so was found dead in his bed...
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