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** It allows you to EarnYourBadEnding.
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* '''Exaggerated''': The player has total control over the lives and deaths of everyone in the game, and in-built torture options are very heavily incentivized.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The player has total control over the lives and deaths of everyone in the game, and there's dozens of in-built torture options that are very heavily incentivized.
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** The game has the purpose to help players manage their inner demons, by giving them a chance to leash out their violent urges.
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** The game follows a real history events involving cruel acts done to people, such as the Spanish Inquisition.

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** The game follows a real history events event involving cruel acts done to people, such as the Spanish Inquisition.
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** The game follows the Spanish Inquisition.

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** The game follows a real history events involving cruel acts done to people, such as the Spanish Inquisition.
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'''Basic Trope''': A video game give the player the option to be a right bastard.

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'''Basic Trope''': A video game give gives the player the option to be a right bastard.do horrible things.



* '''Downplayed''': If the player attacks other characters in the same way he attacks enemies, they will react to it but not be injured.

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* '''Downplayed''': If the player attacks other characters in the same way he attacks they attack enemies, they will react to it but not be injured.



* '''Zig Zagged''': The game lets players be jerks, only it turns out there are limits to the cruelty, which can be lifted by in-game choices.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': The game lets players be jerks, only it turns out there are limits to the cruelty, which can be lifted by in-game choices.
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* '''Exaggerated''': The player has total control over the lives and deaths of everyone in the game, and in-built torture options abound.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The player has total control over the lives and deaths of everyone in the game, and in-built torture options abound.are very heavily incentivized.

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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???'''Exploited''':
** Game testing revealed that the players indulged in a lot of ComedicSociopathy, so the developers made it so there are certain unlocks and achievements you could get by indulging in it.
** The game developers were also aware of this tendency, and made sure players who ''did'' unlock those "achievements" got humiliating [[MedalOfDishonor awards]] and [[EarnYourBadEnding the bad ending]]
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* '''Straight''': The player can shoot guards in the crotch and listen to them scream.

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* '''Straight''': The player can [[GroinAttack shoot guards in the crotch crotch]] and listen to them scream.
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** The game characters mistreated you and you happen to have the option to go for a revenge.

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* '''Justified''': The game follows the Spanish Inquisition.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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The game follows the Spanish Inquisition.



* '''Deconstructed''': VideoGameCrueltyPunishment
* '''Reconstructed''': The game has multiple endings, one of which requires the player be an evil jerk... in order to get LaserGuidedKarma for their deeds.



* '''Averted''': The game is a non-violent sort.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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The game is a non-violent sort.



* '''Exploited''': ???




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* '''Deconstructed''': VideoGameCrueltyPunishment
* '''Reconstructed''': The game has multiple endings, one of which requires the player be an evil jerk... in order to get LaserGuidedKarma for their deeds.



[-If you use the gravity gun to send that mook through the wall, the VideoGameCrueltyPotential page should be on the other side.-]
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
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* '''Averted''': The game is a non-violent sort, or combat is straightforward and lacking in torture methods.

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* '''Averted''': The game is a non-violent sort, or combat sort.
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is straightforward and lacking in torture methods.



* '''Discussed''': "[[InnocentBystander Why is it we]] always [[TheChewToy seem to be cosmic chew toys]] to "champions of justice" that are really [[HeroicSociopath psychos]], or some [[GodIsEvil evil god]] controlling everything?"

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* '''Discussed''': "[[InnocentBystander Why is it we]] always [[TheChewToy seem to be cosmic chew toys]] to "champions of justice" that are really [[HeroicSociopath [[SociopathicHero psychos]], or some [[GodIsEvil evil god]] controlling everything?"
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** The game goes for the "realistic" slant, allowing you to do things to friends that you could to enemies, and you can do some bad stuff to your enemies.
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* '''Downplayed''': If the player attacks other characters in the same way he attacks enemies, they will react to it but not be injured.

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* '''Inverted''': The only one being tortured is the player character.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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The only one being tortured is the player character.



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*'''Discussed''': "[[InnocentBystander Why is it we]] always [[TheChewToy seem to be cosmic chew toys]] to "champions of justice" that are really {{heroic sociopath}}s, or some [[GodIsEvil evil god]] controlling everything?"

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*'''Discussed''': "[[InnocentBystander Why is it we]] always [[TheChewToy seem to be cosmic chew toys]] to "champions of justice" that are really {{heroic sociopath}}s, [[HeroicSociopath psychos]], or some [[GodIsEvil evil god]] controlling everything?"


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